Bible Text: Matthew 8:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus If you are willing, you can make me clean. There are two things here. First, is the will of God. Is he willing to help you. The second is his power. Can he help you. Let’s take the second first. God
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus People were literally waiting in line to be baptized by John. “All the land of Judea, and those from Jerusalem, went out to him.” That’s what our Gospel says. And they were waiting in line because they were sinners. They wanted
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus After the magi have traveled hundreds of miles from the East, guided by a star, they end up in the wrong place. God put that star in the sky. What it was, we don’t know. Some think it was the light
Bible Text: Luke 2:22-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus I got to hold a little baby boy right after Divine Service on Christmas Day. And of course it got me thinking of Jesus, this little baby that you could toss in the air, so helpless and tiny. It brought the
Bible Text: Luke 2:1-20 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus It dawned on me the other day that How the Grinch Stole Christmas is just a retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It has exactly the same theme. And since these stories are now the most popular stories told on
Bible Text: John 1:19-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The people who come to John are talking about Christ but they don’t know who He is. This should sound familiar. The word Christ is on everyone’s lips today. People can’t help it. It’s Christmas. I think I heard Merry Christmas
Bible Text: Psalm 24 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Psalm 24 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads,
Bible Text: Matthew 21:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The prophets prophesied until John the Baptist and they all prophesied the same thing – the Christ would come (Christ means “anointed one” because they made men kings by anointing them with oil, so when they call Jesus the Christ, it
Bible Text: Matthew 25 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The English word “talent” comes from Jesus’ judgment day parable of the talents. That’s ironic because Jesus’ parable of the talents has just about nothing to do with talent, how much you have or how well you use it. In the
Bible Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus I don’t want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep. St. Paul had brought the Gospel to the Thessalonians just months before. They were worshipping false gods when he met them. They were without God and
