Ash Wednesday is my favorite church holiday of the year. This year, Ash Wednesday here in Greene kicked off our ecumenical Lenten series focusing on the “I AM” sayings of Jesus in John’s gospel. For this first week, we focused on
For Good Friday 2017 at St. Peter Lutheran Church, our service began with a responsive reading from Isaiah 52:13-53:12, then moved into a Tenebrae service with the Passion story from John 18 and 19, with responses from Psalm 22. This brief
Here’s the order of service outline for the Good Friday Tenebrae service I arranged for Good Friday 2017 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. It’s modified from the Tenebrae format we used at my internship congregation, St. Peter Lutheran
For tonight’s Maundy Thursday worship service at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, I did a three part sermon focusing on the ideas of Remembering, Repenting, and Re-membering. Our Maundy Thursday service for April 13, 2017 looked like this: Confession &
This week, continuing Year A’s string of exceptionally long Gospel readings, we hear from John 11:1-45, the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead. The other text I preached on this week is Ezekiel 37:1-14, the vision of the