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Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus

3-19-23 Laetare

March 19, 2023
The feeding of the five thousand is Jesus’ great miracle. It is the one recorded in all four gospels. It is the one witnessed by the most people. We call it the feeding of the five thousand, but that was just the men, including women and children the number was tens of thousands, especially if families like mine were there. It is also the miracle that is most obviously a sign, most obviously meant to…
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Passage: John 6:1-15
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3-12-23 Oculi

March 12, 2023
The proverb says, “Where there are no oxen, the trough is clean; But much increase comes by the strength of an ox." I’ve applied this to my house lately, “Where there are no children, the house is clean, but much increase comes from the presence of children.” It’s true, the more activity going on, the more messes you’re going to have. It’s just the way it is, things don’t get done without making messes. Ask…
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Passage: Luke 11:14-28

3-5-23 Reminiscere

March 5, 2023
The mother knows her daughter has a demon. It doesn’t matter what exactly the demon is doing to the poor girl – we’re not told that – what matters is that it’s a demon doing it. So the woman doesn’t run to a doctor or a shrink or a pill. She needs Jesus, needs divine help, because her daughter is oppressed by hell. This is a view of the world that our time needs to…
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Passage: Matthew 15:21-28
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2-19-23 Quinquagesima

February 19, 2023
Why was blind Bartimaeus begging outside Jericho? He shouldn’t have been, he shouldn’t have needed to. The Lord says in Deuteronomy 15: “there shall not be a beggar among you,” and God laid down laws to make sure of this in ancient Israel. In Leviticus God gave the law that if you are gathering your grain from your field, you may not cut all the way down to the ground and you may not pick…
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Passage: Luke 18:31-43
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2-12-23 Sexagesima

February 12, 2023
The Word Jesus preaches is like Him. Its power is hidden in weakness. When I say it’s hidden I don’t mean that it’s hidden to you. It’s not; it shouldn’t be. It’s hidden to the unbelievers, not to Christians. You can say that Christ’s power is hidden in the cross, in suffering, but what do you see when you look at the cross of Jesus – you see power, don’t you? I do. It is…
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Passage: Luke 8:4-15
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2-5-23 Septuagesima

February 5, 2023
The vineyard is the Christian Church. God often talks about His people being His vineyard or the branches of his vine. Isaiah says, “My well beloved has a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.” Jesus says, “I am the vine, you are the branches.” It’s a happy image, fruit and wine and life. The heathen poets knew this too – they romanticized farming, especially the dressing of vines, as the most wonderful work, the kind…
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Passage: Matthew 20:1-16
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1-22-23 Epiphany 3

January 22, 2023
Jesus presents us with two men of faith today. The one he praises and marvels at and the other he sends to the temple. He’s not condemning the one and praising the other. But it’s very obvious that He stresses the beauty of the one’s faith, “Amen, with no one in Israel have I seen such faith!” That includes the leper who was just healed. That man had faith in Jesus. He came to Him,…
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Passage: Matthew 8:1-13
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1-15-23 Epiphany 2

January 15, 2023
Jesus performs his first great miracle at a wedding. He does it on purpose, obviously, to tell us that He is our Creator and that He’s come to claim us as His Bride. Our translation says it’s the first of his signs, which is true enough, but the Greek says it’s the beginning of his signs. And this word didn’t fall from the Holy Spirit unawares. It’s the first word in the Bible – bereshith,…
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Passage: John 2:1-11
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1-8-23 The Baptism of Our Lord

January 8, 2023
As with everything Jesus does, His Baptism is not for Him but for us. Obviously Jesus doesn’t need Baptism. That’s why John says, I need to be baptized by you and do you come to me? Baptism is for the forgiveness of sins – John preached that, Jesus preached that, the apostles preached that: repent and be baptized for the forgiveness of your sins, this is basic to what baptism is: I acknowledge one baptism…
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Passage: Matthew 3:13-17
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1-1-23 Circumcision and Name of Jesus

January 1, 2023
Names are supposed to mean something and in the Bible they actually do. Today people pick names for their children because they like how they sound or because it’s a family name or because it’s a Norwegian name and they’re Norwegian or a German name and they’re German. But in the Bible names mean something. Look at Abraham – it means father of many nations, so that every time that name Abraham was spoken the…
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Passage: Luke 2:21
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