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.”
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2021 | Jesus teaches us to value Baptism above everything in the world. It may seem silly, to so value water and words, to put so much stock in it, but then again, look at what the world
Bible Text: Matthew 2:13-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2020 | He shall be called a Nazarene. And he was. It’s remarkable to see what contempt is poured on Jesus because He grew up in the backwoods town of Nazareth in Galilee. When his own disciple Nathanael
Bible Text: Luke 2:1-20 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2020 | Heaven was opened that first Christmas. Everything that belonged in heaven was suddenly on earth. The glory of God shone round about them, the angels filled the air, music meant for immortals struck their ears, and
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,
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
