Remy Sheppard

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. Do me a favor and raise your hand if you have an easy life. If your life is just a walk in the park, nothing ever goes wrong, it’s all great. We all deal with things, right? We all have struggles in our day to day lives. We have problems in our families, personal struggles, sickness, poverty, strife.

Transcript In the name of the Father, and of the Son+, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. [Introductory Words] I would say I aligned myself with Lutheran Theology around July of 2018 thanks to the online ministries of pastors like our very own Chris Rosebrough of the AALC. My lovely wife and I had decided some little time before that we should begin attending church. At the time we really had no reason to.

Transcript In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. ​ Happy Reformation, everybody! I’m liturgically accurate here, with my red. I generally give the same sermon pretty much every time Joe asks me to do this. I swap out jokes and pop-culture references, but the substance, I like to think, is generally similar each go-round. Let me tell you what: This was probably the most difficulty I’ve had with preparing a sermon.

Transcript In the name of the Father, the Son+, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. So for those of you who don’t know, I’m not Pastor Joe. My name is Remy Sheppard, and I’ve been a member here for about 2 years, a Lutheran for about 2 years, and a Christian for much longer. I wasn’t always a confessional and orthodox Christian, however. I was raised in the Pentecostal Holiness church and from there moved into and spent a great deal of time in the Word of Faith heresy.