Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 17, 2005| 1 Peter 2:11-20 Life’s not fair. We might be able to imagine a fair and just world in which perfect justice is meted out to everyone, whether rich or poor. But we can’t find this world. The endless pursuit of justice is just that: endless. …
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 2, 2004 “As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.” 1 Peter 2:16 Freedom is the opposite of slavery. A slave is not free. A slave must obey orders given by the master. If the master commands the…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| June 7, 2017| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| Lamentations 3:22-33 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” The Lord is good to those who…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 25, 2010| Lamentations 3, 18-26 And I said, “My strength and my hope have perished from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still remembers and sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope….
Tenth Anniversary of St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, Iowa April 13, 2008| Rev. Rolf D. Preus “And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ…
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany| February 3, 2019| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 8:23-27 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and…
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany| January 29, 2017| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 8:23-27 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and…
The Fourth Sunday after Epiphany| January 30, 2011| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 8:23‑27 Now when He got into a boat, His disciples followed Him. And suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that the boat was covered with the waves. But He was asleep. Then His disciples came to Him and…
Epiphany Four Sermon| February 2, 2003| Matthew 8:23-27| Rev. Rolf Preus Who is He? He’s a tired man worn out by hard work sleeping soundly in a boat. Who is He? He’s the almighty God of heaven and earth who neither slumbers nor sleeps. Jesus said, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air…
Romans 13:8-10| Rev. Rolf Preus| January 28, 2001| Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany When it comes to matters of religion and theology, I have always considered myself to be a conservative. A conservative wants to conserve – to hold on to – the truth of God’s word. If God says it, that settles it. …