If you are a member of a Lutheran congregation in the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod or one of the other confessional Lutheran synods, you are bound to hear this from time to time. “Your church is too strict.” But is this a fair judgment? How should you respond when your church is called too…
Jubilate Sunday| John 16:16-23| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 11, 2025 “When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world.” Jesus tells…
Rev. Rolf Preus| May 4, 2025| Trinity Lutheran Church, Ottumwa Iowa| John 10:11-16 “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and…
Rev. Rolf Preus wrote Justification: Am I Good Enough for God in 1999. He read it as an audio book in April of 2025. You can purchase a paper copy of Justification: Am I Good Enough for God at NPH.net.
Quasimodo Geniti (Easter 2)| John 20:19-31| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 27, 2025 What is the Office of the Keys? Our Small Catechism states, “The Office of the Keys is that special authority which Christ has given to His church on earth to forgive the sins of repentant sinners, but to withhold…
Easter Sunday| 1 Corinthians 5:6-8| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 20, 2025 Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed. Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice…
Pope Francis died. What hopes do Lutherans have for the next pope? Does it matter?
Good Friday| Luke 22-23; Isaiah 52:13-53:12| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 18, 2025 Who killed Jesus? Well, the Romans did, right? Pilate may have washed his hands saying, “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” (Matthew 27:24), yet he himself said that he had authority to put Christ to death or set…
Maundy Thursday| John 13:1-15, 34-35 and 1 Corinthians 11:23-32| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 17, 2025 “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Jesus said to Peter when he refused to let Him wash his feet. Those are sobering words. If Jesus does not wash your feet,…
Palm Sunday| Philippians 2:5-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 13, 2025 St. Paul teaches us to think like Christ Jesus. Jesus Christ is true God, yet He humbled Himself and took on the form of a slave, suffering and dying on the cross. Therefore, God highly exalted Him above every name, so…
