Happy Labor Day weekend! Today’s sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, is about one of my favorite Bible characters, Peter. Two sources to credit this week for inspiration: First, the God Pause devotional from September 1, by
Last week at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we tried a little bit different format for the worship service based the Faith5. For the “sermon” we watched the mission trip video from the Chicago mission trip a few weeks ago. It
Over the last week, I spent four days serving as a spiritual director at a BadgerTEC (Teens Encounter Christ) weekend in Wisconsin, then five days in Atlanta for the first ever ELCA Rostered Minister’s Gathering. This sermon from the weekend
I spent this last week with Christin on our congregation’s youth mission trip. We went once again to Chicago with CSM (highly recommended if you’re interested in short-term urban mission experience!) and we had a great time. That meant that
This week, my wife Christin and I are leaving right after Sunday’s worship service for a week-long mission trip through CSM in Chicago. Sunday’s service includes a sending for the mission trip group. The lectionary texts this week include Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43,