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
Bible Text: Matthew 9:1-8 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus had just been asked to leave the land of the Gadarenes. That’s why he got into a boat and sailed across the sea to his town of Capernaum. In the land of the Gadarenes, Jesus
Bible Text: Matthew 18:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Our Lord Jesus loves children. He calls them to himself. He takes them in his arms. He blesses them. He speaks of the angels who watch over them. And here in our Gospel he even tells us to become like
Bible Text: Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | No one asked the Lord Jesus to raise this young man from the dead. No one sent for him. The mother doesn’t cry out to him. His disciples don’t urge him on. Instead, Jesus comes and
Bible Text: Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Which of you can add an hour to his life? But your heavenly Father gives you endless days, eternity. If you call on God as your Father realize that it makes no sense to worry about
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Dear Lord Jesus Christ, make us always thankful for the right things, both for the life and health you give to the body and for the salvation you give to body and soul. Keep us from
