No video or audio recording, but here’s my message from the first of our four midweek Advent worship services for 2021. Our ecumenical Wednesday Advent series this year is Songs of the Season, and I and Pastor Joan Thomas, who
In the season of Advent, we prepare to celebrate the coming of Christ at Christmas, even as we anticipate Christ’s final return in the future. As we wait, we are called to pay attention, to trust, and to have hope,
The God who cares for the birds and flowers also cares for you! The antidote to worrying is remembering what God has done in the past and trusting God to be faithful in the future. Here’s the sermon for Christ
In this week’s Gospel lesson, Jesus offers apocalyptic predictions of disaster, but he also makes a promise: Apocalyptic disasters are penultimate, not final. Suffering and disaster are not the end. Something better is coming: God’s kingdom. We are given the
Church newsletter pastoral column for St. Peter Lutheran Church, Greene, Iowa, for December, 2021. Making Room “And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in bands of cloth, and laid him in a manger, because there was no