Bible Text: St Luke 17:11-19 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard Jesus is on the way to Jerusalem; that’s how the reading starts (Lk. 17:11). Jesus has been on His way to Jerusalem since chapter 9 of Luke’s Gospel, where it says, “when the time had come for Him to be
Bible Text: St Luke 10:23-37 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Right before our Gospel lesson, Jesus says the famous words, words you find all over in John’s Gospel, but come into Luke’s Gospel so explicitly only here, and they are worth quoting for you this morning, “All things have
Bible Text: St Luke 18:9–14| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus False gods don’t just come in the form of an Aphrodite or a Zeus, or even an Allah or a Buddha or the bizarre caricature of the Christian God found in Mormonism’s heavenly father. They’re not always so obvious. People
Bible Text: St Luke 19:41–48| Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus In the year AD 70 the Roman general Titus breached the walls of Jerusalem and instructed his army to destroy everything (and everyone) in it. The soldiers set fire to the temple and burned it to the ground, they demolished
Bible Text: St Luke 16:1–13| Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard On the surface this is a very strange parable. It makes sense that a man who was committing fraud loses his job. It makes sense that if he had no scruples to begin with, then he’d have no problem committing more fraud
Bible Text: St Mark 8:1–9 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard In the Old Testament reading this morning we heard a description of the Garden of Eden. The garden had a great river watering it, trees with all manner of fruit, all the fresh produce one could imagine. And in contrast
Bible Text: St Matthew 5:17–26 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. David Preus Grace, mercy, and peace be to you from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of
Bible Text: St Luke 5:1–11 | Preacher: Rev. Andrew Richard We are in “this poor life of labor,” as we sing in the hymn (LSB 708:2), and we’ll sing at the close of service, “Jesus, lead Thou on till our rest is won” (LSB 718:1), because we don’t get to
Bible Text: St Luke 6:36–42 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus Jesus speaks the words of our Gospel lesson to Christians. He expects us, our lives, to look different from the lives of unbelievers. We sing in the hymn, “We thank You, Christ: new life is ours, New light, new
Bible Text: St Luke 15:1-32 | Preacher: Rev. Dr. Christian Preus It’s hard to focus on the older brother, because the father’s love and compassion for the younger one is just so beautiful. But the father loves the older brother too. He leaves the party to find him and plead
