Summer is a wonderful time for rostered ministers and lay leaders to grab some precious weeks away. So synod staff asked leaders if they would find it helpful to have some recorded sermons available for use any time over the course of the summer. You said, “Yes, please!” So we got to work, and here are three of the four sermons.
The following sermons (video and manuscript) are framed around the synod’s identity/mission statement. They include one Scripture text that can serve as the reading for the day. The bulletins and hymn suggestions are up to you; congregations – please make your own choices for what works in your setting. You may use just one sermon, use them in a series, focus on them for a Bible study group, or use them however your congregation may need them.
Synod Sermon Series Mission Statement Overview:
God places us in cities, farms and towns together under one prairie sky.
Acts 1: 1-8 – Sermon by Bp. Dee Pederson
The Risen Christ surprises us with opportunities to plant God’s Word in the world.
Acts 16:25-34 – Sermon by Director for Evangelical Mission Rev. Troy Pfilbsen
Walking together in confidence, we cultivate life-giving congregations,
nurture partner ministries, and cooperate in the life of the ELCA.
1 Thessalonians 3 / John 10 – Sermon by Synod Minister Rev. Heather Culuris
By God’s grace, together we have what we need.
Exodus 16 – Sermon by Synod Minister Rev. Stephen Cook
God places us in cities, farms and towns together under one prairie sky.
+Sermon by Bishop Dee Pederson
–Click here to view and print manuscript (PDF file)
–Click here to download video
The Risen Christ surprises us with opportunities to plant God’s Word in the world.
+Sermon by Director for Evangelical Mission Rev. Troy Pfilbsen
-Click here to view and print manuscript (PDF file)
-Click here to download video
Walking together in confidence, we cultivate life-giving congregations,
nurture partner ministries, and cooperate in the life of the ELCA.
+Sermon by Synod Minister Rev. Heather Culuris
-Click here to view and print manuscript (PDF file)
-Click here to download video
By God’s grace, together we have what we need.
Sermon by Synod Minister Rev. Stephen Cook
-Click here to view and print manuscript (PDF file)
-Click here to download video
