Bible Text: Philippians 4:4-7 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | The Lord is at hand, St. Paul says. The Greek is literally, the Lord is near. We can think of this in two ways. First, that Jesus will soon return to judge the living and the
Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | John the Baptist was the greatest preacher the world had ever seen. Unlike so many popular preachers today, he refused to pander to the crowds or cower before the elite: he was totally uncorruptible – no
Bible Text: Revelation 7:9-17, Matthew 24:1-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | Unlike the rapture, which is a completely made-up event found nowhere in the Bible, the Great Tribulation is real and explicitly taught in the Bible. We just heard it from Revelation: “these are they
Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | We’ll know when judgment day comes. It’ll be obvious. The sun will stop shining, the stars will fall from the sky, and we’ll see the Son of Man coming on the clouds. We’ll know when judgment
Bible Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18, Matthew 24:29-44 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | The teaching of a rapture, that before Jesus comes to judge the earth he will first snatch up the true believers into heaven for seven years as a great tribulation racks everyone else
Bible Text: Matthew 25:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus tells many parables about the Last Day, and in all of them he stresses two things. The first is that it will be unexpected. You don’t know the day or the hour, we just heard.
Bible Text: Matthew 9:18-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus had just been explaining why his disciples don’t fast. The disciples of John the Baptist had come to him, apparently offended, and asked, “Why do we fast and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t
Bible Text: John 8:31-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Reformation | 504 years ago today, Martin Luther posted 95 theses against the sale of indulgences on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany. Powerful people, bishops, pope, emperor, commanded Luther to retract what he wrote or die.
Bible Text: John 4:46-54 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | The request of the royal official was for Jesus to come down to Capernaum and heal his son. And Jesus refuses his request. He doesn’t go down to Capernaum to heal the man’s son. Jesus makes
Bible Text: Matthew 22:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus tells a short history of the world in our Gospel for this morning. And this history beautifully culminates with people coming to church. What we are doing right now is what God has ordered all
