Bethany Lutheran Church-Laurens

Bethany Lutheran Church-Laurens Bethany Lutheran Church in Laurens, Iowa welcomes you and your family to grow together in Christian faith with us!

9:30 a.m. Worship
10:30 a.m.

Coffee Fellowship

05/24/2025

Just a reminder. The Service times have changed as we enter our summer schedule. Worship will be at 9:30 AM, followed by fellowship, coffee and refreshments at around 10:30 AM. Hope to see you tomorrow morning in Church.

Also, Pastor David is offering an Adult Bible Study at 8:30 AM. This will go until 9:15 just before the start of the worship service. Come and be part of this as work our way through 2 Samuel.

04/20/2025

Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!

The reading for Easter Evening Prayer is Luke 24:13-35. Jesus joins two men walking to Emmaus. They are baffled upon hearing the news that Jesus is risen and express this to the "stranger" who is the risen Jesus Himself who joins them. But they do not recognize Him.

We pick up the account at verse 25.

"Then he said to them, ‘Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?’ Then beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures.
As they came near the village to which they were going, he walked ahead as if he were going on. But they urged him strongly, saying, ‘Stay with us, because it is almost evening and the day is now nearly over.’ So he went in to stay with them. When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him; and he vanished from their sight. They said to each other, ‘Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road, while he was opening the scriptures to us?’ That same hour they got up and returned to Jerusalem; and they found the eleven and their companions gathered together. They were saying, ‘The Lord has risen indeed, and he has appeared to Simon!’ Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread." The word of the Lord.

"Lord Jesus Christ, with us abide, For round us falls the eventide. O let Your word, that saving light, shine forth undimmed into the night." From Lutheran Service Book, Hymn 585, verse 1.

04/19/2025

Easter Festival At 9:30 AM Sunday April 20.

Come and celebrate the resurrection our Lord.

04/19/2025

Holy Saturday

Job 19:23-27

"O that my words were written down!
O that they were inscribed in a book!
O that with an iron pen and with lead
they were engraved on a rock for ever!
For I know that my Redeemer lives,
and that at the last he will stand upon the earth;
and after my skin has been thus destroyed,
then in my flesh I shall see God,
whom I shall see on my side,
and my eyes shall behold, and not another.
My heart faints within me!"

Come Lord Jesus and Raise Your saints.

04/18/2025

Good Friday

John 19:29-30

"A jar full of sour wine was standing there. So they put a sponge full of the wine on a branch of hyssop and held it to his mouth. When Jesus had received the wine, he said, ‘It is finished.’ Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit."

Thankyou Lord Jesus for baring my sins and accomplishing for me my salvation

04/17/2025

Maundy Thursday

John 13:1, 31-35

"Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end."

"When he had gone out, Jesus said, ‘Now the Son of Man has been glorified, and God has been glorified in him. If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in himself and will glorify him at once. Little children, I am with you only a little longer. You will look for me; and as I said to the Jews so now I say to you, “Where I am going, you cannot come.” I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.’"

Lord Jesus, may your love direct my life.

04/16/2025

Wednesday of Holy Week

John 12:27-36

"‘Now my soul is troubled. And what should I say—“Father, save me from this hour”? No, it is for this reason that I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name.’ Then a voice came from heaven, ‘I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.’ The crowd standing there heard it and said that it was thunder. Others said, ‘An angel has spoken to him.’ Jesus answered, ‘This voice has come for your sake, not for mine. Now is the judgement of this world; now the ruler of this world will be driven out. And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.’ He said this to indicate the kind of death he was to die. The crowd answered him, ‘We have heard from the law that the Messiah remains for ever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?’ Jesus said to them, ‘The light is with you for a little longer. Walk while you have the light, so that the darkness may not overtake you. If you walk in the darkness, you do not know where you are going. While you have the light, believe in the light, so that you may become children of light.’
After Jesus had said this, he departed and hid from them."

Dear, Heavenly Father, draw us to Your Son this day.

04/15/2025

Tuesday of Holy Week

John 12:23-26

"Jesus answered them, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. Those who love their life lose it, and those who hate their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. Whoever serves me must follow me, and where I am, there will my servant be also. Whoever serves me, the Father will honor."

Almighty God, as Your child may believe I am dead to sin and alive in Christ Jesus.

04/14/2025

Monday of Holy Week

Psalm 6

To the leader: with stringed instruments; according to The Sheminith. A Psalm of David.

"O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger,
or discipline me in your wrath.
Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing;
O Lord, heal me, for my bones are shaking with terror.
My soul also is struck with terror,
while you, O Lord—how long?

Turn, O Lord, save my life;
deliver me for the sake of your steadfast love.
For in death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who can give you praise?

I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
My eyes waste away because of grief;
they grow weak because of all my foes.

Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
for the Lord has heard the sound of my weeping.
The Lord has heard my supplication;
the Lord accepts my prayer.
All my enemies shall be ashamed and struck with terror;
they shall turn back, and in a moment be put to shame."

Rescue me O Lord, in times of trouble through the merits of Your dearly Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, in whose name I pray.

04/13/2025

Palm Sunday

The Evening Prayer (Vespers) Scripture is Matthew 21:12-17

"Then Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who were selling and buying in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold doves. He said to them, ‘It is written,
“My house shall be called a house of prayer”;
but you are making it a den of robbers.’

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he cured them. But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the amazing things that he did, and heard the children crying out in the temple, ‘Hosanna to the Son of David’, they became angry and said to him, ‘Do you hear what these are saying?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Yes; have you never read,
“Out of the mouths of infants and nursing babies
you have prepared praise for yourself”?’
He left them, went out of the city to Bethany, and spent the night there."

Thankyou Jesus for riding to the Cross for our salvation. Cleanse the temple of our hearts to make room for Your Holy Spiri, and may we cry songs of praise like infants and little children.

04/12/2025

Verse for Saturday of Lent 5

Jeremiah 31:31-34

"The days are surely coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, ‘Know the Lord’, for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more."

Thank you for forgiving me my sins and led me to do Your will.

04/11/2025

Verse For Friday of Lent 5

John 11:25-27

"Jesus said to her, ‘I am the resurrection and the life. Those who believe in me, even though they die, will live, and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?’ She said to him, ‘Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one coming into the world.’"

Thankyou Jesus for the new life in You and the hope of resurrection to life everlasting.

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Laurens, IA
50554

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