This is my second sermon as pastor at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. I wrote two versions of this sermon, one that was shorter and included a video, and a longer version without video. The shorter version was
This weekend was my first time preaching at the congregation I serve, St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. The sermon text for the week was Luke 10:38-42, the story of Jesus visiting sisters Mary and Martha. Grace and peace
This morning, I had the privilege of being the senior preacher for Wartburg Seminary’s chapel service. My assigned text was Philippians 3:4b-14. After I took preaching class two years ago, I visited my home congregation, and I asked my pastor how he
Although I haven’t yet posted anything here about it, Christin and I recently returned from a J-Term trip to Tanzania. This morning, Christin shared pictures and stories from our trip in worship at Lena UMC and I preached. Our text was Ephesians 4:1-6.
This sermon is the final project of a four week seminary class on “Preaching Luke.” After leading a text study session on a passage, we were to preach a sample sermon on our given text for our fellow seminarians in