• The Offense of Christmas

    Christmas is just as offensive as the cross.

  • About All Saints Day

    Observing All Saints Day reminds us of our calling to be saints because of our baptism.

  • True Freedom

    Pastor Patrick’s Perspective: October 2025 For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1 ESV I’ve been thinking about our freedom in Christ. It is a great gift to be free from the bondage of sin. This freedom is God’s gift through…

  • The Problem with Deciding

    Pastor Patrick’s Perspective: September 2025 — You’ve probably heard the question before, “When did you accept Jesus as your Savior?” It often comes from well-meaning Christians. But for us Lutherans, that question feels strange. We don’t talk about our salvation as something we decided. We confess it as something God has given. That difference—between decision…

  • Christian Marriage

    Pastor Patrick’s Perspective: August 2025 Peace Lutheran will be having our Vocation of Marriage Sunday on August 3. Be sure to come. Remember the good gift that God has given us. Marriage. Since my children have grown, they mention what a weird house they were raised in. Halfway through seminary, I took a class on…

  • Read by the Word of God

    Pastor Patrick’s Perspective, Summer 2025 “For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and…