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.
Pentecost 17 Traditional Sermon Do you know a lost cause? By that, I don’t mean remembering a team like the 1962 New York Mets, who lost 3 out of every 4 baseball games they played that season. I’m not talking about a consideration of General George Armstrong Custer’s chances of winning the Battle of Little…
Email Devotion Pentecost 16 Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) The breathing is so slow and slight that at times it in indiscernible. Effort is being exerted, but the tangible results of that effort and negligible. “Labored” breathing to be…
PENTECOST 15 TRADITIONAL SERMON One of the candidates on my summer book reading list was David Whyte’s his delightful little book, Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words. He offers short but insightful considerations of 52 different ordinary words … think of it as a word a week for a year. If…
EMAIL DEVOTION PENTECOST 14 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 1:3) Sometimes when I look at the world around me, all I seem to see is the posturing of politicians, the arrogance of athletes, the intolerance of church leaders, and the anger of people who…
Email Devotion Pentecost 13 No one who conceals transgressions will prosper, but one who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. –Proverbs 28:13 Sometimes even I am stunned by my own stupidity. One would think that I would be used to it by now … but evidently, not. For the past 6-7 years, I have…
New Day Sermon Pentecost 13 Difficult words from Jesus for a world in great difficulty. Is the fire of the Holy Spirit, only one that brings division? Or are there other realities?
EMAIL DEVOTION PENTECOST 12 Therefore do not pronounce judgement before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive commendation from God. –1 Corinthians 4:5 Yes … I am actually watching Olympic fencing. I…
TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 12 Friday morning’s paper led with this sentence under their front page story on the Olympic Games which opened on Friday night. “Even if only for two weeks, can “Faster-Higher-Stronger” overpower “deadlier, scarier and bloodier?” And as I read further, I knew I would be changing my opening to this morning’s sermon. …
Email Devotion Pentecost 10 He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,to the praise of his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:5-6) It was a joy and privilege to share worship with Pr. Robert Wegehoft at St.…
