Welcome to the season of Advent! In today’s worship service, we’re looking at how this season of waiting is different than the waiting that it feels like we’ve been doing all year. We begin this season with lament, yet our
2019 Advent 4 – Joseph the Background Player
With my son’s due date coming up, this final Sunday of Advent is also the final Sunday before I go on paternity leave! Seems like an appropriate week to talk about the earthly father in the Christmas story, right? The
2019 Advent 3 – John and Doubt Sermon
For this Third Sunday of Advent in RCL Year A, the gospel text is Matthew 11:2-11. Here’s the sermon for December 14/15, 2019. “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near!” Many of you were here last week when
Midweek Advent Sermon on Zechariah
Sermon for midweek Advent service at St. Peter on December 11, 2020. The text is Luke 1:5-24, 57-80. I’m going to try something a little different tonight. Instead of reading a lesson and then giving you a sermon about it,
2019 Advent 2 – John and Wilderness Hope
Here at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Saturday worship on December 6 was the children’s Christmas program. Since the elevator to the sanctuary was in the process of being repaired, we held it in fellowship hall! This sermon was preached therefore