Bible Text: 1 John 4 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus You’ve all seen I’m sure the COEXIST bumper sticker. It has the symbols of the Muslims, the Jews, the Christians, the LGBTQ advocates, the pagans and wiccans, the Hindus and the ying-yang Taoists, all these symbols together, spelling out
Bible Text: 1 John 3 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus When I was a kid my dad would often say things like, “Christians don’t do that.” So, skipping church for sporting events: Christians don’t do that, dad would say. Saying God’s name in vain. Christians don’t do that. Getting
Bible Text: 1 John 2 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus In a recent translation of the Bible, the translators decided to translate the word grace as “kindness,” with the reasoning that we don’t use the word grace anymore in daily conversation and so people don’t really know what it
Bible Text: 1 John 1 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Our Lenten midweek series this year is simply the book of first John. It has five chapters, so it’s convenient to hear it over five Wednesdays, but it’s also particularly Lenty, appropriate for the season of Lent. John is
Bible Text: St Matthew 6:16-21 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Ash Wednesday and Lent are about repentance, and repentance is a matter of the heart, not of the body. Repentance is first contrition – that’s true sorrow over sin, not sorrow that we got caught and not sorrow that
Bible Text: Luke 2:21–24 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus We come this evening to the last of the three estates, the Church. The last two Wednesdays we’ve talked about Joseph and the home, the first estate, that Joseph though obviously not the biological father of Jesus was still a
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1–14 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus We are focusing on Joseph, Mary’s husband, this Advent series, and how he teaches us to live in the three estates. Again, the three estates are the home, the state, and the church. God instituted each one and we each
Bible Text: Matthew 1:18–25 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Our Advent midweek series this year is Joseph and the three estates. The three estates are the home, the state, and the church. God instituted these three “estates” and each of us lives our lives within them. We’re all born
Bible Text: Matthew 6:16-21 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus wants us to live our life before God, not just before men. It’s not simply other people we have to deal with. It’s God. In fact, Jesus says you should, in a way, fake it in front of others. When
Bible Text: Isaiah 12:1-6, Colossians 3:12-17, Luke 2:8-14 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Advent 2022 | Why do we sing? We have heard some beautiful song this evening, and we’ve done some singing ourselves. Why do it? Why sing? We could justify singing right away from the beauty
