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
Merry Christmas! Here’s my Christmas Day sermon for 2016. You can read this year’s Christmas Eve sermon here. This sermon is based on John 1:1-18 along with Isaiah 52:7-10 and Hebrews 1:1-4. I heard once about a little boy in
The readings for December 24, 2016, Christmas Eve at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, are Isaiah 9:2–7, Micah 5:2–5a, Luke 2:1-21, and John 1:1-14. How many of you have favorite memories of Christmas from when you were a kid? Maybe
For the first Sunday after Christmas (December 28, 2014), we had a hymnsing Sunday, and I tried something a little different for the sermon. I used the lectionary texts, but instead of doing all the readings and then a sermon, I
My very first Christmas Day sermon. Given on December 25, 2014, at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa. The Christmas Day lectionary Gospel text is John 1:1-14. Grace and peace from the One who has come to dwell with us. I