Sermons from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Raleigh, NC

Gospel - Luke 10:25-37

Never forget you are Beloved.

Gospel - Luke 10:38-42

The Gospel compels us to ask what time it is in our lives.

Reading - 2 Kings 5:1-14

Sometimes it takes a good Old Testament Story to be reminded grace isn't complicated.

Gospel - Luke 9:51-62

You think you are stubborn, but God is more stubborn.

Gospel - Luke 8:26-39

We all have moments when we don’t feel powerful at all, when we feel at the mercy of forces beyond our control. Our God makes all of this right, in time. Our God sends the Legion away, and suddenly, we realize that there is a new person where the demons were…a person, free, in God’s grace…a person, resurrected, alive again, connected with others, and peaceful in God’s kingdom and no one else’s.

Gospel - John 16:12-15

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“God is there even when life falls apart and it feels like God has gone away, when the comfortable and familiar just aren’t doing the trick anymore. God is still there, reaching out to us in love, creatively looking for ways to connect with us, given the way life is at the moment.”

Reading - Acts 2:1-21

The Spirit gives them the ability to turn outward, facing the wider world, full of people different than them, and speak in ways that say, there is a home for you, too, in this community of Jesus, in this family of God.

Gospel - John 17:20-26

God is a theological tongue twister, and on this last Sunday of Easter we’re invited to practice it.