Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2022 | The devil is a heretic. He heard at Jesus’ Baptism the Father say, “This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased.” And he still tried to tempt Jesus to sin. Because he saw
Bible Text: 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2022 | The Holy Spirit has a reason for the words he uses. Many have, many would like to, explain the words away, “He made him who knew no sin to be sin for us.” It’s too
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2022 | We know in part. There are limits to our knowledge. And this should keep us humble and at the same time excited. I say humble because we live in the age of intellectual arrogance. The
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Gesima 2022 | The most precious thing you have is not your house or your car or your investments or your job or even your family. It is the Word of God. And if you guard it and keep
Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Gesima 2022 | In Matthew 19, a chapter before today’s Gospel reading, Jesus spoke with a rich young man. The young man asked, “What good deed must I do to have eternal life?” Well, if it’s a question of
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Transfiguration 2022 | St. Peter says “we didn’t follow cleverly devised myths when we made know to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Here he’s making a point not just about truth but about time.
Bible Text: Matthew 8:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | The Christian message is without doubt a message that calls us to humility. We see this in our Old Testament lesson – Naaman has to be humbled, has to submit to the lowly words of Elisha
Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding. This wasn’t an accident. God doesn’t do things on accident. This is what we prayed in our collect this morning, ‘Almighty and everlasting God, who governs all things
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2022 | The Baptism of Jesus, on the face of it, is probably the strangest thing Jesus does. His miracles aren’t surprising. Despite the modernist insistence that miracles can’t happen, miracles are precisely what have to happen once
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Epiphany 2022 | “When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.” Today the joy of Christmas gives way to the joy of Epiphany. The word Epiphany means “appearing.” It means that something is now seen or
