Pastor’s Note
An Epiphany for Our Time
Gradual, Patient & Sometimes Invisible Jesus knew that great results do not always happen as suddenly as a conversion experience on the banks of the Jordan River. Many people have…
Read MoreThe Gift of God Made Manifest in Us!
Receiving the Gift The Christian faith is always being given to us by God as a gift. God will never take it back nor will God withhold it from any…
Read MoreA faithful “I don’t know”
Asking Honest Questions At a youth group retreat in high school, my pastor sat us down to talk about the Bible. This pastor was new to us, an interim who…
Read MoreWhat Then Should We Do?
A Crowd with a Question John the Baptist must have been a fire-y preacher in his crazy clothing, out in the desert- saying things that were controversial and hard to…
Read MoreRepent and Follow
So, who cares? Who cares about Tyberius, Pilate, Herod, Phillip and Lysanius, Annas and Caiaphis? Ok, granted…we Christians, who know Jesus’ story, will care about Pilate and Herod a bit…
Read MoreLooking for the Fig Tree
Many messages are produced every day about the end of times. And those end times always seem to be just around the corner, don’t they? Read your morning newspaper, watch…
Read MoreA Different Kind of King
So the holidays have officially arrived. With all the hustle and bustle of peppermint mocha laced shopping sprees, or tryptophan induced binge sessions of football. And each year thrown into…
Read MoreRevealing the Nearness of the Kingdom
The Little Apocalypse This Sunday’s Gospel reading from Mark (Mark 13:1-8) is called the Little Apocalypse. Don’t let that scare you though. The word apocalypse usually brings up images for…
Read MoreGiving without Expectation
What does it look like to give without asking for anything in return? We might know people who can live this out, but it sure isn’t easy. As disciples of…
Read MoreThe Resurrected Life
More than a Possibility One of the oddest things about being a Christian is that we confess that we believe in the resurrection of the dead. That isn’t a confession…
Read MoreSome Assembly Required
When I think about Jeremiah preaching in the wilderness (Jeremiah 31:7-9), I think about Luther rediscovering the radical simplicity of the good news of Jesus Christ, and then I look…
Read MoreThe Servant and The Cross
Why did Jesus have to die? The first story of our sermon series on BELONGING weeks ago welcomed us into some private teaching between Jesus and his disciples. It was…
Read MoreSacred Relationships
From an Idea to a Mission In February, a woman asked about creating a quilting ministry here at Good Shepherd- with the idea that the quilts would go to Lutheran…
Read MoreWe Joyfully Belong
Mark 9:38-50 is all about how we treat those who belong to Jesus. Jesus’ teaching begins when his disciples observe a person – outside their own group – doing something…
Read MoreRaw & Un-Filtered Jesus
Water can be a powerful, powerful force… One of the Brosious family’s most treasured physical possessions is a gorgeous Beckwith cross-cut oak stand up piano. It came from Chicago to…
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