This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, we celebrated a baptism at the 8:30 service, and had a very cold Sunday School hayride between services. The readings for October 14, 2018, are Hebrews 4:12-16 and Mark 10:17-31.
For Sunday, October 7, 2018, the lectionary texts for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost in Year B include Genesis 2:18-24 and Mark 10:2-16. This sermon was preached at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. I found this a tricky
This week’s sermon focuses on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Mark 9:38-50. I first heard the joke at the beginning in a video from Alpha. I also found René L. Mehlberg’s God Pause devotional for September 27 helpful. I heard
Here’s my sermon for September 23, 2018. My sermon texts this week are the Gospel reading from Mark 9:30-37 and the epistle reading from James James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a. I’m grateful to David Lose in his Dear Working Preacher column from six
This weekend at St. Peter was our annual Country Time luncheon. We served a total of 755 meals (quite a few in a town with a population of 1,100!). In addition, we still had worship! So, here’s my sermon for