Sermons by Steve Olson
Sunday December 11th, 2022 Worship
It’s Good to be Home. I bring you greetings from St Peters Lutheran Church in Clinton While only a few weeks have passed liturgically between Jesus’ baptism and today’s Gospel, in Matthew’s narrative several events have happened in Jesus’ ministry between then and today. For one thing, John is now languishing in prison, and he asks his disciples to go ask if Jesus is the…
Sunday October 9th, 2022 Worship
Since 1996 Per CDC estimates more than a million Americans have died from drug overdose. In the past two decades overdose deaths have quintupled. During the pandemic, the rate of death went up as folks struggled with the increasing isolation that resulted from necessary quarantines. For those on the margins it was life threatening, and I am not engaging in hyperbole here.…
Sunday August 14th, 2022 Worship
Recently a United States Congresswoman declared that if Jesus and his followers had AR-15’s Good Friday would have ended differently. A Baptist Pastor in Fort Worth Texas advocates for executing gay people as a matter of civic policy, and another congresswoman declares her pride in being a Christian Nationalist and looks forward to the day when we are all Christian…