St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Category: Sermons

  • Ashes

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    Vicar Nancy Brody
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    God is great at teaching through paradoxes, things that at first, seem totally absurd. Jesus does his best to explain how they are true. The contradictory proposition of Ash Wednesday is how ashes not only cleanse, but prepare space to light a new fire.

  • Brilliant Peaks and Foggy Bottoms

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    Traditional Sermon Transfiguration Sunday Today we get to hear about mountain top moments. Those mountain top moments where all seems right. God’s presence is right before you. It all fits. There’s no doubt that you’re meant to be there. We read about a mountain top moment from the first reading (Exodus 34:29-35) where Moses encounters…

  • On the Mountaintop

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    New Day Sermon Transfiguration Sunday Mountaintops are magnificent places to be … just ask Peter, James and John, who were present at Jesus’ transfiguration. But eventually we have to come down from the mountaintop and serve as God’s people where they are. It is where God needs us … and where we need to be…

  • Loser

    Loser

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    New Day Sermon Epiphany Seven Loser. It’s one of the words we want to avoid at all costs. Yet what if following Jesus and living in the kingdom of God means becoming a holy loser?

  • Receiving Mercy

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    OK, so who remembers hearing this phrase (or some form of it) … when you were a kid growing up as a kid.  “Treat others the way you want them to treat you.”  Go ahead, raise your hands … if you have heard this phrase or some variant of it growing up.  Yuppers.  Me, too. …

  • Level Places

    Level Places

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    “Jesus came down with the twelve and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people.” So begins the Gospel reading from Luke that we hear today. When you open your Bible to this section in Luke chapter 6, the section usually has a title called…

  • “Thy Kingdom Come”

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    Vicar Nancy Brody
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    We pray The Lord’s Prayer encouraging God to “bring on” the kingdom with a nudging invitation. What if God’s Kingdom is already among us? Perhaps in trying to create our own version of heaven on earth, we miss what God has planned .

  • Healing as Transformation

    Healing as Transformation

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    Vicar Nancy Brody
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    Today’s sermon is not so much focused on the gospel text as the way that God approaches people where they are and enables them to contrast who they are and what they do with who God is and what God’s intentions are for each.

  • Deep Waters

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    New Day Sermon Epiphany 5 Do you get busy working, or do you sit down and listen? Jesus wants you to do both, in this lesson about fishing and discipleship, before our favorite fishermen had been called as disciples.

  • Truth or Dare or Doodle

    Truth or Dare or Doodle

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    New Day Sermon Epiphany 4 Ever played truth or dare? What’s your strategy when you play? In today’s Gospel reading from Luke 4 Jesus plays a form of truth or dare…or daring to tell the truth.