Bible Text: Luke 16:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | The Holy Spirit gives us a lot to think about in this short parable. The overall theme is very obvious – if men work so hard and exert such energy to reach an earthly goal, then
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | When you look at Jesus feeding the four thousand you are looking at the only God there is. You see he’s with people, pays attention to them, cares for them. That’s God. There is no god
Bible Text: Matthew 5:17-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. Your righteousness is your goodness. Have you been good enough to enter heaven? Good enough
Bible Text: Luke 6:36-42 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Can the blind lead the blind? Won’t they both end up falling into a pit? The picture Jesus paints here is almost comedic: people trying to guide each other with no idea where they’re going, and
Bible Text: Luke 15:1-32 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Abortion is evil because it makes man the determiner of the value of human life. Whether I or you, the government, a confused young woman or a selfish young man, human beings cannot be the ones
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | The parable of the rich man and Lazarus is Jesus’ final stress that He means what He says about trusting in money, in the stuff of this world. If you do it, you go to hell.
Bible Text: John 3:1-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2023 | Isaiah sees the Lord in the Temple. This is where the Lord promised to be. The Lord of course is everywhere. In Him all things exist, in Him we live and move and have our being.
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Pentecost 2023 | “Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled. Neither let it be afraid.” These words of the
Bible Text: John 16:23-33 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2023 | There was a woman in Luther’s time who read the words of our Gospel: “Whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give to you,” and decided that she was going to call bread
Bible Text: John 16:5-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2023 | Jesus describes the Holy Spirit’s work in the Kingdom of the Church by comparing it to other kingdoms of this world. He says, “When the Holy Spirit comes he will convict the world of sin, of
