HeyJaredTogether 4 Good: Making Sense of Life and Faith
Welcome to Together 4 Good: Making Sense of Life and Faith, a podcast from Bethany Lutheran Church ELCA in Cherry Hills Village, CO. We talk about real life and real faith—the doubts, the hope, and the messy middle—through the lens of love, grace, and community.
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Does the Church Need to Be Cool? Why We Should Keep Church Weird (opens the original)
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What if the church’s future does not depend on becoming cooler, trendier, or more like the successful church down the street? In this episode of Together 4 Good , Pastor Nate Preisinger explores why churches—and individuals—are healthiest when they stop trying to imitate someone else and begin embracing the particular gifts, history, personality, and calling God has given them. From a fictional Lutheran congregation chasing megachurch trends to real stories of communities discovering their uniqu
Why Do We Need Community More Than Ever? (opens the original)
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Why do we need one another—and what does community have to do with our life of faith? In this episode of Together4Good, Pastor Nate reflects on our deep human longing for connection and the belief that relationship is woven into the way God created us. From the communal nature of the Trinity to Jesus’ compassion, confession in worship, and the healing that comes when we can honestly say, “I’m struggling too,” this conversation explores why meaningful community matters. Why our desire for relatio
REBROADCAST: Everyday Spiritual Practices (opens the original)
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In this special rebroadcast Pastor Nate is talking about spirituality in everyday life. Because let’s be honest sometimes faith can start to feel like another thing on the to-do list. Go to church. Read your Bible. Say your prayers. And all of that matters, but having faith is so much more than just going to church or reading your Bible. It’s about connection and relationships. Remembering that God is bigger than any one practice or person. After 15 years as a pastor, Nate admits that worship an
What Does Zacchaeus Teach Us About Grace? (opens the original)
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What if Zacchaeus isn’t a story about a bad man who finally becomes good? In this episode of Sunday School Remix, Pastor Nate takes another look at Luke 19 and explores what changes when we pay attention to the details we may have missed in Sunday school. The story becomes less about fixing Zacchaeus and more about Jesus seeing someone the crowd had already labeled and written off. What You’ll Learn: Why the story of Zacchaeus may be about labels and assumptions How Luke connects Zacchaeus with
Sunday School Remix: Does God Care When Life Feels Out of Control? (opens the original)
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What if the disciples’ biggest fear wasn’t the storm, but the possibility that Jesus didn’t care? In Mark 4:35–41, Jesus calms a storm that has terrified even the experienced fishermen in the boat. Pastor Nate looks at what the sea represented in the biblical world, why Jesus’ power over it matters, and how this familiar story speaks to our questions about fear, faith, and whether God really sees what we’re going through. What You’ll Learn Discover why the sea was a symbol of chaos in the biblic
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