5th March 2017    Pastor Robert Voigt St. Petri Lutheran Church Nuriootpa 1)         I have belonged to 13 parishes – between 2-5 congregations in each of those parishes.  And every one was very different.  In a 9-year period I also visited over 3/4s of all congregations in SA/NT.  And every one was very different.  I have had to make big changes again and again as I tried to work with each place.  Now I don’t mean to offend any of you, but I have come across some people who

Sermon, Sunday February 5, 2017, Epiphany 5A 1 Corinthians 2:1-10 (NIVUK)And so it was with me, brothers and sisters. When I came to you, I did not come with eloquence or human wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God.[a] 2 For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 I came to you in weakness with great fear and trembling. 4 My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstrati

Sermon, 22nd Sunday after Pentecost, The Story week 26 Isaiah 53:1-6, Psalm 130, Romans 6:1-11 The Hour of Darkness Matthew 26:36-4636 Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, ‘Sit here while I go over there and pray.’ 37 He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. 38 Then he said to them, ‘My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here and keep watch wit

Homily Good Friday [wpvideo WBWkLPPL] Did anyone encounter Jesus like Simon from a seaside town in modern day Libya, Northern Africa: Cyrene? You have to wonder. What a place he found himself in, and so unplanned and unexpected. Did anyone ever or since experience the suffering of Jesus as close and as personally than this stranger from the country? • He felt the suffering of the man. • He smelt it. • He saw it up close. • He was drawn into it – immersed in it for those

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Homily, Good Friday, March 29, 2013. St Petri, Nuriootpa. A proclamation based on the hymn, “When I survey the wondrous cross” (Isaac Watts) and Galatians 6:14 “14 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world”. 1. When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of glory died, My richest gain I count but loss And pour contempt on all my pride. 2. Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast, S

THE SEVEN LAST WORDS OF JESUS THE FIRST WORD                 Luke 23:33-34 When they came to the place called “The Skull”, they nailed Jesus to the cross there, and the two criminals, one on his  right and one on his left. Jesus said “Forgive them, Father! They do not know what they are doing.” Meditation on the First Word “They do not know what they are doing”, he said. They do not know?  How can that be? ‘They’. Who is “they”? It is so easy to call others to account. It is