Sermons – Good Shepherd Mount Holly

Think back for a moment to your childhood. To early childhood. What’s the first major news event that you remember? That first time that you realized that there’s this whole wide world out there, things happen out there that are beyond you or your parents or anyone else’s control… What was it? For me, as… The post And I Think To Myself… appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

If you walk down the street in Tbilisi, the capital of the country of Georgia, you’re going to find a whole lot of bakeries. They make this special type of bread. It’s called tonis puri, bread made in a tonis oven, this oven like a tandoor. So you shape the dough into this long football… The post Bread at Every Table appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

On August 2, Rev. Irina Solej of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Georgia and the Southern Caucasus was the guest preacher as part of their official visit to Good Shepherd. Read more about there visit here. Dear brothers and sisters, may God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. Amen… The post Guest Preacher: Why do we come to church? appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

You’d be forgiven today if you thought this was the Holy Gospel according to the Game of Thrones. Where in the world did this story come from?  It serves as a good reminder that the Bible is full of stories of flawed and broken people. And whenever you have flawed and broken people, and give… The post Herod’s Bloody Banquet appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

On that day, when evening had come, he said to them, ‘Let us go across to the other side.’ And leaving the crowd behind, they took him with them in the boat, just as he was. Other boats were with him. A great gale arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that the… The post Into the Heart of the Storm appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

Big things come in little packages. Now that’s something we hear all the time. And yeah, you know, sometimes it’s true. But often what I’ve found is big things come in bigger packaging. That’s really the norm. If you want to cram in more stuff, you’ve got to get a bigger box. I’m learning that… The post Big Things, Little Packages appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

In our first reading today, we see what I believe to be the first example of someone being thrown under the bus. Alright, so you’ve got Adam and Eve and everything is great in the Garden of Eden. There is perfect harmony, none getting sick, all of your food covered, its really this great all-inclusive… The post Thrown Under the Bus appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

How do you say no to God? Take the case of Isaiah. Here’s this young guy, kind of unassuming. Not much to really remark on. But he finds himself in God’s throne room. Columns surrounding him. The throne before him—the Lord so majestic and mighty that he has to cover himself. Then there are these… The post Trinity Sunday: Here I Am appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

I want to go back to our first reading, the story in Acts, this kind of strange encounter between Phillip, one of the apostles of Jesus and this Ethiopian eunuch. Now Acts, as you know, takes place mostly after Jesus’ ascension. It’s about how the church got started—what those early followers of Jesus did to… The post What is stopping us? appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.

Sermon for Easter Sunday You know when you ride a roller coaster they’ve got these cameras that take your picture at just the right moment? Right there at the exact moment when the track starts to go down. You and your friends are giddy with anticipation, really felling it, ready for the whole thing to… The post The Easter Roller Coaster appeared first on Good Shepherd Mount Holly.