For today’s sermon on Deuteronomy 5:12-15 and Mark 2:23-3:6, I tried something a little different and did the first portion of the sermon from the perspective of one of the Pharisees criticizing Jesus. Following the worship service on Sunday, we did a family
This weekend at St. Peter, we celebrated both the festival of Pentecost and our high school seniors here graduating from the North Butler School District. The texts we read for this Pentecost Sunday in lectionary year B are Romans 8:22-27,
My sermon here for the Seventh Sunday of Easter draws heavily on this reflection from Pastor David Lose. The sermon text for this weekend is the Gospel reading from John 17:6-19. This sermon was actually only preached on Saturday. For
This weekend in worship, I preached two separate sermons. First, at the Saturday night service, I introduced the Faith5 to the congregation as it was the last night of Sunday School. You can read that message here. On Sunday morning,
St. Peter recently hosted a workshop for our conference on the subject of Faith5 and Cross+Gen ministry. Our presenter was ELCA Deacon Kristin Johnson from St. Petri Lutheran Church in Story City, and we had several people from our congregation