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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 8 November 2026
IS THIS THE END?
There is a big thing on people’s minds at the moment. It is AI (Artificial Intelligence). People are getting very worried that this might be the thing that tips the world towards it’s end or at least, changes our lives so radically that we might long for the end!
When the very people creating AI are saying it might eventually end humanity, that is worrying!
In these last weeks of the church year, we hear Jesus speaking much about the end. So, with Jesus, we ponder the possible impact of AI and God’s promised end of the world and our place in his new world already begun by the death and resurrection of Jesus who now rules the world and keeps his church.
I believe the Lord would have us take the fear and speculation about AI seriously and yet, hear what He says about how we face AI and the end.
Pastor Adrian
Latest Sermons
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...]
Missing Holy Communion
Homily, Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2020 St Petri Matthew 26: 26-28, 45-46 26 While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘T [Read More...]
Will We Miss Him?
Sermon, Palm Sunday (A), April 5, 2020. Worship Small Philippians 2:5–11 5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: 6 who, being in very nature[a] God, did n [Read More...]
Take off the Grave Clothes
Sermon Lent 5A , Sunday March 29, 2020 Ezekiel 37:1-14 The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. He [Read More...]
A Communal Love
Sermon: RENEW Mission Life: Where Love Comes to Life Sermon Four: …COMES TO LIFE Small Worship, Sunday March 22, 2020. Colossians 3.1-11 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts [Read More...]