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Beneath the Steeple with Pastor Hans Becklin is produced by Trinity Lutheran Church in the heart of Reading, PA where we share God's love with all people.
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Everyone Is Recovering From Something | Beneath the Steeple (opens the original)
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What does it feel like to finally be seen? In this episode, Pastor Molly Haggerty of Common Ground Recovery Community shares stories of reconciliation, art, and simple human presence — the everyday moments where people carrying shame and brokenness start to feel loved again. Drawing on Jesus's teaching about making peace with one another before we can truly worship together, she reflects on what it means to build a community where everyone can come exactly as they are. We're glad you're joining
Where Two or Three Are Gathered | Beneath the Steeple (opens the original)
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There is a verse people reach for when the room is emptier than they hoped: where two or three are gathered, I am there among them. It gets said over half-filled chairs and coffee that outlasts the crowd, a kind of consolation prize. Pastor Hans reads the whole paragraph that sentence sits in — Matthew's account of a congregation with a real grievance inside it — and finds something far better than consolation there. Christ is not absent from the lake, or the ridge, or the back porch on a Septem
Human Things | Beneath the Steeple (opens the original)
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Almost everyone has said the sentence Peter says in this passage. Sitting in a doctor's office, hearing a word you refuse to accept: God forbid it. This cannot go that way. Peter says it to Jesus quietly, with an arm around his shoulder, out of love — and Jesus answers him harder than he answers anyone. In this sermon, Pastor Hans follows what happens next: a man who has just been handed the keys and immediately tries to lock the door, who fails in a courtyard, who fails again years later in fro
The Pagoda and the Gates of Hades | Beneath the Steeple (opens the original)
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Most of us have put something up where people can see it. A name on a door, a photo on a wall, a line in a bio that says who we are. It is very old work, and we are remarkably good at it. Inthis sermon, Pastor Hans begins at a cliff in the ancient world — drilled full of niches, crowded with statues of a god, a temple to the emperor standing out in front, and beneath it a cave that people believed was the door to the land f the dead. Standing there, of all places, Jesus turns to his closest frie
The Woman Who Crossed the Line | Beneath the Steeple (opens the original)
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When she was 12 years old, Deaconess Deborah crouched down on all fours at the Four Corners Monument so she could have a hand and a foot in four states at once — at a dot thatsomeone, somewhere, at some time simply decided to draw on a map. Most of the lines we live with aren’t on any map. In Matthew’s Gospel, a woman crosses the deepest one of her day because her daughter is sick and she has nowhere else togo, and what happens when she kneels in front of Jesus changes the shape of who gets incl
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