St. Peter’s Weekly Messages

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.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | What About This? | April 14, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey | “Who am I?” or “How do I identify?” These questions have become more important and more heated than ever before, especially as we wrestle with the topic of human sexuality. Human Sexuality is an essential and important part of our identity as well as a gift from God. Scripture defines for us how sexuality and identity come together and what God’s original design and intent for sexuality was. In a world awash with emotions, incongruences, attractions, and rhetoric, the Bible brings clarity to who we are as sexual beings and defines our identity through the redemption we have in Jesus.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | What About This? | April 7, 2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez | As the world might perpetuate a line between science and faith, scripture actually does not do this at all. Scripture teaches that these two work in tandem together. However, faith and science answer tell us two different things. Science looks to tell us what this world is. Faith tells us why things are, and what we do with these things in order to help our neighbor flourish. Science introduces God’s creation to us. Faith introduces our Savior to us.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Holy Week | March 31, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Holy Week | March 29, 2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Holy Week | March 28, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Holy Week | March 24, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey 

St. Peter’s Lutheran | Epiphany | March 17,  2024 | Pastor Adam Rodriguez  | The Day of Resurrection is closer now than it was yesterday. But it still hasn’t happened yet. So what do we do in the meantime? Until the day of the resurrection, God has put you, as a member, into the body of Christ. We await the day of resurrection with other Christians dutifully fulfilling our vocations- being an instrument of the Holy Spirit to bring life into death.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | (RE)SURRECTION | March 10, 2024 | Pastor Tim Carter  | The second coming of Christ will be a reunion of many things: our body and soul and the family of God. However, the greatest reunion of heaven will be seeing Christ face to face. On this earth, being a Christian is like always longing for someone, but never being with them. But in the new heavens and the new earth Christ is no longer with us as He once was. He is with us as He will be; forever.

St. Peter’s Lutheran | (RE)SURRECTION | March 3, 2024 | Pastor John Cordrey  | God has promised to renew, restore, and recreate you and a new heavens and a new earth. And we catch glimpses of it as we walk through this life. But Revelation 21 really paints the picture in beautiful color. That new world is already on its way. When it fully arrives, there we will live forever- new creations given new bodies living in a new heaven and a new earth, citizens of the new Jerusalem for all eternity. This new kingdom was birthed into this world with Jesus' birth at His first coming, and He will consummate it at His second coming.