Romans 11 Sermon RecapEvery week at Bethany we've been walking through Romans in our Rooted in Promise series. This week, Pastor Bob led us into Romans 11, where Paul brings together themes he's been ...  Read More

Rainforest Falls May Be Over… But the Adventure Doesn’t Have to End! Thank you so much for sending your kids to Rainforest Falls VBS—we truly loved every minute of singing, playing, learning, and laug...  Read More

Romans 10:9–10 says:“If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For with the heart one believes and is justified...  Read More

Every week Pastor Bob has been walking us through the book of Romans, and this week we were in the last part of chapter 9 and the beginning of chapter 10. The big question underneath everything was th...  Read More

“Are We Just Pawns?”  Reflections on Hard Hearts, Free Will, and a Sovereign God  (from Pastor Bob’s sermon on Romans 9:17–29)If you’ve ever wrestled with questions like…- Do I actually have free will...  Read More

This week, Pastor Bob led us into Romans 9:1–16, a passage that feels both beautiful and heavy. After the mountaintop of Romans 8—where we hear about God’s love, our adoption as His children, and the ...  Read More

Paul opens with two big words that can feel abstract or intimidating: foreknew and predestined.“For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son…” (Romans 8:29)W...  Read More

When Suffering Meets GloryA Reflection on Romans 8:17–28This week, we continued our journey through Romans 8—a chapter filled with deep, personal reminders of what it means to belong to God. It’s a ch...  Read More

This week, Pastor Bob continued our “Rooted in Promise” series by walking through Romans 8:12–17. It’s a passage that goes straight to the core of what it means to belong to God—and what it means to b...  Read More

Rainy Days, Singing in the Storm, and Showers of Blessing  by Pastor BillyIf you live in Pennsylvania, you don’t need anyone to explain rainy days to you. We know the sound of rain on the roof, the gr...  Read More

This powerful exploration of Romans 8 addresses one of our most fundamental struggles: the battle against sin in our daily lives. We discover that there are typically two ineffective ways we try to ha...  Read More

The sermon explains Romans 7 as Paul honestly describing his ongoing struggle with sin as a believer. God’s law is good, but our sinful nature twists it, and there is no such thing as a “small” sin—ev...  Read More