The Gospel reading for Sunday, January 13, 2019, is Luke 3:15-17, 21-22. Our other readings this week include Isaiah 43:1-7 and Psalm 29. I found inspiration from Christine Hallenbeck Ask’s GodPause devotional on January 11, 2019, and David Lose’s Working Preacher commentary
God Moving Through Ordinary Things
Here’s my sermon for August 12, 2018, the 12th Sunday after Pentecost in Year B, Ordinary 19, the third of the five weeks the lectionary spends in John 6 talking about Jesus as the bread of life. I found this column
We Want to See Jesus – Sermon – March 18, 2018
This was a busy weekend at St. Peter Lutheran Church! On Saturday, we welcomed Victoria Flood from the ELCA’s Churchwide office in Chicago, and on Sunday we celebrated the baptism of Case Frerichs. All three services also included dedicating 328
Baptism of Christ Sermon – January 7, 2018
For this first weekend of 2018, our topic in worship is the Baptism of Christ, as found in Mark 1:4-11. Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. If you follow church on
The Cost of Baptized Discipleship – Sermon, September 4, 2016
Sermon for the 16th Sunday after Pentecost, September 3-4, 2016, for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. This week’s lectionary texts are Luke 14:25-33 and Philemon 1:1-21. For the shorter 10:30 Praise & Communion service, we only read the Luke passage and I skipped