Bible Text: Matthew 15:21-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2022 | I can’t stand for very long, so this sermon isn’t going to be very long. So I’ll try to make each word count. The woman in our Gospel sees and experiences Jesus’ rejection. He ignores her.
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2022 | The devil is a heretic. He heard at Jesus’ Baptism the Father say, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” And he still tried to tempt Jesus to sin. Because he saw
Bible Text: 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2022 | The Holy Spirit has a reason for the words he uses. Many have, many would like to, explain the words away, “He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us.” It’s too
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2022 | We know in part. There are limits to our knowledge. And this should keep us humble and at the same time excited. I say humble because we live in the age of intellectual arrogance. The
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2022 | The most precious thing you have is not your house or your car or your investments or your job or even your family. It is the Word of God. And if you guard it and keep
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Transfiguration 2022 | St. Peter says “we didn’t follow cleverly devised myths when we made know to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here he’s making a point not just about truth but about time.
Bible Text: Matthew 8:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | The Christian message is without doubt a message that calls us to humility. We see this in our Old Testament lesson – Naaman has to be humbled, has to submit to the lowly words of Elisha
Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding. This wasn’t an accident. God doesn’t do things on accident. This is what we prayed in our collect this morning, ‘Almighty and everlasting God, who governs all things
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | The Baptism of Jesus, on the face of it, is probably the strangest thing Jesus does. His miracles aren’t surprising. Despite the modernist insistence that miracles can’t happen, miracles are precisely what have to happen once
Bible Text: Matthew 2:13-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2021 | What happened on Christmas makes it very clear how God wants to deal with us. He comes as a humble little child, the angels speak peace, goodwill from God to men. The angels come as an
