My church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for April, 2018. I realized I’ve missed posting quite a few of these, so perhaps sometime soon I’ll go back and add the one’s I missed. For now, here’s my Easter
Happy Easter! For Holy Saturday worship this year, we did a shortened Easter Vigil service with 6 readings from The Message paraphrase of the Bible rather than an early Easter resurrection worship service like we did last year. On Easter
Similar to last year’s Good Friday service, our 2018 Good Friday worship at St. Peter Lutheran Church began with a responsive reading from Isaiah 52:13-53:12, a reading from Hebrews 10:16-25, and then moved into a Tenebrae service with the Passion story from John
For Palm Sunday this year, we had two wonderful youth-led worship services journeying through Holy Week on Sunday morning (and Saturday’s service was cancelled due to snow) so there was no sermon for Palm Sunday. Here’s my Maundy Thursday sermon
This Wednesday was the final week of our ecumenical midweek Lenten worship series on the “I Am” sayings of Jesus in John. This week we focused on “I am the good shepherd” from John 10:11-18 and Psalm 23. I heard