Sermons | St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa

In this week’s Gospel lesson, Jesus offers apocalyptic predictions of disaster, but he also makes a promise: Apocalyptic disasters are penultimate, not final. Suffering and disaster are not the end. Something better is coming: God's kingdom. We are given the promise of new life, life with Jesus that begins now and continues for all eternity. And in the disasters and catastrophes and suffering of this world, Jesus is with us. This is a word of hope!

This weekend, we mark All Saints' Day, celebrating the promise that saints are made by God's grace, not by the good works we do or how much we give. 

It’s Confirmation Sunday here at St. Peter! In this Reformation Day sermon, Pastor Daniel Flucke looks at the theme of God’s love and grace in the verses selected by the eight ninth-grade students affirming their baptisms in worship today. 

In today’s sermon, we’re exploring the blind beggar Bartimaeus as an example of faith for us today. This is the sermon for St. Peter Lutheran Church in Greene, Iowa, for October 24, 2021.

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Today, we’re looking at a story of Jesus healing 10 lepers, but only one of them returning to give thanks. We too are invited to pause and notice what God is doing around us, because noticing leads to gratitude, which leads to faith and action.

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This week, we hear an uncomfortable story from Mark 10 where Jesus tells a rich man to sell all his possessions, give the money to the poor, and follow him. Shocked, the man goes away grieving, "for he had many possessions." In this sermon, Pastor Daniel Flucke wrestles with how we understand and follow this tough command from Jesus. A sermon for the 20th Sunday after Pentecost on Mark 10:17-31.

Cover image: “Rich Young Man Went Away Sorrowful” by James Tissot, 1836-1902. 

What are we, that God should be mindful of us? What a great paradox of faith that we are cosmically insignificant, yet we have been claimed as children of God. A sermon from Pastor Daniel Flucke for the 19th Sunday after Pentecost on Hebrews 1:1-4, 2:5-12, Psalm 8, and Mark 10:2-16.

Jesus’ criteria for greatness is dramatically different than that of the world. Greatness is found in being a servant to all. Here’s the sermon for September 19, 2021, on Mark 9:30-37 (and why “The Activist” is a terrible idea for a tv show).

On this 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, it’s easy to ask “Where is God?” as we remember and grieve stories of suffering and death on that day and in the decades since 2001. To find God, we look to the cross, to Jesus giving himself for us and for the world.