St. Peter’s Weekly Messages splweeklymessages

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Trinity Sunday  | May 26, 2024 | Pastor Tim Carter | The church’s message is clear, God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. Everything we do, and everything we live for as the church and disciples of Jesus, ought to be founded upon this reality.  As we are sent, and empowered to testify, the message remains the same, Christ died for you, believe and trust in Him and receive eternal life.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Pentecost | May 19, 2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez | The church is empowered on its mission by the Holy Spirit who comes to guide the church in all truth, and to testify to the truth.  Filled with the Holy Spirit, the disciples, and the church today testifies to the work of Christ Jesus.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Ascension | May 12, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey | The church is sent into the world.  Not to be of it, but to be in it.  At the Ascension of Christ, the church receives its mission and begins to move into the world filled with the full measure of joy in Christ Jesus. 

St. Peter’s Lutheran | What About This? | May 5, 2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez | “Do not judge, or you too will be judged.”  We’ve all heard it - we all think we know what it means, and most of us have likely misapplied. One of the most quoted sayings of Jesus has led many Christians and non-Christians alike down a path of confusion and contradiction regarding judging.  Today, we work to make sense of this particular teaching of Jesus and see how it applies to those within the church

St. Peter’s Lutheran | What About This? | April 28, 2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez | We find ourselves in yet another election cycle. In 6 short months you will find yourself asking the question: who should I vote for? While the church will never tell you who to vote for, the church will stand up and point up times where faith and life intersect. And this is painstakingly true in an election cycle. As followers of Jesus we are not called to fuel the fire of hate and anxiety that has become the norm of elections. Rather, we are called to inject peace and stability into the conversations. How do we do that? Because we know how the story is going to end. 

St. Peter’s Lutheran | What About This? | April 21, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey | For many followers of Jesus, the idea of struggles, grief, pain, mourning, and mental health are experiences that often seem separated or even divorced from the Christian life. There is a belief (though not Scriptural) that the Christian should only and always experience joy, after all, we are new creations in Christ. As illogical as this sounds, unfortunately, many have erroneously embraced a “joy only” life and have forgotten that God makes room for mourning, sorrows, struggles, and pain. If we expect the gospel to bring peace to us now, we also must make room for this pain. We must learn to embrace God’s mercy found in lamenting.