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
This was my second week in a row preaching and leading worship at Lena United Methodist Church, where my wife Christin is the youth director. If you haven’t read last week’s sermon yet, please read that one first, as this