Good Shepherd Lutheran Church Boca Raton

THE THIRD SUNDAY IN LENT:

The warnings are plentiful and blunt on the third Sunday in Lent. Cut it out or get cut down! The warnings are accompanied by God’s invitation to attentiveness: “Incline your ear, and come to me; listen, so that you may live.” The landowner’s ultimatum is forestalled by the gardener’s readiness to till the ground one more year. That is good news for all of us. Thanks be to God!

3rd Sunday in Lent 3/23/2025

THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - May 12, 2024

The gospel for Easter’s seventh Sunday is always taken from the long prayer Jesus prays for his followers in John’s gospel on the night before his death, and always includes Jesus’ desire that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is not mere doctrinal agreement or institutional unity, but mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit!

We invite you to worship and communion at 10:00 AM this Sunday. The Rev. Nancy Zuckerman continues as our guest pastor now on a weekly basis. We hope you will join us for service this week - a time and place you can come and feel God's presence.

If you are unable to attend, please watch our virtual service found in the link below. And we ask that, in your own personal way, you share that Jesus desires that his followers will be one as he and the Father are one. This oneness is mutual abiding, interpenetrating life, mutual love, and joy. This oneness is the work of the Spirit whom we have received but also await. Come, Holy Spirit!

Pr. Jonathan Gantt, pastor of Living Faith Lutheran Church and Dean of the Broward-Bahamas Conference, continues as Guest Pastor for our virtual services. Please click the link below for access:

https://youtu.be/QDotLcXt0Xc

If you are in need of pastoral care, please call the church office: (561) 393-7007. We will have someone contact you as soon as possible.

With God’s peace and blessings,

Your Congregation Council

The Seventh Sunday of Easter - May 12, 2024

THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - May 05, 2024

This Sunday’s image of the life the risen Christ shares with us is the image of friendship. We are called to serve others as Jesus came to serve; but for John’s gospel, the image of servanthood is too hierarchical, too distant, to capture the essence of life with Christ. Friendship captures the love, the joy, the deep mutuality of the relationship into which Christ invites us. The Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit.

We invite you to worship and communion at 10:00 AM this Sunday. The Rev. Nancy Zuckerman continues as our guest pastor now on a weekly basis. We hope you will join us for service this week - a time and place you can come and feel God's presence.

If you are unable to attend, please watch our virtual service found in the link below. And we ask that, in your own personal way, you share that the Greeks believed that true friends are willing to die for each other. This is the mutual love of Christian community commanded by Christ and enabled by the Spirit.

Pr. Jonathan Gantt, pastor of Living Faith Lutheran Church and Dean of the Broward-Bahamas Conference, continues as Guest Pastor for our virtual services. Please click the link below for access:

https://youtu.be/IGmIqFFTUQw

If you are in need of pastoral care, please call the church office: (561) 393-7007. We will have someone contact you as soon as possible.

With God’s peace and blessings,
Your Congregation Council

THE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER - May 05, 2024