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
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
