WELS ministry in Payson, Arizona. Pastor Tom Barthel.
Payson, Arizona
Marriage Basics Series Listen to brief audio summary 3) Mechanics of Marriage
View Series Listen to brief audio summary 2) Roles in Marriage
View Series Listen to brief audio summary 1) Essence of Marriage
Luke 14:25-35 ● 2025-09-07 ● Series: Words that Cut the Heart ● Listen to audio
View Apologetics Bible Study series Listen to brief audio devotion Apologetics 6) Purpose in Suffering
View Apologetics Series Listen to a brief audio based on our study Apologetics 5) Behind the Science
Luke 14:7-14 ● 2025-08-31 ● Series: Words that Cut the Heart ● Listen to audio
View Apologetics series Listen to a brief audio devotion based on this study Apologetics 4) Courtroom Credibility
Luke 13:22-30 ● 2025-08-24 ● Series: Words that Cut the Heart ● Print Version ● Listen to Audio The young child at the amusement park approaches the line for a ride he and all the other kids have picked out. But there's a problem. One of them failed to check the “you must be this […]
Luke 12:49–53 ● 2025-08-17 ● Series: Words that Cut the Heart ● Print Version ● Listen to Audio General William Tecumseh Sherman is most widely remembered for his famous March to the Sea during the American Civil War. At the end of 1864 he had captured Atlanta and made his way to Savannah. He made […]
View the Apologetics Bible Study Series Listen to a brief devotion based on our study Apologetics 3) History and the Resurrection
Listen to a brief devotion based on part 2 of our Apologetics study. – View Series Listen to audio – Apologetics 2) God and Philosophy
Luke 12:22-34 ● 2025-08-10 ● Listen to Sermon Audio ● Watch Video And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. 23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. 24 Consider the ravens: they neither […]
Listen to a brief devotion based on the first part of our Bible Study series. Apologetics 1) Jesus is Lord
Luke 12:13-21 ● 2025-07-06 ● Listen to sermon audio
Listen to short devotion 7) “The Bride” Download Handout 7) “The Bride”
Listen to short devotion 6) “God's City” Download Handout 6) “God's City”
Listen to short devotion 5) “God's Household” Download Handout 5) “God's Household”
Listen to short devotion 4) “The Body” View Handout 4) “The Body”
Listen to short devotion 1) “God's Vineyard” Seven Pictures of the Church 3) God's Vineyard (handout)
Listen to short devotion 2) “God's Temple”
Ezekiel 2:9—3:11 ● 2025-07-06 ● Listen to Sermon audio Then I looked, and I saw a hand stretched out to me. In it was a scroll, 10 which he unrolled before me. On both sides of it were written words of lament and mourning and woe. 3 And he said to me, “Son of man, eat what is before […]
Listen to short devotion 1) “God's Flock” Download Study Guide
Luke 9:51–62 ● 2025-06-29 ● Listen to Sermon Audio As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. 52 And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; 53 but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. 54 When […]
Luke 8:26-39 ● 2025-06-22 ● Listen
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 […]