Bible Text: Luke 2:22-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Mary went to the Temple for her purification. God made it a law for the people of Israel that after a woman gave birth to a son, she was unclean for forty days. At the end of that forty days, she
Bible Text: John 1:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Today we rejoice because the Lord is gracious. Indeed, the Lord has always been gracious. It is His nature and character to be gracious, as He declared to Moses: “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger,
Bible Text: Luke 2:1-20 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus It dawned on me the other day that How the Grinch Stole Christmas is just a retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It has exactly the same theme. And since these stories are now the most popular stories told on
Bible Text: Matthew 18:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The disciples are Christians. But nothing human is foreign from them. They live in a world where human sin has made the devil prince. And where the devil is prince the rules of his kingdom seem natural and obvious. The great
Bible Text: John 18-19 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Shortly after the year of our Lord 300, the Roman Emperor Maximinus, who ruled over Egypt and Syria, and so over the holy land also, began the last great persecution of Christians before the Edict of Milan made Christianity legal in
Bible Text: John 13:1-15, 34-35 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Jesus didn’t have to give us anything this night. He was getting ready to die for us tomorrow. What more could we ask for? He was prepared to shed His blood and lay down His very life for sheep that
Bible Text: John 1:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The Word is the eternal Son of the Father. He was in the beginning with God, through Him everything was created. And the first thing He created was light. That light shows and was always meant to show beautiful things, because
Bible Text: Luke 2:1-20 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Pontius Pilate spent ten years as governor of Judea. The Roman Emperor Tiberius, the adopted son and successor of Caesar Augustus, sent him to govern the province in AD 27. It was at the beginning of his ten-year term as governor,
Bible Text: Galatians 6:1-18 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Holy Week 2023 | Paul’s passionate defense of the Gospel ends with a passionate appeal to love one another. Bear one another’s burdens and so fulfill the law of Christ. Do good to all, especially those of the household
Bible Text: Luke 2:21 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2022 | Names are supposed to mean something and in the Bible they actually do. Today people pick names for their children because they like how they sound or because it’s a family name or because it’s a
