My sermon for the third Sunday of Advent, Year B, at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa, given on December 14, 2014. This week’s texts are Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24, and John 1:6-8, 19-28. To get the full effect of this sermon, you
This sermon is for the second Sunday of Advent, Year B, at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa, on December 7, 2014. The texts for this week are Isaiah 40:1-11, Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13, 2 Peter 3:8-15a, and Mark 1:1-8. By show of hands, how
This sermon is for the first Sunday of Advent, Year B, given at my internship congregation, St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa, on November 30, 2014. The images in this post (and more) were shown during the sermon. The texts for
This is a brief sermon I gave yesterday at a midweek worship service for a few residents at Ennoble Manor, a care facility here in Dubuque. In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday this week, I shared two of the appointed texts for Thanksgiving,
This is my fourth sermon from my year long pastoral internship at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Dubuque, Iowa. This is for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year A, Proper 25. The images in this post were shown during the sermon. The