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
Bible Text: Acts 6:8-15, 7:54-60 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2021 | 8 And Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. 9 Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen (as it was called), and of the Cyrenians, and
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
