WELS ministry in Payson, Arizona. Pastor Tom Barthel.
Payson, Arizona
John 16:12-15 ● 2025-06-15 ● Trinity Sunday ● Listen “I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. 13 But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you […]
Psalm 104 ● 2025-06-08 ● Pentecost Sunday ● Listen
Psalm 133 ● 2025-06-01 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen How good and pleasant it is when God's people live together in unity! 2 It is like precious oil poured on the head, running down on the beard,running down on Aaron's beard, down on the collar of his robe.3 It is as if the dew of Hermon were falling on Mount […]
Acts 1:1-11 ● 2025-05-25 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen
John 13:31-35 ● 2025-05-18 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen
John 21:1-14 ● 2025-05-04 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen Note: our main microphone was not working this week; this recording has some additional echo sounds.
Psalm 150 ● 2025-04-27 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen
Colossians 3:1-4 ● 2025-04-20 ● Easter Series: Because He Lives ● Listen Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 4 When […]
Romans 11:11-21 ● 2025-04-06 ● Lent Series: Christ Opens the Door ● Listen Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for […]
Judges 10:6-16 ● 2025-03-30 ● Lent Series: Christ Opens the Door ● Listen
Numbers 16:23-40 ● 2025-03-23 ● Lent Series: Christ Opens the Door ● Listen
Philippians 3:17-4:1 ● 2025-03-16 ● Lent Series: Christ Opens the Door ● Listen
1 Samuel 17 ● 2025-03-09 ● Lent Series: Christ Opens the Door ● Listen
2 Corinthians 3:7-18 ● 2025-03-02 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen
Luke 6:27–38 ● 2025-02-23 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen
2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ● 2025-02-16 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Print ● Listen Those of you who have attempted to repair something know there is a certain rule. My dad likes to point out the frequent occurrence of “Murphy's Law.” If something can go wrong in a project, it will go wrong. A simple job […]
Luke 5:1-11 ● 2025-02-09 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen
Luke 4:16-30 ● 2025-01-26 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture […]
John 2:1-11 ● 2025-01-19 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen
Titus 3:4-7 ● 2025-01-12 ● Series: Epiphany Moments ● Listen About one hundred years ago Erik Erickson, a prominent psychoanalyst, coined the phrase “identity crisis.” He laid the framework for what is now used to describe when someone struggles to hold onto their identity. It can play out in several ways for people in different […]
Genesis 17:1-7 ● 2025-01-05 ● Christmas Series ● Listen ● Watch There's sometimes a lot that goes into a name. When auto manufacturers come up with a name for a car line they can spend hundreds of thousands of dollars. They want to make sure the name evokes the picture of a perfect car without […]
Luke 2:41-52 ● 2024-12-29 ● Christmas Series ● Listen
Ex. 33:18–34:7 ● 2024-12-25 ● Christmas Series ● Listen
Proverbs 30:1-5 ● 2024-12-24 ● Christmas Series ● Listen The words of Agur son of Jakeh. An oracle.This man declares:I am weary, God. I am weary, God, and worn out,2 because I am too unreasoning to be a man.I do not even possess human understanding.3 I have not learned wisdom.I do not have knowledge of the Holy […]
Hebrews 10:5-10 ● 2024-12-22 ● Advent Series: A Real Christmas ● Listen ● Watch 5 Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me;6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased.7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll— I […]
Philippians 4:4-7 ● 2024-12-15 ● Advent Series: A Real Christmas ● Print ● Listen ● Watch A lot of Christmas songs invite people to “be of good cheer” and to “have a holly jolly” Christmas. But you can't just tell someone to be happy. When the Israelites were in captivity their captors tormented them by […]
Luke 3:1-6 ● 2024-12-08 ● Advent Series: A Real Christmas ● Listen
Isaiah II Bible Study series. – Listen to audio (recorded May 16, 2024) Isaiah 53:9-12 The Lord's Servant Will Rise to Life and Be Exalted Have you ever seen any impressive private mausoleums? The Russian government spends over $200,000 a year to maintain the mausoleum for Lenin's embalmed body. It has been on display for […]
Jeremiah 33:14-16 ● 2024-12-01 ● Advent Series: A Real Christmas ● Listen 14 “‘The days are coming,' declares the Lord, ‘when I will fulfill the good promise I made to the people of Israel and Judah. 15 “‘In those days and at that time I will make a righteous Branch sprout from David's line; he will do what is just and right in […]
Jude 20-25 ● 2024-11-24● 5-part series “Live Forever” ● Listen But you, dear friends, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in God's love as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you to eternal life. 22 Be merciful to those who doubt; 23 save others by […]
Mark 12:38-44 ● 2024-11-10 ● 5-part series “Live Forever” ● Listen
John 11:32-44 ● 2024-11-03 ● 5-part series “Live Forever” ● Listen
Revelation 14:6-7 ● 2024-10-27 ● 5-part series Live Like You'll Live Forever ● Listen
1 Corinthians 9:7-23 ● 2024-10-20 ● 3-part series: Divine Solutions; Defective Plans ● Listen
Hebrews 4:12-13 ● 2024-10-13 ● 3-part series: Divine Solutions; Defective Plans ● Listen For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid […]
Psalm 127 ● 2024-10-06 ● 3-part series: Divine Solutions; Defective Plans ● Listen
Matthew 5:10-12 ● 2024-09-29 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen View accompanying Bible Study series
Matthew 5:9 ● 2024-09-22 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Print ● Listen view accompanying Bible study series Peace treaties have shaped history. Did you know the oldest surviving record of an international peace treaty dates back 3300 years? The Treaty of Kadesh was between Rameses II of Egypt and the Hittites. At the time it […]
Matthew 5:8 ● 2024-09-15 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen View Accompanying Bible Study Series
Matthew 5:7● 2024-09-08 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen View accompanying Bible Study Series
Matthew 5:6● 2024-09-01 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen ● Watch Video View accompanying Bible Study series
Matthew 5:5 ● 2024-08-25 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen to Audio ● Print Transcript of Audio James and John, two of the disciples of Jesus, decided it wasn't enough merely to be just part of the twelve. So they approached Jesus with their request to sit at his right and his left when he […]
View entire Isaiah II series Listen The Lord's Servant Will Suffer and Die When Abraham nearly completed his instructions to offer up his one and only son as a sacrifice, the angel of the Lord stopped him. Then the Lord provided a substitute sacrifice. Abraham then offered up a ram that was caught in a […]
Matthew 5:4 ● 2024-08-18 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen View accompanying Bible Study series
Matthew 5:1-3 ● 2024-08-11 ● Series: The Beatitudes ● Listen View accompanying Bible Study series
2 Kings 6:8–17 ● 2024-08-04 ● Print Version ● Listen We use satellites for so much these days: communication services, weather information, navigation devices. The modern world as we know it couldn't function without those large pieces of scientific achievement constantly hovering and circling above us. Each satellite is really used for one main thing, […]
2 Timothy 2:1–13 ● 2024-07-07 ● Series: Power of the Gospel ● Listen You then, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. 2Entrust the things you heard from me, in the presence of many witnesses, to faithful men who will also be able to teach others. 3Share hardships as a good […]
Mark 5:21-43 ● 2024-06-30 ● Series: Power of the Gospel ● Listen 21 When Jesus had again crossed over by boat to the other side of the lake, a large crowd gathered around him while he was by the lake. 22 Then one of the synagogue leaders, named Jairus, came, and when he saw Jesus, he fell […]
Colossians 1:3-8 ● 2024-06-16 ● Series: Power of the Gospel ● Listen 3 We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4 because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all God's people— 5 the faith and love that spring from the hope stored up for […]
Genesis 3:8-15 ● 2024-06-09 ● Series: Power of the Gospel ● Listen