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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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  • Avg 26 min
  • English
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  • October 11 · 29 min

    October 11 Sermon

    Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger.  Yeo, true.  Is it really possible?

  • October 4 · 28 min

    October 4 Sermon

    Paul in Romans 12:10 asks us to "Be devoted to ane another in brotherly love and to honor one another above oursleves."  How can we do this?  This morning the focus is on the honoring one another.  We do this several ways so let's explore.

  • September 27 · 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...

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