Here at St. Peter Lutheran Church, Saturday worship on December 6 was the children’s Christmas program. Since the elevator to the sanctuary was in the process of being repaired, we held it in fellowship hall! This sermon was preached therefore
2019 Advent 1 – Waiting
Here’s the sermon for the first Sunday in Advent, lectionary year A, preached November 30 and December 1, 2020. I found helpful this reflection by Michael J. Chan at WorkingPreacher, as well as Jim Somerville’s sermon (PDF) at A Sermon
Sermon: Sheep and Goats and Sin and Faith and Jesus
This week, Christ the King Sunday, we finish up Matthew 25 with the parable of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46. I found this 2011 post from David Lose at Working Preacher helpful. Here’s my sermon from November
2017 Thanksgiving Sermon: Count Your Blessings
Sermon for Thanksgiving Eve 2017. The texts are the healing of the lepers in Luke 17:11-19 and Deuteronomy 8:7-18. How many of you are familiar with the phrase, “count your blessings”? There’s a classic hymn from 1897 called “Count Your Blessings”
Sermon: Stewarding a Dollar – November 19, 2017
This week’s sermon uses an illustration of handing out a dollar that I got from this 2010 post by David Lose over a year ago, but during the week when I intended to use it, the town flooded, and I