This week at St. Peter, we are having a special harvest generosity celebration. For the sermon, I’m looking at the story in Luke 17:11-19 of Jesus healing 10 lepers, but only one of them returning to give thanks. We too
2017 Thanksgiving Sermon: Count Your Blessings
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve 2017. The texts are the healing of the lepers in Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 8:7-18. How many of you are familiar with the phrase, “count your blessings”? There’s a classic hymn from 1897 called “Count Your Blessings”
Thanksgiving Sermon 2016
For the Thanksgiving holiday, St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, held a Thanksgiving Eve worship service on Wednesday evening, November 23, 2016. Our texts for the evening are 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 and John 6:24-35. Grace to you and peace, from God
July Church Newsletter Farewell Column
My July, 2015, farewell newsletter column for The Bellringer, my internship congregation’s monthly publication. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in
Calming the Storm – Internship Farewell Sermon – June 21, 2015
Sermon on Jesus calming the storm, for the fourth Sunday of Pentecost, June 21, 2015. This is the final sermon of my Lutheran internship year at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Dubuque, Iowa. This week’s lectionary texts are Mark 4:35-41, Job 38:1-11, and 2 Corinthians 6:1-13.