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Information, history and facts about Bethany Lutheran Church and Early Childhood Education Center
+Though the initial fears and anxieties left Luther during his first year in the Cloister, they later began to intensify and he felt increasing terror of the wrath of God
+His supervisor ordered him to undertake the study of theology in order to become one of the Order’s teachers. This enabled him to investigate his struggles intellectually. +It was slow going at first since his teachers had taught that God demanded an absolute righteousness (perfect living) to be saved +During his early years, whenever Luther came to the famous “Reformation text” – Romans 1:17 – his eyes were drawn not to the word faith, but to the word religious +Who, after all, could “live by faith”? Only those who were already righteous +that we have been collecting loose change for the local Salvation Army….our goal is to stuff our pumpkin full!
+that we celebrate Thanksgiving annually with a school-wide Thanksgiving Feast. This year we will be sharing a Thanksgiving Blessing Mix with everyone. +that was have annual programs on Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. We invite all to attend – see the online calendar for dates and times. + each year at Christmas, we give a child in each age-level class a crèche scene to be displayed in their home. |