Merry Christmas! Here’s my 2018 Christmas Eve sermon. The text is the Christmas story from Luke. Have you ever watched the show House Hunters? It’s one of my guilty pleasure comfort shows. There’s always a couple with a list of
Advent 4 Sermon: Mary Knew
December 23, 2018, is the 4th Sunday of Advent in lectionary year C, and the assigned texts include Luke 1:39-45 (Mary’s visitation to Elizabeth) and Micah 5:2-5a. We also read Luke 1:46-55 (the Magnificat) as the Psalm for the day.
Advent Sermon: The Word of God Came
Christin and I were on vacation in Des Moines last weekend, so I don’t have an Advent 1 sermon. Then this weekend, the Sunday School Christmas program was on Saturday night, so this sermon was only for the two Sunday
Sermon: God is Unfair
On this 16th Sunday after Pentecost, September 24th, 2017, our worship service at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa included a special presentation by Chris Caswell, director of philanthropy at Lutheran Services in Iowa. LSI is the social ministry
Sermon: The King on the Cross
This week, we celebrated Christ the King Sunday, the final week of the church calendar. The lessons for this week are Colossians 1:11-20 and Luke 23:33-43. Does anything seem odd to you about today’s gospel reading? We’re in the holiday season now; did