Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for June, 2018. Being Church “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone
For today’s sermon on Deuteronomy 5:12-15 and Mark 2:23-3:6, I tried something a little different and did the first portion of the sermon from the perspective of one of the Pharisees criticizing Jesus. Following the worship service on Sunday, we did a family
This weekend at St. Peter, we celebrated both the festival of Pentecost and our high school seniors here graduating from the North Butler School District. The texts we read for this Pentecost Sunday in lectionary year B are Romans 8:22-27,
For this first Sunday of our summer combined Sunday worship service schedule, we gathered in the Fellowship Hall (the space where our praise service and Saturday services usually happen). Rather than our usual “Praise” or “Traditional” worship services, we tried
My sermon here for the Seventh Sunday of Easter draws heavily on this reflection from Pastor David Lose. The sermon text for this weekend is the Gospel reading from John 17:6-19. This sermon was actually only preached on Saturday. For