WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Eric Anderson, Supply Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, August 4, 2024 Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty...
What a powerful testimony of God being faithful to people who trust God’s word. A man brought food from the first fruits to [Elisha,] the man of God consisting of twenty loaves of barley and fresh ears of grain. This man and the community he...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, July 28, 2024 Tenth Sunday After Pentecost ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God,...
What can we learn from today’s gospel lesson? For starters, that apostles stick together. That they choose to share each other’s company and in doing so, when they find themselves weary, worn out from doing, they collectively search for Jesus and approach him. They gather...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, July 21, 2024 Ninth Sunday After Pentecost ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God,...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, July 14, 2024 Eighth Sunday After Pentecost ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE BRIEF ORDER OF CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Almighty God,...
Herod was a most suspicious and paranoid tetrarch. The seventh son of Herod the Great and a Roman administrator to Galilee and Perea, he lost his position of authority around 39 AD after hoping to rise to the true level of monarch, and not merely...
People sometimes refuse to see you for who you have become. They can’t get over how you’re different from how they remember you, how you may have changed for the better, that you are now more than they estimated you could ever be. Remember, I’m from...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Organist Sunday, July 7, 2024 Seventh Sunday After Pentecost ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CONFESSION and FORGIVENESS Page 56 Blessed be the holy Trinity, [☩] One God, the God of manna, miracles and mercy. Amen. Drawn to Christ and seeking God’s abundance,...
I love when characters in the Bible mimic my own tendencies or the behavior of people throughout all of history. For instance, how many of us can identify with Jairus, one of the leaders of the synagogue? How many of us, like him, have tried...