Due to a quirk of the calendar, the fourth Sunday fo Advent (Year B) in 2017 falls on December 24, which of course is also Christmas Eve Day. At St. Peter Lutheran Church, we had our usual Saturday worship as
Advent 4 Sermon: David and Mary
Advent 3 Sermon: John the Witness
The text for this week’s sermon is John 1:6-8, 19-28. Substantial portions of this sermon (including the idea of using a paper bag) are the same as I preached three years ago on internship in this sermon. Here’s my sermon for
Advent 2: Good News
Sermon for the second week of Advent, December 10, 2017. (Advent 1 sermon here) This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we had the children’s Sunday School Christmas program on Saturday evening serving as our usual Saturday service. Check out
Advent 1: Tear Open the Heavens
This week, we begin a new year in the church cycle with the first Sunday of Advent. Sermon texts for this week are Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37. Here’s my sermon for December 3, 2017. Do you ever wonder where
Emmanuel: God With Us – December, 2016, Church Newsletter
My church newsletter pastor’s column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for December, 2016. Emmanuel: God With Us And the Word became flesh and lived among us. – John 1:14 As we enter the month of December, it is hard