Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus

12-20-20 Rorate Coeli

Bible Text: John 1:19-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | The name of this Sunday, the Sunday right before Christmas, is Rorate Coeli. It’s a beautiful name, because it expresses exactly the significance of Christmas. Rorate coeli are the first words of our Introit in Latin,

December 20, 2020
Bible Text: John 1:19-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | The name of this Sunday, the Sunday right before Christmas, is Rorate Coeli. It’s a beautiful…

12-13-20 Gaudete

Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | Among those born of women there has arisen none greater than John the Baptist. If St. Paul can say, I am not aware of anything against myself, John the Baptist could say it a thousand times

December 13, 2020
Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | Among those born of women there has arisen none greater than John the Baptist. If St.…

12-6-20 Populus Zion

Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | We’re used to hearing about the world being evil here in Church. I preach it. Pastor Richard preaches it. The Bible preaches it. Jesus says, “In the world you will have trouble.” He calls the devil

December 6, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | We’re used to hearing about the world being evil here in Church. I preach it. Pastor…

11-29-20 Ad Te Levavi

Bible Text: Matthew 21:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | The time will come, and it’s sooner now than when we first believed, when Christ will come in splendor and power to free His Church from every evil of body and soul. We confess every Sunday

November 29, 2020
Bible Text: Matthew 21:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2020 | The time will come, and it’s sooner now than when we first believed, when Christ will…

11-25-20 Thanksgiving Eve

Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | It seems 2020 has given us more reason to complain than give thanks. The prayer of most is that God mercifully end this year as quickly as possible. We should be careful what we ask for. There’s no promise that

November 25, 2020
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | It seems 2020 has given us more reason to complain than give thanks. The prayer of most is that God…

11-15-20 Trinity 23

Bible Text: Matthew 22:15-22 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | St. Paul reminds us that our citizenship is in heaven. Jesus is our King. He has already conquered. His is a victorious Kingdom. It won’t fall and it won’t fail us. The gates of hell will not prevail against it.

November 15, 2020
Bible Text: Matthew 22:15-22 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | St. Paul reminds us that our citizenship is in heaven. Jesus is our King. He has already conquered. His is…

11-8-20 Trinity 22

It is heavenly when brothers dwell together in unity, as our Gradual says. It is hellish when they envy one another and hold grudges and refuse to forgive. This is what Jesus means when he speaks of hell as weeping and gnashing of teeth. It is the devil’s great aim, especially in these last days, to pit us against one another, to make us refuse reconciliation, to hold grudges, to withhold forgiveness from our brothers in the Kingdom of heaven. The world attacks us, entices us, lies to us, and we suffer this together, we must suffer it together. And we suffer it together strong and united, only when we rely on the forgiveness won by our Lord Jesus’ blood and given to us freely here in Christ’s Church, when this forms our faith and so our lives. Without this forgiveness, the wolf will scatter the sheep and there will be none to deliver. We rely on it completely. And if we are to meet the years ahead together, we need to live in forgiveness for one another. This is why Jesus tells us the parable he tells us today.

November 8, 2020
It is heavenly when brothers dwell together in unity, as our Gradual says. It is hellish when they envy one another and hold grudges and refuse to forgive. This is what Jesus means when he speaks of hell as weeping and gnashing of teeth. It is the devil’s great aim, especially in these last days, to pit us against one another, to make us refuse reconciliation, to hold grudges, to withhold forgiveness from our brothers in the Kingdom of heaven. The world attacks us, entices us, lies to us, and we suffer this together, we must suffer it together. And we suffer it together strong and united, only when we rely on the forgiveness won by our Lord Jesus’ blood and given to us freely here in Christ’s Church, when this forms our faith and so our lives. Without this forgiveness, the wolf will scatter the sheep and there will be none to deliver. We rely on it completely. And if we are to meet the years ahead together, we need to live in forgiveness for one another. This is why Jesus tells us the parable he tells us today.

10-25-20 Trinity 20

Come to the feast, the Lord says. He sends his servants out to invite the whole world. So, it’s not men and women and boys and girls who invite him into their hearts and their lives, it’s He who invites them into His. We need to reverse the vocabulary of our current American Christian scene; this talk of us inviting Jesus into our hearts. You won’t find the Bible talking that way. Instead, Jesus is consistently the inviter and we are the invitee. Come to me, He says. Come to the feast, He says.

October 25, 2020
Come to the feast, the Lord says. He sends his servants out to invite the whole world. So, it’s not men and women and boys and girls who invite him into their hearts and their lives, it’s He who invites them into His. We need to reverse the vocabulary of our current American Christian scene; this talk of us inviting Jesus into our hearts. You won’t find the Bible talking that way. Instead, Jesus is consistently the inviter and we are the invitee. Come to me, He says. Come to the feast, He says.

10-11-20 Trinity 18

When we see our failure to love. When we see our great need for forgiveness from our God. Then we have no business asking about the law. It will only condemn, expose our pride and our envy and our resentment and our apathy, and knock us further down. But this question, the question on which the history of the world turns, is what we need asked, “Who is the Christ?”

October 11, 2020
When we see our failure to love. When we see our great need for forgiveness from our God. Then we have no business asking about the law. It will only condemn, expose our pride and our envy and our resentment and our apathy, and knock us further down. But this question, the question on which the history of the world turns, is what we need asked, “Who is the Christ?”

10-4-20 Trinity 17

“God resists the proud,
But gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.”

October 4, 2020
“God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble. Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.”
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