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Everything We Need. // An Exploration of Psalm 23 // He Brings Me Back

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When his two-year-old son vanished in Madrid, he panicked—what does that teach us about being lost without God?
This sermon explores Psalm 23, focusing on the phrase 'he restores my soul' to illustrate God as a shepherd who rescues lost people. It uses stories of sheep behavior, a personal anecdote about a lost child, and Jesus' parable of the lost sheep to emphasize God's joy in finding and restoring those who wander.

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A pastoral sermon on God as shepherd, who restores the lost and answers the fear of rejection.

The sermon opens with a graduate school professor's memory and uses it to name a familiar fear: that God only receives people after they have cleaned up their lives. Psalm 23 gives that fear a different answer.

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If you think you need to clean up before coming back to God, start here.

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