Bible Text: St John 20:19-31 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen. When He first rose from the dead and came to His disciples after His resurrection, Jesus breathed on them and said, “Receive the Holy Spirit.” Why does He breathe on them? We
Bible Text: St John 20:1–18 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Alleluia! Christ is risen! He is risen. And this is Jesus’ justification. That word is arguably the most important word in the Bible. St. Paul writes everything he writes to show this one point: we are justified by faith
Bible Text: St John 18-19 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard At Christmas we celebrated that the Son of God has become a man, and in Scripture we see evidences of both His divine nature and His human nature. On one occasion Jesus fell asleep in the boat, showing His humanity.
Bible Text: St Luke 22-23 | Preacher: Rev. John Hill The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. In the opening chorus of his St. Matthew’s Passion, Johann Sebastian Bach bids us to see. “Behold! Whom? The Bridegroom.” Behold. See. Look. And what follows is
Bible Text: St. John 13:1–15, 34–35 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus “For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.” That’s what you do in the Lord’s Supper – you preach, you proclaim, Jesus’ death, and you join
Bible Text: St Matthew’s Passion (26:1–27:66) | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus sent the disciples to bring the donkey and colt. He didn’t say anything about putting garments on the donkey. The disciples simply wanted to put something between their Lord and a dirty animal. Jesus deserves better than sitting
Bible Text: St John 8:42–59 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Our Gospel lesson plunges us into a debate that has lasted two chapters between Jesus and the Jewish leaders. There in the Temple in Jerusalem, Jesus has repeatedly told them they are seeking to kill Him. And they’ve repeatedly
Bible Text: 1 John 4 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus You’ve all seen I’m sure the COEXIST bumper sticker. It has the symbols of the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians, the LGBTQ advocates, the pagans and wiccans, the Hindus and the ying-yang Taoists, all these symbols together, spelling out
Bible Text: St John 6:1–15 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus The feeding of the five thousand is an act of gratuitous generosity. It’s totally unnecessary. It’s just Jesus lavishing His goodness on people. As soon as Jesus sees them coming he decides to feed them. There’s no hint they’re
Bible Text: 1 John 3 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus When I was a kid my dad would often say things like, “Christians don’t do that.” So, skipping church for sporting events: Christians don’t do that, dad would say. Saying God’s name in vain. Christians don’t do that. Getting
