WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Music Director Sunday, July 3, 2022 Fourth Sunday after Pentecost GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 ENTRANCE HYMN God of Our Fathers #567 1 God of our fathers, whose...
What can be said about this passage? Well for starters, it reinforces a few things present in our weekly liturgy. Whatever is offered: grace, peace, communion or forgiveness comes by way of God. It is by God’s authority that even Jesus heals and foils Satan....
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Music Director Sunday, June 26, 2022 Third Sunday after Pentecost GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 ENTRANCE HYMN You Servants of God #252 1 You servants of God, your master proclaim, and publish abroad...
You’ve heard the expression, “Timing is everything.” Let’s see how timing plays a part in today’s scripture texts. In the first reading, Elijah was given a list of people to enlist, so to speak, into God’s service: two kings and a prophet. I guess the...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Music Director Sunday, June 19, 2022 Second Sunday after Pentecost Happy Father’s Day GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 ENTRANCE HYMN O Zion, Haste #397 1 O Zion, haste, your mission high fulfilling, to tell...
At first I thought, no way am I going to preach about this guy on Father’s Day. He represents a man who is ultimately tortured and has no dignity. For a long time he has lived naked among the dead without so much as one...
The Holy Spirit of wisdom and truth is no afterthought. She was there before earth began, crying to all that live. Beside God, like a master worker, she was God’s daily delight. She herself rejoices before God always, rejoices in the world we inhabit and...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Music Director Sunday, June12, 2022 First Sunday after Pentecost GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMETS PRELUDE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 ENTRANCE HYMN Holy, Holy, Holy #165 1 Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning...
What does it take to be amazed and astonished? How about a moon turning to blood? Would that do it? Whenever I pursue a thing or experience advertised as amazing/astonishing, I’m rarely impressed. I often feel misled and conclude that the name given tried to...
WELCOME to MESSIAH & ST. PETER LUTHERAN CHURCHES The Reverend Nancy Brody, Pastor Greta Wright, Music Director Sunday, June 5, 2022 Day of Pentecost GREETING AND ANNOUNCEMENTS PRELUDE CONFESSION AND FORGIVENESS Page 56 ENTRANCE HYMN Come, Thou Almighty King #522 1 Come, thou almighty King, help us thy name to...