Good Shepherd Sermon Podcast

Seventh Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Isaiah 55:6-11, Matthew 13:1-9,18-23Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Isaiah 55:6-11

6 Seek the Lord while he may be found!

8 Certainly my plans are not your plans,

10 Just as the rain and the snow come down from the sky

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Sixth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Isaiah Exodus 33:12-23, Matthew 11:25-30Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Romans 7:24-25

24 What a miserable wretch I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord!

So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my sinful flesh I serve the law of sin.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Fifth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Matthew 10:34-42, 1 Timothy 6:11-16Worship Folder

Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Psalm 27

1 The Lord is my light and my salvation—whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life—of whom shall I be afraid? 2 When evildoers advance against me to eat my flesh, when my foes and my enemies come against me, it is they who will stumble and fall. 3 If an army lines up against me, my heart will not fear. If war rises against me, even then I will keep trusting. 4 One thing I ask from the Lord. This is what I seek: that I live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord, and to seek Him in His temple. 5 Yes, He will hide me in His shelter on the day of trouble. He will hide me in His tent. He will set me high on a rock. 6 Then my head will be lifted up above the enemies who surround me. I will offer sacrifices at His tent with a joyful shout. I will sing and make music to the Lord. 7 Hear me, O Lord. With my voice I call. Be merciful to me and answer me. 8 When You say, “Seek My face ” my heart says to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” 9 Do not hide Your face from me. Do not turn Your servant away in anger. You have been my help. Do not reject me or forsake me, O God who saves me. 10 If my father and my mother abandoned me, the Lord would take me in. 11 Lord, teach me Your way, and lead me in a straight path because of my oppressors. 12 Do not give me up to the desire of my foes, because false witnesses rise up against me, and so do those who breathe out violence. 13 Unless I was confident to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living—14 Wait for the Lord. Be strong and take heart, and wait for the Lord!

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Fourth Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Matthew 10:24-33, 2 Timothy 4:1-8Worship Folder

Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Romans 6:1b-11

Dead to Sin and Living for God

5 For if we have been united with him in the likeness of his death, we will certainly also be united with him in the likeness of his resurrection.

6 We know that our old self was crucified with him, to make our sinful body powerless, so that we would not continue to serve sin. 7 For the person who has died has been declared free from sin. 8 And since we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him. 9 We know that since Christ has been raised from the dead, he will never die again. Death no longer has control over him. 10 For the death he died, he died to sin once and for all, but the life he lives, he lives to God. 11 In the same way also consider yourselves dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Third Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Numbers 27:15-23, 1 Corinthians 4:1-7, Matthew 9:35-10:8Worship Folder

Pastor Dennis ValleauSermon text: Exodus 20:8-11

8 Remember the Sabbath day by setting it apart as holy. 9 Six days you are to serve and do all your regular work, 10 but the seventh day shall be a sabbath rest to the Lord your God. Do not do any regular work, neither you, nor your sons or daughters, nor your male or female servants, nor your cattle, nor the alien who is residing inside your gates, 11 for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and everything that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. In this way the Lord blessed the seventh day and made it holy.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Second Sunday after PentecostBible Readings Isaiah 35:4-7Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 1 Timothy 1:12-17

God’s Mercy to Paul

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

First Sunday after Pentecost— Holy TrinityBible Readings Genesis 1:1-2:3, Matthew 28:16-20Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Genesis 1 & 2

3 God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

6 God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, and let it separate the water from the water.”

9 God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear,” and it was so. ⎣The waters under the sky gathered to their own places, and the dry land appeared.⎦

11 God said, “Let the earth produce plants—vegetation that produces seed, and trees that bear fruit with its seed in it—each according to its own kind on the earth,” and it was so.

20 God said, “Let the waters swarm with living creatures, and let birds and other winged creatures fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”

27 God created the man in his own image.

31 God saw everything that he had made, and indeed, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.

2:3

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Day of PentecostBible Readings John 7:37-39 Acts 2:1-21 1 Corinthians 12:3-11Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: Acts 2:12

12 They were all amazed and perplexed, saying to each other, “What does this mean?”

The Holy Bible, Modern English Version. Copyright © 2014 by Military Bible Association. Published and distributed by Charisma House.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Seventh Sunday of EasterBible Readings Acts 1:12-26, John 17:1-11, 1 Peter 4:12-17, 5:6-11Worship Folder

Pastor John MelkeSermon text: Acts 1:12-26

12 Then they returned to Jerusalem from the mountain called the Mount of Olives, which is near Jerusalem, a Sabbath day’s journey away.

Matthias Is Chosen

15 In those days, when the group there numbered about 120 people, Peter stood up among the brothers and said, 16 “Gentlemen, brothers, the Scripture had to be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke long ago through the mouth of David about Judas, who became a guide for those who arrested Jesus. 17 Judas was counted as one of us and was given a share in this ministry.

18 “Now this man acquired a field with what he was paid for his wicked act. When he fell headfirst, his middle burst open, and all his intestines spilled out. 19 This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, and so in their own language that field was called Akeldema, which means Field of Blood. 20 Indeed, it is written in the book of Psalms:

May his residence be deserted.

And,

let someone else take his position.

21 “Therefore it is necessary that one of the men who accompanied us during the entire time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us, 22 beginning from his baptism by John until the day Jesus was taken up from us, become a witness with us of his resurrection.”

23 They proposed two: Joseph called Barsabbas (who was also called Justus) and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in this apostolic ministry from which Judas turned away to go to his own place.”

26 Then they assigned lots for them, and the lot fell to Matthias. So he was counted with the eleven apostles.

The Holy Bible, Evangelical Heritage Version®, EHV®, © 2019 Wartburg Project, Inc. All rights reserved.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!

Sixth Sunday of EasterBible Readings Psalm 66, John 14:15-21, 1 Peter 3:13-22Worship Folder

Pastor Paul A. TullbergSermon text: 1 Peter 3:13-22

13 Can anyone really harm you for being eager to do good deeds? 14 Even if you have to suffer for doing good things, God will bless you. So stop being afraid and don’t worry about what people might do.

15 Honor Christ and let Him be the Lord of your life. Always be ready to give an answer when someone asks you about your hope.

16 Give a kind and respectful answer and keep your conscience clear. This way you will make people ashamed for saying bad things about your good conduct as a follower of Christ.

17 You are better off to obey God and suffer for doing right than to suffer for doing wrong.

18 Christ died once for our sins. An innocent Person died for those who are guilty. Christ did this to bring you to God, when His body was put to death and His spirit was made alive.

19 Christ then preached to the spirits that were being kept in prison. 20 They had disobeyed God while Noah was building the boat, but God had been patient with them.

Eight people went into that boat and were brought safely through the flood.

21 Those flood waters were like baptism that now saves you. But baptism is more than just washing your body. It means turning to God with a clear conscience because Jesus Christ was raised from death.

22 Christ is now in heaven, where He sits at the right side of God. All angels, authorities, and powers are under His control.

Copyright © 1995 by American Bible Society For more information about CEV, visit www.bibles.com and www.cev.bible.

Take a Moment to recall something from today’s message.

We value your friendship and the opportunity to share the love of Jesus together with you!