Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2015. Preached in Dubuque, Iowa, at my internship congregation, St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church. This week’s lectionary texts are Exodus 20:1-17, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, and John 2:13-22. This week, I’ve also posted video of the sermon,
My sermon post this week is a bit different then usual. Instead of preaching from a manuscript, as I have for every other sermon I’ve ever preached, I preached from a (very detailed) outline. That meant that what I actually
This is a presentation I gave for the annual meeting of the Water of Life Conference of the Northeast Iowa Synod of the ELCA on Sunday, February 15, 2015. Who Needs You? Millennials and the Identity of the Church The
My March, 2015, column for The Bellringer, my internship congregation’s monthly newsletter. Enjoy! Membership Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. – 1 Corinthians 12:27 Part of my role as pastoral intern here at St. Peter involves
Ash Wednesday sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Dubuque, Iowa, preached February 18, 2015. The texts we read today are Joel 2:1-2, 12-17; 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10; and Matthew 6:1-8, 16-21. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and our