Merry Christmas! Featuring contributions from over 30 families in our congregation, our 2020 Christmas Eve worship service includes Scripture, prayer, and familiar Christmas carols, all shaped around “The ABC’s of Christmas.” We pray that in the midst of all the
Isolated: Peace in a Locked Room | April 19, 2020 Sermon
April 19, 2020, in addition to being the first Sunday after Easter at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, also marks the first week of a four week series: Isolated: Meeting God When We Think We’re Alone. Thanks to
May 13, 2018, Cross+Gen Worship Order and Prayer Stations
For this first Sunday of our summer combined Sunday worship service schedule, we gathered in the Fellowship Hall (the space where our praise service and Saturday services usually happen). Rather than our usual “Praise” or “Traditional” worship services, we tried
ELW & LBW Hymnal List Excel Sheet
As I was working on worship planning for this summer, I realized I didn’t have a sortable list of all the hymns in the Lutheran Book of Worship (aka LBW, aka The Green Hymnal). I had a spreadsheet file for Evangelical Lutheran
Good Friday Tenebrae Outline – John 18-19 and Psalm 22
Here’s the order of service outline for the Good Friday Tenebrae service I arranged for Good Friday 2017 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. It’s modified from the Tenebrae format we used at my internship congregation, St. Peter Lutheran