December 23, 2018, is the 4th Sunday of Advent in lectionary year C, and the assigned texts include Luke 1:39-45 (Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth) and Micah 5:2-5a. We also read Luke 1:46-55 (the Magnificat) as the Psalm for the day.
This year for our Greene community midweek Advent worship services, we’re using the them “An Abundant Advent” based on Water Brueggemann’s book Celebrating Abundance: Devotions for Advent (Amazon link). Here’s my sermon for our third and final midweek Advent service,
Christin and I were on vacation in Des Moines last weekend, so I don’t have an Advent 1 sermon. Then this weekend, the Sunday School Christmas program was on Saturday night, so this sermon was only for the two Sunday
This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church we celebrated Christ the King Sunday and welcomed 18 new members to our congregation. I also had a fun new member Sunday children’s message where I cut a picture of our church building
Here at St. Peter, we’re gearing up for Consecration Sunday next weekend. We’ll have a guest preacher from the synod talking about stewardship, followed by a Celebration Lunch for the whole congregation. In preparation for that, here’s my best Lutheran stewardship