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Weekly messages from Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Para Vista Inc
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Jul 9, 2023
Jul 9, 2023
28 min
A message from Pastor Peter Steicke.
Rest is a key to holistic and joyful living. We think we can keep going and going, harder and harder, trying to achieve more and more. But without rest, you blow up or burn out.
When Jesus invited us to come to him and rest, he wasn’t instigating a go-slow policy or saying we need a snooze. Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those. He was inviting us to rest from those attitudes, activities, and performance-based sources of identity that rob us of life in him.
Spiritual rest is about life in Jesus: celebrating who he is and what he has done; living in his accomplishments and rejoicing in his declaration “It is finished.”
Jul 9, 2023
Jul 9, 2023
29 min
A message from Pastor Peter Steicke.
Rest is a key to holistic and joyful living. We think we can keep going and going, harder and harder, trying to achieve more and more. But without rest, you blow up or burn out.
When Jesus invited us to come to him and rest, he wasn’t instigating a go-slow policy or saying we need a snooze. Not that there’s anything wrong with either of those. He was inviting us to rest from those attitudes, activities, and performance-based sources of identity that rob us of life in him.
Spiritual rest is about life in Jesus: celebrating who he is and what he has done; living in his accomplishments and rejoicing in his declaration “It is finished.”
Jul 2, 2023
Jul 2, 2023
20 min
We know what we should and shouldn’t do as Christians, but often we fail. We don’t have the power to make ourselves better, so what do we do? Today we will explore how we might live as God’s people, without letting sin rule our lives on the one hand, and without being legalists and living under the law, on the other hand. The Spirit of God enables us to live under grace. That is his gift to us.
Pastor Steen Olsen
Bible Readings: Romans 6:12-23 (NLT)
Jul 2, 2023
Jul 2, 2023
20 min
We know what we should and shouldn’t do as Christians, but often we fail. We don’t have the power to make ourselves better, so what do we do? Today we will explore how we might live as God’s people, without letting sin rule our lives on the one hand, and without being legalists and living under the law, on the other hand. The Spirit of God enables us to live under grace. That is his gift to us.
Pastor Steen Olsen
Bible Readings: Romans 6:12-23 (NLT)
Jun 25, 2023
Jun 25, 2023
26 min
How’s this…
God bless you! I give you, my blessing. In worship we hear this word bandied about. But what does it actually mean? This Sunday Pastor Stephen Abraham will explore what Scripture tell us about blessing; what it is, what it isn’t and how it is to be used.
Pastor Stephen Abraham
Bible Readings: Numbers 6:22-27 (NKJV) & Ephesians 1:1-3 (NCV)
Jun 25, 2023
Jun 25, 2023
26 min
How’s this…
God bless you! I give you, my blessing. In worship we hear this word bandied about. But what does it actually mean? This Sunday Pastor Stephen Abraham will explore what Scripture tell us about blessing; what it is, what it isn’t and how it is to be used.
Pastor Stephen Abraham
Bible Readings: Numbers 6:22-27 (NKJV) & Ephesians 1:1-3 (NCV)
Jun 18, 2023
Jun 18, 2023
33 min
Being ‘ourselves’ – being ‘real’ – is valued in society today. But what do you do when who you are is not enough? When what you do is not enough? This is a major issue for so many people today. Am I who I know myself to be, or the person that other people think I am? The apostle Paul claims that our identity can only be truly found in Jesus. And when I believe that it is Jesus who gives me my identity & worth, then I can do what the Westminster Catechism says is the chief purpose of all people: “To glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
Pastor Robert Voigt
Bible Readings: Galations 2:16-21 (NLT)
Jun 18, 2023
Jun 18, 2023
33 min
Being ‘ourselves’ – being ‘real’ – is valued in society today. But what do you do when who you are is not enough? When what you do is not enough? This is a major issue for so many people today. Am I who I know myself to be, or the person that other people think I am? The apostle Paul claims that our identity can only be truly found in Jesus. And when I believe that it is Jesus who gives me my identity & worth, then I can do what the Westminster Catechism says is the chief purpose of all people: “To glorify God and enjoy him forever.”
Pastor Robert Voigt
Bible Readings: Galations 2:16-21 (NLT)
Jun 11, 2023
Jun 11, 2023
24 min
In a world where everything is changing very rapidly, how do we react as Children of God?
How does our congregation adapt, change so that we can still reach people with God’s Grace?
We are told to be in the world but not of the world. What does that mean?
Have you ever stopped to really consider how this is reflected in your life?
Pastor Matt Thiele will unwrap this for us this Sunday.
Read: John 17: 11-18 in preparation for this message.
Pastor Matt Thiele
Jun 4, 2023
Jun 4, 2023
17 min
We apologise for the interruption in this recording which was due to a short power outage.
In today’s world people have all sorts of ideas about who God is and what he’s like. Our confession of God as the Triune God (as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) clearly identifies which God we worship and believe in as Christians. However, the Church’s confession about the Triune God tells us not only who God is but also the story about what our God has done to save us.
It is also a call for us to reflect in our relationships with each other the same unity of love and peace that characterizes the relationships within the Trinity: the same love and peace that Jesus has so abundantly and graciously poured over our lives, through the power of the Spirit, to the glory of God the Father.