Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The complaint of the workers in the vineyard against the owner of the vineyard is that he’s unfair – “these men have worked only one hour and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus On the Mount of Transfiguration stand six men, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. Peter and James and John are Jesus’ closest disciples. They will end up preaching Jesus all over the world after His death and resurrection. James is
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus “The heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows His handiwork.” That’s Psalm 19. God spoke in the beginning. That’s how He created all things. With His word. And now the creation He spoke into existence speaks in its
Bible Text: Luke 2:22-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus When St. Paul says that God sent His Son in the fullness of time, he’s not simply saying that it was the perfect time in human history to send Jesus. It was that. You couldn’t pick a better time, when all
Bible Text: John 1:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The Word is the eternal Son of the Father. He was in the beginning with God, through Him everything was created. And the first thing He created was light. That light shows and was always meant to show beautiful things, because
Bible Text: Luke 2:1-20 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Pontius Pilate spent ten years as governor of Judea. The Roman Emperor Tiberius, the adopted son and successor of Caesar Augustus, sent him to govern the province in AD 27. It was at the beginning of his ten-year term as governor,
Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus John the Baptist was no reed shaking in the wind, but he was grass, and the wind blows and the grass withers and the flower fades. He was a great preacher, a great prophet, more than a prophet, the One who
Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Heaven and earth will pass away, Jesus says. This means that what you see and taste and feel and smell is going to pass away, the stuff of this earth, the lakes, the mountains, the sky above you, the sun, the
Bible Text: Matthew 25:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Christians in the early church, immediately after the ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ into heaven, expected His return daily. Already in the second generation, people began doubting that he would return because it had been
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
