The vibrancy of life here at St. Peter’s makes my service on our staff a joy and privilege. Visitation, teaching and preaching are the ministries that feed my pastoral identity, as together our staff and lay members share in our missional calling … Building a community of faith by God’s grace.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
