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
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The feeding of the four thousand is a greater miracle than the feeding of the five thousand. Everyone talks about the feeding of the five thousand, because it happens first and it’s a bigger number, obviously. In fact, the Bible-bashers will
Bible Text: Matthew 5:17-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. Why would anyone think that about Jesus? That he came to destroy the Law? Because He preached the free forgiveness of sins. And when you preach that forgiveness,
Bible Text: Luke 6:36-42 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Joseph weeps and forgives his brothers. He already had forgiven them. But they’re still afraid he’ll punish them, now that their father Jacob is dead. And so Joseph weeps. He weeps because they are sorry and this sorrow over sin is
Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The excuses not to come to the banquet are really bad. He doesn’t have to test his oxen. No one buys an ox unless he’s tested it already. And he doesn’t need to go look at his field. No one buys
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Everything we have belongs to God. This isn’t simply because we pledge all we have to God, it’s not that we first give all we have to God, and then it belongs to Him. It’s that it all already belongs to
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus St. Peter confessed Jesus and said, “You are the Christ the Son of the living God.” And the Lord Jesus told his disciples that He would build His Church on this confession and the gates of hell would not prevail against
Bible Text: John 15:26-16:4 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Dear friends in Christ, especially you confirmands, beloved of God, baptized into Christ’s death and resurrection, heirs of eternal life, Zander, Zaylin, Daphne, Chase, Austin, Connor, Sophia, Newman, and Piper, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our
