Spring 2024 St. Paul writes, “Christ has indeed been raised from the dead” (1 Corinthians 15:20). Big word: Indeed! Paul is stressing that we must not think of Jesus’ resurrection like a happy ending to another epic fable. The resurrection is not legend. It really happened. Easter is not just a holiday. Easter is history.
Lent 2024 Everyone has assumptions about God. Likewise, everyone has assumptions about religion. Increasingly, those assumptions are negative. Americans are walking away from Christianity in breathtaking numbers. It raises the question: How do those people know if their assumptions about religion are correct? Do they really understand Christianity at all? Do we? Do we truly
Lent 2024 “One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, ‘Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples’” (Luke 11:1). Jesus responded by teaching his disciples the most famous prayer of all time, the prayer we know as the Lord’s Prayer.
Winter 2024 Would you like to get to know Jesus? During the season of Epiphany, we are going to join Jesus and follow him through the Gospel of Mark. We’ll see Jesus calling people like us to join him, ordinary people, working class individuals, even skeptics. Joining Jesus draws us into discipleship. Watch as Jesus
Christmas 2023 We all get plenty of bad news. How about some good news for a change? At Christmas God gives us: Good News of Great Joy. Celebrate Christmas with us! And hear some good news! December 24 (morning) December 24 (evening) December 31 January 7 Pastor Mark Kaesmeyer of West Lutheran High School guest
Advent 2023 In these weeks before Christmas, we are in the season called Advent, which means “coming.” We remind ourselves that Christ, the King, shall come. He will come as a baby on Christmas, but he also continues to come to us in Word and Sacrament, and he will come again on the Last Day.
Fall 2023 Some things just come in pairs, and that’s true of many things that we learn about in the Bible. We are closing out our church year by looking at some of these important Biblical Pairs. Sundays at 9am. October 22: Church and State October 29: Law and Gospel November 5: Humiliation and Exaltation
Fall 2023 Did you know that a third of Jesus’ quotes in the Bible are stories that he told? The stories, known as “parables,” are often short and simple, and yet they contain profound truths about life and eternity. In this series we look at some of these stories from Jesus. September 17: A Story
Fall 2023 Whether you’ve been here recently, not for a while, or never at all—you are welcome here, because you need Jesus and you are loved by Jesus. Today, on Welcome Sunday, we remember a truth so basic and yet so important that we made it our slogan at St. Peter’s: The Key to Life
Summer 2023 Jesus established his church almost two thousand years ago and that church is still around today. Despite every attempt that’s been made to bring the church down—both by those inside the church and those outside the church—Jesus has seen to it that the church still stands. In this series we look at the