This Sunday is high school graduation here in Greene. If you didn’t get a chance to hear my sermon on Wednesday at Baccalaureate, you can read it here. May 19, 2019, is also the fifth Sunday of Easter, and the
I’ve attempted something dangerous this year and instead of mostly ignoring Mother’s Day (which, after all, is not a church festival day!), I’ve leaned into it during the sermon. Partially, I was inspired by this column at Patheos from Leah
Immediately after the worship service on May 5, 2019, we had a special congregational meeting regarding (expensive!) repairs to the church steeple, so this sermon on John 21:1-19 alludes to that. I found great inspiration in Lisa Jenkins’ lectionary commentary
For this second Sunday of Easter, as it is each year, our Gospel reading is John 20:19-31. There’s also a little of Acts 5:27-32 tossed into this sermon. Here it is: As you may know, the Bible passages we read
Happy Easter! Here’s my 2019 Easter sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church here in Greene, Iowa. This year we’re in Luke’s account of that first Easter morning, so the text is Luke 24:1-12 with a little bit of 1 Corinthians