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This week we had Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary student Ryan Gurgel share a message with us for Good Shepherd Sunday based on John 10:1-10. In his Word, God shows us that he is our Good Shepherd who cares and provides for us and comes to bring us life to the full!

What do you do when you're confronted with your sin? Do you deny it? Minimize it? Try to hide it? John tells us that we don't have to do any of those things. Instead, we can confess it and know that God will forgive us.

Easter was 7 days ago. And yet doesn't it feel in some ways like that must have happened in a different world? Sometimes the trivial, mundane, stressful nature of our lives in the "real world" can make us feel like Jesus' resurrection couldn't have possibly happened in the same world as the one we live in now. But John writes these words to show us that Jesus' resurrection is a reality, and that Jesus is the place where eternity meets reality.

Happy Easter! Your Redeemer lives! This Easter we focused on Job 19:23-27, where we see an incredible display of faith in the midst of suffering. Job knew that he had a living redeemer, and that's why despite all he had been through, he still had faith that one day everything would be set right.

Where do we find the strength to endure when life in this world gets exhausting? That's what we learn in Hebrews 12:1-3 as we continue our Rethinking Religion series. Today we learn what real strength is and find out how we can find the same strength in our own struggles.

This week we had the privilege of having Pastor Matt Proeber from Eagle River, Alaska share God's Word with us in the sermon. As we continue our Rethinking Religion series, we heard from Numbers 21:4-9 that we can Rethink the Solution to Sin.