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Bible Text: St Luke 10:23–37 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus often points to foreigners, and especially Samaritans, as examples of faith. We’ll see this again with the ten lepers next week – the one who comes back to thank Jesus is a Samaritan. I often just assume that

Bible Text: St Mark 7:31–37 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Very clearly Jesus’ healing of the deafmute is very different from his other miracles. Usually he just speaks the word and it happens. Because He’s God, the eternal Son of the Father, and what he speaks is. Just before

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 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