Bible Text: Matthew 18:21-35 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The purpose of a parable is to give you a story and get you to agree with the obvious point of the story, and then, when you agree, you’re fully committed, then to show you that the point applies to you.
Bible Text: John 4:46-54 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Unless you see signs and wonders you will by no means believe. This is simply a fact. Jesus puts it in the plural you, y’all, he’s not just addressing the official, he’s addressing everyone who will listen. You won’t believe unless
Bible Text: Matthew 22:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Many are called, but few are chosen. Those are the words Jesus gives as the lesson, the moral, of his parable, and so they’re the words we should take to heart. Many are called means all are called. This is how
Bible Text: Matthew 9:1-8 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Four men bring their paralyzed friend to Jesus, and they will not let anything get in their way. You can picture these four burden-bearers hurrying through the street to the house where Jesus is, others who are unencumbered passing them by
Bible Text: Luke 14:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Sabbath means rest. God created the world and all that there is in six days and on the seventh He rested from His labors. He wasn’t tired from all the work. “He who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.” It wasn’t
Bible Text: Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus’ raising this boy from the dead is more than what it appears. It sounds strange to say, because how can there be something greater than giving life to a dead man? In the history of the world this had never
Bible Text: Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Last year I taught how there’s a difference between worrying and caring. God calls you to care about things deeply, but never to worry. St. Paul says, “Be anxious about nothing, but with prayers and supplications make your requests known to
Bible Text: Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Our reading starts by noting that Jesus was on His way to Jerusalem. In Luke 9 Jesus “set His face to go to Jerusalem” (Lk. 9:51), and in Luke 19 He arrives in Jerusalem, and for ten chapters Jesus is journeying
Bible Text: Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard I pray, I sincerely pray, that you never desire what the lawyer in today’s reading desired, for desire what he desired is to desire hell. He asked a simple enough question, albeit a bit of a strange one: “Teacher, what shall
Bible Text: Mark 7:31-37 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard There are several Gospel readings during the course of the Church Year that begin with Jesus changing location: “When Jesus had come down from the mountain” (Mt. 8:1, Epiphany 3). “Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, and led them
