This year for Reformation Day #501, we celebrated confirmation with 9 of our high school freshmen, four at the 8:30 service and five at the 11:00 service. With the Saturday service thrown in there as well, that means there are
The sermon text for October 21, 2018, is Mark 10:35-45. In preparing this sermon, I found Pastor Tim Brown’s reflection in the weekly ELCA World Hunger Sermon Starters email helpful. Do any of you know about calling “shotgun”? If you’re in
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for November, 2018. Blessed to be a Blessing I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will
This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, we celebrated a baptism at the 8:30 service, and had a very cold Sunday School hayride between services. The readings for October 14, 2018, are Hebrews 4:12-16 and Mark 10:17-31.
For Sunday, October 7, 2018, the lectionary texts for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost in Year B include Genesis 2:18-24 and Mark 10:2-16. This sermon was preached at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. I found this a tricky