Bible Text: Luke 16:1-13 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard In today’s parable Jesus sets two men before us. First there’s a rich man who has great wealth and possessions and lands. He lets out his land to sharecroppers who pay him with a portion of their harvest. Then there’s the
Bible Text: Matthew 7:15-23 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Jesus says “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” Beware of false prophets, Jesus says, because they will tear you apart, rob you of your faith, and do so with a smile
Bible Text: Mark 8:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The feeding of the four thousand is a greater miracle than the feeding of the five thousand. Everyone talks about the feeding of the five thousand, because it happens first and it’s a bigger number, obviously. In fact, the Bible-bashers will
Bible Text: Matthew 5:17-26 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. Why would anyone think that about Jesus? That he came to destroy the Law? Because He preached the free forgiveness of sins. And when you preach that forgiveness,
Bible Text: Luke 5:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard “Master, we toiled all night and took nothing!” (Lk. 5:5). Peter is exhausted. He worked through the night: moving the boat, casting the nets, pulling up the nets with nothing in them. “Next time. Next cast.” He drove himself on, spot
Bible Text: Luke 6:36-42 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Joseph weeps and forgives his brothers. He already had forgiven them. But they’re still afraid he’ll punish them, now that their father Jacob is dead. And so Joseph weeps. He weeps because they are sorry and this sorrow over sin is
Bible Text: Luke 14:15-24 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The excuses not to come to the banquet are really bad. He doesn’t have to test his oxen. No one buys an ox unless he’s tested it already. And he doesn’t need to go look at his field. No one buys
Bible Text: Luke 16:19-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Everything we have belongs to God. This isn’t simply because we pledge all we have to God, it’s not that we first give all we have to God, and then it belongs to Him. It’s that it all already belongs to
Bible Text: John 3:1-15 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard Man is rational. This is one of the things that makes man man. We can think and deliberate and plan. We have the use of language, which is not something that we figured out on our own, but the very day
Bible Text: John 14:23-31 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus St. Peter confessed Jesus and said, “You are the Christ the Son of the living God.” And the Lord Jesus told his disciples that He would build His Church on this confession and the gates of hell would not prevail against
