The Shepherd & The Spirit: Judges 2 (Fifth Sunday at Pikeville)

This Judges 2 is a bonus sermon today…the Fifth Sunday service at First Presbyterian of Pikeville, Kentucky.  The sermon is a farewell message for Scott and a challenge to the congregation to be faithful to Jesus and to continue to teach the next generation all that Jesus has commanded us to observe and all that Jesus has done for us and them.  The challenge is to keep attending to the means of grace (in particular, the word, sacraments and corporate prayer in Sunday worship).  The message focuses on the difference between the situation of Judges and the present because of the coming of Christ the Shepherd and the coming of the Spirit on Pentecost.  I should explain as background the motorcycle comment — Scott drives a motorcycle and likes to say that Jesus will return on a Harley because shepherds in New Zealand drive motorcycles to keep their sheep.

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