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
This weekend at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, we celebrated the graduation of 5 seniors from our congregation. On this 6th Sunday of Easter in lectionary year A, our texts are Acts 17:22-31 and John 14:15-21, a continuation of
For May 14, 2017, the fifth Sunday of Easter in lectionary year A, the Gospel reading is John 14:1-14. We also read Psalm 31:1-8. Although I don’t post funeral sermons online, I’ve preached four sermons on this John 14 text
This weekend in worship, we celebrated the end of Sunday School with the kids singing at Saturday service and a community meal. The texts for this fourth Sunday of Easter (“Good Shepherd Sunday”) in Year A are Acts 2:42-47, Psalm 23,