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 7th June – Mercy – Pr Adrian Kitson
Matthew 9: 9:9-13 9 As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. ‘Follow me,’ he told him, and Matthew got up and followed him. 10 While Jesus [Read More...]
Sunday 31st May – Trinity Sunday – Pr Robert Voigt – transcript
Mission in the name of the Triune God Then the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had told them to go.  When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.  Th [Read More...]
Sunday 24th May – Those Grace Gifts – Pastor Adrian Kitson
Now about the gifts of the Spirit, brothers and sisters, I do not want you to be uninformed. 2 You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to dumb i [Read More...]
Sunday 17th May – Ascending to Heaven – Pastor Adrian Kitson
In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote about all that Jesus began to do and to teach 2 until the day he was taken up to heaven, after giving instructions through the Holy Spirit to the apostle [Read More...]
Sunday 10th May – Everybody neeeds somebody – Pastor Adrian Kitson
15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate, to be with you forever. 17 This is the Spirit of truth, whom the world c [Read More...]
Sunday 3rd May – Stop Running – Pastor Robert Voigt
1 Peter 2:2-10 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,  now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, the living [Read More...]