This week, we celebrated All Saints’ Day at St. Peter Lutheran. This week’s sermon texts are Ephesians 1:11-23 and Luke 6:20-31. I need to say up front that I am not much of a baseball fan. If I’m flipping through TV
Sermon – All Saints’ Day 2016
Sermon: Zacchaeus, Reformation, and Confirmation
This weekend at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we celebrated confirmation for four of our 9th graders, baptism for another, and commemorated the 499th anniversary of the Reformation. For more about the Reformation, see my November newsletter column. We celebrated confirmation
A Reformation Church – November, 2016, Newsletter
November, 2016, church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa. We are a Church of the Reformation For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we
Humility and Grace for a Pharisee – October 23, 2016, Sermon
Sermon for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, October 23, 2016. We had the joy of about 30 Sunday School children singing in worship on Saturday night, and then baptizing infant Hank at the 11:00 service on Sunday morning. This week’s
A Sermon on Persistence, Prayer, and Politicians
Here’s my sermon from Sunday, October 16, 2016, for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. Today’s lectionary texts for the sermon are Luke 18:1-8, and Psalm 121, with just a dash of 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5 thrown in at the end.