This sermon is for the second Sunday of Advent, Year B, at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa, on December 7, 2014. The texts for this week are Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, and Mark 1:1-8. By show of hands, how
My December, 2014, column for The Bellringer, the monthly newsletter of my internship congregation (St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa). Enjoy! God Is With Us And the Word became flesh and lived among us. – John 1:14 One of my favorite Christmas songs to
This sermon is for the first Sunday of Advent, Year B, given at my internship congregation, St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa, on November 30, 2014. The images in this post (and more) were shown during the sermon. The texts for
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,