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
Bible Text: Luke 18:9-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus An old Latin proverb reads duo cum faciunt idem, non est idem. When two people do the same thing, it isn’t the same thing at all. This is what Jesus shows us in the parable of the Pharisee and the tax
Bible Text: Luke 19:41-48 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus When Jesus weeps over Jerusalem He is not simply weeping over a city as some political center. He isn’t interested in politics here. He had no special fondness for any political state then, and He isn’t particularly fond of any political
Bible Text: Luke 16:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard In today’s parable Jesus sets two men before us. First there’s a rich man who has great wealth and possessions and lands. He lets out his land to sharecroppers who pay him with a portion of their harvest. Then there’s the
Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus says “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Beware of false prophets, Jesus says, because they will tear you apart, rob you of your faith, and do so with a smile
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The feeding of the four thousand is a greater miracle than the feeding of the five thousand. Everyone talks about the feeding of the five thousand, because it happens first and it’s a bigger number, obviously. In fact, the Bible-bashers will
Bible Text: Matthew 5:17-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. Why would anyone think that about Jesus? That he came to destroy the Law? Because He preached the free forgiveness of sins. And when you preach that forgiveness,
Bible Text: Luke 5:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing!” (Lk. 5:5). Peter is exhausted. He worked through the night: moving the boat, casting the nets, pulling up the nets with nothing in them. “Next time. Next cast.” He drove himself on, spot
