A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Every Spiritual Blessing: An Inheritance

Subtitle: Ephesians

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 7/12/2015

Bible: Ephesians 1:11-12

Length: 39 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Paul continues his long one sentence introduction to his letter to the Ephesians. He is still talking about -Every Spiritual Blessing.- In this case, he returns to the idea of God's sovereign election. However, with a little bit of wordplay, he associates God's elective purpose with being made heirs. Our inheritance does not rest on, nor depend on, our feeble and fickle wills. Rather, our inheritance rests on, and depends on, the decree of God who is working out all of history according to His purposes-

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: A Forgiven Sinner's Great Love

Speaker: Jeff Gregory

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 7/5/2015

Bible: Luke 7:36-50

Length: 41 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Simon the Pharisee got more than he bargained for when he invited Jesus to his home- his treatment of Jesus as a second-class citizen was exposed, as was his lack of understanding of sin, grace, and forgiveness. In contrast, a woman whom he called a -sinnner' manifested her deep understanding of sin, grace, and forgiveness in her profuse outpouring of tears, gratitude, and love to Christ. Simon erred, but she was on target - a poignant model of the power of the grace of God at work in a broken human life.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Open My Eyes

Subtitle: Psalm 119

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 7/5/2015

Bible: Psalm 119:17-24

Length: 41 min. (64kbps)

Overview: The Psalmist continues with extolling the testimonies of God. In this case, he recognizes that if he is to follow the law of God, he needs God to open his eyes. This is especially poignant as he is surrounded by enemies who seek his destruction. These same enemies appear to despise the testimonies of God to the same degree that our Psalmist delights in God's word.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Delighting in God's Word

Subtitle: Psalm 119

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 6/21/2015

Bible: Psalm 119:9-16

Length: 42 min. (64kbps)

Overview: In this section of Psalm 119 the Psalmist moves to verbs that have to do with our attitude toward God's revelation. We are called upon to delight in, be taught by, and hide in our hearts God's revelation.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: All Spiritual Blessings: The Riches of His Grace

Subtitle: Ephesians

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday Service

Date: 6/30/2015

Bible: Ephesians 1:7-10

Length: 43 min. (64kbps)

Overview: In the second section of Paul's famous one sentence introduction to Ephesians, the spiritual blessings we have are expanded upon. Here we have the benefits of the grace that God has lavished on us according to His riches. This grace results in redemption and the forgiveness of sins. This grace is indefatigable and unconditional. It never runs out and is bestowed merely at the behest of the giver.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Importance of the Genealogies

Subtitle: Genesis Series

Speaker: Jeff Gregory

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 6/28/2015

Bible: Genesis 11:10-26

Length: 48 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Although most of us have a tendency to skip over reading the long genealogies in the Bible, such as in the early chapters of 1st Chronicles, they have a crucial function in the inspired Scriptures because they anchor the sacred text in actual historical people and they demonstrate that the Messiah Jesus Christ was a flesh and blood descendant of King David and Abraham and Adam. Christianity is not founded on myths, as are some other world religions, but upon the biographical record of real people and real events. Since we ourselves are real people with real sins, we need a real human, yet divine Savior, to rescue us and forgive us, and only the Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth, of all religious founders, meets this crucial requirement.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: Benediction for a Troubled Church

Subtitle: Trinity Series

Speaker: Jeff Gregory

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 5/31/2015

Bible: 2 Corinthians 13:14

Length: 33 min. (64kbps)

Overview: The church at Corinth was a church marked by many troubles- so Paul was stretched to the limit of his apostolic counseling skills in dealing with them. This is the background that frames the threefold benediction he pronounces on this troubled church. Paul knew exactly what they needed and where the source was for them to receive the sanctifying grace that alone could carry them foreword on the path of Christian sanctification - it was none less than the grace, love, and spirit of fellowship that issued forth from the three persons of the triune God- the Lord Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit. This is what the Corinthians needed and this is what we also need.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: From Indebtedness to an Inheritance

Subtitle: Trinity Series

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - AM

Date: 5/31/2015

Bible: Romans 8:12-17

Length: 40 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Paul presents only two kinds of people in the world- first, those who are indebted to the flesh and controlled by it, and, secondly, those who are indwelled by the Spirit and set free from the control of the flesh. Those who have the Spirit also have the inheritance of the sons and daughters of God which includes eternal life and all the accompanying blessings of being united to Christ. Christians now have the power to say -no- to sin and -yes- to God and his will by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The LORD Has Made Known His Victory

Subtitle: Resurrection Season

Speaker: Mark Bahr

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 5/11/2015

Bible: Psalm 98

Length: 39 min. (64kbps)

Overview: Psalm 98 is a Psalm extolling the victory of God as he has demonstrated his righteousness and holiness. God may use people to accomplish his purposes but ultimately he alone is the one who brings about the good purposes of his will. The Exodus from Egypt is the crucial event that is referred to in the OT as demonstrating God's victorious salvation and righteous vindication. In this Psalm we can discern references to the Messiah's subsequent ministry. By means of the cross Christ Jesus defeated sin and death and Satan and rose victorious from the dead. The news about this Savior sets our hearts to joyful proclamation of what God has done in the Christ-event.

A new MP3 sermon from Good Shepherd Community Church is now available on SermonAudio.com with the following details:

Title: The Resurrection of the Dead

Subtitle: Resurrection Season

Speaker: Jeff Gregory

Broadcaster: Good Shepherd Community Church

Event: Sunday - PM

Date: 5/3/2015

Bible: Daniel 12:2; Acts 23:6

Length: 37 min. (64kbps)

Overview: As Job once asked, -If a man dies, shall he live again-- so Christianity answers this question with a clear affirmative. The Old Testament mentions in several places the resurrection of the dead- it was, in fact, an axiom of the Pharisees. Paul affirms his Jewish orthodoxy on this point in the council meeting in Acts 26 - he believed in the resurrection from the dead before he was ever confronted by the risen Christ on the road to Damascus. The contribution of Daniel 12-2 to the OT doctrine is its declaration that there will be a bodily resurrection of both believers and unbelievers. The NT, and Jesus in particular, confirm this universal resurrection of all humankind. There are only two destinies awaiting all people - to eternal life or eternal condemnation - both in a bodied existence.