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Good Shepherd Nashville
by Good Shepherd Nashville
Sermon Audio from Church of the Good Shepherd a new Anglican parish in and for West Nashville. Desiring to be a Christ-like, Kingdom-minded people who share the hope and hospitality of the in-breaking Kingdom of God, being rooted in the Scriptures and Sacraments, and formed by the Spirit, as saints together.
Episodes
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You Will be at Peace | Benjamin Walker
Psalm 23 with Benjamin Walker. Many of us read of green pastures and waters of comfort while we feel anxious and behind. Through David's confession that the Lord is his shepherd, Benjamin invites us to name the lesser shepherds we trust and the ways we numb ourselves. In the valley of the shadow…
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Restore Us, O God | Fr. Art
Psalm 80 with Fr. Art Going. Many of us grieve a church that seems to be fading, whether from cultural indifference, division or the empty seats. Through Psalm 80's prayer to the Shepherd of Israel, Fr. Art invites us to bring that grief to God in lament and repentance. With Bonhoeffer and...
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Merciful, Forgiving and Disciplining | Benjamin Walker
Psalm 25 with Benjamin Walker. It is easy to measure our sin against other people's and decide it is not that bad. Through David's prayer in Psalm 25 and God's self-revelation to Moses in Exodus 34, Benjamin invites us to confess the greatness of our sin to a God whose mercy, rooted in the Hebrew...
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I Will Praise | Mtr. Suzie
Psalm 145 with Mtr. Suzie Anderson. Praise can feel out of reach when life gives us little reason for it. Through David's psalm of praise, written by a king who knew both great joy and great sorrow, Mtr. Suzie invites us to make praise a choice grounded in who God is. As we tell one another the...
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Forget Not All His Benefits | Fr. Art
Psalm 103 with Fr. Art Going. Grief fades with time, and the memory of mercy fades faster. Twenty-five years after September 11, Fr. Art turns to Psalm 103, where David commands his own soul to bless the Lord and forget not all his benefits. Praise begins as a discipline before it becomes a...
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Can These Bones Live? | Dcn. Derek
Romans 12:3-8 with Dcn. Derek. In Ezekiel's valley of dry bones, God asks a question we would rather answer from a safe distance: can these bones live? Paul answers yes. Through Romans 12, Dcn. Derek invites us to see that Christ saves us as his body, Jesus the head and his church joined in one...
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The Living Sacrifice: A Call to Devotion | Fr. Art
Romans 12:1–2 with Fr. Art Going Christian growth requires a total surrender of our lives and a commitment to true devotion. Through Paul's call to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, Fr. Art calls us into a journey from intellectual information toward spiritual transformation. As we leave…
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The Paradox of Victory | Benjamin Walker
Romans 8:31 – 39 with Benjamin Walker Suffering often feels like evidence of defeat. Through an exploration of Romans 8:31 – 39, Benjamin invites us to recognize that Christ achieved victory through the cross. God works alongside us to transform our brokenness into a reflection of His Son. We…
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When the Sad Things Come Untrue | Fr. Art
Romans 8 with Fr. Art Going People often reduce the promise that God works for our good to a shallow platitude. Through an exploration of Romans 8:28, Fr. Art invites us into a profound partnership with God. We find hope in the reality that God enters our wreckage to work alongside us to bring...
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The Spirit in our Weakness | Mtr. Suzie
Romans 8 with Mtr. Suzie Anderson Suffering often appears to be proof of God's absence. Through Paul's insights into Romans 8, Mtr. Suzie invites us to see our groaning as evidence of the Spirit's transformative work. We are called to trust the Spirit who carries our burdens and intercedes for us...
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The Normal Existence of the Believer | Dcn. Derek
Romans 8:12 – 17 with Dcn. Derek. God adjourns the court, lays down the gavel, and comes to embrace us as Father. Through Romans 8 and the Spirit's operative grace, this sermon invites us to live in the identity the Spirit gives, the ordinary birthright of everyone who cries Abba, Father. Faith…
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Become What You Already Are | Fr. Art
Romans 8:1 – 11 with Fr. Art Going Spiritual struggles often feel like signs of failure. Through Paul’s explanation of Romans 8, Fr. Art invites us to see these internal battles as the transformative work of the Holy Spirit. We find hope in the assurance that the Divine Resident is actively...
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To Whom Do You Belong? | Mtr. Suzie
Romans 7:15-25 – Mtr. Suzie Anderson We all wrestle with the gap between what we desire and what we do. This teaching explores Romans 7, showing that the law is a faithful guide, revealing sin's deceptive power rather than condemning our identity. Through Christ alone, we are rescued from that...
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Water Is Thicker Than Blood | Fr. Art
Romans 6:1 – 5 with Fr. Art. Rowers move forward by facing backward, navigating by the puddles their last stroke left behind. Through Paul's words on baptism into Christ's death and Luther's daily refrain, "I am baptized," Fr. Art invites us to live in the fixed point already declared over us…
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What Story Are You Living In? | Dcn. Derek
Romans 4 with Dcn. Derek. What story are you living in? Through Abraham, who believed God's promise long before its fulfillment, Dcn. Derek invites us to commit ourselves first to God's person, trusting his character before we see the outcome, and to discover that maturity in the Christian life...
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What Do You Want? | Bp. Todd Hunter
Romans 3:21 – 31 with Bp. Todd Hunter What do you want? That is the deepest spiritual question the gospel asks of us. Through Paul's announcement that God justifies everyone who welcomes his action and enters into it, Bp. Todd invites us to receive Christ's redemption as the restoration of our...
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Rivers of Living Water | Fr. Art Going
John 7:37 – 39 with Fr. Art Thirst is the only qualification. On Pentecost, Jesus's invitation in the temple courts becomes our own: come to him and drink. Through John 7 and the four ordinary means of grace described in Acts 2, Fr. Art invites us to keep drinking deeply of the Spirit and to...
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What We Worship Shapes Us | The Rev. Derek Axelson
Romans 1 – 2 with Dcn. Derek. We cannot help but worship something, and what we worship shapes who we become. Through Paul's diagnosis of idolatry and the story of Eustace the dragon in C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader, this sermon invites us to see that worship of the true God is the cure...
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I Am Not Ashamed | The Rev. Suzie Anderson
Romans 1:1 – 17 with Mtr. Suzie. The gospel is the power of God for salvation. Through Paul's bold opening to the church in Rome, this sermon invites us to rediscover the gospel as the pardon of our sins, the healing of our brokenness, and the new world Jesus is bringing, and to live unashamed of...
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Soli Deo Gloria: The Aim of Romans | The Rev. Art Going
The opening sermon of a seventeen-week summer series in Romans, anchored on the doxology of Romans 11:33–36. This section of Romans is the hinge between Paul's eleven chapters of doctrine and the practical chapters that follow. Drawing on how Romans found Augustine in a Milan garden, Luther in a...
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"You Follow Me" | The Rev. Art Going
In this episode we explore John 21, where Jesus restores Peter by the charcoal fire and re-commissions him to feed the sheep. We reflect on repentance, grace, and the pattern of healing before sending. Fr. Art also examines Christian calling—both for the incoming rector and for every...
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Resurrection in the Land of the Living | The Rev. Art Going
A sermon on John 21:1-14. The disciples fish through the night and catch nothing. Jesus waits on the shore at dawn beside a fire he has already built. The fire and the meal arrive before any word does, before any failure gets named, before anyone asks who is on the beach. Grace runs ahead of us,...
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An Unchanged Way of Seeing | The Rev. Derek Axelson
A sermon on John 20:24-29, the risen Jesus appearing to doubting Thomas. Thomas wants proof. Dcn. Derek reads the demand as the universal instinct to fit resurrection into the world we already understand. Drawing on David Brooks's How to Know a Person and the "invisible gorilla" experiment, Dcn....
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The First Preacher | The Rev. Suzie Anderson
A sermon on John 20:1-18, the Easter morning encounter between Mary Magdalene and the risen Christ. Mary has watched Jesus die, anointed his body, and come to keep watch in the dark. Mtr. Suzie traces her journey from grief, through searching, to the moment Jesus says her name. On the cross…
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Can These Bones Live? | The Rev. Art Going
A sermon on Ezekiel 37, the valley of dry bones, preached at the Easter Vigil. The Spirit carries Ezekiel into the valley, God asks whether the bones can live, and the prophet answers, "Sovereign Lord, you alone know." Fr. Art names the valleys we all know: a cold marriage, faith gone stale…
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The Cross, The Throne | The Rev. Suzie Anderson
A Good Friday sermon on John 12 and the passion. Mtr. Suzie reads John against the modern instinct to dwell on physical suffering. John, in contrast, attends to what the cross accomplishes: judgment of the world, the ruler cast out, all people drawn to the lifted-up Christ. Working from the...
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From Dust, Not For Dust | The Rev. Derek Axelson
A sermon on John 13, the foot washing on Maundy Thursday. Dcn. Derek shares a memory from his time as a high school camp at the end of beach day, cleaning sand off first-grade boys' feet. Jesus washes the dust off the disciples' feet to undo Genesis 3's "dust to dust" curse, then commands them to...
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God on a Donkey | The Rev. Art Going
A sermon on Matthew 21, the Palm Sunday entry. Fr. Art tells the story of a parade in St. Louis 25 years ago that ended with the donkey locking up at the church door, then visits medieval Germany, where wooden Palmesel statues on wheels were pulled through village streets to keep Christ's coming…
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Love Finds a Face | The Rev. Art Going
A sermon on John 15:12-17, the command to love one another. Where last week's vine-and-branches gave the wide angle, this week brings the close up. Fr. Art connects Lewis' trap of loving humanity in the abstract, and Bonhoeffer's wish-dream from Life Together: the imagined community always…
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Come and Abide With Us | The Rev. Art Going
John 15 with Fr. Art. Christian life is not the fruit of effort, but of connection. Through John 15, this teaching invites us into the practice of abiding in Jesus and the slow fruit of that life: vulnerability, gratitude, and care. Apart from him we can do nothing and rooted in him we become…
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The Branch That Looked Healthy | The Rev. Derek Axelson
John 15:1 – 8 with Dcn. Derek. God loves us as we are, and he does not leave us as we are. Through John 15, this teaching invites us into the necessary work of pruning as the way the Father strengthens our connection to the vine. If God does not prune us, something else will, and only the careful...
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He Wept Because He Loved | The Rev. Suzie Anderson
John 11:1 – 44 with Mtr. Suzie. Jesus enters our grief and meets us there. Through the story of Mary, Martha, and the raising of Lazarus, this sermon invites us to see how the one who holds resurrection power shares our tears and answers our questions.
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Learning to See | Benjamin Walker
John 9:1 – 41 with Benjamin Walker. Seeing Jesus begins with knowing our need for him. Through the story of the man born blind, this sermon invites us to come hungry, come needy, and come blind, trusting that Jesus reaches into the mud of the world and gives sight to those who know they cannot see.
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Jesus Creates Abundance | The Rev. Art Going
John 6 with Fr. Art. When we face overwhelming needs with underwhelming resources, Jesus creates abundance. Through the feeding of the five thousand, this sermon invites us to bring what we have to Jesus, watch what he creates, and trust that there is always more where his presence is.
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The Long Walk Home | The Rev. Suzie Anderson
John 4:46 – 54 with Mtr. Suzie. Belief takes shape in our walking and our trusting, especially when the outcome is still unseen. Through the story of the royal official's son, this sermon invites us to see how desperation brings us to Jesus, and how trust deepens through every stubborn yes we say...
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Come and See | The Rev. Art Going
John 1:35 – 42 with Fr. Art. The heart of discipleship is staying. Through the calling of the first disciples, this sermon invites us into the slow education of desire that happens when we abide with Jesus, breathing the same air as him and letting his presence reshape what we want.
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Absurd Generosity | The Rev. Art Going
John 2:1 – 11 with Fr. Art. At a wedding running out of wine, Jesus reveals his glory in absurd abundance. Through Mary's simple naming of a need and the first sign at Cana, this sermon invites us into the kind of God whose first act is to save a celebration, and whose generosity overflows…
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The Wondrous Exchange | The Rev. Art Going
John 1:9 – 13 with Fr. Art. The miracle of Christmas is an exchange: God takes what is ours and gives us what is his. Through John's prologue and the early church's wondrous exchange, this sermon invites us to bring our restless souls to the manger and to begin a year of learning Jesus by letting...
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Sermon Audio from Church of the Good Shepherd a new Anglican parish in and for West Nashville. Desiring to be a Christ-like, Kingdom-minded people who share the hope and hospitality of the in-breaking Kingdom of God, being rooted in the Scriptures and Sacraments, and formed by the Spirit, as saints together.
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