This week in worship, we shared a video from our youth summer mission trip to Houston. Before the video, I offered a brief sermon on the day’s scripture readings from Isaiah 58:9b-14 and Luke 13:10-17. The trip video is embedded below.
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for September, 2019. Let’s Be the Church Thus says the Lord God to these bones: ‘I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.’ – Ezekiel 7:5 Dear
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for August, 2019. When Your Church Lets You Down Finally, all of you, have unity of spirit, sympathy, love for one another, a tender heart, and a humble mind. –
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for July, 2019. Vocationally Expecting Whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through
The assigned texts for this 8th Sunday after Pentecost are Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14, 2:18-23; Psalm 49:1-12; Colossians 3:1-11; and Luke 12:13-21. I drew inspiration from several commentaries on Working Preacher, including this one by Vanessa Lovelace on the Psalm, Lois