This Sunday, we’re having a family Epiphany party for Sunday School, so we’re celebrating Epiphany in worship rather than the baptism of Jesus. Here’s the sermon for January 8, 2016. The readings are Isaiah 1:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-15, the story
Sermon for January 1, 2017, New Year’s Day. Today’s text is Matthew 25:31-46, the story of the King separating the sheep and the goats. Do you ever think about why we celebrate New Year’s Day? It’s really just another day,
Merry Christmas! Here’s my Christmas Day sermon for 2016. You can read this year’s Christmas Eve sermon here. This sermon is based on John 1:1-18 along with Isaiah 52:7-10 and Hebrews 1:1-4. I heard once about a little boy in
The readings for December 24, 2016, Christmas Eve at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, are Isaiah 9:2–7, Micah 5:2–5a, Luke 2:1-21, and John 1:1-14. How many of you have favorite memories of Christmas from when you were a kid? Maybe
Last week at St. Peter Lutheran in Greene, we had the children’s Christmas program, so this week, the 4th Sunday of Advent, we picked up the Advent 3 readings we’d skipped last week. Our readings for this weekend are Matthew