Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Happy Easter to you!

Christ is Risen! Alleluia! The enemy death has been destroyed and life and love wins once and for all.  Can you believe it? Maybe we all have our doubts. Even on a day like Easter. Maybe especially on a day like Easter. But scratch beneath the surface of this unbelievable story and you might just uncover a truth can turn you into a believer again. Thank God for witnesses!

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.

From the candle-lit intimacy of the upper room we travel to the menacing darkness of Gethsemane, Pilate’s judgement hall, and a hill called The Skull where Jesus is put to death. We reflect on a love so profound the world cannot bear to let it live. And yet a love that gives life to all it touches. And a love that calls us into a mission of sharing its disruptively beautiful power with all.

Join us at 10:30 am (both in-person and live-streamed) for our Tenebrae service that includes the reading of the Passion story (accompanied by artistic images) and the gradual extinguishing of candles.

Tonight we enter the holy Three Days (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter), as we journey with Jesus through the story of his Passion and Resurrection. We begin in an upper room where unsuspecting disciples are given one last powerful object lesson in love by their Teacher and Lord. What happens in that room however reverberates wth the memory of another meal of love and freedom centuries before. And echoes for all time as what happened that night is remembered and re-enacted among us this night.

We will gather for a dinner of soup and bread at 6 PM followed by worship at 7 PM (which will be live-streamed). You’re invited to attend either or both. The link to the bulletin can be found here.

We welcome Holy Week today with a service that tells the story of Christ’s entry into Jerusalem, with a reading from the Gospel of Luke!

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.

On this last Sunday in the season of Lent we read the story of Mary anointing Jesus’s feet with expensive perfume. A beautiful story of gratitude, devotion, and… intimacy? We’re not used to Bible stories making us blush. But maybe when we take a close look at what’s going on here, that just might be our reaction. And just the good news we need to hear too.

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.

In Roman Catholic tradition today is “Joy Sunday”, a little break from the gloom of Lent. Now if we could only get a break from the gloom of the world these days. Maybe our gospel today, being Jesus’ parable of the prodigal son, will help. Or maybe it will give us even more than just a break. Maybe it will even give us an excuse to party!

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.

With spring arriving this week our lectionary gives us the story of a gardener. A gardener whose belief in a hapless and hopeless fig tree defies common sense. How often do we feel like a fruitless fig tree that has had more than enough chances to bloom? Or been made to feel that way by others? Or been tempted to make others feel that way? And then we meet this gardener, whose ways are not our ways. Can that kind of grace make a difference to sorry saplings like us?

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 often think of motherly love as warm, comforting, and gentle. But motherly love can be fierce too, as Jesus demonstrates in our gospel today. Especially in the way it refuses to let any obstacle hinder it from loving its children to the end; whether that be the threat of a menacing predator, or the stubborn disobedience of its own offspring. A mother’s love will not be denied, and neither will God’s.

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.

Lent is a season that conjures up many images and themes. Maybe the battle with temptation being one of the most prominent. In our gospel today Jesus faces three temptations from the devil. But perhaps the most powerful is one that isn’t even explicitly named but which lurks in the background for Jesus and for us all. Let’s head into the wilderness and face the struggle that engulfs us all.

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.