Sermons on Advent (Page 4)
Sunday December 10th, 2023 Worship
I don’t know about you, but in my English classes growing up, we were reminded constantly that our stories had to begin with a good “hook” to really grab readers attention. I remember one of my high school teachers telling us that if we didn’t have a good start to our paper they would stop reading and we would only be graded on how much was read. Even as a reader, I will…
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…