St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Author: Rev. Craig Ross

  • Out of the Depths

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL WEEK OF Pentecost 17 Out of the depths I cry to you; O Lord God, hear me calling.  Incline your ear to my distress in spite of my rebelling.  Do not regard my sinful deeds.  Send me the grace my spirit needs; without it I am nothing.  (ELW Hymn 600) Like you, I find myself conflicted.  I am admittedly…

  • Do You Walk the Walk?

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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 17 Are you disappointed in others when they don’t follow through on what they said they would do?  Do you ever do the same?  Tune in for a consideration on how Jesus responds as our Savior, to shame and disappointment.

  • The Blessing of Spiders

    The Blessing of Spiders

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 16 All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his decrees.            (Psalm 25:10) The Spider‘s Web The spider dropping down from a twig Unfolds a plan of her devising A thin premeditated rig To use in rising.…

  • Yet Another Guest at Our Table

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 13 (Our thanks to our guest devotionerr, Mary Ann Frontz) When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and broke it, and gave it to them. (Luke 24:30) Two weekend’s ago in the email devotion, Pastor Ross shared a poem “Perhaps the World Ends Here” written by Joy Harjo.  This…

  • Let’s Talk … About Not Talking

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    Traditional Sermon Pentecost 14 Let’s talk.  Let’s talk about not talking.  Have you ever had a disagreement with someone?  (Raise your hand if you have.)  Have you ever carried a grudge for a while following that disagreement?  Now we’ll get a little personal … you don’t have to raise your hand anymore.  Have you ever…

  • Reflections on Labor … and Labor Day

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 12 Therefore, my beloved, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1 Corinthians 15:58) In his second anthology, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It, Robert Fulghum shares these words as he…

  • Are You A Stumbling Block?

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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 13 Do you find yourself feeling like Peter at times, being faithful at one moment and then being a stumbling block in the next moment? Let’s explore that challenge of discipleship.

  • Ordinary Discipleship

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 12 In a large house there are utensils not only of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for special use, some for ordinary. (2 Timothy 2:20) I share this poem as a part of yesterday’s sermon that ended up being left on the cutting room floor — an editorial…

  • Who Do You Say I Am?

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    Traditional Sermon Pentecost 12 Last week I was in a nursing home offering communion to one of our Sages who is currently doing a couple of weeks of rehabilitation.  She is somewhat hard of hearing and she has been placed in a four bed room.  And during the visit, there are two other visitors talking…

  • Let There Be Light

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL Pentecost 11 God said, ‘Let there be light’; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. (Genesis 1:3-4a) [My sincere thanks to Brendan Armitage, who offered these thoughts in an email correspondence with me, and who allowed me to share them with you as a devotion, at my prompting.  When…