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”
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
Sermon from November 12, 2017, on Matthew 25:1-13, Amos 5:18-24, and Psalm 70. What is the longest you’ve ever waited in line for something? Anyone ever camped out overnight for something, maybe concert tickets, or a new phone, or a
We tried something new at St. Peter Lutheran Church this year, and rather than celebrate Confirmation on Reformation Sunday, we bumped Confirmation back a week to combine it with All Saints Sunday. This let us focus more on the 500th
For the October 22, 2017, the lectionary texts include Isaiah 45:1-7 and Matthew 22:15-22. In preparation for the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Reformation next week, I preached on Martin Luther’s doctrine of the two kingdoms. I found