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Pursue Wisdom

by Paul Steele

The teaching podcast of Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN.

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Episodes

  1. Come Follow Me: How to Live the Message

    The sermon given at Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN on March 3, 2024. This is the eighth sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we talk about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  2. Come Follow Me: The Message Provides a New Perspective

    The sermon given at Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN on February 25, 2024. This was the seventh sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we look at what it means to be a disciple of Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  3. Come Follow Me: Living the Message

    The sermon given at Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN on January 28, 2024. This is the third sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we look at the book of Mark through the lens of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus.

  4. Come Follow Me: Committed to the Message

    The sermon given at Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN on February 18, 2024. This is the sixth sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we talk about what it means to follow Jesus by looking at the book of Mark.

  5. Come Follow Me: Believing the Message

    This is the fifth sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we talk about what it means to follow Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  6. Come Follow Me: Barriers to Believing the Message

    This is the fourth sermon in the series Come Follow Me: Barriers to Believing the Message as we talk about what it means to follow Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  7. Come Follow Me: The Success of the Message

    This is the second sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we talk about what it means to follow Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  8. Come Follow Me: The Core Message

    The first sermon in the series Come Follow Me as we talk about what it means to follow Jesus by studying the book of Mark.

  9. A Message to Proclaim: The Message the World Needs

    The core mission of the Church is to make disciples. Making disciples begins with the work of evangelism. Evangelism is simply telling people the Good News of Jesus Christ. This Good News is more than just the message of salvation, it is the declaration that God’s Kingdom is coming into this…

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  10. Having A Christian Worldview: A Conversation with Professor Darrell Stribling

    To conclude the Think Deeply and Love Widely sermon series, Pastor Paul Steele sat down and talked with Professor Darrell Stribling from Moody about what it means to have a Christian Worldview. Everyone has a worldview, the framework of beliefs, philosophies, and traditions that shape the way we...

  11. Think Deeply and Love Widely: Take Every Thought Captive

    The final sermon in the Think Deeply and Love Widely sermon. In this series we have focused on having a Christian Worldview.

  12. Think Deeply and Love Widely: Guarding Your Heart and Mind

    The second sermon in the Think Deeply and Love Widely Series.

  13. Think Deeply and Love Widely: Transformed by the Spirit

    The first sermon in the Think Deeply and Love Widely series.

  14. Asking for a Friend: I Have Doubts, Can I Still Be A Christian?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  15. Asking for a Friend: Is it Wrong for a Christian to be Anxious and Depressed?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  16. Asking for a Friend: What is the Difference Between Being Spiritual and Being Religious?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  17. Asking for a Friend: What is the Definition of Marriage?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  18. Asking for a Friend: How Should Christians Think Through the Transgender Conversation?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  19. Asking for a Friend: What is the Deal with the Trinity

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  20. Asking for a Friend: Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  21. Doing What God Has Called Us To Do

    God has created us to join Him in the work He is doing in this world. We can only do that if we make the most of the opportunities that are given to us. In this episode you will hear members of Bethlehem’s Worship Team read the events surrounding the resurrection of Jesus from Luke. Then Pastor...

  22. Asking for a Friend: Do All Religions Lead to Heaven?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  23. Asking for a Friend: Why Does a Loving God Send People to Hell?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  24. Asking for a Friend: What Happens When You Die?

    What Happens When You Die? Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect...

  25. Asking For A Friend: What is the Purpose of Baptism?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  26. Asking for a Friend: If God is Good, Why Does He Allow Evil to Exist?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  27. Asking for a Friend: How Much Should the Bible Influence Morality?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  28. Asking for a Friend: Do I Need to Choose Between Faith and Science?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  29. Asking for a Friend: Can I Trust The Bible?

    Everyone has questions. Some questions we can find the answer with a quick search on Google. Other questions are more intimidating. Questions that surround our faith can be scary because we worry about what the answer might be and whether or not those answer will affect our faith. What ends up...

  30. Lost: Rescued!

    Money is necessary for life. It is what we use to get the food, clothes, shelter, transportation, and everything else that we need for life. Because of its prevalence in our lives most of us have done something dumb with our money. It is easy to do. The reality is most Americans are lost...

  31. Lost: Don’t Panic

    Money is necessary for life. It is what we use to get the food, clothes, shelter, transportation, and everything else that we need for life. Because of its prevalence in our lives most of us have done something dumb with our money. It is easy to do. The reality is most Americans are lost...

  32. Lost: Back on Track

    Money is necessary for life. It is what we use to get the food, clothes, shelter, transportation, and everything else that we need for life. Because of its prevalence in our lives most of us have done something dumb with our money. It is easy to do. The reality is most Americans are lost...

  33. Lost: Where am I?

    Money is necessary for life. It is what we use to get the food, clothes, shelter, transportation, and everything else that we need for life. Because of its prevalence in our lives most of us have done something dumb with our money. It is easy to do. The reality is most Americans are lost...

  34. Progress Not Perfection

    A new year brings with it a hope of a new start. All of us have at least one area in our lives that we would like to see changed. The issue we face is that we have failed in the past and we don’t know why now would be any different. Our hope of a new start quickly turns into discouragement....

  35. Advent of the Savior: In Search of the King

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus to...

  36. Advent of the Savior: Season of Wonder

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus to...

  37. Advent of the Savior: Divine Interruption

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus…

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  38. Advent of the Savior: Nothing is Impossible

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus…

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  39. Advent of the Savior: Waiting and Hoping

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus…

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  40. Advent of the Savior: To Us a Child is Born

    Advent plays an important role in the yearly rhythm of life for a disciple of Jesus. It is easy for us to be distracted with responsibilities, obligations, interruptions, tragedies, and every thing else life has for us. Advent is an intentional season of reflection on the first coming of Jesus…

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  41. Living by Faith: Faith is Humble

    Conflicts happen in relationships. People have different opinions, thoughts, desires, and motivations. All these things can lead to conflict in a relationship. Disciples of Jesus are to work for peace. There are three ways we need to work for peace: with ourselves, with others, and with God. The...

  42. Living by Faith: Faith Avoids Evil

    Communication is one of the key parts of life. Since it is something that we do every day it is not something we give a whole lot of thought to. We default to what seems natural. The problem is that communication has the potential to do great harm to our relationships. All of us bear the wounds…

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  43. Living by Faith: Faith Demonstrated

    A disciple of Jesus should live each day by faith, but what does that mean? What does it mean to have faith? Often we equate faith with belief. We think that we faith if we believe the right things about God or if we do the right religious activities. While there is an element that is true…

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  44. Living by Faith: Faith that Loves

    God cares about how we treat people. It is easy for us to get caught up in the way our culture evaluates the people. We can judge people based on their economic status, their education level, their political affiliation, or a dozen other factors. When we favor one group of people over another…

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  45. Living by Faith: Faith in Action

    How closely would you listen to instructions if your life depended on it? We would be foolish not to follow the instructions of a wise and knowledgeable person. This is James’ point in James 1:19-27. To be wise requires not to simply hear God’s word, but to truly listen to it, which requires…

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  46. Living by Faith: Tested Faith

    When someone has our lives in their hands we want to know they have been tested. It is crucial that they have developed the skills necessary to help us. We would never go to someone for surgery that didn’t go to medical school and have the right training, because our very lives are at stake. We...

  47. Living by Faith: How Should We Live?

    How do we follow Jesus today? What does it look like to follow Jesus in our freedom, with the money and luxury we have at our disposal, the multi-cultural and multi-religious realities of our communities, and the social media age that influences our lives? Our hope is that the wisdom discovered…

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  48. Living in Grace: For God’s Glory

    What is the purpose of the Law? What is the Gospel? How do we live as God’s people? These are all questions the apostle Paul answers in his letter to the Galatians. In this first sermon of the series Living in Grace, Pastor Paul Steele looks at the introduction of this letter and identifies three...

  49. The Story: The End of Time

    In the beginning of the Bible we read that God created a good world. He desired to have humans to co-rule this world with Him, with His wisdom, love, and grace. The problem is that we have decided to do things our own way, to define good and evil on our own, and that has brought corruption and…

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  50. The Story: Paul’s Final Days

    God gave the Church the mission of making disciples of all nations. At the forefront of the mission was a man named Paul. In this message, Pastor Paul explains the reason why the Apostle Paul was effective in his mission to take the Gospel to the world.

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The teaching podcast of Bethlehem Church in Austin, MN.

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Paul Steele

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