This week, my wife Christin and I are leaving right after Sunday’s worship service for a week-long mission trip through CSM in Chicago. Sunday’s service includes a sending for the mission trip group. The lectionary texts this week include Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43,
This week’w sermon for July 16, 2017 (my birthday!) is on the Parable of the Sower (or possibly the Parable of the Soil?) in Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 as well as Isaiah 55:10-13. We just finished VBS at St. Peter, so
The sermon texts for July 9, 2017, the fifth Sunday after Pentecost in Year A are Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30; Psalm 145:8-14; and Romans 7:15-25a. The pictures shown were projected during the service. Inspiration from Dr. David Lose. Grace and peace from
For the weekend of July 2, 2017, we had only one worship service due to a special congregational meeting to vote on putting in an elevator from the fellowship hall to the Sunday School basement. (Here’s the informational handout I
This week at St. Peter Lutheran in Greene, we had a “Sunday of Hope” (actually, it was a “Weekend of Hope” to include the Saturday service). We raised just over $700 for the American Cancer Society by selling luminary bags