Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Labour Day weekend is informally thought of as the last weekend of summer. It’s also a day to reflect on our daily work as we head into the fall and its routines. How would you describe your work? Satisfying, meaningful, boring? How about beautiful? Today we enjoy an interview with Mogens Hansen, a member of our congregation who helps us reflect on the beauty of our work.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

We don’t often look to the Bible for recipes or diet advice. But thats what we’re served up today. Together with the question, “What are you feeding your soul?” Maybe that’s a question that hasn’t occurred to you. But we fail to ask it at our own risk. Especially the risk of missing the deepest spiritual nourishment we could know. Come to the (virtual) table today and feast on the bread of life.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

Who are your heroes? Have you ever thought about yourself as a hero? Does God actually call us to be heroes? Those are questions our kids have been exploring all week at our annual Vacation Bible School. So we will share the conversation, and much of the joy of this year’s VBS at our service on Sunday as we gather for worship with St. Laurence Anglican Church, our friends and collaborators in children’s ministry.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

“It’s possible to be so focused on one aspect of the obvious that we miss out on the full reality before us.” So writes Audrey West, a Moravian professor of theology. Maybe that strikes a chord for us in many aspects of our secular life. But in our faith life? How do we so easily miss the full reality of some of the most familiar touchstones of our discipleship?

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

Have you ever done a good thing for the wrong reason? Sometimes that can actually work out. But when it comes to following Jesus it’s always a bad idea. Turns out following is not quite the same as being a disciple. So thank God we have a patient teacher in Jesus. And on this weekend of Vancouver Pride that teaching can be an important one for the church.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

*Recording now available–see link below*

Is there anything more basic to our sustenance as human beings and communities as bread? Probably not much. And today we begin a stretch of Sundays focusing on the “bread chapter” of John’s gospel. We hear about a miracle Jesus does with bread. But is this Jesus’s miracle alone? And is it a miracle that only happened once, way back then?

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

Another Sunday full of images of sheep and shepherds! Not that anyone’s complaining. But as our first reading today notes, there are shepherds, and then there are Shepherds. Or more accurately, there is The Shepherd. The one who gives us rest, leads us on right pathways, and whose compassion is in exhaustible. We welcome today pastor and preacher Tim LeDrew, a wonderful and well respected shepherd of our synod.

Today’s worship service will be live-streamed on our YouTube channel at 10:30 am. Join us live, or watch the video here at a later time.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.

Today’s worship service will be taking place outdoors, therefore the service will not be live-streamed. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience.

Politics and religion. Two subjects that don’t mix… Right? Well, maybe that depends on what you mean by “politics”. We get a lesson today on this touchy subject from two biblical characters for whom the tension we feel between politics and religion was never an issue. And a lesson too on discipleship.

The bulletin for the service can be downloaded here.