Hello friend!
Welcome to St Petri. We are glad you have found us. We are a local community of faith engaged in the mission to share the good news of the love and hope Jesus of Nazareth brings to life.
Pastor Adrian hosts two podcasts:
- Scenic Valley: short comments and reflections on things going on in the world and how they affect us.
- Spirited Word: sermons, bible teaching and reflection.
We hope you find good news in all that is on offer here.
We would love your comment and insights, and you can share those with Pastor Adrian here: pastor@stpetri.org.au.
Peace be with you.
Latest Scenic Valley Podcast
Conversations with Adrian Kitson on life, relationships, thought and faith when down in the valley and up in the hills.
How can we get better at coping with anger?
Latest Spirited Word Podcast
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
Sunday 25 October 2026
REFORMATION SUNDAY
Everybody wants to be free. The people around Jesus wanted to be free; free from a lot of things – corruption, endless taxes to Rome, having to work so hard to scrape out a living to feed the family, constant derision for being Jewish …Â
We all want to be free. Free of trouble, conflict, fear, shame, loneliness, addiction, worry … The question is how do we be free, what makes us free and free from what?Â
Jesus confronts the religious elites in the city when he says that even they who are so diligent and detailed in their obedience to keeping all the rules of God’s law are still not free.Â
They immediately claim ancestral/racial assurance of their freedom. They are ‘Children of Abraham’, they say.Â
Jesus challenges that belief about what makes them free and what the real bondage is in their lives.Â
He might do the same for us today. I hope he does.Â
It took one little Augustinian monk in 16th century Germany to be enlightened and truly freed from the things that entangles all of us. He was a different person, as a result. God wrote a whole new story with his life – a story that is still being written on our hearts.Â
Pastor AdrianÂ
Latest Sermons
Sunday 2nd August – Meal Voucher – Pastor Adrian Kitson
‘Come, all you who are thirsty,     come to the waters; and you who have no money,     come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk     without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what [Read More...]
Sunday 19th July – Wheat and the Weeds – Pastor Adrian Kitson
Jesus told them another parable: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. 25 But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and [Read More...]
Sunday 5th July – Which Song Shall We Play – Pastor Adrian Kitson
Romans 7:15-25a 15 I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. 16 Now if I do what I do not want, I agree that the law is good. 17 But in f [Read More...]
Sunday 28th June – Confessing Hope – Bishop Andrew Brook
“For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. 17 For in the gospel the righteousnes [Read More...]
Sunday 21st June – Fear with a Cross – Pastor Adrian Kitson
Do not be afraid; take up your cross and follow Christ “The student is not above the teacher, nor a servant above his master. It is enough for students to be like their teachers, and servants [Read More...]
Sunday 14th June – Sent – Guilt Free – Pastor Adrian Kitson
Jesus went through all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and illness. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had c [Read More...]