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Shepherd's Garage

Barry Pritchard

Exploring life, church, spirituality and pizza living in a small Texas town.

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Sunday · 29 min
September 27 Sermon
Ecclesiastes 8:10-17 speaks the truth but it is an ugly truth. Sometimes the wicked get what the righteous deserve and the righteous get what the wicked deserve. How do we make sense of this and live with any sense of joy?
September 13 · 25 min
September 13 Sermon
Romans 12:10 tells us to love each other as a family loves and to outdo each other in showing respect. This is direction for the church, but wouldn't it make this world a better place as well?
September 6 · 26 min
September 6 Sermon
James 1:2-18 reminds us that life is hard. We know that. So to work it out, we need wisdom from God. We can ask for it but must then do it. Part of the wisdom we seek is this. What in my life do I need to stick with, even though it is tough, and...
August 9 · 31 min
August 9 Sermon
School starts this week so it's time to talk about back to school. Emphasis on the importance of character.
August 2 · 22 min
August 2 Sermon
Patience is one of those things that no one thinks they have enough of. Patience is needed for lots of things. Doing good is one of those things we need patience for. It is not easy doing the right thing and often causes you more problems, but we...
July 26 · 29 min
July 26 Sermon
Ecclesiastes chapter 8 has some advice on how to make your face shine. You do it by living wisely. You will not see lots of wisdom lived out in the world, but that does not mean you have to join in. Living wisely matters because it is making you...
July 19 · 28 min
July 19 Sermon
Jesus loves the church. How can we love as he does?
July 12 · 24 min
July 12 Sermon
Want to meet a man in love? This sermon looks at Nehemiah and how he loves the Lord and wants to make sure He is glorified.
July 5 · 21 min
July 5 Sermon
As we continue the series, "he other Christian trinity," (faith, hope, love) we turn our attention to love. God is not concerned with our feelings so much as our actions when he commands us to love one another. How can we do this?
June 28 · 25 min
June 28 Sermon
Hope has several elements but learning to he a good "waiter" is important. So is integrity. Hope depends on our integrity.
June 21 · 23 min
June 21 Sermon
Hope. Christian hope is not wishful thinking. It is grouded in God and His faithfulness. Hope is also not a feeling. Sometimes hope is still moving forward when you do not feel like it. Think of hope this way: Hope is making heaven happen here.
June 7 · 24 min
June 7 Sermon
The steadfast love of the Lord sounds good to our ears. However, have you noticed the context in which those words are written. It was a time of lost hope. Yet it speaks of hope so beautifully. Hope is hard. Hope is not some emotion we have it's...
May 31 · 25 min
May 31 Sermon
Faith is belief, trust and obedience but is there another word we could use besides faith. Matthew Bates has suggested that the word allegiance may be a better word to use in understading the Biblical idea of faith.
May 24 · 24 min
May 24 Sermon
When reading Hebrews 11 there are at least three elements to faith. Belief, trust and obedience. Focus for today is on trust.
May 17 · 25 min
May 17 Sermon
Faith is certainly belief but it also is a recognition of the authority of Jesus and obedience to him.
May 10 · 22 min
May 10 Sermon
What is the gospel and what does it mean that Jesus is messiah? The gospel is so much more than Jesus died for our sins. Messiah may be better understood as king.
May 3 · 29 min
May 3 Sermon
"Without faith it is impossible to please God." But we do need to be sure that we have good sense of what Biblical faith is.
April 26 · 21 min
April 26 Sermon
We want to be wise and do the right thing and yet we will still find ourselves struggling to be wise. How do we resolve this? Ecclesiastes 7:19-29 has some answers for us. There is one righteous one who never sinned, That makes all the...
April 19 · 27 min
April 19 Sermon
As we study through Joshua and Judges we keep running into the problem of idolatry. It is easy to dismiss this as a problem they had but we do not struggle with. We have our idols and we keep them for a number of reasons. One reason we keep them...
April 12 · 24 min
April 12 Sermon
Just like the Israelites had a territory to conqueor in Joshua and Judges, we have one as well. Ourselves. That is the hardest thing we will have to conqueor in this life. There are lots of things we can look at and learn from the story of Joshua...

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