Text: John 10:11-16 Theme: “Love for the sheep” ___________________________ Intr –  The Good Shepherd Sunday is always a deep, rich well we can draw from. Here are a couple of highlights I wanted to reflect about with you today thinking especially of our Gospel reading.[1] 1 – The hired hand ...

Text: Luke 24:36-49, 1 John 3:1-7 Theme: Identity in Jesus Edited transcript[1] ____________________________ Intro – Dear friends in Christ, what is your “story of everything”? What is the story arc that explains life as you know it and  as you live it? I borrowed this concept from Professor Okamoto(Concordia Seminary,...

  Text: John 20:19-31 Theme: Words from the Word ___________________________ Watch the full sermon here   Intro – Are you familiar with the 7/38/55 rule for interpersonal Communication? If you Google it, you’ll find plenty of sources referring to it as the Mehrabian rule, which goes like this: interpersonal communication...

Text: Mark 16:1-8 Theme: The Empty Tomb (Series: 7 places, One story) Sermon Tran ___________________________ SERMON TRANSCRIPT (Watch it here) Intr – My friends in Christ, there’s a story about Good Friday, late afternoon.(It’s extra biblical, please don’t accuse me of heresy.) It’s a tale about Joseph of Arimathea coming...

Text: Isaiah 53 Theme: “Our Lamb” ___________________________ Intr – If you own a dog, or a cat, if you have a pet on any kind (if you don’t, think about people you know that own one), you know how much esteemed they are in the household; how they can be...