It’s Confirmation Sunday here at St. Peter! In this Reformation Day sermon, I do my best to look at the theme of God’s love and grace by reflecting on each of the verses selected by the eight ninth-grade students affirming
In today’s sermon, we’re exploring the blind beggar Bartimaeus as an example of faith for us today. This is the sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, for October 24, 2021. The Scripture readings for today are Jeremiah 31:7-9
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
This week, we hear an uncomfortable story from Mark 10 where Jesus tells a rich man to sell all his possessions, give the money to the poor, and follow him. Shocked, the man goes away grieving, “for he had many
What are we, that God should be mindful of us? What a great paradox of faith that we are cosmically insignificant, yet we have been claimed as children of God. A sermon for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost on Hebrews