Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Last night I had a nightmare that an enormous and very hungry mountain lion was coming after my children in the backyard. I of course was filled with dread and panic and did everything I could
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2021 | There’s a particular Scripture passage that comes to mind when we think of the events of today’s Gospel reading, and it has come to mind for many people throughout the Church’s history. Here you have a
Bible Text: Matthew 5:17-26 | Preacher: Vicar Richard Sovitzky | Series: Trinity 2021 | God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble. In pride the sinful man imagines that he is a competent judge of righteousness. Such an attitude allows a man to excuse his words said in
Bible Text: Luke 5:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | There’s a beautiful irony in our Gospel lesson, an irony that wonderfully pictures for us the Christian life. Peter, James, and John make their living, provide for themselves and their families, by catching and selling fish.
Bible Text: Luke 6:36-42 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Dear Father in heaven, Fill your people with your Holy Spirit, that we may call on you as Father and adore the mercy you have shown us in Your Son. Grant us so to live every
Bible Text: Luke 15:1-32 | Preacher: Vicar Richard Sovitzky | Series: Trinity 2021 | God is merciful, and He deals with us in mercy. This is what Jesus teaches us with this set of parables. First, Jesus shows us that His Father loves us and is merciful, even though we
Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2021 | It was the Sabbath, and Jesus was at one of the most awkward dinner parties the world has ever seen. The Pharisees and other important people were watching Jesus carefully, and for no good purpose. Jesus,
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Dearest Jesus, Make us neither rich nor poor. If you give us riches, give us the heart to use them for your church and for our neighbor. If you give us poverty, keep from us all
Bible Text: John 3:1-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus says that no one will see the Kingdom of God or enter into it unless he is born again, born from above. This of course assumes that this is the great goal of mankind, to
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Pentecost 2021 | Dear friends in Christ, especially you, Hunter and Debbie and Adam and Layne and David and Zana and Preston, grace to you and peace from God the Father and from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
