Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for November, 2019. Death Has Been Conquered! When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled:
On November 3/4, 2018, we celebrated the festival of All Saints Day. The texts for this weekend are Revelation 21:1-6a, Isaiah 25:6-9, and John 11:32-44. I was inspired this week by two of the God Pause email devotionals from Rev. Betsy Dart,
We tried something new at St. Peter Lutheran Church this year, and rather than celebrate Confirmation on Reformation Sunday, we bumped Confirmation back a week to combine it with All Saints Sunday. This let us focus more on the 500th
This week, we celebrated All Saints’ Day at St. Peter Lutheran. This week’s sermon texts are Ephesians 1:11-23 and Luke 6:20-31. I need to say up front that I am not much of a baseball fan. If I’m flipping through TV