Bible Text: John 20:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus came to his disciples when the doors were locked for fear of the Jews. The obvious import of these words is that Jesus simply stood in the midst of them, that he miraculously passed through closed and locked doors. I
Bible Text: John 20:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Alleluia! Christ is risen! The prophet Isaiah tells us how, when the Babylonian armies were surrounding Jerusalem to destroy it, the people took out their wine and slaughtered their oxen, and feasted and danced and laughed and said, “Eat, drink, and
Bible Text: John 18-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Shortly after the year of our Lord 300, the Roman Emperor Maximinus, who ruled over Egypt and Syria, and so over the holy land also, began the last great persecution of Christians before the Edict of Milan made Christianity legal in
Bible Text: John 8:46-59 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The Jewish leaders insulted and slandered Jesus. They called the Son of God a Samaritan and said the divine majesty had a demon. Jesus had to become like us in every way except for sin. He is the perfect substitute here.
Bible Text: John 6:1-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Twelve baskets of fragments are left over from five loaves and two fish. Obviously this highlights the miracle, you end up with more at the end than you started with in the beginning. But that’s not the point. The point is
Bible Text: Luke 11:14-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The devil deals in absurdities. And he makes people absurd. He will lead people to do and believe the most ridiculous things. The Pharisees’ accusation against Jesus is a perfect example. It’s simply not believable. Jesus casts out a demon, a
Bible Text: Matthew 15:21-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David, my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. Have mercy on me, she says, not, have mercy on my daughter, which seems strange at first, but the reality is that to have
Bible Text: Matthew 6:16-21 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus wants us to live our life before God, not just before men. It’s not simply other people we have to deal with. It’s God. In fact, Jesus says you should, in a way, fake it in front of others. When
Bible Text: Luke 18:31-43 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus So these three remain, faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Love has to be the greatest, because God is love and God is the greatest. God is not hope. He doesn’t hope for things. He knows.
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus God’s word works. It’s active. It does every time what God sent it out to do, “My word shall not return to me void,” God says, that means it won’t do nothing, it will do what He sent it to do.
