Fourth Sunday of Easter - Good Shepherd Sunday

• Jesus will not abandon his sheep when danger comes
• Jesus and his sheep know each other well

Pastor Tim Patoka

Third Sunday of Easter

• Christ's resurrection removes fears
• Christ's resurrection creates bold messengers

Pastor Ron Koehler

Second Sunday of Easter

• Christ's resurrection assures our present forgiveness
• Christ's resurrection assures our future resurrection

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Hebrews: 7:23-27

• Jesus is alive! He is not in the tomb.  He has risen just as he said.
• We have in the risen Jesus a high priest who truly meets our needs, who saved us from our sins and now lives to help us, to intercede for us.
• And his help, his accomplishment, his priesthood, mean our salvation will never end.  It is eternal.

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

God Most Holy, look with mercy on this your family for whom our Lord Jesus Christ was willing to be betrayed, be given over into the hands of the wicked, and suffer death upon the cross.  Keep us always faithful to him, our only Savior, who now lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.  Amen

• The Tabernacle and the High Priest Foreshadow Jesus Christ
• The Great Day of Atonement Foreshadows the Cross
• The Blood of Our Great High Priest Cleanses Us
• Our Great High Priest Is Tried and Tortured
• Our Great High Priest Is Crucified
• Our Great High Priest Dies
• Our Great High Priest Is Buried

Exodus 26, 28; Leviticus 16; Hebrews 9; Mark 15

Pastor Nathan Kassulke

Have confidence that Jesus, our Great High Priest, is the mediator of a covenant that is better, stronger, and smarter than the old covenant.

Dearest Jesus, we thank you for the gift of your body and blood, given and shed for the salvation of our souls.  Thank you for strengthening us with your Word and Sacrament. Amen.

Pastor Ron Koehler

What a day Palm Sunday must have been when Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem!

Jesus willingly humbled himself.

God exalted him above all

Pastor Timothy Patoka

Let us approach God boldly with our prayers in every time of need and for others and their needs.  Amen.

We are priests who enter God's presence through Christ's body,

who are urged to enter God's presence boldly.

Pastor Ron Koehler

I have glorified it and I will glorify it again (John 12:28)

Jesus' willing death glorifies the Son of God.

Jesus' guilty death glorifies God's name.

Jesus' death shares God's glory with his children

Pastor Timothy Patoka

And so Jesus also suffered outside the city gate to make the people holy through his own blood.

The better altar is the Cross of Jesus where are sins are forgiven.

Pastor Ryan Heiman