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St. Peter’s presents a Hymn Festival entitled “No Darkness at All” Saturday, February 22nd at 7pm. The evening will be a celebration of hymnody and theologically-centered readings from the Bible and other sources centered around the theme of God’s light shared with God’s people and the whole world. Hymn festivals are a development from the…
Who are those people up front singing, playing instruments, and ringing? Why are they doing that? At St. Peter’s we’re lucky to have no fewer than 6 choirs who meet regularly. Those groups, coupled with the New Day band, provide a lot of opportunities for there to be people up front making music during worship.…
For those who were unable to be in their churches for whatever reason, including military service, radio could fill the spiritual vacuum. Via the medium of radio, people could join in worship both on Sundays and during the week. (James) Welch hoped that these programmes (sic) would be attractive to those – to use his…
As the Director of Music at St. Peter’s, I feel called to help foster congregational singing and music-making to help people pray, praise, and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. So, I’m always interested in helping people see the depths of worship and how it connects to many aspects of our lives as Christians. First,…
Traditional Sermon Pentecost 11 I’m not much for preaching on the Old Testament lessons that we read each week in church. If you pay any attention to my sermons, you know that already. I’ve always been most interested in talking about Jesus, from the pulpit. But when I started my sermon prep last week, and…
I just returned from a week of rest and renewal at the conference of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians held this year in Portland, OR. These conferences are always a wonderful time of fellowship, worship, and learning for me and this year was no different. Worship services are structured in much the same ways…
Over the season of Easter, St. Peter’s experimented with having communion during all Sunday morning services. The staff, with the hopes of talking about the many ways that communion can touch our lives, put together thoughts about the sacrament for the bulletin each Sunday. Here they are in their entirety. Pastor Geib In the well-known…
Church and IKEA. At first glance, you might think that these two entities are completely unrelated with absolutely no overlap. Church is certainly not about purchasing pieces of furniture of varying quality. Furthermore IKEA, meatballs aside, certainly doesn’t market itself as a religious experience. One phrase does unite these two polar opposites: some assembly required.…
