News (Page 12)

News (Page 12)

From our daily devotional to relevant local, state, national, and international church news, you can find information from Good Shepherd UMC here.

Daily Devotion

1 Timothy 6:7-9 BSB For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.   Being discontented about all the things we want, when we have what we need, leads us to bad places. Many people…

Daily Devotion

Matthew 6:11 NIV Give us today our daily bread.   Jesus doesn’t teach us to pray “give us this day all our wants” he uses “daily bread”. He expects us to ask for necessitates not luxury. He also wants us to ask for ways to help others; be it spreading the Word, feeding the sheep, clothing the poor, teaching the young, praying for those who need it or just holding the hand of someone who needs the companionship. Christianity is…

1/30/2022 Devotional

Isaiah 9:6 NIV For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.          Christ is the Prince of Peace. You cannot have peace and fear simultaneously. We have to chose one or the other. Life and spirituality are after all, a series of choices. We chose to live well or not. We chose…

1/29/2022 Devotional

1 Corinthians 15:55-57 BSB Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?”  The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ!   God sent Jesus to die for us; we have victory in Him. We have salvation and eternal life. What have we to fear? Think of all the things Paul went through to be an…

1/28/2022 Devotional

Matthew 14:27-28 BSB But Jesus spoke up at once: “Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.” “Lord, if it is You,” Peter replied, “command me to come to You on the water.”   Jesus tells them not to fear and then Peter basically says “prove it!” Do we do that? Well let’s look at that story. Jesus does what Peter asks and allows him to walk to Him on the water. Peter loses faith part way there and…

1/27/2022 Devotional

Isaiah 40:9 ESV Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”   Even in the prophesies of Christ, we are told to no longer fear, so what keeps us afraid? We have the Good News, but we worry. We have salvation, but we are afraid. We have eternal life…

1/26/2022 Devotional

Luke 2:10 KJV And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. ‘Fear not’ or ‘don’t be afraid’ are repeated in the scriptures more than 300 times; but perhaps the best instances occur with the birth of Jesus. It applies not just to Mary, or Joseph or the shepherds but to everyone in the world forever. The hope has come, the savior of mankind has…
What do the candles in our Advent wreath mean?

What do the candles in our Advent wreath mean?

This content was produced by Ask The UMC, a ministry of United Methodist Communications, and originally posted on UMC.org The Advent wreath was originally a German and Scandinavian home devotional practice used to mark the four weeks of Advent. Although many symbols have been attributed to it since that time, it was originally intended as a way to mark the Advent season and the weeks until Christmas. Families would light a candle for each past week and the current week…

Thanksgiving at GSUMC

Join us this Thanksgiving season at Good Shepherd in service and SERVing. We will be having a special Thanksgiving Eve Service at 6:30 pm on November 24th. Through November 21st we are collecting Thanksgiving Food Bags for our Food Pantry Families.