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Shepherd's Garage
by Barry Pritchard
Exploring life, church, spirituality and pizza living in a small Texas town.
Episodes
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October 11 Sermon
Be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to anger. Yeo, true. Is it really possible?
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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 what in my life do I need to quit trying to do...
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August 9 Sermon
School starts this week so it's time to talk about back to school. Emphasis on the importance of character.
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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 must be patient in doing good.
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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 into the person you really should be.
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July 19 Sermon
Jesus loves the church. How can we love as he does?
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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.
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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?
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June 28 Sermon
Hope has several elements but learning to he a good "waiter" is important. So is integrity. Hope depends on our integrity.
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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.
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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 a commitment that God is merciful and will keep his...
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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.
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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.
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May 17 Sermon
Faith is certainly belief but it also is a recognition of the authority of Jesus and obedience to him.
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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.
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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.
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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 difference. Give it a listen and see what you think.
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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 around is that we stay focued on what we want…
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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 and Judges but maybe the prime one is this. The…
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Easter 2026 Sermon
Abel's blood cries for one things. Jesus blood speaks a better word to us. It's why we can say Happy Easter.
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March 29 Sermon
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 begins with the importance of a good name. Ecclesiastes 7:13 tell us this. Consider the work of God: who can make straight what he has made crooked? ESV. Life will at times be crooked and it was God who made it crooked. What's that all about? Let's explore.
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March 22 Sermon
We read through the book of Joshua and it's easy to just look at the stories. What meaning do these stories have for us today. Maybe if you looked at like this: We all have a territory to conquer. That territory is ourself. Read this way, Joshua is very useful for us as we see the the ways in…
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March 8 Sermon
Will you be Rahab or Achan? Good question to ask yourself. Will you have faith and work for God's purposes or will you work toward your own ends?
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March 1 Sermon
Joshua gets to meet the commander of the Lord's army and then hear a word from the Lord. Lots to talk about here but the main point for today: Quit trying to get God on your side and make sure you are on God's side.
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February 22 Sermon
Ecclesiastes 7:9-13 continues the discussion about how to have a good name. Two things are emphasized: Control your anger and do not live in the past.
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February 15 Sermon
When is someone ready to be baptized? Important question, let's explore.
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February 8 Sermon
Everyone has questions they want answers to and should try to get answered. Why and I here and what should I be doing. The Bible has answers to these questions and others.
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February 1 Sermon
In Joshua chapter 1 Joshua is taking over from Moses as the leader of the Israelites. God gives him some instructions to be a great leader. However, the advice God gives to him is not what you would hear in leadership seminars today in this world. It's pretty basic. Be holy and obedient. Let's…
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January 25 Sermon
Joshua chapter one describes the land that the Israelites will one day occupy. Yet, to my knowledge, they never occupied all this territory. Why? Was it a failure on the part of God or the people or something else? Let's explore.
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January 18 Sermon
Correction. It's hard to give and hard to take but so essential to all aspects of our life, especially spriritually.
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January 11 Sermon
Luke 15: The Lost Sheep, Lost Coin and Lost Son. Tough being lost and tough being the one who lost something important. What can we do about it. This is not just stories about lost but asking us what we will do about the lost.
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December 28 Sermon
How is the day of death better than the day of birth? Sound counter intuitive. Very interesting passage from Ecclesiastes 7:1-8. Let's tak a look at what it means to have a good name.
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December 21 Sermon
For the Christmas story let's consider Joseph. He was a righteous man and that made all the difference.
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December 14 Sermon
Why do we sing? We sing for lots of reasons and singing is vital to our worship. Let's explore why.
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November 23 Sermon
started a short series about thanksgiving: Being thankful for things we usually do not think about being thankful for. November 9 was was this: Be thankful that Jesus can redeem our suffering. November 16 learned to be thankful that Jesus redeems our mistakes. Today we talk about being thankful...
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November 16 Sermon
This morning I want us to reflect on being thankful that God works in our failures. With God, our failures do not have to be the final word on our lives. God can redeem our suffering and he can redeem our failures as well.
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November 9 Sermon
November in my mind gets to thinking about Thanksgiving. As I get older I find Thanksgiving to be a favorite holiday. The theme of Thanksgiving is very Biblical so it is always appropriate to focus on it. When we usually ask what someone is thankful for we get the usual and appropriate, answers...
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October 19 Sermon
The phrase Jesus uses about passing from death to life by believing is interesting. We still will die but we have moved from death to life? With other things in John, there is a deeper meaning than the surface one. Could be that we now have eternal life and that is what is meant. Could also be…
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For Your Drive #199
It is good to be strong and to persist in something. I admore who people who are persistent. However, there is also a great strength in learning when to let go of something. If it is something you need to let go of it's really going to hurt when god finally rips it from your hand.
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October 12 Sermon
Fear and faith with start with an “F” but with faith we should not fear. That slogan sounds good but fear is with us all the time. Maybe it is not so much about ever getting rid of fear as it is realizing that if your faith is in what is stronger than your fear then you should overcome your fear....
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For Your Drive # 198
The question has come to me about charging interest. Is it right or not. Let's take a look.
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October 5 Sermon
It seems like all can agree that the world is a mess. We are like the prodigal son who told his father to give him what he has coming and he will do things his own way. Didn't work out well for the prodigal and it's not working out well for us either. It's time to come to our senses and return to...
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For Your Drive #197
The question was brought to me about why we meet on Sunday and what about churches that meet on Saturday evening. Is that all right. Take a listen.
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September 28 Sermon
Why is contentment so hard? Ecclesiastes chaper 6 has some insight as to why.
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For Your Drive #197
What does it take to get heard? It seems like to really get attention you have to be over the top these days. That should have an effect on how we listen and judge others as they speak in this day and age when pretty much anyone can pick up a mike and potentially broadcast their ideas to millions.
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September 21 Sermon
Jesus asks us to daily take up our cross and follow him. Maybe to understand this cross should not be understood as a burden, but as a mission. The cross is not a problem but a purpose.
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For Your Drive #196
The last in this series of looking at the Happy Lies book. The last installment looks at seeker sensitive churches and her criticism of those.
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Exploring life, church, spirituality and pizza living in a small Texas town.
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Barry Pritchard
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