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10-4-26 Eighteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Matthew 22:34-46 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus wants to talk about the Law.  He knows how to shut His adversaries down when He doesn’t want to answer them.  For example, when the chief priests and elders ask by what authority He’s doing such things as overturning

October 4, 2026
Bible Text: St Matthew 22:34-46 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus wants to talk about the Law.  He knows how to shut His adversaries down when He doesn’t want to…

9-27-26 The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels

Bible Text: St Matthew 18:1-11 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus If it were true, and it isn’t, but if it were true that all we are is material, physical stuff, then it would mean that your thoughts, your feelings, your intense love for your children or your wife or

September 27, 2026
Bible Text: St Matthew 18:1-11 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus If it were true, and it isn’t, but if it were true that all we are is material, physical…

9-20-26 Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Around the dinner table this week, the kids started talking about how much they feared me when they were little. That hurt my feelings, because I imagine I’m a harmless, loveable, little fuzzball, but the fact is when you

September 20, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 7:11-17 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Around the dinner table this week, the kids started talking about how much they feared me when they were…

9-13-26 Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus isn’t naïve. He isn’t saying you shouldn’t worry because there’s nothing really wrong, you’re just being dramatic. No. He knows there’s plenty going wrong. He ends his talk about worry with exactly this: sufficient for the day is

September 13, 2026
Bible Text: St Matthew 6:24-34 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus isn’t naïve. He isn’t saying you shouldn’t worry because there’s nothing really wrong, you’re just being dramatic. No.…

9-6-26 Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus is on the way to Jerusalem; that’s how the reading starts (Lk. 17:11).  Jesus has been on His way to Jerusalem since chapter 9 of Luke’s Gospel, where it says, “when the time had come for Him to be

September 6, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus is on the way to Jerusalem; that’s how the reading starts (Lk. 17:11).  Jesus has been on His way…

8-30-26 Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Right before our Gospel lesson, Jesus says the famous words, words you find all over in John’s Gospel, but come into Luke’s Gospel so explicitly only here, and they are worth quoting for you this morning, “All things have

August 30, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Right before our Gospel lesson, Jesus says the famous words, words you find all over in John’s Gospel, but…

8-16-26 Eleventh Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 18:9–14| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus False gods don’t just come in the form of an Aphrodite or a Zeus, or even an Allah or a Buddha or the bizarre caricature of the Christian God found in Mormonism’s heavenly father. They’re not always so obvious. People

August 9, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 18:9–14| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus False gods don’t just come in the form of an Aphrodite or a Zeus, or even an Allah or a…

8-9-26 Tenth Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 19:41–48| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus In the year AD 70 the Roman general Titus breached the walls of Jerusalem and instructed his army to destroy everything (and everyone) in it. The soldiers set fire to the temple and burned it to the ground, they demolished

August 9, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 19:41–48| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus In the year AD 70 the Roman general Titus breached the walls of Jerusalem and instructed his army to destroy…

8-2-26 Ninth Sunday After Trinity

Bible Text: St Luke 16:1–13| Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard On the surface this is a very strange parable.  It makes sense that a man who was committing fraud loses his job.  It makes sense that if he had no scruples to begin with, then he’d have no problem committing more fraud

August 2, 2026
Bible Text: St Luke 16:1–13| Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard On the surface this is a very strange parable.  It makes sense that a man who was committing fraud loses his job. …

7-19-26 Seventh Sunday after Trinity

Bible Text: St Mark 8:1–9 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard In the Old Testament reading this morning we heard a description of the Garden of Eden.  The garden had a great river watering it, trees with all manner of fruit, all the fresh produce one could imagine.  And in contrast

July 19, 2026
Bible Text: St Mark 8:1–9 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard In the Old Testament reading this morning we heard a description of the Garden of Eden.  The garden had a…
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