Third Sunday after Trinity| Luke 15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 6, 2025 In Luke 15, our Lord Jesus tells us a three-part parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. Each story in the parable serves to address the grumbling of the Pharisees and scribes, who complain…
Matthew 16:13-19 (Acts 15:1-12; Galatians 2:1-10)| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 29, 2025 The Feast of St. Peter and St. Paul is one of the oldest feast days in the church. The early church records that St. Peter and St. Paul were executed in Rome under Emperor Nero on the same day,…
Trinity 1| Luke 16:19-31| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 22, 2025 Jesus’ story about the rich man and the poor man Lazarus teaches us four important lessons, which are taught throughout Scripture. First, heaven and hell are real. And everyone will go to either heaven or hell when he dies and will…
Context Dispensationalism But they are not agreed in fixing the chronology of the “world-week.” Some divide the hist. of man into 7 periods of 1,000 sun yrs. each. The yr. 6,000 since the creation is said to be imminent, and the beginning of the world-Sabbath may be expected momentarily. Some say that each dispensation begins…
Response by Joe Abrahamson on Grammar of Genesis 1:1-3 20 But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep. 21 For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die,…
Trinity Sunday| John 3:1-15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 15, 2025 Is Baptism Law or Gospel? The conflict about Baptism among Christians centers around this question. The Bible is divided into two fundamental teachings: The Law and the Gospel. The Law is what God commands of us, summarized in the Ten Commandments….
Introduction When I was a teenager, my brothers and I would complain about how disgusting homosexuality was and our grandmother would chastise us. Not, because she thought we shouldn’t find homosexuality disgusting, but because she didn’t want us to bring up the filthy topic. “I go years with ever thinking about homosexuals. Why do…
Pentecost 2018| John 14:13-31| Acts 2:1-24| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 20, 2018 When you think of Pentecost, what do you think of? A rushing wind? Tongues of fire dancing on the heads of Christ’s disciples? Uneducated Galileans speaking in languages they’ve never learned? Yes, these things did indeed happen on that…
Ascension (Observed)| Mark 16:14-20| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 1, 2025 In the words of a creed, we find the fundamentals, the bedrock of a person’s faith. The word creed comes from the Latin for “I believe.” When a person is baptized, He is joined to a confession of faith. From the…
Rogate Sermon| John 16:23-30| Praying in Jesus’ Name| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church In our Gospel lesson, Jesus commands His disciples to pray. We pray to God for two reasons. First, God commands us to pray to Him. Second, God promises to hear us and to answer us. Martin Luther explains the conclusion…
