Good Shepherd Lutheran Church

Who of us doesn’t remember and cherish those mountaintop moments along our faith journey. The disciples Peter, James, and John, that’s who! Their mountaintop experience was less than comforting. But they did learn something. So did Jesus. They all learned about seeing themselves and others differently. And if that isn’t a lesson we all need right now, I don’t know what is. Come listen in to a story of true enlightenment for 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.

“Do not fret because of the wicked.” “Love your enemies.” Give to everyone who begs from you.” Does Jesus need a wellness check? Or maybe it’s us who need the check. I mean, why should advice like that be the exception to the rule in this world? Maybe it’s no more complicated today than acknowledging the deep wisdom in words that we so easily discount as anything but wise.

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.

“Trees don’t grow from their branches, they grow from their roots.” So says our guest video preacher this week. And keeping our lives rooted in good soil can help us produce some “interesting” fruit as Jesus proclaims today. How deep are your roots?

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 we get another story of how God’s ways are not our ways. We expect scarcity, God provides abundance. And on this Sunday that we celebrate Canadian Lutheran World Relief that’s an important learning. So many people in this world live in scarcity. But God, and CLWR, need us to recognize our abundance, and then share it abundantly. It’s how we follow Jesus today in our world so easily turned inward. Let all with ears hear!

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.

What’s your favourite part of a wedding service? Maybe for some of us it’s hearing that familiar love passage from 1 Corinthians that’s such a popular choice for a reading. It’s touching, poetic, and as comforting as a mug of your favourite hot beverage on a snowy day. That is until we think a little more deeply about what Paul is actually saying in those words. And then it might just make you feel like throwing the reader off a cliff! Or at least listening with a different set of ears.

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.

What draws you in most about a speech or a sermon? Inspiring words? A great delivery? Emotional impact? All those might have been a part of Jesus’s very first sermon that we hear about today. But what really grabbed his audience, and not in the best way, was the way he lived out the words he preached. Just as we are called to live them out too. So listen in and listen up!

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 doesn’t love a wedding party. Even Jesus does, as our gospel tells us today. So much that he keeps it going when it’s in danger of dying out. But some parties are about more than just having a good time. And a Jesus party has good news that keeps flowing even after the last guest has left. And we’re all invited today!

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.

This Sunday we celebrate the Baptism of our Lord. Which means it’s that wonderful Sunday again where we get to affirm our baptisms and make a trip up to the font to be splashed with God’s water of grace. And amidst all that celebrating we’ll hear perhaps the strangest version of Jesus’ baptism we have, from the gospel of Luke. Never a dull moment in the vineyard of the Lord!

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 the Twelfth Day of Christmas, the Second Sunday of Christmas, and the Eve of the Feast of Epiphany, or in some cultures, “Three Kings Day”. So many numbers! But lots to celebrate. And so we finally give the magi their due as we read the story of their visit to the Christ-child, and their uncomfortably close encounter with the bad guy of Christmas, King Herod. 

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.

Continuing on our theme of celebrating the miracle of Christmas with music we worship today with our Service of Favourite Christmas Carols by request. So what is it that makes a Christmas Carol a favourite? The melody for sure. Perhaps a memory associated with the carol. Maybe the unique way the lyrics proclaim the Christmas Gospel. Whatever it is, we bask in the joy of these seasonal treasures today and continue to marvel of the grace of God made flesh.

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.