This is a brief sermon I gave yesterday at a midweek worship service for a few residents at Ennoble Manor, a care facility here in Dubuque. In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I shared two of the appointed texts for Thanksgiving,
Here are the graphics I made for our worship slides this week. The message is titled “Encourage One Another” based off of 1 Thessalonians 4:18, “Therefore, encourage one another with these words.” Conveniently, the translation is the same in the NRSV,
My November, 2014, column for The Bellringer, the monthly newsletter at my internship congregation (St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa). Enjoy! The Miracle of Stewardship Ever wonder what God was thinking? I know I sometimes do. I wonder why God would trust
This is my fourth sermon from my year long pastoral internship at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa. This is for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, Proper 25. The images in this post were shown during the sermon. The
My October column for The Bellringer, the monthly newsletter at my internship congregation (St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa). Enjoy! I can barely believe two months have already flown by since I started my internship here at St. Peter! At the same time,