St. Peter’s Weekly Messages

Ascension | 1

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. 

What About This? | Judging Others | 5

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

What About This? | Political Polarization | 4

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. 

What About This? | Grief & Pain | 3

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.

What About This? | Human Sexuality | 2

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.

What About This? | Faith & Science | 1

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.

Holy Week | Easter Sunday

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

Holy Week | Good Friday

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

Holy Week | Maundy Thursday

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

Holy Week | Palm Sunday

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