Bible Text: John 8:42-59 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | Whoever keeps my Word will never see death. This is the assertion of the Lord Jesus. The Greek is more elaborate and expressive and beautiful, Whoever guards my Word will by no means see death for
Bible Text: Luke 11:14-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. In all the histories of the New Testament where people come to Jesus and are healed or saved from the devil, we rarely get
Bible Text: Mark 16:16 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | Last week we talked about why Baptism must have power. It has Jesus’ word. And Jesus’ word is always powerful. It created the world, it raised the dead, it forgives sins. And the particular words of
Bible Text: Matthew 15:21-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | The Holy Spirit tells us Jesus was in the region of Tyre and Sidon. The first thing we have to ask ourselves is why He’s there. Tyre and Sidon, if you know your geography, are north
Bible Text: Matthew 28:19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | There is really no disagreement between the Baptists and Lutherans when it comes to the definition of Baptism. Or better put, you’re not going to find anyone who disagrees with Luther’s definition, “Baptism is not just
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | There is a character in one of Dostoevsky’s novels who finally convinces himself that God exists because he sees from the evil of the world that the devil must exist. The devil’s greatest lie has been
Bible Text: Matthew 6:16-21 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2021 | Every Lent is a time to reassess our lives, the way we live, to realize that everything else is acting, an embarrassing show, except life lived under God and for heaven. This is what Jesus is
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2021 | When we think about power we usually think about force, about what we call active power, the power to compel and control. The government has power, because it has laws backed up with guns. And as
Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2021 | Jesus presents working in the vineyard as a privilege. What else are you going to do? Sit in the marketplace with nothing to do, worthlessly whiling away the time? And it is a privilege to work
Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2021 | We’re used to saying that Jesus’ turning water into wine in Cana of Galilee was his first miracle. The King James even translates it this way: “this beginning of miracles did Jesus in Cana of Galilee.”
