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
Bible Text: John 16:16-22 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2023 | Alleluia! Christ is risen! A year ago I went to a pastors’ conference in Uinta County and on the way we stopped at a dive in Rock Springs to eat lunch. It was a dive, so
Bible Text: John 20:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2023 | Alleluia! Christ is risen! As soon as He rises from the dead Jesus offers the forgiveness of sins. He could offer anything. I suppose more people would come to Him if He offered something else. They
Bible Text: John 20:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2023 | Alleluia! Christ is risen. Our Lord Jesus compares the Kingdom of heaven to a man who finds a precious treasure in a field, and he goes and he sells all he has to buy that field,
Bible Text: Galatians 6:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Holy Week 2023 | Paul’s passionate defense of the Gospel ends with a passionate appeal to love one another. Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Do good to all, especially those of the household
Bible Text: Matthew 26-27 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Holy Week 2023 | The image of the passion of Jesus has become so common among us that we can pass by it, hear about it, talk about it with no feeling. You can literally sit down, as I
