Bible Text: St Luke 19:41–48 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus What do you think of, what image do you have in your mind, when you think of Jesus, your Lord? The answer for me, usually, is a man beaten and bloody, crown of thorns on his sacred head, suffering
Bible Text: St Luke 16:1–13 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus I heard this week once again a song that misquoted the Bible (it was some country song this time) and said that money was the root of all evil. The Bible never says that. It says the love of
Bible Text: St Matthew 7:15–23 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Beware of false prophets. That’s false teachers. Jesus never says, Beware of robbers or murderers or grizzly bears. He takes it for granted that we’re going to protect our bodies and the bodies of those we love. This is
Bible Text: St Matthew St Mark 8:1–9 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The feeding of the four thousand took place in the wilderness, and the first thing we have to square with is the fact that
Bible Text: St Matthew 5:17–26 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus isn’t using some figure of speech when he says that our righteousness has to exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees or we won’t enter into the kingdom of heaven. He’s not exaggerating, this isn’t hyperbole. He
Bible Text: St Luke 5:1–11 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Peter had every reason to believe from his own experience that he knew better than Jesus how to fish. Peter was a fisherman. Jesus was the son of a carpenter. Jesus was a preacher, and preachers are not famous
Bible Text: St Luke 6:36–42 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus There’s a temptation not to take Jesus’ words here to heart, and instead concentrate on all the ways people misuse and abuse them. “Judge not, and you will not be judged.” This is the most misquoted verse in the
Bible Text: Luke 15:1-32 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Today’s Gospel presents us with the heart of Christianity: that sinners are freely justified by Christ’s grace as a gift. Every other religion on earth leaves us looking to the work of our own hands for assurance of salvation, an assurance
St Luke 14:15–24 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard A great danger for the Christian life is to apply the Word of God to others, but not to yourself. I mention this because today’s Gospel reading is one of the easiest to think of in terms of someone else who sits
Bible Text: St John 3:1–17 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus The Christian Church sets aside this day, Trinity Sunday, to focus on who God is, the three in one, the Holy Trinity. We confess the Athanasian creed, the only Sunday of the church year we get to do that,
