St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Author: Rev. Craig Ross

  • The Blessing of an Egg Sandwich

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    Email Devotion Week Of Lent 5 By Brendan Armitage “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.” (James 1: 2-3) It’s buttery.  Just eggs and bread, mind you, but good quality of both, and fresh.  Somehow, in…

  • Wheat Arising Green

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    Traditional Sermon Lent 5 The grain of wheat falling to the earth and dying, bears fruit in our agricultural world.  What are the grains of of our lives that in dying bear fruit of grace and blessing for us? Oft times a hymn is a sermon in and of itself, with the hymn text writer…

  • Fooling Yourself

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    Email Devotion Week Of Lent 4 It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.   (C.S. Lewis from Mere Christianity) Oh so true … so very, very true …  isn’t that always the way?  We are quick to take…

  • Water People

    Water People

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    EMAIL DEVOTION week of LENT 3 Jesus answered, ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit. (John 3:5) So if you are not sure what those little buggers are in the cover picture … well … they are earthworms. More properly, they “were”…

  • Protected Gifts

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    New Day Sermon LENT 3 Sometimes we struggle with the legalism of rules.  But in God’s world, they are often the ways we safeguard the greatest blessings in our lives.

  • Our Father ….

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         EMAIL DEVOTION week of LENT 2 ‘Pray then in this way: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name.  Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.  (Matthew 6:9-10) The end of the month often finds me finishing my home communion visits.  They are one of the blessings I enjoy in parish…

  • Carrying Your Cross with Hope … and Joy?

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    traditional sermon   LENT 2 The 8th chapter of Mark’s Gospel from which we read today is a challenging piece of writing to be sure.  This past Wednesday morning, my weekly Bible Study class studied this very chapter, and discussed the change in spirit that occurs in the roughly fifty verses of this chapter that stands in…

  • Never Enough

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    New Day Sermon first sunday in lent In what ways are you tempted?  Does the phrase “Never Enough” ever summarize how you see the world?  Check out how God fills our lives to the top.

  • I’m Especially Fond of You

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL week of Epiphany 5 Papa: Mack, you may not know this, but I am especially fond of you. This brief dialogue is from the movie, The Shack.  It is part of a conversation between the movie’s main character, Mack … and God … who Mack calls Papa because it is the way his…

  • Strong Christmas Christians

    Strong Christmas Christians

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    We welcome back to our devotional table Brendan Armitage, who offers this week’s reflection as a spiritual close to the Christmas season, which ended ten days ago on the day of Epiphany.  Thank you, Brendan! Merry Christmas to you!  When a child is born, they’re delicate and precious.  You want to hold and nurture and protect…