Service Type: Sunday

Bible Text: St Matthew 9:1–8| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus speaks the most precious words ever spoken, “Take heart, child, your sins are forgiven.” And the scribes grumble in their hearts and say he blasphemes. Jesus tells them He knows what they’re thinking and that what they’re thinking is

Bible Text: St Matthew 22:34–46 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus had just silenced the Sadducees. The Sadducees denied the resurrection, eternal life, and the immortality of the soul. And yet they were the religious leaders in Jerusalem: influential, powerful. That should sound familiar. The Anglican Church, you may

Bible Text: St Luke 14:1–11 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus There’s a story about Charles Spurgeon, who even though he wasn’t a Lutheran is rightly known as one of the greatest Christian preachers ever. He was visiting a rich woman who was dying. And the woman asked him if

Bible Text: St Matthew 6:24–34 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus A few months ago Vice President J.D. Vance got into a bit of controversy for using the Bible to claim that America had a duty of love first to its own citizens, and only after that, to citizens of

Bible Text: St Luke 17:11–19 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus No one likes an ingrate. You do something for someone, and they don’t say thanks or worse they resent you for your kindness. And it makes you not want to waste your kindness on people. But kindness is never

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