Transfiguration of our Lord| Matthew 17:1-9| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| February 6, 2022 In the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy chapter 19, God commanded through Moses that no charge should be established except by the evidence of two or three witnesses. No charge was permitted on the evidence of one witness. And this standard…
Epiphany 4| Matthew 8:23-27| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 30, 2022 In 1 Kings 18, the Prophet Elijah challenges the prophets of Baal to determine who the true God is, the LORD or Baal. Each party set up an altar and prepared a bull to be sacrificed, but neither the false prophets…
Epiphany 3| Matthew 8:1-13| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 23, 2022 The Epiphany season is about Jesus being revealed as God in the flesh. Jesus is true God, begotten of the Father from eternity, just as he is true man, born of the Virgin Mary. Jesus, being God, is all-powerful. He has…
Epiphany 2| John 2:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 16, 2022 St. John tells us that there were six stone water jars at this wedding for the Jewish rites of purification. These six stone water jars are a symbol of the Law. They are made of stone. God gave the Ten Commandments…
Baptism of our Lord| Matthew 3:13-17| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 9, 2022 In the Grimm’s fairytale Snow White, the wicked witch tricks Snow White into biting into a poisonous apple. She does this by poisoning only one half of the apple. The witch takes a bite out of the nonpoisonous half…
Luke 2:21| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 2, 2021 And at the end of eight days, when he was circumcised, he was called Jesus, the name given by the angel before he was conceived in the womb. The Old Testament Law can be divided into three categories: the moral, the civil, and…
Christmas Eve| Luke 2:10-12| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| December 24, 2021 10And the angel said to them, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of a great joy that will be for all the people. 11For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is…
Advent 4| John 1:29| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| December 19, 2021 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!” John 1:29 When John the Baptist declared that he was the voice of one crying out in the…
Advent 3| Matthew 11:2-10| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| December 12, 2021 “These are the signs that you shall mark; The swaddling clothes and manger dark. There you will find the infant laid By whom the heav’ns and earth were made.” So paraphrased Martin Luther the words of the angel to the shepherds in his great…
Advent 2| Luke 21:25-36; Romans 15:4-13 Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| December 5, 2021 “For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope.”, wrote St. Paul by inspiration of the Holy Spirit in the 15th chapter of his letter…