Bible Text: Luke 16:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | Make friends for yourselves by means of unrighteous money, so that when it fails they may receive you into eternal homes. Jesus is provoking us with this parable. He points to the zeal and the shrewdness
Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | The wolf disguises himself as a sheep, Jesus says, but there is one thing a wolf can’t disguise, and that’s his voice. Wolves howl. They don’t know how to bleat. The false prophet, the sham teacher,
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | Jesus is in Gentile lands when He feeds the four thousand. It’s a deserted place south of the Sea of Galilee, barren because it’s summertime, and in that part of the world nothing grows in the
Bible Text: Luke 15:1-10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | God is happy when sinners repent and so we should be happy too. Jesus’ picture of repentance is being lost to God and then being found by God. The shepherd leaves the ninety-nine in the wilderness
Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2022 | The world is a dangerous place, but it’s easy to misunderstand where the true danger lies. It’s easy, for instance, to see danger in sickness. When you’re sick, you can feel malfunction in your body and
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | Abraham was a very rich man. But he didn’t trust in his riches, he didn’t love them. When he and his nephew Lot had too much, so many animals that the land couldn’t hold them all,
Bible Text: John 3:1-17 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2022 | We don’t know who wrote the Athanasian Creed. Athanasius didn’t. Someone wrote it in the fifth century and named it after Athanasius. Athanasius lived a good hundred years earlier. He was the great defender of the
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Pentecost 2022 | The Holy Spirit’s joy is to bring Jesus’ words to the whole world. That’s very clearly what the Lord Jesus Himself says and very clearly what the Holy Spirit does on Pentecost. The scene, the reality
Bible Text: John 15:26-16:4 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | It may seem absurd to compare the persecution of the apostles with the persecution of Christians in America today. “They will put you out of the synagogues,” Jesus says, “Yea, the hour is coming when anyone
Bible Text: John 16:23-33 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Easter 2022 | Dear Father in heaven, Your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, bids us ask you in His name and promises You will give what we ask. We come before you today and ask your blessing on these
