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
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
St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa. Sermon for Sunday, November 11, 2016, the week after the 2016 US Presidential election. Apologies for posting last week’s All Saints’ Day sermon late! Here it is if you want to read it. This
This week, we celebrated All Saints’ Day at St. Peter Lutheran. This week’s sermon texts are Ephesians 1:11-23 and Luke 6:20-31. I need to say up front that I am not much of a baseball fan. If I’m flipping through TV
This weekend at St. Peter Lutheran Church, we celebrated confirmation for four of our 9th graders, baptism for another, and commemorated the 499th anniversary of the Reformation. For more about the Reformation, see my November newsletter column. We celebrated confirmation