Category: Sermons

SERMON – June 28, 2015 Exodus 19:3-7; 20:1-17 (PLEASE NOTE that the following sermon was a one-person monologue, so the text here is an approximation of the spoken sermon content.) So … you met me last week I hear. Talked about the Exodus story. Escape from Egypt. Great moment – God & people … me…

    Pentecost Sunday — New Day Sermon May 24, 2015 John 15.26-27; 16.4b-15 • Another festival w/ murky history • We struggle to understand Roots in Jewish history – often the case • Celebrates gift of Law — Mt. Sinai • 50 days after Passover • Pente – kostas – literally 50 days •…

EASTER 3                                        1 John 3:1–7 APRIL 19, 2015-NEW DAY        Luke 24:36b–48 Do you have a Winter Spirituality or a Summer Spirituality, I wonder? I have asked myself the same question many times. Martin…

THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER       Acts 4:32–35 ST. PETER’S – NEFFSVILLE                      1 John 1:1—2:2 12 APRIL 2015                                                 John…

EASTER SUNDAY Acts 10:34–43 ST. PETER’S — NEFFSVILLE 1 Corinthians 15:1–11 5 APRIL 2015 Mark 16:1–8 Text — When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him. 2And very early on the first day of the week, when the…

What a way to end a story! Did you catch how the Gospel writer Mark ends his “good news?”  Talk about cliff-hanger! Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Solome–the women who saw the horrendous act of Jesus being executed by the state were the ones to gather spices to anoint him. It was…

I have to make a confession to you all. I don’t think I’ve ever really understood Palm Sunday. Now don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy Palm Sunday. Ever since my youth, it was one of the Sundays I really looked forward to. As here at St. Peter’s it was a Sunday of celebration. We…

Today’s sermon is based on Numbers 21:4-9. You can read it below with pictures or listen to it here. Thanks!   In the words of Indiana Jones, “Snakes! Why did it have to be snakes?”   What an odd Old Testament lesson that we have for this coming Sunday, right? I sometimes cringe when this…

The other day Pastor Craig and I were talking about the Bible readings that we would be hearing this morning and I joked that God has a really good sense of humor. This morning we heard the words of the Gospel of John chapter 2 where Jesus enters into the great temple of Jerusalem, the…