Archive for January 2021
Livestream Worship | Sunday, January 31, 2021
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Read MoreSouper Bowl Thursday Continues on February 11
Delay of Game! First, it was the pandemic. Now, today’s snowstorm is limiting who can safely bring their soup for the Souper Bowl. So, we will have the “Soup Cart” out…
Read MoreCaught Up in the Kingdom
Mark’s Gospel Last week we deviated from reading through the gospel of Mark, when we heard the story of Jesus calling two disciples as recorded in the gospel of John.…
Read MoreMid-Week Worship | January 27, 2021
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Read More2020 Annual Report
The 2020 Annual Report of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is now available to read online. Print copies will also be available on a limited basis if needed.
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 MoreReconciliation
A long time ago, as a student in seminary, I was pulled into an extremely heated debate regarding full communion with the Episcopal Church. I was a very polemic voice…
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”.
Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, January 17, 2021
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Read MoreThe Plunge
The Polar Plunge I’ve never done this myself, but I was there in person a few years ago, when several of our church pastors and staff took the plunge. The…
Read MoreMidweek Worship | January 13, 2020
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Read MoreLivestream Worship | Sunday, January 10, 2021
Our re-creation in baptism is an image of the Genesis creation, where the Spirit of God moved over the waters. Both Mark’s gospel and the story in Acts make clear that it is the Spirit’s movement that distinguishes Jesus’ baptism from John’s. The Spirit has come upon us as upon Jesus and the Ephesians, calling us God’s beloved children and setting us on Jesus’ mission to re-create the world in the image of God’s vision of justice and peace.
Read MoreThe Word Became Flesh
Star of Wonder On December 21, the winter solstice, my book group took a sunset walk in the Dane County section of Pheasant Branch Conservancy. We had a good hike…
Read MoreMidweek Worship | January 6, 2020
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”.
Livestream Worship | Sunday, January 3, 2021
Within the gospel reading’s profound words lies the simple message that God is revealed in a human person. Though we may try to understand how the Word existed with God from the beginning of time, the wonder we celebrate at Christmas is that the Word continues to dwell among us. Christ comes among us in the gathered assembly, the scriptures, the waters of new birth, and the bread and the wine. Through these ordinary gifts we receive the fullness of God’s grace and truth.
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