The text for this week’s sermon is John 1:6-8, 19-28. Substantial portions of this sermon (including the idea of using a paper bag) are the same as I preached three years ago on internship in this sermon. Here’s my sermon for
Sermon for the second week of Advent, December 10, 2017. (Advent 1 sermon here) This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we had the children’s Sunday School Christmas program on Saturday evening serving as our usual Saturday service. Check out
This week, we begin a new year in the church cycle with the first Sunday of Advent. Sermon texts for this week are Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37. Here’s my sermon for December 3, 2017. Do you ever wonder where
This week, Christ the King Sunday, we finish up Matthew 25 with the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46. I found this 2011 post from David Lose at Working Preacher helpful. Here’s my sermon from November
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve 2017. The texts are the healing of the lepers in Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 8:7-18. How many of you are familiar with the phrase, “count your blessings”? There’s a classic hymn from 1897 called “Count Your Blessings”