Posts by Sheryl Erickson
We are God’s Ideas
Shifting Identities In my experience, it seems that when life makes a big shift, I re-examine who I am and how I’m doing. Oh, not right away. Not right now…
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The Easter Story Continues In our gospel reading for this Sunday, it really still is the very first Easter Sunday. Jesus has just been raised from the dead. He’s appeared…
Read More50th Anniversary of Earth Day
April 22, 2020 is the 50th anniversary of Earth Day As Christians, we celebrate that God created the world and God’s hand continues to create life. We are greatly blessed…
Read MoreDead End
Timely Reading Today we read another long gospel story like the ones we’ve read the last several weeks. As a mainline Christian church, we read these gospel stories in a…
Read MoreThe Need for Change
Time for a Restart Our theme for Lent at Good Shepherd is “Spiritual Reboot: Building Resiliency for a Life of Faith”. As our worship staff brainstormed, looking at the Bible…
Read MoreReconciled in Christ
Age-Old Infighting In our Gospel today (Matthew 5:13-20), Jesus calls us to dedicate ourselves to be salt and light in the world, in order to witness to the kingdom of…
Read MoreAdvent 1: Come
A Word About Isaiah “Come, let us walk in the light of the Lord”. This verse from (Isaiah 2:5) is our theme for Advent. Each week a phrase from this…
Read MoreGive Sacrificially
I’d like to invite you to simply sit for a moment in the opening words from Jesus in Luke 12:32-34 Jesus’ first words are easy to overlook, but they change…
Read MorePlace God First
How you react when you hear Jesus say, “Do not worry about your life”? Does your mind race, with mine, to talk right back to Jesus in your head and…
Read MoreThe Fire of Jesus
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. “I came to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it…
Read MoreConsider
An Invitation Consider. That’s the word that stuck with me as I read and re-read Jesus’ words in our Creation Sunday gospel (Luke 12: 22-31). CONSIDER, Jesus says. Consider. Consider…
Read More“Whoever Listens to You, Listens to Me”
We are ambassadors for Christ. In our Gospel, Jesus sent 70 ambassadors ahead of him, in pairs, to every town and place where he himself intended to go. Among the…
Read MoreImitation
The Voice of the Shepherd The fourth Sunday in Easter is considered “Shepherd Sunday” in the Christian Church. But when Shepherd Sunday gives us a rare story in the Book…
Read MoreLook Back to Look Ahead
Have you ever been so happy, it was like a dream come true? I’m meeting with lots of couples right now who are putting the finishing touches on their wedding…
Read MoreMystery and Clarity
In today’s gospel (Luke 9:28-36), the cloud is what first grabs my attention. While Peter was speaking, “a cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered…
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