Bible Text: Matthew 21:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard “Behold, your King is coming to you, humble.” It is good that Jesus deals with us in lowliness and gentleness. It is good for us that He comes to us humbly. There is great power is His humility, as we will see, and
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: John 4:46-54 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2023 | The few verses of today’s reading contain the entire scope and increase of faith in the Christian life. The royal official believed in Jesus, and thus went to Him in person to make his request. Then
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 14:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2023 | “One Sabbath, when [Jesus] went in to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully. And behold, there was a man before him who had dropsy.” Dropsy is an
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
