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Sermons, Bible Studies, and other audio media from Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County, Wisconsin. Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County is located in the village of Forestville, Wisconsin. We are a congregation of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod. We are a confessional and liturgical congregation. Saint Peter’s is located at 316 W. Main Street, Forestville, WI 54213. Phone: 920-856-6420. Email: info@doorcounty.church. Website: https://doorcounty.church. We welcome listener comments, questions, and feedback.Copyright Saint Peter's Lutheran Church
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  • Sermon: Spiritual Renewal

    Sermon: Spiritual Renewal
    Jan 26 2026
    Text: Matthew 4:12-15 | Liturgical date: Epiphany 3 A | Calendar Date: January 25, 2026 | Location: Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christopher D. Jackson Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County serves Sturgeon Bay and other areas in Northeast Wisconsin. Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County316 W. Main St.Forestville, WI 54213920-856-6420 Text: Matthew 4:12-15 | Liturgical date: Epiphany 3 A | Calendar Date: January 25, 2026 | Location: Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christopher D. Jackson Transcript Opening Invocation In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Introduction to Spiritual Renewal Today we’re taking up this passage spoken by the prophet Isaiah in our Old Testament lesson today, and recorded as well in the Gospel of Matthew: “Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. The people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them the light has dawned.” And on the basis of these words, we’re going to be talking about spiritual renewal. Personal Story: The Gift of Glasses One of the most important experiences of my life happened in third grade. I actually think that it was a turning point in my life, and had it not happened, there’s a good chance I might not even be your pastor today. What was that turning point? Already in third grade, I got glasses. Yeah, that was significant. I couldn’t see the chalkboard at school. That’s how bad my vision was. So yeah, maybe my grades wouldn’t have been very good. I wouldn’t have learned. Maybe I wouldn’t have been qualified to go to seminary. So there you go—third grade, transformative event. A big renewal in my life. And just to give you a sense of what kind of renewal this was, it really opened up the world to me. Oh, I fought against getting glasses. I didn’t want them at all. But after I got them on, the drive home—it was like the whole world had opened up to me. Did you know trees have leaves? Of course you all have. I didn’t know that until I got glasses. To me, trees were just these big, blobby things. I knew they had leaves when I got close up to ’em, but I couldn’t see them unless I was standing right up next to the tree. I couldn’t see my pastor’s face. I couldn’t see what was being written on the chalkboard. Huge renewal in my life. A major transformation. And it happened through three things. The Need for Community in Renewal First of all, it happened in community. I needed people to rally around me. I needed my parents and my teachers and others to say, “I’m not sure you can see that well, Chris.” I needed people to rally around me for that, and I needed people to give me the formal diagnosis. I needed people to manufacture those glasses, and I needed the nice lady to fit them to my face, right? I needed people. I needed a hard diagnosis. Oh, I fought against that diagnosis. I tried to trick the eye doctor into thinking that I actually could see when I couldn’t. I fought against that, but I still got that hard diagnosis, which I didn’t want, but I got it anyway. And finally came the gift—a blessing, hard-won, not by me, but by my parents and by all these others: the gift of the glasses. And as I said, major transformation, major renewal. There come times in all of our lives where it seems that our eyes are not dim, but rather our faith, our hearts. Perhaps we have doubts. Perhaps we’re not making progress like we would like against some besetting sin. Maybe our confidence is wearing a little thin. The need for spiritual renewal can take many and various forms, but I think it comes for all of us. And in these lessons that we just read, we see the formula for spiritual renewal, which is God blessing us through community, through the church; through the hard diagnosis of the law; through the blessings of the gospel. And that’s the formula. That’s the route for spiritual renewal, which we’ll be taking up today. Isaiah’s Prophecy and Its Fulfillment This prophecy of Isaiah, reiterated by Matthew and fulfilled by Christ—it’s all about spiritual renewal, by the way. What does it mean that the land of Zebulun and Naphtali was dwelling in darkness? What does that mean? Zebulun and Naphtali were the very periphery of the people of God, of Israel, in multiple senses. They were on the periphery of the people of God geographically to begin with. Why? In what sense? The heart of their life—politically, culturally, especially religiously—was Jerusalem. Jerusalem was pretty far south in Israel. Zebulun and Naphtali, however, were the tribes which settled at the very northern edges of the domain, all the way up at the border of Syria. So they were at the very periphery of the life of the people of God physically, and that led to them being on the periphery ...
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  • Sermon: Holding It Together When Everything Is Falling Apart

    Sermon: Holding It Together When Everything Is Falling Apart
    Nov 15 2025
    Title: Holding It Together When Everything is Falling Apart | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christopher D. Jackson | Text: 2 Thessalonians 2:1–8, 13–17 | Liturgical Date: Pentecost 22, Proper 27 C | Calendar Date: November 9, 2025 | Location: Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County serves Fish Creek and other areas in Northeast Wisconsin. The following transcript was produced with the assistance of AI. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. This Veteran’s Day weekend, of course, we are very thankful for the service of our veterans and our armed forces, and above all, we thank the Lord for the freedom of religion that is secured by their work as Christians. That is the greatest freedom that we enjoy. We praise and thank the Lord for this freedom of religion here at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church and the way that has been secured by armed forces. Now, I myself am also a veteran and I enjoyed my time in the service. Something I really enjoyed about my time in the service was singing cadences. You know, those songs that soldiers or marines or airmen or sailors will sing when they’re marching or when they’re running. Those are cadences. Now, I’m not gonna sing any for you today. I like singing and that’s probably why I like cadences. But most of these are not pulpit appropriate. But let me tell you about a couple themes that, or one very big theme that came up. Military Cadences and Facing the Worst In those cadences, and that’s all the terrible things that you could expect in the military. There was one person that you’d end up hearing about quite a bit, a person named Jodi. Oh, we couldn’t stand Jodi. You know who Jodi is? Jodi is the guy back home who steals your girl when you’re away training in the military. Oh, we couldn’t stand Jodi. We’d sing about Jodi. We’d sing about other terrible things. We’d sing about the terrible food, the terrible living conditions, the terrible leadership we had. We’d even sing about dying and bullets whizzing by your head, and that was a deliberate thing, by the way. That was a deliberate part of the training. You see what that was teaching you? Is that even when these things happen, even when Jodi is stealing your girl back home, even when the food is terrible and the living conditions are rough, and when bullets are whizzing by your head, and even if you face the threat of death, you keep on marching, you keep on working to fulfill your mission. And St. Paul was indicating the same thing to the Thessalonians today in our epistle lesson, and that’s our theme for today: holding it together when everything is falling apart. And the falling apart that St. Paul is referring to in our lesson today is the ultimate and final falling apart. When the whole world seems to be falling apart and the Thessalonians, it appears, seemed to think that the return of Christ was right around the corner and they could see things falling apart around them. Expect the Worst: Apostasy and the Antichrist And it seemed as if this was causing no small number of their congregation distress, and maybe some of them were falling away from the faith and losing heart and confidence. And Paul helps to build ’em up in the faith, but he does so through, in the first instance, something that might seem counterintuitive. He tells the Thessalonians, well, expect the worst. Yeah, things might be bad and they are probably gonna get worse. He tells the Thessalonians, you might think to yourself, my goodness, why would he be telling the Thessalonians to expect the worst? Well, first of all, let’s take a look at how he tells the Thessalonians that they can expect the worst. He says, look, before the coming of the Lord, let no one deceive you for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called God or object of worship, so he takes a seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God. What is Paul talking about there? He’s talking about two themes that we see consistently in prophecies of the end times, whether these are prophecies that Christ himself uttered or what he himself is here discussing or what we might find in the Book of Revelation. And the two themes are this: apostasy and the arising of the antichrist. Now apostasy, that’s what he calls rebellion here in a somewhat different term. What is apostasy or the rebellion that he is talking about here? Apostasy is when those who claim to be Christian turn their backs on the Christian faith and fall away from the faith and oppose the faith even. And Paul is saying, look. You might think that it’s bad now, but guess what? The time is coming when huge numbers of those who you considered your Christian brothers and sisters will turn away from the faith. And not only this, but many of them, he says, will be led astray ...
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  • Sermon: Uniquely Blessed to Uniquely Serve

    Sermon: Uniquely Blessed to Uniquely Serve
    Oct 13 2025
    Text: 1 Timothy 2:1–15 | Liturgical Date: Pentecost 15, Proper 20 C | Location: Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church in Door County | Preacher: Rev Dr. Christopher D. Jackson Saint Peter’s Lutheran Church serves Sturgeon Bay and other areas in Door County. One thing I’m very thankful for as a pastor is that I’ve had pretty long pastorates. My first call was about eight years. I’m now about—let me think here—eleven and a half years here at St. John’s and St. Peter’s. And I thank the Lord for this. You know, I think that’s an indication that, all in all, things are going well, and together we are making progress for the Lord here in northeast Wisconsin. A Humorous Failure: My Shortest Job But not every job I’ve had has been a success. Actually, my worst record in a job? One day, one shift. I did so terribly that I decided to fire myself before they had the chance to fire me. Your pastor—the worst waiter in the world. In one shift, I think I made every single mistake a waiter could. You can ask my family about this. I get frustrated and can barely handle it when they’re asking me to put in orders at a drive-thru. Doesn’t work. Imagine a whole table putting their orders in for me, right? Didn’t work. I’m good at focusing on one thing, and I could focus on that one thing hyper-intensely for a long period of time. In college, I could stay up until three in the morning studying my Greek, and I was really good at that. But at three in the morning on that shift at Steak ‘n Shake? No good. Unique Individuals Called to Serve The Lord has made us all unique individuals, and the Lord calls us to serve Him in ways that reflect that. That’s a big part of what we’re going to be talking about today—that we are to use our unique blessings to bless others uniquely. This is tied to a very particular Christian teaching. I’ve been hitting this time and time again from the pulpit, especially at funerals. For those of you in our funeral meal train, you’ve heard this a few times already, but I think it bears repeating. Christian teaching is unique in how it deals with us as unique individuals. Contrasting Worldviews: Atheism and Eastern Religions Think about some of the most popular viewpoints out there with regards to a view of the world. Atheism—what do the atheists teach about us? They teach that we are an accident. We just happened to come to be. Time and matter are in this big box, shaking all around, and we just happened to jumble together and fall out of that box. That’s what the atheists teach. And they teach something pretty similar about what happens when we die—time and matter just take us apart and throw us back into that box to jumble together into something else. The Eastern religions, very popular these days—my goodness, these are some of the most whitewashed ideas out there. People don’t understand what they actually look like when you get up close and personal. Hinduism, Buddhism—very popular. People think they’re entirely unproblematic, but they actually teach something even darker about us humans. Atheism teaches that we’re an accident. The Eastern religions teach that we’re a mistake. Essentially, they teach that our individual existence is a problem to be overcome. Salvation for them is us as individuals ceasing to exist. They come at it from slightly different directions, but that theme is the same. Christian Teaching: Beloved Creations of a Loving God But Christian teaching is this: we are beloved creations of a loving God. And that God is a creator not just in general, but especially in particular. Psalm 139: “For I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Great are your works. My soul knows this very well. You knit me together in my mother’s womb.” More on that a little later in the sermon. “You wove me together in the depths of the earth before a day of my life came to be. You knew it all together. All my days were written in your book, oh God.” I’m paraphrasing a good bit here, but that’s what Psalm 139 teaches. The eternal triune God, out of that eternal love, created us each as beloved, particular individuals. Created, Redeemed, and Sanctified Individually God has created us individually, and God has redeemed us individually. Jesus did not just die for the whole world in general. Jesus died for every person in particular. Jesus died for you to take away your sins. And that has been fully and wholly accomplished. His righteous life was lived for you, and in His precious, atoning death, He died for you. God has created you individually, He has redeemed you individually, and He has sanctified you individually. Understanding Sanctification Now, sanctification has two parts. What is sanctification? It comes from the Latin word sanctus—we sing the Sanctus a little later in the liturgy. It means holy. Sanctification is when the holiness of God is applied to us individually. That holiness of God was applied to us in the waters of holy ...
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