Explore past sermons from Peace Lutheran Church. Read a summary, find the scripture references, and download the original sermon manuscript.
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God’s Habitat in Humanity
Recalling his participation in a Habitat for Humanity blitz-build, Pastor Kindem builds his sermon around a theme that connects the reading from Samuel with the reading from Luke, where Gabriel calls Mary to serve as habitat for God. The sermon asks whether there is a sense in which we, too, are being tapped to become…
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Who Are We?
what have we learned so far about who God is this Advent season? God, says Isaiah, is the One who brings comfort to his people… Who gathers into his arms like a shepherd gathers sheep… Who sends a Voice to prepare the way… Who comes into the wildernesses of our lives hurling promises as freely…
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Wading in the Water
On the occasion of an adult baptism, this sermon looks at the parable of the sheep and goats through the lens of baptismal vocation. When we stay close to these waters, when we wade in these waters, we discover our purpose in life, discover our passion, discover our vocation. And looking at vocation through the…
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Wading in the Water
A sermon on the occasion of an adult baptism. It all starts here, as we wade in these waters: Christ’s claiming of us, and our journey with him… Sing it with me… Wade in the water, wade in the water children, Wade in the water, God’s going to trouble the water. In baptism we discover…
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Children of Light
This season of waning light and growing darkness always feel like a descent to me. We each have our routines for staving off vulnerability and go on the hunt for places and people who offer us warmth and stave off the darkness. But our November texts don’t bring us much comfort! What is the power…
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Managing Our Oil
What does it mean for us to manage the oil in our lamps so that we don’t get burned out?
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A Journey Through Darkness to Light
How much of what we do, of how we live, of what we leave behind is our way of leaving that testimonial trail: I exits, I matter, I am alive! Jeffrey Gusky, who documented the forgotten rock quarries under the trenches of WW 1, which are full of art and artifacts left by soldiers from…
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And to God’s What is God’s
When adversaries try to trap Jesus with the tax question, his answer confounds them. What belongs to Caesar and what belongs to God? This question is about something much bigger than tax policy. During WW2, the people in and around Le Chambon sur Lignon, France, harbored Jewish people at risk of their own lives. Led…
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Where is Christ?
Some of the stories Jesus tells seem TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE—and we find ourselves astonished by the God of grace they reveal. A God whose steadfast love is so clearly FOR US, whose grace is so AMAZING, that it saves even a wretch like me. Other stories Jesus tells feel more than an AMBUSH….
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Francesco
The Francis we’ve come to know—the holy man who embraced poverty, exuded humility, tamed wolves and preached to birds—did not begin life that way. Like many of the well-to-do young men he ran with during his youth, he was more interested in partying than in applying himself to his father’s business. His transformation was a…