For this 7th Sunday of Easter on May 28, 2017, our worship texts are John 17:1-11 and Acts 1:6-14, the Ascension of Jesus. I came across the story of Pastor John Harper here, and found Bishop Mike Rinehart’s exploration of the
My church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for June, 2017. A Word on Worship O come, let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before the Lord, our Maker! -Psalm 95:6 In our congregation, we do many activities
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
This weekend at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, we celebrated the graduation of 5 seniors from our congregation. On this 6th Sunday of Easter in lectionary year A, our texts are Acts 17:22-31 and John 14:15-21, a continuation of
For May 14, 2017, the fifth Sunday of Easter in lectionary year A, the Gospel reading is John 14:1-14. We also read Psalm 31:1-8. Although I don’t post funeral sermons online, I’ve preached four sermons on this John 14 text