This week, we’re looking at a story in Acts 1 where the apostles had an important decision to make for the early church. Through that story’s lens, Pastor Daniel Flucke explores some criteria for our own faithful decision-making as followers
The greatest love, says Jesus, is to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. And in the life and death of Jesus, we see God’s incomprehensible love for us and for the world. Here’s my sermon for the sixth Sunday
Apart from Jesus, we can do nothing. But when we are connected to Jesus, the Holy Spirit works through us to build God’s kingdom. We as the church are called to work for both the spiritual and physical good of
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for May, 2021. Vocabulary of Faith “ If you speak to people in words they don’t understand, how will they know what you are saying? You might as well be
We are claimed as children of God—children with lots of room to grow! It’s easy to see the gap between who we are and who God calls us to be, but the Holy Spirit is at work transforming us as