Bible Text: Philippians 4:4-7 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | The Lord is at hand, St. Paul says. The Greek is literally, the Lord is near. We can think of this in two ways. First, that Jesus will soon return to judge the living and the
Bible Text: Matthew 11:2-10 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | John the Baptist was the greatest preacher the world had ever seen. Unlike so many popular preachers today, he refused to pander to the crowds or cower before the elite: he was totally uncorruptible – no
Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2021 | We’ll know when judgment day comes. It’ll be obvious. The sun will stop shining, the stars will fall from the sky, and we’ll see the Son of Man coming on the clouds. We’ll know when judgment
Bible Text: Matthew 21:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Advent 2021 | Another Church year begins, and we hear once more how Christ came to Jerusalem two thousand years ago. Certainly this was not the only time Jesus has come to man. Jesus was gracious enough to come
Bible Text: Matthew 25:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus tells many parables about the Last Day, and in all of them he stresses two things. The first is that it will be unexpected. You don’t know the day or the hour, we just heard.
Bible Text: Matthew 9:18-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus had just been explaining why his disciples don’t fast. The disciples of John the Baptist had come to him, apparently offended, and asked, “Why do we fast and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples don’t
Bible Text: John 4:46-54 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | The request of the royal official was for Jesus to come down to Capernaum and heal his son. And Jesus refuses his request. He doesn’t go down to Capernaum to heal the man’s son. Jesus makes
Bible Text: Matthew 22:1-14 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus tells a short history of the world in our Gospel for this morning. And this history beautifully culminates with people coming to church. What we are doing right now is what God has ordered all
Bible Text: Matthew 9:1-8 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Trinity 2021 | Jesus had just been asked to leave the land of the Gadarenes. That’s why he got into a boat and sailed across the sea to his town of Capernaum. In the land of the Gadarenes, Jesus
Bible Text: Matthew 22:34-46 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Trinity 2021 | The Pharisees approach Jesus insincerely. They want to catch him in his words and kill him, and they don’t care a bit about learning something from him. But he who has an ear, let him hear,
