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Learn about what’s happening at St. Peter’s in our Weekly Herald Newsletter.

Right Before My Eyes

For I know that my Redeemer lives, and that at the last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then in my flesh I shall see God. Job 19:25-26 I’m making a communion visit yesterday with one of our church members under hospice care.  She has led a…

October 2020 Herald

This month’s Herald is available for download Inside this issue: Congregational Meeting – 1,2Worship Schedule – 4Adult Christian Ed. – 5Committees – 6Groups & Events – 9Pastoral Letters – 10From Director of Music – 12Worship & Music – 12Youth Ministries – 13St. Peter’s Kids – 14St. Peter’s Preschool – 14From the Volunteer Steward – 15Mission/Vision…

Faithful Tardigrades

For in hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? ~~ Romans 8:24, NRSV Are you a Cosmos fan?  Will you watch the new “Possible Worlds” premier (Season 3 of the Cosmos franchise) on Fox tonight?  (Maybe you already caught it on the Nat. Geo. Channel where it has aired…

Devotions @ Home

Here is the next edition of Devotions@Home a daily selection of readings for personal study which respond to the previous Sunday and lead us to the coming Sunday. Set within a short prayer service, this may be a new way to cultivate a habit of reading the Bible for a few minutes each day. Feel…

Different But the Same

Our thanks go out to Adam Lefever Hughes for offering this weeks’ devotion. Justin the Martyr, a 2nd-century convert to Christianity wrote some of the earliest accounts we have of how early Christians conducted their worship. He writes: “And on the day called Sunday, all who live in cities or in the country gather together…

Labor

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 We find ourselves less than a week away from Labor Day, the federal holiday that is just over 135 years old … created to celebrate…

September 2020 Herald

This month’s Herald is available for download Inside This Issue . . . Worship Schedule – 2 Adult Christian Ed. – 3 Worship & Music – 4 Committees – 4 Groups & Events – 7 Pastoral Letters – 9 St. Peter’s Kids – 11 Youth Ministries – 11 St. Peter’s Preschool – 12 From the…

Hope in the Face of Death

I know we often lose, and that the death or destruction of another is infinitely more real and unbearable than one’s own.  I think I know how many times one has to start again, and how often one feels that one cannot start again.  And yet, on pain of death, one can never remain where…

Seed Sowing

Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop—a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown. ~~Matthew 13:8 One of the blessings of being a pastor in a healthy and vibrant church community, is that I occasionally get the chance to “overhear” stories about people doing modest things that have a…

Sticking to the Edges …

We extend our thanks to Brendan Armitage for providing this week’s email devotion. He saved us—not by works of righteousness that we had done, but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.  Titus 3:5.   “Smash the cucumber a few times with the back of your knife…