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…
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…
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…
Judica (Lent 5) Sermon| John 8:46-59; Genesis 22:1-14| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 6, 2025 Jesus is either the true Son of God, whose teaching gives eternal life, or He is a demon possessed imposter, whose teachings should be rejected. Some try to play the middle ground and say that Jesus was…
Laetare Sunday (Lent 4)| John 6:1-15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 30, 2025 At the beginning of John 6, a crowd of 5,000 men, not including their wives and children, advance on Jesus to make Him their king by force, because they loved Him so much for feeding them bread and fish…
Oculi Sermon (Lent 3)| Luke 11:14-28| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 23, 2025 “But if it is by the finger of God that I cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you,” says Jesus. The finger of God is the Holy Spirit. When a work is done by…
Reminiscere Sunday (Lent 2)| Genesis 32:22-32 and Matthew 15:21-28| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 16, 2025 Last week, Jesus taught us how to wrestle with Satan and win. This week Jesus teaches us how to wrestle with God and win. In our Old Testament lesson from Genesis 32, Jacob wrestles with a…