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Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Holy Cross Lutheran Church Christmas Day 2011 (rev. from 2008) John 1:1-14 TITLE: “Knowing the Mind of God” In the name of the Father and of the + Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Our text for today is the Gospel lesson from St. John chapter one, particularly verse fourteen: [...]

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Our text for this morning is the Gospel just read from St. Matthew chapter 25. Today we are going to talk about a great word that you don’t hear very much. The word is vindication. Vindication means that you have been [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Holy Cross Lutheran Church Rocklin, California Pentecost 19, October 23, 2011 (revised) Matthew 22:34-46 TITLE: “The Law and the Prophets in Me” Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for today is from the Gospel lesson, particularly these words, You [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Holy Cross Lutheran Church Rocklin, California Pentecost 18, Proper 23A (October 16, 2011) Matthew 22:15–21 TITLE: “Heavenly Citizenship” Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for today is the Gospel lesson just read from Matthew 22, with focus on the words, [...]

Rev. Todd A. Peperkorn Holy Cross Lutheran Church Rocklin, California Proper 17A Matthew 16:21-28 August 28, 2011 For an audio of this sermon, LS110047a Title: “Saving and Losing” Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Our text for this morning is taken from St. Matthew, chapter sixteen. We [...]

2011Laetare_01 Meat pots. I’ve always liked that term from our Old Testament reading this morning. It’s even better in the King James: Fleshpots. The children of Israel longed for the fleshpots of Egypt. You get this picture that in Egypt, the children of Israel sort of lounged around, had food and drink served to them, [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin Funeral Service for Hilma I. Maddern Psalm 121:8 March 21, 2011 HilmaMaddernSermon_01 TITLE: “Kept in Christ” Family and friends of Hilma, both those who are here and those who are unable to be here, grace to you and peace form God our Father and from the [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin October 13, 2010 Funeral Homily for Sandra Russo Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 Funeral sermon for Sandra Russo TITLE: “A time for Life” Family and friends of Sandra, especially, Caroline and Cara, Carolyn, Bette, friends and other family: grace to you and peace from God our Father and from [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin Palm Sunday (March 28, 2010) TITLE: “Hosanna!” Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text is the Gospel lesson for Palm Sunday from St. Matthew chapter twenty one as follows: “Hosanna to the Son of David! ‘Blessed [...]

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin Lent 2 – Reminiscere (February 28, 2010) Matthew 15:21-28 Lent02- Reminiscere audio of sermon – 2010 TITLE: “Prayer Answered” This year is a year of prayer for Messiah. We have a lot of things to pray about here. We pray for the needs of our congregation [...]