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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
confidence and conviction
Sermon, Pentecost 9th C, Sunday August 11, 2019. Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. This is what the ancients were commended for [Read More...]
Big Barn or Big Life?
Sermon, Sunday August 4, 2019. 8th Pentecost C Confirmation Day (10.30) Someone in the crowd said to him, “Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.” Jesus replied, “Man, who appoi [Read More...]
It Takes Time
Sermon , 7th Sunday after Pentecost, July 28, 2019 Mark 10:35-45 35 Then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him. ‘Teacher,’ they said, ‘we want you to do for us whatever we ask.’ 36 ‘Wha [Read More...]
Listening to Mercy
Sermon, Sunday July 21, 2019, 7th Sunday after Pentecost Luke 10:38–42 38 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. 39 She h [Read More...]
The Good Samaritan – Pastor Trevor Reu
Sermon - The Good Samaritan Sunday 14th July - Pastor Trevor Reu Amos 7:7-8 This what he showed me: the Lord was standing by a wall that had been built true to plumb,[a] with a plumb-line in his hand. [Read More...]
Mission Joy
Sermon, Pentecost 4C Sunday July 7, 2019. St Petri Luke 10:1-11,16-20 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about [Read More...]