Posts by Jared Stellmacher
Ash Wednesday at Good Shepherd
Join us for worship on Ash Wednesday as we begin our forty-day journey toward Easter with a day of fasting and repentance.
Read MorePalm Sunday | March 28, 2021
This week, the center of the church’s year, is one of striking contrasts: Jesus rides into Jerusalem surrounded by shouts of glory, only to be left alone to die on the cross, abandoned by even his closest friends.
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | March 17, 2021
Although Lent is rightly seen more often as a time for individual practices of repentance, prayer and fasting; Lent
can also be seen as a time for the deepening of community.
Lent 4 | March 14, 2021
The Sunday readings for Lent 4, year B include the visit of Nicodemus to Jesus at night. Though he is a leader in the community, his interest in Jesus pushes him to the outside of his own group and to the edges of Jesus’ followers.
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | March 10, 2021
Although Lent is rightly seen more often as a time for individual practices of repentance, prayer and fasting; Lent
can also be seen as a time for the deepening of community.
Lent 3 | Sunday, March 7, 2021
The Sunday readings for Lent 3, year B center us in the ten commandments, which serve, among other things, as a way of living in community with our neighbor.
Read MoreMid-Week Lenten Worship | March 3, 2021
Join us Wednesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. for live worship streamed on our Website, Facebook and YouTube channels. Let us worship into and through this season together. However you find yourself, you are welcome!
Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, February 14, 2021
The Sundays after Epiphany began with Jesus’ baptism and end with three disciples’ vision of his transfiguration. In Mark’s story of Jesus’ baptism, apparently only Jesus sees the Spirit descending and hears the words from heaven.
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | February 10, 2021
Gather with us Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. for a time of reflective worship. Come as you are – bring your worries, joys, hopes, fears, exhaustion- all of it is welcome.
In song, prayer, silence, and scripture we’ll join together with one another and with creation as the day comes to a close.
We encourage you to have a candle with you to light during the service.
“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”.
Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, February 7, 2021
In Isaiah the one God who sits above the earth and numbers the stars also strengthens the powerless. So in Jesus’ healing work we see the hand of the creator God, lifting up the sick woman to health and service (diakonia). Like Simon’s mother-in-law, we are lifted up and healed to serve. Following Jesus, we strengthen the powerless; like Jesus, we seek to renew our own strength in quiet times of prayer.
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | February 3, 2021
Gather with us Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. for a time of reflective worship. Come as you are – bring your worries, joys, hopes, fears, exhaustion- all of it is welcome.
Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, January 31, 2021
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Read MoreMid-Week Worship | January 27, 2021
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Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, January 24, 2021
As we continue through the time after Epiphany, stories of the call to discipleship show us the implications of our baptismal calling to show Christ to the world. Jesus begins proclaiming the good news and calling people to repentance right after John the Baptist is arrested for preaching in a similar way. Knowing that John was later executed, we see at the very outset the cost of discipleship. Still, the two sets of brothers leave everything they have known and worked for all their lives to follow Jesus and fish for people.
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | January 20, 2021
Gather with us Wednesday evening at 7:00 p.m. for a time of reflective worship. Come as you are – bring your worries, joys, hopes, fears, exhaustion- all of it is welcome.
In song, prayer, silence, and scripture we’ll join together with one another and with creation as the day comes to a close.
We encourage you to have a candle with you to light during the service.
“The light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it”.
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