A brief sermon for the 11:30 am midweek Lenten service during the 4th week of Lent, March 17, 2015. Preached in Dubuque, Iowa, at my internship congregation, St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church. Our Lenten theme this year is “From Cross to Tree of Life” and this
Sermon for the 3rd Sunday in Lent, March 8, 2015. Preached in Dubuque, Iowa, at my internship congregation, St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church. This week’s lectionary texts are Exodus 20:1-17, 1 Corinthians 1:18-25, and John 2:13-22. This week, I’ve also posted video of the sermon,
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
This is a presentation I gave for the annual meeting of the Water of Life Conference of the Northeast Iowa Synod of the ELCA on Sunday, February 15, 2015. Who Needs You? Millennials and the Identity of the Church The
My March, 2015, column for The Bellringer, my internship congregation’s monthly newsletter. Enjoy! Membership Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it. – 1 Corinthians 12:27 Part of my role as pastoral intern here at St. Peter involves