Bible Text: Matthew 18:21-35 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The purpose of a parable is to give you a story and get you to agree with the obvious point of the story, and then, when you agree, you’re fully committed, then to show you that the point applies to you.
Bible Text: John 4:46-54 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Unless you see signs and wonders you will by no means believe. This is simply a fact. Jesus puts it in the plural you, y’all, he’s not just addressing the official, he’s addressing everyone who will listen. You won’t believe unless
Bible Text: Matthew 22:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Many are called, but few are chosen. Those are the words Jesus gives as the lesson, the moral, of his parable, and so they’re the words we should take to heart. Many are called means all are called. This is how
Bible Text: Matthew 18:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The disciples are Christians. But nothing human is foreign from them. They live in a world where human sin has made the devil prince. And where the devil is prince the rules of his kingdom seem natural and obvious. The great
Bible Text: Luke 14:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Sabbath means rest. God created the world and all that there is in six days and on the seventh He rested from His labors. He wasn’t tired from all the work. “He who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” It wasn’t
Bible Text: Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus’ raising this boy from the dead is more than what it appears. It sounds strange to say, because how can there be something greater than giving life to a dead man? In the history of the world this had never
Bible Text: Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Last year I taught how there’s a difference between worrying and caring. God calls you to care about things deeply, but never to worry. St. Paul says, “Be anxious about nothing, but with prayers and supplications make your requests known to
Bible Text: Luke 18:9-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus An old Latin proverb reads duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem. When two people do the same thing, it isn’t the same thing at all. This is what Jesus shows us in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax
Bible Text: Luke 19:41-48 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus When Jesus weeps over Jerusalem He is not simply weeping over a city as some political center. He isn’t interested in politics here. He had no special fondness for any political state then, and He isn’t particularly fond of any political
Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus says “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Beware of false prophets, Jesus says, because they will tear you apart, rob you of your faith, and do so with a smile
