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...

Free At Last A sermon preached on John 8:31-36 by Pastor Michael Johnson at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, SD on November 3, 2019. 31 To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32 Then you...

WHEN THE GOSPEL PUTS US AT OUR BEST A sermon preached on Luke 5:1-7 by Pastor Jonathan Werre at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls, SD on October 27, 2019. At Our Best When We Trust the Word Over Everything Else This is Peter at his best—“Master, we’ve...

Jesus Welcomes Sinners A sermon preached on Luke 15:1-10 by Pastor Michael Johnson at Good Shepherd Lutheran in Sioux Falls, SD on October 6, 2019. www.gswels.org Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the...

Job 38:1-7, “Where do angels come from?” One of the reasons you want to keep reading the Bible regularly is for all the little details.  There are so many interesting little details in the Bible.  Details that we so often miss because so many bigger things are going...