Bethel Assembly of God

06/07/2026

Life is uncertain, but God is not. Trust His plan, seek His will, remember He is in control, and live with an eternal perspective.

05/31/2026

God's Formula for Success (GIGO) Galaatians 6:7-10 We can experience fulfillment and please God by sowing good

05/24/2026

05/17/2026

We can stop struggling by taking action.

05/10/2026

We can experience a fulfilling life by taking two actions.

08/15/2025

I’m not sure why people struggle with this. People believe that the Bible doesn’t claim to be God’s word especially the epistles. However, there is a clear claim to divine inspiration.

08/01/2025

Why do we suffer? In part, it is due to the corruption we bring into the world. People are usually hurt by other people. However, at times there is another reason we suffer. Suffering enables me to be come a stronger wiser person. It is this strength and wisdom that becomes a gift to someone else. In a way, our suffering becomes a counter to human suffering in general.

07/17/2025

Why would he tell us to cut off a part of our body? A healthy knowledge of the Bible tells you that some statements are figurative. One tell is if we’re told something that is counter to other things. God tells us to respect the body he has given us, so figurative makes more sense here. However, what is he trying to say. The source of temptation to sin is to be removed. If a relationship, device, hobby, location is tempting us to sin, we need to take sin seriously enough to remove the temptation. Obviously there is some limitation to this, but are you willing to work hard to get rid of temptation from your life?

07/11/2025

Now I take a balanced approach to women in ministry and here is one side of it. If the Lord planned on using women to speak prophetically, then the statements about women being silent were not universal principles. Also, there must be some way that women can prophesy that is not usurping authority.

07/05/2025

While it is true that God is sovereign and that he uses everything, it is not necessarily true that he directly causes everything. This verse is a good example of an important hermeneutic. We can’t make a case on a verse like this that God does this. The reason is because we are reading narrative. She’s expressing her feelings, but nothing in the text implies that her feelings are correct. Keep that in mind as you read the stories in the Bible as you can get misled if you don’t pay attention.