Bible Text: St Matthew 3:13–17 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus God’s work never fails. Baptism is God’s work. So your Baptism can’t fail you. Ever. If Baptism is our work, it can fail. Obviously. Everything I do, or you do, can fail. Unless the Lord builds the house, those
Bible Text: St Matthew 2:1–12 | Preacher: Rev. Pres. John Hill Dear friends in Christ: Grace be to you and peace from God our Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. Let us pray: Almighty and Most Merciful God, who didst in the beginning create the light,
Bible Text: St. Luke 2:21 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus It’s the shortest Gospel lesson in the church year but it contains everything the Christian Church teaches and preaches, everything we hold dear as Christians, and that we stake our life on in the new year. The little babe
Bible Text: St. Luke 2:22–40 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Merry Christmas! Simeon is in the Temple in Jerusalem. That’s where the Holy Spirit told him to go to see Jesus. That’s not insignificant. Where do you go to find Jesus? Not where your heart tells you to go.
Bible Text: St. John 1:1–14 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus If you look at the great Christmas hymns, which are sermons in themselves, literally, I could just get up here and recite Hark the Herald, Now Sing We Now Rejoice, and Of the Father’s Love Begotten, and O Jesus
Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.Rejoice tonight, dear saints: the Son of God has become a man! “For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord” (Lk.
Bible Text: St. John 1:19–28 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus It’s four days before Christmas. Why are we hearing about John the Baptist? He doesn’t seem like the man to inspire Christmas cheer. There was a satirical Christmas card making its rounds the last few years with a wild-eyed
Bible Text: Luke 2:21–24 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus We come this evening to the last of the three estates, the Church. The last two Wednesdays we’ve talked about Joseph and the home, the first estate, that Joseph though obviously not the biological father of Jesus was still a
Bible Text: St. Matthew 11:2–11 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. John the Baptist sits in prison. King Herod had taken his brother’s wife, John had told him, “It is not lawful for you to have her”
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1–14 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus We are focusing on Joseph, Mary’s husband, this Advent series, and how he teaches us to live in the three estates. Again, the three estates are the home, the state, and the church. God instituted each one and we each
