Entries by Amanda Petersen

“Justice for All”

How do you like it when they get away with it?  Maybe it’s an “open and shut” court case where everyone knows who did it, but there’s a technicality and a key piece of evidence is rendered inadmissible,

“Christ With Us”

Christ with us.  It’s a fitting theme today as we celebrate the Lutheran Reformation and as we conclude our celebration of our synod’s anniversary. 

October 19, 2025 Sermon

What does success look like?  For the young entrepreneur, it might be creating a product that goes viral in popularity and finding instant global success and establishing their business as a household name and into a legacy.

“Christ For Us”

Last month we celebrated the 100th anniversary of this congregation.  This month we are celebrating another anniversary, an even lengthier one at that: the Dodransbicentennial of our Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod – i.e. the 175th Anniversary of our Lutheran Church body here in America.

October 5, 2025 Sermon

Travel with me into a church called the Notre Dame in Paris, France, back to December 2, 1804.  Inside that majestic cathedral we’d find Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine draped in white satin as the soon-to-be-crowned emperor and empress of the French.