Bible Text: Matthew 26-27 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard It is a tradition in the Church, from time out of mind, to read the Passion according to Matthew on Sunday of Holy Week, the Passion according to Mark on Tuesday, the Passion according to Luke on Wednesday, and the Passion
Bible Text: John 8:46-59 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The Jewish leaders insulted and slandered Jesus. They called the Son of God a Samaritan and said the divine majesty had a demon. Jesus had to become like us in every way except for sin. He is the perfect substitute here.
Bible Text: John 6:1-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Twelve baskets of fragments are left over from five loaves and two fish. Obviously this highlights the miracle, you end up with more at the end than you started with in the beginning. But that’s not the point. The point is
Bible Text: Luke 11:14-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The devil deals in absurdities. And he makes people absurd. He will lead people to do and believe the most ridiculous things. The Pharisees’ accusation against Jesus is a perfect example. It’s simply not believable. Jesus casts out a demon, a
Bible Text: Matthew 15:21-28 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David, my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon. Have mercy on me, she says, not, have mercy on my daughter, which seems strange at first, but the reality is that to have
Bible Text: Matthew 4:1-11 | Preacher: Pastor Andrew Richard The devil is the master of a thousand arts. But our Lord Jesus Christ is master of a hundred thousand arts. What delusion entered the devil’s mind to make him think that he could succeed against our Lord? Perhaps he thought
Bible Text: Luke 18:31-43 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus So these three remain, faith, hope, and love, and the greatest of these is love. Love has to be the greatest, because God is love and God is the greatest. God is not hope. He doesn’t hope for things. He knows.
Bible Text: Luke 8:4-15 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus God’s word works. It’s active. It does every time what God sent it out to do, “My word shall not return to me void,” God says, that means it won’t do nothing, it will do what He sent it to do.
Bible Text: Matthew 20:1-16 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus The complaint of the workers in the vineyard against the owner of the vineyard is that he’s unfair – “these men have worked only one hour and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden and the
Bible Text: Matthew 17:1-9 | Preacher: Pastor Christian Preus On the Mount of Transfiguration stand six men, Peter, James, John, Moses, Elijah, and Jesus. Peter and James and John are Jesus’ closest disciples. They will end up preaching Jesus all over the world after His death and resurrection. James is
