By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia. St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia. www.stpetri.org.au
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Send us Fan Mail Sunday 9 August 2026 Yes, we are back in that famous scene of wind, water, storm, gale and a ghost’ walking across it all. It is the ‘walking on water’ gospel account today. We know it well. We love it a lot. I think it is because the account of Jesus grabbing Peter and pulling him up out of the stormy sea when Peter seems to ‘fail’ the test of faith that dark night, says that…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 02 August 2026 We are back in that magnificent poem of poems as spoken by the prophet Isaiah. In one of the many pictures he paints of both God’s judgement of our sin and God’s beautiful resurrection of whole life, Isaiah issues a call to a free banquet that God has paid for in full for everyone. All we have to do is come, get up, receive the fully satisfying gifts of The…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 26 July 2026 It is with pleasure that we prepare to receive the Word via Dr Tim Stringer, Principal of Australian Lutheran Collage. May the Word call you, challenge you and comfort you for the journey we share together today. Dr Tim says… Last Sunday, we were deep in the territory of weeds and wheat. This week, we hear and read a series of rapid-fire parables that describe…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 19 July 2026 Sometimes I wish God would deal with all the injustice of the world. Sometimes I wish the Church could be so much better, especially when Christian people do some really silly and bad things. What do we do with the frustration we feel about all the suffering and trouble in the world? What does the Lord do for us when the church gets it wrong and we get it…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 12 July 2026 As Christians we believe that the Bible is the sacred writings of God himself, as he inspired his chosen authors to write it down. Therefore we often refer to the Bible as “the Word of God”. But the truth is that only Christians believe this. Non-Christians (or ‘not-yet Christians’) do not see the Bible with faith. They only see a very very big book with a lot…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 5 July 2026 We come across those well-known words concerning this internal battle we all know and live as God’s people from Paul in Romans 7. We do not do the good we want to do and do the very bad we don’t want to do! There is internal spiritual power at work in our human needs and desires that wage war against our best intentions to live out those good ten commandments…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 28 June 2026 Today we celebrate something of a uniquely Lutheran story. On July 24th, 1530 the leaders of that first rapidly growing movement of Catholic churches, newly centred on the gospel of Jesus as the only way to be made new in the grace of God (evangelical/gospel centred churches), got to speak that faith in full public view before the Emperor of the Holy Roman…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 21 June 2026 There is no doubt that everyone lives with varying fears. Jesus makes it very clear to his sent followers that fear will always be, even though they know him and have his promises for life beyond all fears. Just because we are Christians, does not mean that we don’t have to deal with all kinds of threats, conflicts, splits, and danger to body, mind and spirit.…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 14 June 2026 We call ourselves ‘sent ones’ because that is what we are named in Matthew’s gospel today. Being named ‘sent ones’ raises that topic of ‘evangelism’ or ‘mission’. If there are two words that seem to create maximum guilt and/or fear in a church-person's heart, they are them! But, today will be encouraging. We are sent for sure, but with no need of guilt and no…
Send us Fan Mail Sunday 7 June 2026 We enter into the long time of learning the Way of Jesus in this time after Pentecost. First cab off the rank today is that moment when Matthew is called to follow Jesus. It must have been quite a surprise to Matthew, and to the two groups of people witnessing all this. There would have been people who never thought the mercy of God would get close to someone…