Spirited Word
By God's Word proclaimed, the Holy Spirit works faith in God's grace in Jesus, when and where he pleases. Sermons by Pastor Adrian Kitson, Lutheran Church of Australia.
St Petri Lutheran Church, Nuriootpa, Barossa Valley, South Australia.
www.stpetri.org.au
Episodes
215 episodes
Grace
Sunday 23 August 2026The sermon this week reflects on the remarkable faithfulness of God, who calls, seeks, saves and guides his people even when we cannot see where He is leading us. Isaiah calls us to “look to the rock from which you w...
Going Home
Sunday 16 August 2026As long as my wife and I have been married we have been away from home – i.e. from the places where our parents lived. So we always talked of “going home” for holidays. We always looked forward to this time, even tho...
Long Faith
Sunday 9 August 2026Yes, we are back in that famous scene of wind, water, storm, gale and a ghost’ walking across it all. It is the ‘walking on water’ gospel account today.We know it well. We love it a lot. I think it is because t...
Fine-Dining Gift Voucher
Sunday 02 August 2026We are back in that magnificent poem of poems as spoken by the prophet Isaiah. In one of the many pictures he paints of both God’s judgement of our sin and God’s beautiful resurrection of whole life, Isaiah issues a ...
Yes, We Understand?
Sunday 26 July 2026It is with pleasure that we prepare to receive the Word via Dr Tim Stringer, Principal of Australian Lutheran Collage. May the Word call you, challenge you and comfort you for the journey we share together today.
The Weeds
Sunday 19 July 2026Sometimes I wish God would deal with all the injustice of the world. Sometimes I wish the Church could be so much better, especially when Christian people do some really silly and bad things.What do we do with t...
Who Do You Trust?
Sunday 12 July 2026As Christians we believe that the Bible is the sacred writings of God himself, as he inspired his chosen authors to write it down. Therefore we often refer to the Bible as “the Word of God”. But the truth is that only ...
Which Song Shall We Play?
Sunday 5 July 2026 We come across those well-known words concerning this internal battle we all know and live as God’s people from Paul in Romans 7.We do not do the good we want to do and do the very bad we don’t want t...
Augsburg Confession
Sunday 28 June 2026Today we celebrate something of a uniquely Lutheran story. On July 24th, 1530 the leaders of that first rapidly growing movement of Catholic churches, newly centred on the gospel of Jesus as the only way to be made new...
Faith In Fear
Sunday 21 June 2026There is no doubt that everyone lives with varying fears. Jesus makes it very clear to his sent followers that fear will always be, even though they know him and have his promises for life beyond all fears. Just becaus...
Sent
Sunday 14 June 2026We call ourselves ‘sent ones’ because that is what we are named in Matthew’s gospel today.Being named ‘sent ones’ raises that topic of ‘evangelism’ or ‘mission’. If there are two words that seem to create maximu...
Mercy
Sunday 7 June 2026We enter into the long time of learning the Way of Jesus in this time after Pentecost. First cab off the rank today is that moment when Matthew is called to follow Jesus.It must have been quite a surprise to Matt...
Holy Trinity
Sunday 31 May 2026“To Whom Will You Compare Me? Who Is My Equal?”That’s the question God asked his people in Isaiah 46. He had cared for them before they were born and had promised to care for them “until your hair is white with a...
Pentecost Sunday - Grace Gifts
24 May 2026It is Pentecost Sunday. We remember that first astonishing coming of the Spirit that set in motion a vast global and timeless new creation community, of which we are a part.This is the victorious King Jesus now ascended...
Ascending To Heaven?
We draw to the close of these 50 days of Easter as we witness that rather changing moment of Jesus’ ascension. It is hard for us to know what to do with this account Luke gives us – not just once but twice.We don’t treat it anything like...
Everybody Needs Somebody
Sunday 10 May 2026As this 50 days of Easter celebration winds to its conclusion, it might be easy to think that the best part of the church year and our life together is over and things will become a bit ‘ho-hum’.How would it have...
Stop Running
Sunday 03 May 2026Stop Running - Coming to God, not running away.There is so much that we don’t understand about our relationship with God. For example, I will never fully comprehend the extent of God’s grace. And I’m sure it’s th...
Solid Chaos
Sunday 26 April 2026Jesus said he was the Good Shepherd before he was raised. He remains the same now that he is raised. It is Good Shepherd Sunday.The Shepherd said he would lead his sheep into green pastures and living springs o...
Thankful One
19 April 2026 - Harvest ThanksgivingReturning to Jesus and worshipping him is what that one out of ten healed people do the day that Jesus healed them all. We hear of that account today – the healing of the ten lepers.It is Thanks...
He Meets Us Where We Are
12 April 2026We often give Thomas a hard time. “Doubting Thomas,” we say - as though he alone missed the memo. But it’s worth noticing: Thomas isn’t alone in doubting. He’s just the only one honest enough to say it out loud. No-one expec...
The Beauty Of The Cross: Easter Sunday
4 April 2026We gather over this weekend to celebrate who we are because what God has done for us in this Suffering Servant, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God.Christians have always known that the crucifixion, death and resurrectio...
The Beauty Of The Cross: Palm Sunday
29 March 2026We welcome you to this Palm Sunday gathering called and powered by the Spirit of God for encouragement and equipping in Jesus’ kingdom mission. We are glad you are here.The 40 day journey to the joy of Easter Day cont...
The Beauty Of The Cross
22 March 2026We are walking through one of the four Servant Songs in that ‘5th gospel’- the book of Isaiah. We are in chapter 53, and we come across something new that has not been said so far by Isaiah.Isaiah has been telling us ...
