To See The Son
It’s Good to be Here If I could find that place where I know Jesus was always present and was not only just there but was there in a hugely…
The Heart of God
A Bridge From Old to New We are coming to the end of what some scholars believe are the most important series of texts in our 3-year lectionary cycle. This…
Reconciled 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…
The Beatitudes
The Kingdom has Come Near The Beatitudes (Matthew 5:1-12) form the beginning of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, Jesus’ first sermon. And what a sermon it is! Remember how Matthew…
Belief and Resolution
Resolution Check-Up Brothers & sisters in Christ with everything going on in our world and in your lives – thank you for making time for worship this morning. We are…
We Forgive as We Have Been Forgiven
Living our Mission As we move through this season of Epiphany we are spending a few weeks thinking and praying about Jesus as God’s light to the whole world and…
God Welcomes Us.
Forgotten Words Lead to Warm Welcome On my first day as a pastor at Good Shepherd, which also happened to be my first day as a pastor ever, I was…
Epiphany
A Sudden Realization Epiphany is one of those church words that we hear a lot but maybe we have forgotten what it means or maybe we never knew what it…
Let Us Walk in the Light of the Lord
Realism & Hope Expectations are powerful emotions that can serve to excite and defeat us. How many of you have lived with a set of expectations for yourself or others…
God Gives Us Hope & Peace
What to make of a Stump Growing up, my parents spent a lot of time outside doing gardening and landscaping projects all around my childhood home. I dreaded the times…