Welcome to Bethlehem

Though you do not now see him, you believe in Him and rejoice with joy that is expressible and filled with glory.
I Peter 1:8 (English Standard Version)

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Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

“Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church & School is community of sinners trusting in the forgiveness given by the crucified and risen Christ, offering peace, joy, stability, and purpose to a despairing and chaotic wo9rld by sharing this gospel through our words and deeds.”

LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS: Pray for Chris Pluger and his family in Ethiopia due to ongoing civil unrest in that country has endangered all foreign residents.

Second Sunday of Easter

Christ Jesus Breathes His Spirit and His Life into Us by the Ministry of the Gospel

The crucified and risen Lord Jesus established the Ministry of the Gospel, in order to bestow His life-giving Holy Spirit and His peace upon the Church. To those who are called and ordained to this Office, and to those whom they serve in His name. He grants the Holy Absolution of all sins. By the fruits of His Cross He replaces fear and doubt with peace and joy, and thus gives “repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sis” (Acts 5:31). Through the preaching of His sent ones He calls us to believe that He “is the Christ, the Son of God,” so that by such faith we “may have life in His name” (John 20:31). In His resurrection we have the “living hope” to which we have been “born again” and by which we are guarded “for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time” (I Peter 1:3, 5). Until then, “though y9ou have not seen Him , you love Him,” and by the mercies of God “you velive in Him and rejoice with joy that is in Pexpressible and filled with glory” (I Peter 1:8).

Acts 5:29-42; I Peter 1:3-9; John 20:19-31
English Standard Version (ESV)

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Welcome to Bethlehem

Rev. Keith F. Witte, Pastor

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