Making It  A sermon preached on 2 Peter 1:16-21 at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD, on February 23, 2020. www.gswels.org This young musician gave up everything to pursue his dreams. He was less than one semester away from graduating college, when he decided...

How to forgive a sin that is too big to forgive A sermon preached on 2 Samuel 11-12 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD, on February 16, 2020. www.gswels.org             There is sin.  And then there is SIN.  But how do you forgive a...

You Are Salt and Light A sermon preached on Matthew 5:13-20 by Pastor Michael Johnson at Good Shepherd Lutheran on February 9, 2020. www.gswels.org Perhaps you can relate to this. As parents of toddlers, we would sometimes do anything to get them to do what we needed...

The Mystery of the Oddly Appearing Happiness A sermon preached on Matthew 5:1-12 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on February 2, 2020. www.gswels.org (the miracle of blessedness in Christ…and the double miracle that anyone believes...

A Light in the Darkness A sermon preached on Matthew 4:12-23 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church by Pastor Michael Johnson on January 26, 2020. www.gswels.org “You light up my life, You give me hope to carry on.” In 1977, Debby Boone’s rendition of You Light Up My Life...

Letters from God A sermon preached on Matthew 3:13-17 by Pastor Jonathan Were at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on January 12, 2020. www.gswels.org “In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. I am a saint.  God is my Father. ...

A sermon preached on Matthew 1:18-25 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on December 22, 2019. www.gswels.org The best thing that could ever happen to you also makes life harder.  And that’s OK. Intro Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran...

A sermon based on Isaiah 35:1-10 preached by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on December 15, 2019. www.gswels.org “A highway will be there, a road that will be called the holy way.  The impure will not walk there.   It will be...

Keep Watch A sermon preached on Matthew 24:37-44 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on December 1, 2019. 37 As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people...

Our Lord would have us look forward to death A sermon preached on Isaiah 65:17-25 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on November 17, 2019. When we think death is the worst thing that can happen to us It was a deep but scratchy...