Sermons on Advent (Page 3)
Sunday December 3rd, 2023 Worship
Forgive me if I’ve already told this story, although if I have, welcome to Sara’s version of storytelling where I forget which stories I’ve told, and people have to hear the same ones over and over again! At this point though, they at least aren’t numbered, like one of my professor’s spouses did for all of his stories because the same 40 were told with varying…
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 December 4th, 2022 Worship
As I was reading the lessons for today, I was brought back to my Hebrew class from my last year of Seminary. It may not surprise many of you that I took Hebrew every year of Seminary, even though it wasn’t required, just for the fun of it. And, because it wasn’t required, it meant our class size hovered between 3 and 6 people each semester. One benefit of the class size…