GSLCVA Sunday Sermon 27APR2024
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The linkage between our love for each other and God’s love for us is a distinctly Christian message from today’s epistle reading. Join us today as Pastor Johann discusses how God is love, love is an action of God, and love is an example through Jesus’s atoning sacrifice for our sins. When we abide in God by loving each other, God’s purpose in loving us in completed. We are saved by Christ and are assured of this by loving as He did.
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GSLCVA Sunday Sermon 21APR2024
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Anyone can say, “I love you.” Words are cheap and the meaning can be lost. Even today as Christians, we use the same phrase. What is the Christian meaning of love? Join Pastor James as he delves into our response to God’s great love as we seek to define Christian love through the lives we live.
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GSLCVA Sunday Sermon 14APR2024
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Have you ever wondered, “What is the point of the Resurrection?” Is it simply about Jesus’ offering of peace? Join Pastor Johann as he discusses the Resurrection. It happened because the Messiah was meant to suffer and to rise from the dead; it provides a basis for us to wake up and ask for repentance and forgiveness of sins; and finally it allows us to proclaim this message and bear witness of the good news of the Resurrection.
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GSLCVA Sunday Sermon 7APR2024
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“Peace be with you,” Jesus said to His disciples locked behind doors. Join Pastor James as he discusses today’s Gospel. Assuring us that with Jesus’ peace-bearing presence, we have a secure foundation in a Savior who accepts us as and where we are.
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GSLCVA Easter Sunday Sermon 31MAR2024
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Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Throughout Lent, we have heard a drumbeat call from God to return to Him, and today we rejoice that this call was issued so that we might have life in abundance through the One who lived, died, and rose again to secure our salvation. Join Pastor Johann as he discusses how we are called to come and see the Christ; to see the salvation won for us; to see the life that He has secured; and to see the Word that we are to share with others.
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GSLCVA Good Friday Sermon 29MAR2024
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The author of creation hangs on the cross, wracked with pain and writhing in agony. It is almost unbearable to look on this scene, and yet without it we would be lost forever, still trapped in our sins. As we gather tonight to remember the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made for each of us, may we focus on the One who is the way and the truth and the life, even Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior.
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GSLCVA Maundy Thursday Sermon 28MAR2024
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Join us this Maundy Thursday as Pastor Johann discusses how Jesus invites us to join Him at the Table. He repeats this invitation repeatedly, because He feeds us in order to build us up and strengthen our faith. His invitation draws us into a place where we have fellowship with all believers. Yet, our fellowship is stained by sin. To remedy our sin Jesus gives us His own body and blood with a promise, to make all things new and share the fruit of the vine with Christ Himself.
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GSLCVA Palm Sunday Sermon 24MAR2024
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Today is Palm|Passion Sunday, it is one of the more cluttered and confusing liturgical days of the church year. In celebration of Palm|Passion Sunday, today we remember a parade deliberately staged by Jesus. Join Pastor James as he focuses on the cheers of Hosanna during that parade, shortly followed by the jeers of the crucifixion on Good Friday. The parade and crucifixion both unwittingly show humankind’s part in highlighting God’s great love for each of us as sinners.
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GSLCVA Lent Week 5 Sermon 20MAR2024
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What does Jesus mean when he refers to “the kingdom of God?” Pontius Pilate wrestled with this exact question asking, “What is truth?” How do we navigate the waters of worldly authority and stay true to the eternal authority of God? Join us today as Pastor James discusses how Jesus is our King in a way that no earthly authority could ever comprehend. He loves and provides for His subjects, leads by example, and offers Himself to ensure the salvation of His people.
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GSLCVA Sunday Sermon 17MAR2024
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In today’s Gospel reading, some Greeks come to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and say, “Sir, we wish to see Jesus.” They wanted to see Jesus, which in John's gospel, is closely connected with believing. Join Pastor James as we, on our journey to the cross, come to understand that in the end, you don't have to see Jesus in a physical sense to come to know Jesus through faith.
info_outlineToday is Palm|Passion Sunday, it is one of the more cluttered and confusing liturgical days of the church year. In celebration of Palm|Passion Sunday, today we remember a parade deliberately staged by Jesus. Join Pastor James as he focuses on the cheers of Hosanna during that parade, shortly followed by the jeers of the crucifixion on Good Friday. The parade and crucifixion both unwittingly show humankind’s part in highlighting God’s great love for each of us as sinners.