Due to a quirk of the calendar, the fourth Sunday fo Advent (Year B) in 2017 falls on December 24, which of course is also Christmas Eve Day. At St. Peter Lutheran Church, we had our usual Saturday worship as
Advent 4 Sermon: David and Mary
Advent 3 Sermon: John the Witness
The text for this week’s sermon is John 1:6-8, 19-28. Substantial portions of this sermon (including the idea of using a paper bag) are the same as I preached three years ago on internship in this sermon. Here’s my sermon for
Advent 2: Good News
Sermon for the second week of Advent, December 10, 2017. (Advent 1 sermon here) This week at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we had the children’s Sunday School Christmas program on Saturday evening serving as our usual Saturday service. Check out
Advent 1: Tear Open the Heavens
This week, we begin a new year in the church cycle with the first Sunday of Advent. Sermon texts for this week are Isaiah 64:1-9 and Mark 13:24-37. Here’s my sermon for December 3, 2017. Do you ever wonder where
Sermon: Sheep and Goats and Sin and Faith and Jesus
This week, Christ the King Sunday, we finish up Matthew 25 with the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46. I found this 2011 post from David Lose at Working Preacher helpful. Here’s my sermon from November