Explore past sermons from Peace Lutheran Church. Read a summary, find the scripture references, and download the original sermon manuscript.
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Living Saints
All Saints Sunday is all about LEGACY. We celebrate the faithful witness of all those people throughout the history of the church, who have given themselves to living out the Gospel in their specific times and places. This includes the names of ordinary folk who were captured by grace and caught up in God’s unfolding…
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Salvation – Not for Sale
This final sermon in a four part series based on themes from the Lutheran World Federation Global Assembly 2017 affirms that as followers of Christ, our calling is not to promote an understanding of salvation that narrows the definition to purely spiritual concerns, but rather to lift up all the ways in which salvation as…
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Creation – Not For Sale
We’re marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation movement this month with worship services built around themes from the Lutheran World Federation Global Assembly last May. The overarching theme of this series is LIBERATED BY GOD’S GRACE. Last week we began exploring the implications of that claim refracted through our first sub-theme: Human beings-not for…
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Human Beings – Not For Sale
We’re marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation movement with four worship services built around themes from the Lutheran World Federation Global Assembly last May. The central theme, and our focus last week, is: LIBERATED BY GOD’S GRACE. In the three weeks that remain, we’re exploring the implications of this claim refracted through three sub-themes:…
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Liberated by God’s Grace
We’re marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation movement over the next four Sundays by building worship around themes and texts and music from the Lutheran World Federation Global Assembly in Windhoek, Namibia, last May. The central theme of that gathering, and this series, is: LIBERATED BY GOD’S GRACE. The three sub-themes are: humans are…
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Learning from Vulnerability
Who wants to be humbled in public? Yet, such an experience of vulnerability can open the door to learning. Instead of running from vulnerability, St. Francis made it his home and accepted it as a teacher. St. Paul’s grasp of the gospel and Christ’s self-emptying gift were deeply shaped by his experiences of imprisonment. The…
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Exchanging Revenge for Forgiveness
Some of Jesus’ parables teach us the way we’re supposed to act, the way we’re called to act as citizens of the Kingdom of God. Other parables, like this one, serve as a warning. Unforgiveness imprisons both the offender and the offended, the sinner and the one sinned against, and at its worst leads to…
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The Liberating Path
This sermon uses the image of walking a tightrope to identify the dangers inherent in interpreting this particular text, which tells the story of the first Passover. It asks, what are the dangers as we try to cross this particular tightrope from ancient text to contemporary world–and what must we do to keep our balance?…
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Suffering With
When we met Moses last week, he was a baby floating among the reeds of the Nile. God had a plan for him, and ironically, that plan included being raised within the very household of the Pharaoh who sought his extinction. In the next story Exodus records, Moses has grown up. While he’s out one…
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The Way Forward
As far as Sunday school stories go, it’s a favorite. Who can resist the tale of baby Moses who, at the tender age of 3 months, is swaddled and packed into a waterproof basket by his mother, and set afloat in the Nile? Chances are, if you only know a handful of stories from the…