Mercy Archives - St. Peter's Lutheran Church

A Hike To Remember

Traditional Sermon Pentecost 5 Just then a lawyer stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? What do you read there?” He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all…

Go and do likewise

New Day Sermon Pentecost 5 Jesus ends the Parable of the Good Samaritan with the phrase, “Go and do likewise.” What does going and doing likewise look like?

Receiving Mercy

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. …

How Does God Love the World?

Traditional sermon lent 4 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Let’s go back in time to the mid-1970s. And, yes, I’m talking about a little over 40 years ago. I was in high school. Disco, very wide ties, platform shoes, tacky…

Are We Sometimes Like the Tenants in the Vineyard?

TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 18 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). The parable in our gospel reading Matthew today is also found in Mark and Luke. The parable is known either as the Parable of the Vineyard or the Parable…

How Forgiving Can We Be?

Traditional Sermon Pentecost 15 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Listen to this short three-sentence phrase: “I forgive you.” Although this simple phrase consists of three short words, it is nevertheless very powerful. Generally speaking, forgiving those who have wronged us can…

Things Are Not Always What They Appear

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…