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,
St John 14:23–31 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Shortly after the flood (which God sent to destroy a very evil world), shortly after this, the leaders of the world got together and decided to build a great city. That was directly against God’s command first to Adam and Eve,
Bible Text: St John 15:26–16:4 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Alleluia! Christ is risen! Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. The Easter greeting has taken on a different flavor since we celebrated the Ascension of our Lord this past Thursday. Jesus
Bible Text: St John 16:23–33 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus says, “In that day you will ask nothing of Me.” That’s a beautiful promise, it’s a promise of clarity – you will know God. Jesus has been speaking in riddles to them, “I go to the Father, you
Bible Text: St John 16:5–15 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus The Son sends us the Spirit and the Spirit gives us the Son, just as the Father sends us His Son and the Son gives us His Father. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are One God, and that means
Bible Text: St John 16:16–22 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus What we don’t often realize about Jesus’ disciples is that they were having the time of their life with Him until Jesus entered into His passion and His crucifixion. If you think about it, they were seeing him do
