My church newsletter pastor’s column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for January, 2017. Telling the Old, Old Story Anew “I love to tell the story I’ll sing this theme in glory And tell the old, old story Of Jesus
This week’s sermon for the seventh Sunday after Epiphany in lectionary year A looks at Jesus’ command in Matthew 5:48 to be perfect. The texts are Matthew 5:38-48 and Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18. Sermon for the people of God at St.
For this sixth Sunday after the Epiphany in year A, our texts for worship are Matthew 5:21-37, Deuteronomy 30:15-20, and Psalm 119:1-8. Here’s my sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, given on February 12, 2017. As some
This Sunday, we’re having a family Epiphany party for Sunday School, so we’re celebrating Epiphany in worship rather than the baptism of Jesus. Here’s the sermon for January 8, 2016. The readings are Isaiah 1:1-6 and Matthew 2:1-15, the story
My sermon post this week is a bit different then usual. Instead of preaching from a manuscript, as I have for every other sermon I’ve ever preached, I preached from a (very detailed) outline. That meant that what I actually