St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Category: Devotions

  • Godly Light of All Kinds

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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL week of Epiphany 1 A small shaft of light reflecting off a small mirror … a candle offering dim light in the corner of a dark room … the sun’s rays beating down on your back as you work in your yard … a headlight shining into your car as you drive on…

  • A Faith Reminder from Christmas

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL – week of Christmas 1 She is on her last legs, I grudgingly admit.  Still drinking a bit of water, but not nearly as much as the day about a month ago when she started hospice care.  We have treated her lovingly, but she is showing some wear and tear.  There are places…

  • Christmas

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL CHRISTMAS DAY Please enjoy this reflection by Frederick Buechner from his book, Whistling in the Dark. The lovely old carols played and replayed till their effect is like a dentist’s drill or jack hammer, the bathetic banalities of the pulpit and the chilling commercialism of almost evertything else, people spending money they can’t afford…

  • Dark Nights in a Season of Light

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL week of AdVENT 2 Most of us try to avoid death at every turn.  We don’t talk about it … when we are in the presence of the dead we often keep our distance … at times we even act as if we will never die, even though we know better.  During the…

  • Saints that are Human

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         EMAIL DEVOTIONAL      week of Pentecost 24 I spent an hour and a half today with ten church members gathered for a Book Club discussion of the book Martin Luther, written by our American Lutheran historian Martin Marty.  It was a fascinating discussion as we marveled at the courage of a simple monk…

  • Standing on Other’s Shoulders

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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          EMAIL DEVOTIONAL      week of Pentecost 23 Roll call — Remember.  You may have a busy day. Me too. But today, if you look, you’ll see flags flying at half staff wherever you live and when you do…remember.  Today is Veteran’s Day. Remember. And if you can, say thank you. We’re all here…

  • We Are the Stuff of Stars

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL – WEEK of all Saints Sunday The iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones and the oxygen we breathe are the physical remains – ashes, if you will – of stars that lived and died long ago.                        ~~Ray Jayawardhama Or…

  • A Time to Keep Silence and a Time to Speak

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL WEEK OF Pentecost 20 For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven … a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.  (Ecclesiastes 3:1,8) It was an odd day. I got to the office with great plans of cranking out some emails, crafting a couple of…

  • By Water and the Word

    By Water and the Word

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    EMAIL DEVOTIONAL WEEK OF Pentecost 19 What does such baptizing with water signify?  It signifies that the old Adam in us should, by daily contrition and repentance, be drowned and die with all sins and evil lusts, and, again, a new man daily come forth and arise; who shall live before God in righteousness and…

  • Out of the Depths

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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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…