St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Category: Sermons

  • Things Are Not Always What They Appear

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    Avery Carr
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    Traditional Sermon, Pentecost 23 So things are not always what they appear.  Sometimes due to our own preconceptions and prejudices we can completely misread the world around us. For example, at one point in history, because of humanities narrow perspective from our limited knowledge, we believed that the world was flat and that if you traveled…

  • What’s In a Name?

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    Pentecost 22 Traditional Sermon Her name is Terri Roberts.  So … what’s in a name like Teri Roberts?  Well, not very much, I suppose … unless you are the Teri Roberts who is the mother of Charles Carl Roberts IV … the person who shot ten Amish girls at Nickel Mines ten years ago, killing…

  • Giving Thanks

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    Pentecost 21 Traditional Sermon St. Peter’s is raising money for world hunger. As a part of the campaign your leaders hold a 40 pound jug of water through the announcements. It’s a visual sign of the water that a woman or child has to carry each day to get clean water and walk it back…

  • Are you holey, holy or wholly?

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    Avery Carr
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    Pentecost 21 New Day Sermon

  • Keep On Keeping On

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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 20 What is faith? Is it trust or a journey? Can we be faithful and have doubt? We have faith in God, but have you ever considered how God has faith in us? What is faith? It’s keep on keeping on till God’s kingdom come. Check out how the family of…

  • The Journey of Faith

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    Pentecost 20 Traditional Sermon So, how would you answer the question, “What is Faith?” <CONGREGATIONAL ANSWERS — Believing in something you can’t see … faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen … doing the right thing … rooting for the New York Mets … reading the Bible ……

  • Who is the Real You?

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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 19 We all have our stories and the truth of our lives lie more in what cannot be seen than what can.  The important part of our stories are not the troubled relationships but rather the reconciliation, the forgiveness, or the lack thereof…

  • Who Is the Real You?

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    Pentecost 19 Traditional Sermon William Willimon, professor at Duke Divinity School, writes this in his book, Remember Who You Are. Back in high school, every Friday and Saturday night, as I was leaving home to go on a date, I remember my mother bidding me farewell at the front door with these weighty words, ‘Don’t…

  • Are You A Shrewd Operator?

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    Rev. Craig Ross
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    New Day Sermon Pentecost 18 Do you like being called “shrewd?”  Jesus quite possibly suggests that we should actually strive to be shrewd in this challenging parable.

  • Are you a shrewd operator?

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    Church office
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    Pentecost 18 Traditional Sermon ? Go on take the money and run..oooh oooh…Go on take the money and run! It may be the devil, it might be the Lord, but You gotta serve somebody…If I had a million dollars, I’d be rich ? Just a few songs about about money that I thought I would serenade you with.…