Bible Text: Luke 11:14-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus He who is not with me is against me. There is no neutrality between good and evil or between God and the devil. We can’t stand on the sidelines, because we’re the ones being fought over. That’s actually a beautiful thing,
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Depart, Satan, Get out of here, you liar, that’s how Jesus ends the battle with the devil. And the devil leaves. He obeys the words of His master. The devil is not a willing subject of our Lord. But he is
Bible Text: Luke 18:31-43 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus At least five times, and obviously more, because as John says, the world couldn’t contain all the books that would have to be written if everything Jesus said and did were actually written down, at least five times, Jesus tells his
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus is the sower of the seed. He is the preacher of the Word. Right after our Gospel lesson Jesus will tell his disciples, “He who hears you hears me.” When you listen to God’s word you are listening to Jesus.
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Moses would talk to God and afterward his face would shine with the reflected glory of God. He had to veil his face after that, because the people were scared to see his face shining. What’s amazing about this is that
Bible Text: Luke 2:22-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Mary went to the Temple for her purification. God made it a law for the people of Israel that after a woman gave birth to a son, she was unclean for forty days. At the end of that forty days, she
Bible Text: Matthew 8:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus If you are willing, you can make me clean. There are two things here. First, is the will of God. Is he willing to help you. The second is his power. Can he help you. Let’s take the second first. God
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus People were literally waiting in line to be baptized by John. “All the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him.” That’s what our Gospel says. And they were waiting in line because they were sinners. They wanted
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus After the magi have traveled hundreds of miles from the East, guided by a star, they end up in the wrong place. God put that star in the sky. What it was, we don’t know. Some think it was the light
Bible Text: Luke 2:22-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus I got to hold a little baby boy right after Divine Service on Christmas Day. And of course it got me thinking of Jesus, this little baby that you could toss in the air, so helpless and tiny. It brought the
