Bible Text: St John 20:19-31 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen. When He first rose from the dead and came to His disciples after His resurrection, Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Why does He breathe on them? We
Bible Text: St John 20:1–18 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen. And this is Jesus’ justification. That word is arguably the most important word in the Bible. St. Paul writes everything he writes to show this one point: we are justified by faith
Bible Text: St. John 13:1–15, 34–35 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” That’s what you do in the Lord’s Supper – you preach, you proclaim, Jesus’ death, and you join
Bible Text: St John 8:42–59 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Our Gospel lesson plunges us into a debate that has lasted two chapters between Jesus and the Jewish leaders. There in the Temple in Jerusalem, Jesus has repeatedly told them they are seeking to kill Him. And they’ve repeatedly
Bible Text: 1 John 4 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus You’ve all seen I’m sure the COEXIST bumper sticker. It has the symbols of the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians, the LGBTQ advocates, the pagans and wiccans, the Hindus and the ying-yang Taoists, all these symbols together, spelling out
Bible Text: St John 6:1–15 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus The feeding of the five thousand is an act of gratuitous generosity. It’s totally unnecessary. It’s just Jesus lavishing His goodness on people. As soon as Jesus sees them coming he decides to feed them. There’s no hint they’re
Bible Text: 1 John 3 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus When I was a kid my dad would often say things like, “Christians don’t do that.” So, skipping church for sporting events: Christians don’t do that, dad would say. Saying God’s name in vain. Christians don’t do that. Getting
Bible Text: St Luke 11:14–28 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus The poor man in our Gospel, who’s oppressed by a demon, is a picture of all humanity. Obviously, he’s more than that. He’s a precious human being, whom Jesus loved, and saved from horrible oppression by the devil. He
Bible Text: 1 John 2 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus In a recent translation of the Bible, the translators decided to translate the word grace as “kindness,” with the reasoning that we don’t use the word grace anymore in daily conversation and so people don’t really know what it
Bible Text: St Matthew 15:21–28 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Our Lord Jesus tells us, “Ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and the door shall be opened unto you.” And it could be taken as a threefold repetition, Jesus stressing, ask, seek, knock, saying
