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St Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church
Mission: Go Take A Hike!

Traditional Sermon Easter 4 Today is Good Shepherd Sunday where we read scripture that point to God’s shepherding nature in our world. We especially raise the goodness of the ultimate Shepherd, Jesus. The idea of Jesus as the good shepherd is one of the earliest depictions of the Christ in our Christian art and architecture.…

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Who do you follow?

New Day Sermon Easter 4 We follow our Good Shepherd like sheep.  But our flock always brings with it a wider array of gifts and callings than are typically associated with sheep.  Our worshippers brought that message to life today.

April 30, 2017 Traditional Sermon

The Gospel Lesson is Luke 24: 13-35 about the Journey to Emmaus.   The sermon for this week centers around faith journeys as well as the journeys of our soon to be graduating High School Seniors and their Families. When I decided to go to seminary and become a deaconess, I had to write an essay…

St Peters Evangelical Lutheran Church
Sight Unseen

When Erik and I were planning to move out to Ohio some years ago we found it a bit difficult to find a place to live. We’ve moved multiple times before then, but this move was an extra level of complexity…and an all around pain in the neck. Now at the time the majority of…

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This Empty Tomb

TRADITIONAL SERMON Easter SUNDAY – 10:45 AM But the angel said to the women, ‘Do not be afraid; I know that you are looking for Jesus who was crucified. (Matthew 28:5) So what are you looking for? … Why are you here today?  You’re not here for these marshmallow Peeps.  Obviously, as you can get them…

Good Friday

Traditional Sermon We don’t want to be here. We avoid death. We’re alive. And as living beings we avoid everything about death. Our eyes shift toward tragedy until we encounter the source of death and quickly our eyes turn away to things of life. Our noses find the smell of decay and long for clean,…