Bible Text: Matthew 9:18-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | It’s beautiful to see Christian faith at work, especially in two people as different as this man and this woman in our Gospel lesson. The faith is the same. First, and most obviously, their faith is
Bible Text: Matthew 22:15-22 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Should we pay taxes to Caesar or not? Why would this be the question that catches Jesus? If He says, “No,” obviously they could hand him in to the authorities for insurrection – it’s illegal not
Bible Text: Matthew 23:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | It is an amazing and beautiful thing that Jesus tells his disciples to listen to the Pharisees and do what they command. Jesus has called these same Pharisees blind and leaders of the blind. He’s told his disciples to beware
Bible Text: Matthew 22:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | When Jesus says that the king will destroy those murderers and burn their city, he’s very literally talking about the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Jesus talks about this a lot – about half of
Bible Text: Matthew 9:1-8 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | The four friends who carry the paralytic ask Jesus for nothing, at least not with words. They don’t say, “Please heal him, he’s a paralytic, he’s our friend.” They don’t confess their faith in Jesus by
Bible Text: Matthew 22:34-46 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | It’s easy to blame the Pharisee here, as usual, and the text invites us to do it – he came to test Jesus. That’s bad. And we should judge the Pharisee, obviously, because the Bible judges
Bible Text: Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | St. Paul says that we do not grieve like the heathen, like those who have no hope. But he does not say that we do not grieve. Instead he tells us to grieve with those who
Bible Text: Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | The Christian cares more than anyone in the world, and yet the Christian is the most carefree of all people in the world. Our Lord tells us to cast our cares on Him, because He cares
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | The lepers aren’t healed yet when they make their way to the priests. It’s on the way that they are cleansed. But when they start out, they are as leprous as they were before. They believe
Bible Text: Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | What shall I do to inherit eternal life is a nonsense question. I used to want to blame Jesus for not pointing this out. It seems unfair. Even dishonest to the lawyer. The lawyer asks a
