2011 Trinity Milwaukee

2011 Trinity Milwaukee, Flickr, a set on Flickr. This is one of the congregations we toured on our most recent “steeplechase”. Historic Trinity Lutheran Church in Milwaukee is one of the most beautiful Lutheran Churches I’ve seen in this country.

Enough or Jesus (Laetare 2010)

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, […]

Solitude

As I’m starting to prepare for Laetare Sunday, I ran across the following quotation from John Chrysostom on John 6:3: He went up onto the mountain because of the miracle he was going to do. The disciples alone ascended with him which implies that the people who stayed behind were at fault for not following. […]

Kept in Christ (Funeral Sermon for Hilma I. Maddern)

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 […]

Resisting Temptation (Lent 1, 2011)

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin Invocabit Sunday (Lent 1) Genesis 3:1-21, 2 Corinthians 6:1-10, St. Matthew 4:1-11 2011lent1 TITLE: “Jesus’ Temptation in the Wilderness”[1] Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord, Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for this morning is the Gospel just read from St. […]