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 20 September 2026
We are glad to welcome two special guests this morning at the 10.30 am Service: General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF), Estonian theologian and pastor Rev Dr Anne Burghardt, and the LWF Regional Secretary for Asia, Rev Dr Rospita Siahaan.
We take time out to celebrate a particular biblical person today – Matthew, the gospel witness.
Why remember Matthew and other saints? For praise and thanks to God for all he did through them, for learning of how they faithfully carried the gospel throughout their lives and for celebration; that we all belong to this timeless one, holy catholic (universal) church.
It would have been quite a surprise to Levi (whom Jesus named Matthew), the other members of the new ‘Jesus’ group and to everyone in town that Jesus would choose a tax collector for his holy work. They were viewed as being so unholy!
They had questionable ethics, unclean associations, ungodly desires, traitorous practice in supporting Rome and were probably defect in some way – almost subhuman.
And yet, here is Levi telling of how he was called to join Jesus in his transforming work. Matthew tells it very briefly, but we can tell it was world-changing for him.
Praying that the Lord of the Church transform you in your holy calling as his gift of God to those whom you are sent.
Pastor Adrian
Latest Sermons
Suffering. Called. Saved.
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Heaven on the Road
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Promise Keeper Peace
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New Life. New Hope. Women’s Fellowship by Mitch Kitson
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Joy in the Fog
Homily , Easter Day, April 12, 2020 Small Worship https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_6zJ45W7uc&t=1179s Luke 24:1-12 On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women took the spic [Read More...]
No One Gets Left Behind
Homily , Good Friday, April 9, 2020 John 18:9 “I didn’t lose anyone of these you gave me” (John 18:9) I don’t know why I know this, but I know for solders, there is this stern commitment, that no mat [Read More...]