Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

This week our church has been buzzing with the energy of 20 or so youngsters hopping, bopping, and learning at our summer VBS. And this Sunday we worship jointly with our friends from St. Laurence Anglican Church who partner with us in that wonderful ministry. Reverend Philip from St. Laurence will be preaching for us and reflecting on one of the stories we learned during the week, that being Jesus and Zaccheus. What might a tale about Jesus travelling to the house of a despised sinner have to teach us about our life journeys?

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.

Our readings today all speak to us of faith. And Abraham, who we hear about in two of our readings, is about as big a hero of faith as they come. But it’s Jesus who challenges us today with a different understanding of faith than that which we usually think of, or even prefer. And yet it just may be an understanding that can save the world!

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.

“Be on guard against all kinds of greed,” Jesus exhorts us today. That’s a lesson we know well. But not one that we practice nearly as faithfully. For which there may be many reasons. But Jesus tells a parable that highlights one of those reasons that couldn’t be more true for us today. One we are so often oblivious too even in our exercise of compassion. Listen to a story of a farmer.

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.

The Lord’s Prayer is easily the most familiar and often recited prayer among Christians. But is it more than just a prayer? True it makes an attractive poster, or a lovely bookmark. But in truth this prayer Jesus taught us has more to give us than just memorable words to pray when our own escape us. Today we listen a little closer to words we’ve heard many times, but maybe never given close attention.

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.

Our gospel today comes right in time for summer. Complete with Jesus’s words about taking a break from all that worries and distracts us. Or is his advice striking at something deeper within us? Maybe he’s not so much exhorting us to chill out as he is asking us to focus. And maybe that holds the key to surviving through those times of worry and distraction that we can’t ever seem to avoid.

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.

To love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength, and mind is to reflect God’s mercy in responding to one’s neighbour. That mercy found its most profound expression in the “gospel that has come to you”—namely the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. That gospel mercy comes to us again today: at the font, at the table, and from the pulpit. It is very near to you.

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.

God is the source of our nourishment. Jesus’ invitation to “take and eat . . . take and drink” is a repeated one. In holy communion, in the word read and proclaimed, in the assembly of the people of God, the dominion of God has come near. Rejoice! Your name is written in heaven.

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 have no good apart from God. That makes Jesus’ call to follow him an invitation to freedom. This is freedom to revel in the Spirit’s fruit: love, joy, peace, and patience. This is freedom to not be imprisoned by anything that would keep us from the fullness of the life God has given us. This is the path 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.

June is a significant month for important social emphases in our country. Yesterday was National Indigenous Peoples Day and this whole month is Pride Month. We will recognize these two emphases in our worship today. And what a stroke of luck that our gospel and our second reading speak to us of God’s will for human community, with a little exorcism thrown in for drama! Because it turns out there’s a few demons standing in the way of that community becoming a reality.

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.