My church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for April, 2017. Love, Encourage, Provoke And let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of
My church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for May, 2017. Freed by the Resurrection to Serve After Jesus’ crucifixion, his disciples gathered together behind locked doors, fearing they would be the next ones arrested and killed. (See
For this Easter 2 weekend, the texts are Acts 2:14a, 22-32, Psalm 16, and John 20:19-31. I found a lot of inspiration this week from Pastor Delmer Chilton’s Lectionary Blog column over at Living Lutheran. Between Sunday worship services, the Sunday School
Happy Easter! The texts for this 2017’s Easter sermon are Matthew 28:1-10 and Acts 10:34-43. You can also read this year’s Maundy Thursday and Good Friday sermons. Christ is Risen. He is risen indeed. Christ is Risen! He is risen indeed!
For Good Friday 2017 at St. Peter Lutheran Church, our service began with a responsive reading from Isaiah 52:13-53:12, then moved into a Tenebrae service with the Passion story from John 18 and 19, with responses from Psalm 22. This brief