Why So Serious? (Easter 2011)

2011easter Alleluia! The Lord is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! “The last enemy to be destroyed is death” (1 Corinthians 15:26 ESV).  Paul really sums up so much of life under the cross with those words. So much of our lives are really about cheating death.  Makeup, diets, slimming clothes, bigger or better muscles.  […]

“A Time for Life” (Funeral Sermon for Sandra Russo, October 13, 2010)

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin October 13, 2010 Funeral Homily for Sandra Russo Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 Funeral sermon for Sandra Russo TITLE: “A time for Life” Family and friends of Sandra, especially, Caroline and Cara, Carolyn, Bette, friends and other family: grace to you and peace from God our Father and from […]

Nadia

Today is the fourth anniversary of the death of our unborn daughter, Nadia.  It was a period in our life as a family that was particularly difficult.  My uncle had died a few months before, and my mother would die six weeks later.  One cannot really compare one grief to another, but this death was […]

Life from Death (Trinity 16)

Todd A. Peperkorn, STM Messiah Lutheran Church Kenosha, Wisconsin Trinity 16 (September 07, 2008, rev from 2005) Luke 7:11-17 For an audio MP3 of this sermon, CLICK HERE TITLE: “Life from Death” Grace to you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Our text for today is the raising […]