Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The excuses not to come to the banquet are really bad. He doesn’t have to test his oxen. No one buys an ox unless he’s tested it already. And he doesn’t need to go look at his field. No one buys
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Everything we have belongs to God. This isn’t simply because we pledge all we have to God, it’s not that we first give all we have to God, and then it belongs to Him. It’s that it all already belongs to
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus St. Peter confessed Jesus and said, “You are the Christ the Son of the living God.” And the Lord Jesus told his disciples that He would build His Church on this confession and the gates of hell would not prevail against
Bible Text: John 15:26-16:4 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Dear friends in Christ, especially you confirmands, beloved of God, baptized into Christ’s death and resurrection, heirs of eternal life, Zander, Zaylin, Daphne, Chase, Austin, Connor, Sophia, Newman, and Piper, grace to you and peace from God our Father and our
Bible Text: John 16:23-30 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus There are two extremes Christians fall into when it comes to prayer. Sometimes we’ll even fall into them one after another. The first is to expect too much from prayer. That seems impossible, that we could expect too much from prayer,
Bible Text: John 16:5-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus speaks the words of our Gospel to his eleven disciples the night He is betrayed; the next day He will be crucified. When He says He is going away, “But now I go away to Him who sent Me,” He
Bible Text: John 16:16-22 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus “I will see you again and your joy will be full, and no one will take that joy from you.” The joy of heaven and the resurrection will consist of this – to see the Lord Jesus. Yes, there will be
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
