Sunday, November 8, 2026 - Pastor Dave will present a sermon entitled Your Shepherd - in preparation for this Sunday, please consider the words in John 10:1-19.
Join us at 10:30 am for coffee hour and 11:00 am for Worship Service.
John 10:1-19 NIV
The Good Shepherd and His Sheep
1 “Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not
enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some
other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters
by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The
gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen
to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads
them out. 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes
on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they
know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in
fact, they will run away from him because they do not
recognize a stranger’s voice.” 6 Jesus used this figure of
speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he
was telling them.
7 Therefore Jesus said again,
“Very truly I tell you, I
am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before
me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not
listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through
me will be saved.[a] They will come in and go out, and
find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and
destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it
to the full.
11 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays
down his life for the sheep. 12 The hired hand is not the
shepherd and does not own the sheep. So when he sees
the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs
away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters
it. 13 The man runs away because he is a hired hand and
cares nothing for the sheep.
14 “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my
sheep know me— 15 just as the Father knows me and I
know the Father—and I lay down my life for the
sheep. 16 I have other sheep that are not of this sheep
pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my
voice, and there shall be one flock and one
shepherd. 17 The reason my Father loves me is that I lay
down my life—only to take it up again. 18 No one takes it
from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have
authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again.
This command I received from my Father.”
19 The Jews who heard these words were again
divided. 20 Many of them said,
“He is demon-
possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?”
THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF
GOD. THANKS BE TO GOD.
