Mon, 8 December 2008
Category:podcasts
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Mon, 8 December 2008
Direct download: The_Feast_of_All_Saints_and_The_Commemoration_of_the_Faithful_Departed.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:10pm CST |
Mon, 8 December 2008
Direct download: The_Feast_of_the_reformation_October_26_9am.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:02pm CST |
Sun, 26 October 2008
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Tue, 30 September 2008
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Tue, 30 September 2008
Direct download: St._Matthew_Apostle_and_Evangelist_September_21_2008_9AM.mp3
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Tue, 30 September 2008
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Mon, 1 September 2008
Pastor Schumacher preaches on Peter's attempt to deter the Lord from what he was going to do
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Fri, 1 August 2008
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Thu, 24 July 2008
Category:general
-- posted at: 11:18pm CST
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Tue, 15 July 2008
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Tue, 8 July 2008
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Tue, 1 July 2008
From the Seventh Sunday of Pentecost, June 29, 2008 9AM.
Pastor Rossow speaks on the relationship of Christians and the law as discussed in Romans 7. Here is the bulletin for your use. |
Tue, 24 June 2008
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Tue, 17 June 2008
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Tue, 10 June 2008
As of right now, we have 1016 downloads of our services and bulletins, with a good majority of them going to services. This is since we started in March - three months. The first 10 days of June have also yielded 273 downloads; if we continue at this rate we will have over 800 for the month of June. And of course we have five services this month.
I'm most pleased but not terribly surprised that members and friends are interested in listening to a full liturgical service filled with the scriptures and supporting sound doctrine. I've looked at a lot of podcasts out there in promoting our service on iTunes and other podcasting sites, and full services are quite rare. Bethany's certainly seems worth it to me. And of course the price is right - free! Oh, feel free to review us on your favorite podcasting site. Reviews can be quite helpful both in rankings and in getting people to understand what makes the services worthwhile. Thanks be to God!
Category:general
-- posted at: 11:53am CST
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Tue, 10 June 2008
I have been "printing" the bulletins to pdf with two pages up. To me this makes it most like the bulletin as you would see it during church. Would you rather see it printed as single pages, giving a larger image? Or do you prefer it this way?
You may comment to this post and let me know your preference.
Category:general
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Tue, 10 June 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 11:48am CST
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Mon, 9 June 2008
No bulletin yet, coming soon. |
Wed, 4 June 2008
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Mon, 26 May 2008
Pastor Schumacher preaches on Romans 1:16-17. Bulletin.
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Wed, 21 May 2008
Are you enjoying listening the podcasts of Bethany's services? Is there an ineffable je ne sais quoi (translation: an indescribable something or other) to them that you would like to describe to the world? Do you need peripheral practice producing perfectly polished prose? Perhaps I ought to pull the plug on this painful paragraph?
What I'm trying to say is: you can both review and rate us on iTunes and on other podcast listing services. For iTunes you will need an iTunes account. Go to iTunes, search for "Bethany Naperville" (I find this the most direct route), and in the bottom you will find a link for Customer Reviews. Reviews and ratings are helpful in a number of ways. Along with subscribing through the iTunes store, these can improve our search ranking so that we will show up higher on salient searches. Ratings and reviews also provide prospective listeners the opportunity to see if this is really what they are looking for - some may be looking for full, liturgical services from a confessing church but others may be looking instead for inspirational, purpose-driven, call-to-action sermons without the peripheral trappings of a church service. Proper reviews can help each steer in the correct direction. So if you're literary minded, go to your favorite podcast directory and review us. If you're more up to "chicken or fish?" today, iTunes and other directories will let you do a quick 1-to-5 star rating.
Category:general
-- posted at: 2:01pm CST
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Tue, 20 May 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 12:30pm CST
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Mon, 19 May 2008
Pastor Rossow preaches on the Genesis 1 creation account and on how the trinity figures into it.
Bulletin not yet available. We lost a bit of the distribution hymns and the Proclaim choir performing "Ubi Caritas," which was very beautiful. Sorry about that.
Direct download: Trinity_Sunday_-_May_19_2008_11_15AM.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:16pm CST |
Tue, 13 May 2008
Direct download: Pentecost_-_May_11_2008_9AM_Service.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:33pm CST |
Tue, 6 May 2008
This is the youth confirmation service. Bulletin
Direct download: Easter_7_-_May_4_2008_11.15_AM_Confirmation.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:43pm CST |
Mon, 5 May 2008
We will be publishing the special 11:00 service - the confirmation service - real soon now. Haven't had a chance to finish it yet.
Category:general
-- posted at: 10:59pm CST
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Mon, 5 May 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 10:58pm CST
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Mon, 5 May 2008
Pastor Rossow speaks on how Peter warns us that there will be much persecution for us as believers in Christ in an increasingly secular world.
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Tue, 29 April 2008
Hmm. The bulletin didn't seem to end up in the announcement. Here's the bulletin for April 29, 2008, 9AM, the sixth Sunday of Easter.
Category:bulletins
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Mon, 28 April 2008
Pastor Schumacher preaches on 1 Peter 3:13-22. The bulletin. |
Sun, 20 April 2008
Reposted. |
Sun, 20 April 2008
Anyway, it's done and we're caught up. The good news is that I can now go to bed. The better news is that nobody will come up to me after church and ask me "when are you going to get caught up." The best news, of course, is that Jesus has taken on the consequences of our sins so that without meriting it we can experience God's pleasure for eternity rather than his wrath. Thanks be to God!
Category:general
-- posted at: 10:32pm CST
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Sun, 20 April 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 10:31pm CST
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Sun, 20 April 2008
Here is the bulletin for the fourth Sunday of Easter, April 16, 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 10:27pm CST
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Sun, 20 April 2008
Full service from the fourth Sunday of Easter, April 16, 2008. Pastor Schumacher is preaching.
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Sun, 20 April 2008
Category:bulletins
-- posted at: 11:40am CST
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Sun, 20 April 2008
Our guest this morning is the Rev. Dr. James Lamb, executive director of Lutherans for Life. |
Fri, 18 April 2008
There seem to be two ways that the bulletin can be useful. First, because the services are liturgical, they are highly interactive. The congregation is often singing or speaking in counterpoint to the cantor or pastor. In some circumstances, having the bulletin available can allow you to participate more fully with the congregation, I suppose. I find myself singing the congregational parts as I walk the streets of Chicago while listening to the service. But softly. More importantly though, the service is built on the Bible. The confession, the psalms, the scriptures, the hymns - these are usually straight from the Bible, and when they are not, they are built on doctrines which are simply the systematization of the Bible. There is nothing that feeds us like hearing the pure word of God, and nothing that comforts us more than hearing God's word that in Christ we are rescued from our sins. Reading the words of the songs and scriptures as listed in the bulletin both feeds and comforts us.
Category:general
-- posted at: 10:30pm CST
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Fri, 18 April 2008
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Tue, 15 April 2008
I hope you will enjoy this as much as I do.
Direct download: Bethany_Lutheran_Favorite_Music_-_April_2008.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 10:33pm CST |
Wed, 9 April 2008
I wondered the same thing. I'm from a non-Lutheran background and am used to listening to Todd Wilkin, John MacArthur, and sermons from other Lutheran churches where the speakers are the audio equivalent of talking heads. When the cantor said we wanted to podcast the whole service, I thought, "okay, then people will just skip to the sermon, the meat of the service." I think I understand better. Bethany makes use of the liturgy. Liturgical services have a quality that is unique among church services. Most obvious is the musical nature of the service - much of it is sung. But more importantly, most all of the service is taken from the Bible. Everything from the confession to the benediction is taken, largely word for word, from the Bible. In addition to this, we normally sing a Psalm, and have readings from the Old testament, the gospels, and the epistles - not just a verse or two, but significant wholes. Even our prayers, though not word for word copies of prayers from the Bible, are generally based on Biblical injunctions to pray for or about certain things. And so a liturgical service is like Biblical immersion, with the congregation taking a significant part. And so the divine service becomes much more than just a sermon. Our church is also deeply blessed musically. We have a cantor with a wonderful voice, a variety of musical talents within the congregation, and an organ to which the podcast cannot do justice. I have the joy of editing the recordings. It is a great blessing to be able to go through the whole service once again with the congregation, and to engage in those parts of the liturgy that I remember, quietly of course when walking through Chicago. For examples of our music, listen to the Maundy Thursday, Good Friday or Easter recordings.
Category:general
-- posted at: 7:46pm CST
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Mon, 7 April 2008
See you after tax day.
Category:general
-- posted at: 10:10pm CST
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Mon, 7 April 2008
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Sun, 6 April 2008
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Sun, 6 April 2008
truncated
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Fri, 21 March 2008
Category:general
-- posted at: 1:17pm CST
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Fri, 21 March 2008
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Wed, 19 March 2008
Recorded 16 March, 2008 & Recorded March 16, 2008 at Bethany Lutheran Church, Naperville, IL
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