Immediately after the worship service on May 5, 2019, we had a special congregational meeting regarding (expensive!) repairs to the church steeple, so this sermon on John 21:1-19 alludes to that. I found great inspiration in Lisa Jenkins’ lectionary commentary
For this second Sunday of Easter, as it is each year, our Gospel reading is John 20:19-31. There’s also a little of Acts 5:27-32 tossed into this sermon. Here it is: As you may know, the Bible passages we read
Happy Easter! Here’s my 2019 Easter sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church here in Greene, Iowa. This year we’re in Luke’s account of that first Easter morning, so the text is Luke 24:1-12 with a little bit of 1 Corinthians
My church newsletter column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for April, 2018. I realized I’ve missed posting quite a few of these, so perhaps sometime soon I’ll go back and add the one’s I missed. For now, here’s my Easter
Happy Easter! For Holy Saturday worship this year, we did a shortened Easter Vigil service with 6 readings from The Message paraphrase of the Bible rather than an early Easter resurrection worship service like we did last year. On Easter