AuthorRev. Craig Ross

Former Senior Pastor
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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.

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Climbing Out of the Pigpen

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY “I will get up and go to my father.”~~ Luke 15:18 (The Prodigal Son’s words from the pigpen.)  “Landing in a pigpen stinks.  But staying there is just plain stupid.  Don’t spend another minute in the pigpen.  It’s time to rise up”  ~~Max Lucado, Glory Days Do you ever struggle…

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Holy Heresy Sunday

TRADITIONAL SERMON HOLY TRINITY SUNDAY Holy Trinity Sunday.  What I think of as “Holy Heresy Sunday.” Beause can’t talk about the Holy Trinity without committing heresy. We just aren’t built to think of something that is two things at one. And yes, I have heard the Wrigley Corp’s promise about their Doublemint Gum.  “Two mints,…

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Choosing through the choices…

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EASTER 7 Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.” (Romans 12:16) “What’s the best way to get to the Flower Wagon again?”, I asked. May is the month we plant flowers. Kris has certain likes and desire for…

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What Goes Up, Must Come Down

What goes up, must come down.  The NASA booster rocket that lifts a satellite into space then returns to earth … the pop fly a baseball player lofts into the sky which lands back in a player’s mitt … the daredevil high diver at a traveling circus who climbs that tall thin ladder only to then…

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God Has Faith in You

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EASTER 6 What is faith?  I knew faith when I was very little.  Faith was what my mother felt toward me.  I knew her faith in me, I lived in the joy of her faith.  My faith was a response to hers; it was not separate from that of my mother.  Father carried…

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Where Does Your Faith Grow?

The Rite of Confirmation has been around a long time.  Over the years it has been characterized by white and red robes … the examination of confirmands in front of the congregation … lofty talk about becoming “members” of the congregation (even though we have always become members of the church through baptism) … gifts…

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Ashes to Ashes ….

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EASTER 5 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. The Lord bless him and keep him. The Lord makes his face shine on her and be gracious to her. The Lord look upon him with favor and give her peace.  (LBW Burial of the Dead liturgy) I read these words three times this…

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Our Surprising God of Abundance

EMAIL DEVOTIONAL EASTER 4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. (John 10:4) Sometimes God surprises you in life.  It happened to me today in my morning sermon at New Day worship.  We were “listening” for the voice of…