Good Shepherd New York

During our season of quarantine, we are offering meditations for parents and children to be used as a force for calm and connection to God and ourselves. This is a meditation for all ages, for times when you feel overwhelmed and alone. Find a quiet, comfortable spot, and take a deep breath. We encourage families to do this with their children. Grace and peace.

On the 3rd week of our Digital Church gatherings Michael explores the story of Lazarus rising from the dead and looks to Jesus as offering three ways to be fully human in this moment.

In week two of our new Covid-19 reality, Michael explores the story of Jesus healing the man born blind. In a continuation on the theme of sight from last week, Jesus invites us into a double vision that can transform our lives.

During our season of quarantine, we are offering meditations for parents and children to be used as a force for calm and connection to God and ourselves. This is a meditation for all ages, for times when you feel overwhelmed and alone. Find a quiet, comfortable spot, and take a deep breath. We encourage families to do this with their children. Grace and peace.

In our first ever digital worship gathering, Pastor Michael connects the story of Nicodemus to the backdrop of a global pandemic. How can the paradox at the core of Jesus’ life guide us in this moment?

Pastor David Gungor speaks on the stories of Jacob wrestling an angel, & The Samaritan woman and Jesus, at Jacobs well.

Why do we create space to lament and connect with our mortality on Ash Wednesday? How could the shape of our Lenten journey vary based on social location? Michael invites us to the o see Vance of a holy Lent.

On the first Sunday of Lent, Michael unveils the new name for our church which goes live on Easter and casts vision for the power and potential of this metaphor for New York.

Our church community doesn’t exist for itself. We exist for the good of our neighbors. How can we shift our imagination to see God’s loving activity all around us? How can we shift our thinking from treating “mission” as a segment of our life or church to seeing it as connected to everything?

What does it mean to be part of a community with a sacramental imagination? Michael lays out the vision of a sacramental outlook and the splits of our lives it seeks to heal.

In this sermon, Michael talks about two of our community’s four distinctives. As a free, interdenominational church we sense a call to experiment and explore but all the while we are tethered to the Bible and the Creeds. What does that mean?

Michael reflects on two of our core values as a church and casts vision for why this is needed deeply at this moment in society.

In this sermon, Pastor Michael talks about the third core value of our church: generosity. What if generosity begins as perception? In a contest of how we see God and life, which vision will win our imagination? Scarcity or Abundance?

On MLK Sunday Michael begins to explore our church’s core values, beginning with our sense of calling to hold the tension of unity and diversity.

Our mission is to help New Yorkers embody the love of Christ for the good of our neighbors. Michael explores how Christ uniquely shapes our idea of a love that tears down walls of division and extends to all.