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Audio recording of the weekly 8am Sunday services of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Watertown, WI. Weekly services include Saturdays at 6pm, and Sundays at 8am and 10:30am, Wednesday services during Lent and Advent, and special church holiday services throughout the year. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is located at 1611 E. Main St., Watertown, WI, 53098
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Video recording of the weekly 8am Sunday services of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, a member of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod in Watertown, WI. Weekly services include Saturdays at 6pm, and Sundays at 8am and 10:30am, Wednesday services during Lent and Advent, and special church holiday services throughout the year. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church is located at 1611 E. Main St., Watertown, WI, 53098
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"This Advent, brothers and sisters, don't just prepare your homes. Prepare yourselves to remember that God has given us more gifts than we could ever hope for that have the capacity to transform and change us." - Pastor Alex HoopsIn this first week of Advent, Pastor Alex explores God's gift of hope and how it help us endure the good and bad times o…
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"The cycle of life for people who follow Jesus is that we experience a thousand deaths. And on the other end of them we experience a thousand rebirths." - Pastor Lorne HladIn this week's sermon, Pastor Lorne reminds us that God is always working in our lives, even during our lowest moments.Por Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
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“I want you to think of those people in your life that have modeled a heart of serving and giving, of love and sharing for you.’” – Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne reminds us that bold generosity is a lifelong commitment to serving and giving so that others may know God’s love in their life.Por Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
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“True abundance is not the absence of pain…it’s never about what we earn, accomplish or achieve. It is about living a life marked by faith, by hope, having community, living a generous life, and taking risks.” – Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne shares Good Shepherd’s reclarified mission, “Connecting People to True Abundance in Christ”, and begins to e…
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“We have an amazing, unbelievably gracious God who is going to walk with us, lead us, show us the path forward. And when we fail and stumble in fear – feel overwhelmed – God is going to pick us up again and say, rejoice brothers and sisters, rejoice, my children, because your names are written in the book of life.” – Pastor Lorne HladIn this week’s…
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“There is someone in your midst who is likely being overlooked, spoken over, and is never even considered to be in the conversation of who’s the greatest – that’s where your attention should be.” – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Alex explores what it means to stop focusing on ourselves and instead put that focus on those who are ove…
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“There's just a statement of truth - that crumbs would be more than enough - an honest declaration of God's infinite, boundless, and amazing love.” – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Alex explores what it means to humbly respond to Christ’s calling in our lives and how God’s provision is enough.…
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“What’s being offered by Jesus in this life of faith is not a list. It’s no less than life in all its fullness.” – Pastor Alex HoopsOn his return from sabbatical, Pastor Alex reminds us our faith is more than a “to do” list, but an invitation to live a life transformed so that all may see God’s love and grace in their lives.…
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“Today is an invitation to quit running, to quite striving, to quite trying to fill yourself with things that only leave you more hungry.” – Pastor Lorne Hlad This week, Pastor Lorne reminds us that the hunger we have for meaning and purpose in our lives can only truly be satisfied by accepting the love and peace Jesus offers and leaving the things…
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“I will continue to affirm that…I was created perfectly and that I shouldn’t have to feel like I need to change any part of me to feel accepted and appreciated – especially not for God.” - Good Shepherd Flock StudentThis week, we welcomed Good Shepherd’s High School Youth Group, The Flock, to share their Spirit moments from their recent trip to the…
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“We acknowledge when we are afraid. Fear is real. We acknowledge that fear. And then we look for Jesus walking right with us. That is resurrection. That is hope, not fear. Hope that is sure and certain.” – Pastor Michael OakleyThis week, we welcome Pastor Michael Oakley to Good Shepherd. He reminds us that while we may have fear about the future, J…
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“Even though we keep perpetuating the old narrative, the new story of God’s love, of God’s grace, of God’s forgiveness needs to be proclaimed louder and more boldly.” - Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne reminds us that we are a people who are called to share a different kind of story with the world through our words and actions: one that is rooted in G…
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“The invitation today…is to loosen our grip on needing to control everything in our lives so that we can see that we go further and we go faster when we are together. – Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne reminds us that our journey of faith is not done alone, but rather with other people in community.Por Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
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“I don’t want any of us to lose sight that the greatest gifts we can ever give…is ourselves. It’s our time.” – Pastor Lorne HladMuch like the mustard seed that blossoms into the greatest of shrubs, Pastor Lorne reminds us that the little acts of daily love we share likely mean more to the people around us than the grandest of gestures.…
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"As we live through our values, guided by grace, rooted in relationship, serving the world, we show the world that there's hope." - Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne reminds us that living out our calling as disciples of Jesus is more than just something good for ourselves but rather a way that God's Kingdom can break through into a world that is in de…
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“The true heart of the Sabbath, of God’s vision for creation, is that we would find rhythms, patterns, and practices that fill us with wonder, with awe, with beauty, so that we can be an overflow of God’s goodness into the lives of other people.” – Pastor Lorne HladPastor Lorne explores the gift of Sabbath and how it refuels us so that we may do th…
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“Jesus was very interested in more than a conceptual faith, more than a faith in our heads, but one in our hands, our heart, our feet – one that’s lived out every day.” – Pastor Alex HoopsPastor Alex reminds us that sometimes the best testimony we can share of the Good News of Jesus is through how we live our daily lives.…
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“We are not alone. We’re not doing this by ourselves. We are given the connection from the very beginning and the good news is we don’t have to manufacture goodness or manufacture energy. That goodness and that energy comes from the source of all creation.” – Pastor Alex HoopsThis week, Pastor Alex reminds us to spend time in the practices that fee…
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“If we’re the loudest person in the room…sometimes we can’t hear the quiet voice of the Good Shepherd leading us, guiding us, [and] challenging us to listen.” – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Alex reminds us that God provides a voice to lead us as long as we are willing to take the time to truly listen.…
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“We are called just like Jesus to go into the world to find hurting, wounded people that feel alone, afraid, scared, rejected, and to show them that we have felt those same things.” – Pastor Lorne HladThis week, Pastor Lorne explores the ways that God provides peace in the midst of the challenging and painful moments of our lives.…
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“There’s no story of resurrection that doesn’t involve community” – Pastor Alex HoopsThis first week of “Life Lines: Finding Hope When Life Feels Hopeless”, Pastor Alex explores how God provides community to journey with us when we have doubts and struggles.Por Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
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“The cross should make us tremble in our very hearts because it’s God’s definitive sign that God with go to any length to prove to the world that God is with us, that God is for us, that God loves us.” – Pastor Lorne HladIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Lorne explores the power of what it means that Christ died on the cross not just for us, but also w…
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“I don’t wish for wake up calls in my life and I don’t wish for them in your life. And yet, they have the power to transform us into a deeper, more obedient space where we actually learn to trust God.” – Pastor Lorne HladAs we conclude our Lenten Journey, The Shift, Pastor Lorne explores how wake-up calls in our lives can help us shift our faith fr…
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“Our mission as a people of God is not motivate by fear, but by a freedom that we are called to alleviate the suffering of our brothers and sisters.” – Pastor Alex HoopsAs we continue our Lenten Worship Series, The Shift, Pastor Alex explores how we called to shift our perspective away from being fearful of God and instead to a freedom in Christ th…
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“We aren’t here just for rituals – we’re here for a relationship with God and one another.” – Pastor Alex HoopsAs we continue our Lenten Worship Series, The Shift, Pastor Alex asks us to look beyond the rituals of our faith lives and see the places God is inviting us into a deeper relationship with Him and those around us.…
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“You see, the life of following Jesus is always a pathway of losing our life, so that we can find it – dying the self and arising anew with God.” – Pastor Lorne HladAs we continue our Lenten Worship Series, The Shift, Pastor Lorne explores how Jesus invites us to shift our perspective from living a life that is safe, to one that purses God’s missio…
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“I believe God wants us to show up present today as if we believed today matters – because we know that it does.” – Pastor Lorne HladDuring our first weekend of Lent, Pastor Lorne explores how Jesus calls us to shift our perspective from living life for someday to living life today.Por Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
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“Who or what are the treasures that hold your heart? What are the hopes, the dreams, the values that are worth living for in your life?" – Pastor Lorne HladIn his Ash Wednesday sermon, Pastor Lorne encourages us to look the uncertainty of life and certainty of death in its face by remembering that God cares deeply about each and everyone of us. And…
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Go Tell the Story | Back to Basics Week 5“Jesus didn’t say “go convince everybody of what I said”. He said, “go tell the story”. That’s our job: to tell the story. [To] witness to the Gospel." – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Alex encourages us to remember our mission to be a witness to the resurrection so that others may know God’s…
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“Think about all of those things that you’ve suffered – maybe some of which nobody else knows about. And here you are. And yet you show up. You see, when we open ourselves up to others and tell them our stories of death and in the ways God has made us with new life, we bring healing into the world”. – Pastor Lorne HladIn this week’s sermon, Pastor …
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“The challenge for us is to face all situations and ask: how does my character reflect that same spirit of generosity; that God’s love is beyond our understanding, beyond measure.” – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Alex asks us how we are being called to adopt a generosity of spirit so that we are more fully open to the ways God is c…
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“We have a story of God who so loved the world that he would draw close to humanity, walk alongside humanity, speak into people’s lives and tell them you are not alone.” – Pastor Lorne HladIn this week’s sermon, Pastor Lorne encourages us to go back to the basics of the early church so that others may live transformed lives through God’s amazing gr…
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“You have been given this love – this mark, this identify as a person of God – and God is going to use you to change the world for good, in love and mercy and forgiveness.” – Pastor Alex HoopsIn this past week’s sermon, Pastor Alex reminds us that our baptisms are not the destination of our journey, but rather a starting point as we seek to better …
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