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The Incredible Sacrifice

  • Mar 7, 2024
  • 1982-04-01
  • SERMONS
This is a typed Lenten sermon from April of 1982. The typed sermon includes some whiteout and annotations with blue pen.

What's the Church for?

  • Mar 7, 2024
  • 1978-03-01
  • SERMONS
Here is a handwritten midweek Lenten sermon from 1978. There’s even a reference to the Green Bay Packers in it! It’s written in blue ink with annotations in red pen.

Return to the Lord

  • Feb 22, 2024
  • 1996-02-21
  • SERMONS
Here is another of my “digital-only” sermons. I found this one on a floppy disk with the file name ASHWED.96 in an old WordPerfect format. There’s a chance that I have a paper copy of this sermon, but I haven’t seen it yet. I do remember hearing the story about the basketball coach when I was a teenager, though.

Keeping in Touch

  • Feb 8, 2024
  • 1994-02-06
  • SERMONS
Here is of my first “digital-only” sermons. I found this one on a floppy disk with the file name 5EPIPHB.94. There’s a chance that I have a paper copy of this sermon, but I haven’t seen it yet.

The Day a Demon Came to Church

  • Feb 8, 2024
  • 1991-02-03
  • SERMONS
Here is an Epiphany sermon from 1991. It is printed in black with yellow highlighting.

Unititled Epiphany Sermon from Intern Larson

  • Jan 11, 2024
  • 1971-01-17
  • SERMONS
I think I found another “Intern Larson” sermon from California!

A Second Look at the Amazing Gift

  • Jan 11, 2024
  • 1976-01-04
  • SERMONS
Here is a handwritten sermon from January of 1976, for the second Sunday of Christmas.

Going Through the Holy Motions

  • Jan 10, 2024
  • 1990-12-30
  • SERMONS
Here is a typed sermon from 1990 Christmas season, preached on December 30, 1990. The sermon is highlighted with yellow highlighter.

The Truth About Christmas

  • Jan 10, 2024
  • 1976-12-26
  • SERMONS
On the second day of Christmas in 1976, Pastor Larson gave to thee, one handwritten sermon!

So What?

  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 1970-12-25
  • SERMONS
Here is a Christmas Day sermon from “Intern Larson” during his internship in 1970! It is handwritten over several small pages. The bulletin from the service is included. A handwritten Christmas prayer is also included.
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ABOUT THE ARCHIVES
Steven M. Larson

    This is a site containing the sermon archives of Pastor Steve Larson, who created and preached sermons from 1969 to 1997.

    This site was created by his son, Ross.

    Sermon Archives uses the Hugo static site templating engine. Material for this site has been obtained from 3.5 inch floppy disks, scanned from paper, and ripped from cassette tapes.

    Temporary locations for this data include Trello boards and Google Drive. Links to those temporary locations are available upon request.

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