Stewardship Archives - St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Hope in the Face of Cockroaches

Can anyone see what this is? Right! It’s a cockroach … (toss it to a parishioner) … not a real one, of course. In sharing it with you, I am letting you in on a secret ritual that your worship staff engages in each week. Yes, when your rostered leaders gather to start planning for…

A Meaning-Filled Life

Traditional Sermon Pentecost 8 The Teichmann’s are going on vacation soon! I’ve been counting the days. BUT…first we have to pack. Oh the packing. We started putting together a list of the stuff we’ll need. The list keeps on getting longer. At this rate, we’ll need to tow a U-haul trailer behind us for all…

Stewardship of Life

New Day Sermon Pentecost 25 A modest glitch in our recording software lost two minutes of the sermon introduction. The introduction simply set the table for why this pastor loves when the story of the Widow of Zarepheth shows up as one of the assigned lessons for a Sunday service in stewardship. The sermon picks…

Protected Gifts

New Day Sermon LENT 3 Sometimes we struggle with the legalism of rules. But in God’s world, they are often the ways we safeguard the greatest blessings in our lives.

Stewardship — Trust God & Don’t Be Afraid to Take Risks

TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 24 Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord, Jesus Christ (1 Colossians 1:3). Money, money, money—finances tend to be a concern for many of us, especially when things are not going…

Reformation was Luther’s Amen

New Day Sermon Reformation We remember Martin Luther today. He had a great way of taking a lot of theological ideas and putting them to song (sometimes grabbing a tune that was well known to the crowd). So how does one preach this Reformation Sunday? Maybe by taking a note from good ol’ Marty himself…

Who Is the Real You?

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 Ready?

TRADITIONAL SERMON PENTECOST 12 Friday morning’s paper led with this sentence under their front page story on the Olympic Games which opened on Friday night. “Even if only for two weeks, can “Faster-Higher-Stronger” overpower “deadlier, scarier and bloodier?” And as I read further, I knew I would be changing my opening to this morning’s sermon. …