Explore past sermons from Peace Lutheran Church. Read a summary, find the scripture references, and download the original sermon manuscript.
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A God for All Seasons
Some of us live our lives oriented toward the past. We consider that the most important elements of our biography come from that direction, and, for various reasons, it’s there that our gazed remains fixed. Some of us live our lives oriented toward the present. When we awake each day our goal is to do…
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Tattooed on the Father’s Heart
There are many entry points for us when it comes to the parable of the prodigal son/lost son/waiting father. But the pulsing heart at the story’s center is the Father’s unrelenting love. And it’s there that I invite us to focus today. And I want to do so by talking about another Father; a Roman…
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Welcome Home
After 18 days of travel, 2 countries, 8 cities, 5 hotels, 37 restaurants…nothing sounded better then getting home to our own bed! After a couple of crises nearly postponed our homecoming, we finally made it, and found that friends and family had left messages and gestures of welcome that touched us. If heaven is like…
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Can a Tree Repent?
Can a tree repent? Can it turn from being fruitless and fallow to become fecund and full of fruit? Can it turn from stingy, unyielding ways and do the very thing it was designed by nature—by God—to do? If the tree is a mango, the answer is an unequivocal YES! And what about you? Is…
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One Straight Line
God’s story of promise: it never unfolds in a straight line. There are twists and turns, reversals, cul-de-sacs. There are points when God’s purposes and path seem perfectly clear and other points when God is silent, and points when God’s intentions seem shrouded in an impenetrable mystery. There are times when, like Abram and Sarai,…
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From Heart to Mouth to World
Beginning with the story of Kellen Roberts and Conner Rabinowitz, and how one heart brought healing to two lives, the sermon addresses how the gospel message moves from heart to mouth to world.
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NOW
TODAY…NOW. Different words, but the same point. Both call us to focus on what God is up to, how God is present, where God is showing up not yesterday, not tomorrow, but right now…today. As we cross the threshold into Lent, we are invited to view tonight’s liturgy and this 40 day pilgrimage we’re beginning,…
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Many Members, One Body
It fell to me, this past week, to take my five year old to her doctor for her well child visit. She was measured and weighed, her eyes were checked, her heart and lungs listened to; her blood pressure taken. Everything’s working just as it should in my girl, the individual parts of her body…
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Inescapable Mutuality
Beginning with a crucial scene from the film LINCOLN, the sermon moves from 1865 to the Civil Rights movement which began in earnest when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a while man and move to the back of the bus. In his letter to Birmingham clergy written from jail, Martin Luther…
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Wading in the Water
Something strange caught my eye as I approached the water?s edge at Lincoln Park a few days ago. One hundred yards down the shore I saw what looked like a man walking parallel to the beach in chest deep water. But was it a man? And was he in distress? Was he coming to the…