Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | Jesus is in Gentile lands when He feeds the four thousand. It’s a deserted place south of the Sea of Galilee, barren because it’s summertime, and in that part of the world nothing grows in the
Bible Text: Luke 15:1-10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | God is happy when sinners repent and so we should be happy too. Jesus’ picture of repentance is being lost to God and then being found by God. The shepherd leaves the ninety-nine in the wilderness
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | Abraham was a very rich man. But he didn’t trust in his riches, he didn’t love them. When he and his nephew Lot had too much, so many animals that the land couldn’t hold them all,
Bible Text: John 3:1-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | We don’t know who wrote the Athanasian Creed. Athanasius didn’t. Someone wrote it in the fifth century and named it after Athanasius. Athanasius lived a good hundred years earlier. He was the great defender of the
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Pentecost 2022 | The Holy Spirit’s joy is to bring Jesus’ words to the whole world. That’s very clearly what the Lord Jesus Himself says and very clearly what the Holy Spirit does on Pentecost. The scene, the reality
Bible Text: John 15:26-16:4 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | It may seem absurd to compare the persecution of the apostles with the persecution of Christians in America today. “They will put you out of the synagogues,” Jesus says, “Yea, the hour is coming when anyone
Bible Text: John 16:23-33 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | Dear Father in heaven, Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, bids us ask you in His name and promises You will give what we ask. We come before you today and ask your blessing on these
Bible Text: John 16:5-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to comfort his disciples. The Holy Spirit is not some impersonal power of God that He uses to speak to you. He is not like a scalpel or like a microphone,
Bible Text: John 10:11-16 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | There is no word used more, when Jesus talks about his sheep, than the word “mine.” In fact, there are two words for “mine” in the Greek and Jesus uses them both and uses them constantly
Bible Text: John 20:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | Jesus did many other signs in front of His disciples that are not written in this book, but these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that
