HERE WE GO AGAIN GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH, TEHACHAPI, CA NOVEMBER 28, 2010 – ISAIAH 2:1-5 Grace, peace and mercy be unto you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus. Today’s text is from the prophet Isaiah, who wrote about the end of the world. Dear friends in Christ, Today is the first Sunday Read more
THIS IS THE KING GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH, TEHACHAPI, CA NOVEMBER 21, 2010 – TEXT: LUKE 23:35-43 Grace, peace and mercy be unto you from God our Father and our Lord Jesus. The text is the Gospel lesson for Christ the King Sunday where a thief on a cross said to Jesus, “Remember me when Read more
WORKING AND WAITING GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH, TEHACHAPI, CA NOVEMBER 14, 2010 – LUKE 19:11-27 Grace, peace and mercy be unto you from God our father and our Lord Jesus. Today’s text is where Jesus told a parable about working as we wait for his Second Coming. Dear friends in Christ, Just before our Lord’s Read more
THE THESSALONIANS AND US GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH, TEHACHAPI, CA NOVEMBER 7, 2010 – 2 CORINTHIANS 1:1-5, 11-12 Grace, peace and mercy be unto you from God our father and our Lord Jesus. Today’s text is from Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians which is also a letter from God to us. Dear friends in Read more
CHRIST’S REFORMATION GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH, TEHACHAPI, CA OCTOBER 31, 2010 – JOHN 8:31-36 Grace, peace and mercy be unto you from God our father and our Lord Jesus. Our text today is where Jesus said, “If you hold to my teachings you are really my disciples.” Dear friends in Christ, Jesus took a lot Read more
Dear Friends in Christ, I hope you all had a wonderful celebration of Thanksgiving. We held a worship service here on Wednesday evening and offered thanks and praise to God for all His wonderful blessings. Then Malinda and I drove to San Diego to spend Thanksgiving Day with Malinda’s mother. We had a delicious Thanksgiving Read more
Dear Friends in Christ, Last Tuesday at the Church Council meeting the money in our “Other Mission” account was distributed. We were able to give about $9,000 to various missions. Some were missions of the LCMS such as our seminaries, our World Mission and World Relief organizations and Lutheran Bible Translators. We also gave to Read more
Dear Friends in Christ, Sunday was a very special day for our congregation. At our 8:30 a.m. worship service we received 24 new members. Some had transferred their membership here from other Lutheran congregations and some had just completed our adult instruction class to become Lutherans for the first time. We praise God for guiding Read more
Dear Friends, On Sunday, at our 8:30 a.m. service, we used our new “Hymnal for Worship and Celebration” for the first time. If you see some good songs in there please let me know and we can sing them. At our 11:00 a.m. service our Kids Praise Team lead the singing. They sang several songs Read more
