Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Lent 2020 | Last week a master of a house went out to hire workers for his vineyard. This week “a sower went out to sow his seed.” The master of the house and the sower are both Jesus.
Bible Text: 1 Corinthians 9:24-10:5 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Lent 2020 | One of the most obviously false, false teachings ever thought up by the heart of man is the once saved-always saved doctrine so popular among the Calvinists and now among our modern American evangelicals. It
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Our Gospel begins with the words, “After six days.” Six days previous Jesus began to tell his disciples that He would be going to Jerusalem to suffer and die and rise again. And when Peter heard Jesus say this, he
Bible Text: Matthew 8:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2020 | “Many shall come from the east and the west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of the heavens, but the sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer
Bible Text: John 2:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2020 | Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding. This wasn’t an accident. God doesn’t do things on accident. We actually asserted this in our collect this morning, ‘Almighty and everlasting God, who governs all things in
Bible Text: Matthew 3:13-17 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Epiphany 2020 | During the Christmas season we focused on Jesus’ humility in coming in the flesh and the wonder of the Incarnation. Last Sunday began the season of Epiphany, during which time we see that Christ’s humility does
Bible Text: Matthew 2:1-12 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Epiphany 2020 | We’re celebrating Epiphany today. Epiphany is simply the preaching of Christmas to the whole world, the beautiful fact that Christmas is for everyone. Our celebration of Christmas the last twelve days should instill in us the
Bible Text: Luke 2:23-40 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Christmas 2019 | When St. Paul says that God sent His Son in the fullness of time, he’s not simply saying that it was the perfect time in human history to send Jesus. Now, it was that. You couldn’t
Bible Text: John 1:19-28 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard | Series: Advent 2019 | Today is called the Sunday of the Preparation, because it is the last Sunday we have to get ready to receive our Lord at Christmas. And John the Baptist prepares us, just as he prepared the
Bible Text: Luke 21:25-36 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus | Series: Advent 2019 | Jesus once asked, “When the Son of Man returns, will He find faith on the earth?” It’s a startling question, coming from Jesus, it seems cynical, pessimistic, but it’s frankly the question anyone would ask if
