Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for August, 2018. Refreshed at the Table “For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world…I am the bread of life.
This week’s sermon focuses on Numbers 11:4-6, 10-16, 24-29 and Mark 9:38-50. I first heard the joke at the beginning in a video from Alpha. I also found René L. Mehlberg’s God Pause devotional for September 27 helpful. I heard
Here’s my sermon for September 23, 2018. My sermon texts this week are the Gospel reading from Mark 9:30-37 and the epistle reading from James James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a. I’m grateful to David Lose in his Dear Working Preacher column from six
This weekend at St. Peter was our annual Country Time luncheon. We served a total of 755 meals (quite a few in a town with a population of 1,100!). In addition, we still had worship! So, here’s my sermon for
Today in worship at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we celebrated 8 of our third graders receiving new Deep Blue Kids Bibles. My sermon for this 16th Sunday after Pentecost focused on James 2:1-17, continuing our exploration from last week of James