When your work is done, what do you have? So often, our work ethic just empowers us to build an alienated life of discontent. It doesn’t have to be that way. A study of Proverbs 15.16-17.
When your work is done, what do you have? So often, our work ethic just empowers us to build an alienated life of discontent. It doesn’t have to be that way. A study of Proverbs 15.16-17.
Sometimes the only way to accomplish your work is by sheer persistence. What does God’s wisdom saw about those times when work is unrewarding? A study of Proverbs 14.23.
We were designed to work on big, ambitious tasks. But the world is fallen and our progress is always eroding. What is God’s wisdom for this challenge? A study of Proverbs 16.26. (Pastor Raley answers questions on this sermon in
Our friendships are a mirror into our character, revealing what we truly love. A study of Proverbs 27.6 and 29.5. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in a second video below.)
Friendships are the fruit of our words. If we want to change our friendships for the better, we have to see our hearts transformed. A study of Proverbs 18.21.
Friendships can be poisoned or nourished over time by how we speak to each other. A study of Proverbs 27.9 and 10.17. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in two additional videos below.)
American society is in the grip of a loneliness epidemic that affects our mental and physical health. What does God’s wisdom teach us about friendship? A study of Proverbs 7.4-5.
To gain God’s wisdom for how we use our time, we need to consider God’s most basic unit of measurement: the generation. A study of Ecclesiastes 12.1-8. (Pastor Raley answers questions related to this sermon in a second video below.)
Solomon sends us to the ant to learn something about time. The season we’re in tells us the work we should be doing. A study of Proverbs 6.6-11. (Pastor Raley answers questions about this sermon in a second video below.)
We tend to think of time in terms of limited hours and minutes. But God’s wisdom shows us another way to think about our time in this life–and it can change your life. A study of Ecclesiastes 1.1-11.
In this family service, we review what we earned about wisdom in the fall. Wisdom, we discover, is a lot like flying airplanes.
Bethel Grove will focus on the role of community in spiritual formation in 2025. In this sermon on Proverbs 2.20-22, Pastor Raley lays out some introductory ideas about togetherness in the Christian life.
A local church used to be a symbol of something solid in the community. But decades of national scandals involving finances have diminished people’s trust in churches. One key to BG’s growth is talking openly about how we raise and
What can we learn from a genealogy? In the record of Jesus’s family lineage, we can actually find the whole story of our need for a Savior. A study of Matthew 1.
The Bible’s Christmas story has a scandal at the center of it: God forgives our wrongdoing. A study of David’s sins of adultery and murder in 2 Samuel 11-12.
A foreign woman named Ruth seeks food in a barley field, but she ends up finding a redeemer who rescues her from poverty. This is another story about the coming of the ultimate Redeemer, Jesus. A study of Ruth 4.
Two women in Jesus’s genealogy were waiting for justice. In this first week of Advent, we look at the story of Tamar in Genesis 38 and Rahab in Joshua 2. (Pastor Raley answers a question about this sermon in the
We need confidence in order to make decisions. Since we can’t be confident about knowing the future, or even knowing our own motivations, where should our confidence be? We have to trust God, who sees through the fog of our
It is hard to make decisions when the future is a fog. But even worse is trying to make decisions when our own motivations are shrouded in the fantasy of serial sincerity. A study of Proverbs 30.32-33.
Wisdom is about decision-making. But how can we make wise decisions if the future is shrouded in fog? A study of Proverbs 14.12-18. (Pastor Raley answers questions about in this sermon in a second video below.)
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