St. Peter's Lutheran Devotions

Lent | The Psalms | March 26, 2025 | Roger Watters Verse of the Day | Psalm 13:1-3,5 “How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? Look on me and answer, Lord my God. But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvat...

Lent | The Psalms | March 25, 2025 | Heather Riegle Verse of the Day | Psalm 84:1, 10-11 “How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord Almighty!...Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked. For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold fr...

Lent | The Psalms | March 24, 2025 | Jane Littmann Verse of the Day | Psalm 22:16-18 “Dogs surround me, a pack of villains encircles me; they pierce my hands and my feet. All my bones are on display; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my clothes among them and cast lots for my garment.”

Lent | The Psalms | March 23, 2025 | Marty Chemnitz Verse of the Day | Psalm 105:1-4 “Give praise to the Lord; proclaim His name; make known among the nations what He has done. Sing to Him, sing praise to Him; tell of all His wonderful acts. Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Look to the Lord and His strength; seek His face always.”

Lent | The Psalms | March 22, 2025 | James Deaton Verse of the Day | Psalm 119:17-20 “Be good to your servant while I live, that I may obey your word. Open my eyes to see the wonderful things in your law. I am a stranger on this earth; do not hide your commands from me. My soul is consumed with longing for your laws at all times.”

Lent | The Psalms | March 21, 2025 | Ethan Lovell Verse of the Day | Psalm 8:1-4 “LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory in the heavens. Through the praise of children and infants you have established a stronghold against your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, whi...

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 20, 2025 | Pastor Mike Malinsky Verse of the Day | 1 Chronicles 29:10-11 “David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, “Praise be to you, Lord, the God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours...

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 19, 2025 | Brooklyn Donner Verse of the Day | Daniel 3:16-18 “Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, “King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty’s hand. But even if he does not, we want y...

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 18, 2025 | Courtney Lienhoop Verse of the Day | Mark 13:48 “Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 17, 2025 | Lexi Denny Verse of the Day | Proverbs 28:13 “Whoever conceals their sins does not prosper, but the one who confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 15, 2025 | Lizzie Redding Verse of the Day | Matthew 6:25-26 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are yo...

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 15, 2025 | Maddisyn Jenkins Verse of the Day | John 6:40 “For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 14, 2025 | Brian Voyles Verse of the Day | John 18:36 “But seek his kingdom, and these things will be given to you as well. “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.”

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 13, 2025 | Bob Middendorf Verse of the Day | Isaiah 42:8 “I am the Lord; that is my name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.”

Lent | The Lord’s Prayer | March 12, 2025 | Darin Wettschurack Verse of the Day | Luke 15:20 “So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Lazarus | March 11, 2025 | Kloe Thompson Verse of the Day | John 11:41-42 “ So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. I knew that you always hear me, but I said this for the benefit of the people standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Feeding 5,000 | March 10, 2025 | Allison Smith Verse of the Day | Luke 9:29 “And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Transfiguration | March 9, 2025 | Tony Luenebrink Verse of the Day | Luke 9:29 “About eight days after Jesus said this, he took Peter, John and James with him and went up onto a mountain to pray.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Calling His Disciples | March 8, 2025 | Parker Ballard Verse of the Day | Luke 6:12-13 “One of those days Jesus went out to a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God. When morning came, he called his disciples to him and chose twelve of them, whom he also designated apostles.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Alone | March 7, 2025 | Kiersten Collins Verse of the Day | Luke 5:16 “But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Do This | March 6, 2025 | Becky Luenebrink Verse of the Day | Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.”

Lent | Jesus and Prayer | Jesus: Don’t Do This | March 5, 2025, Ash Wednesday | Hannah Sabotin Verse of the Day | Matthew 6:5, 7-8 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full...And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for t...