Easter Sunday| Mark 16:1-8| Pastor James Preus| April 5, 2026 Christ is risen! He is risen indeed, Alleluia! Alleluia! Amen. Amen. Throughout the season of Lent, we have been going over the Lord’s Prayer and the Lord’s Passion during the midweek services, including Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, each service learning about a petition…
Good Friday| John 18-19| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| April 3, 2026 The Seventh Petition But deliver us from evil. What does this mean? We pray in this petition, in summary, that our Father in heaven would rescue us from every evil of body and soul, possessions and reputation, and finally, when our last…
The Lord’s Passion and the Lord’s Prayer: The Sixth Petition Matthew 6:13| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 25, 2026 The Sixth Petition And lead us not into temptation. What does this mean? God tempts no one. We pray in this petition that God would guard and keep us so that the devil, the…
Palm Sunday| Philippians 2:5-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 29, 2025 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” (Luke 14:11) This statement of Jesus summarizes the Christian religion. Those who exalt themselves in pride will be brought low. And those who lower themselves will…
Rev. Rolf Preus| Palm Sunday| March 23, 2026| St. Matthew 21:5 Today is the first day of Holy Week. Jesus rides into Jerusalem. He is hailed as the Messiah, the Christ, the Son of David, the King. “All glory, laud, and honor” are given to him as is fitting for a king. The great…
Rev. Rolf Preus| The Fifth Sunday in Lent| March 22, 2026| John 8:58 “Jesus said to them, ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.’” During this latest war in the Middle East, there has been considerable debate in our country about America’s relationship with Israel. Not just a political debate, but a theological…
Judica Sunday (Lent 5)| Genesis 22:1-14| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 22, 2026 Jesus said to the Jews, “Your father Abraham rejoiced that he would see my day. He saw it and was glad.” The Jews scoffed at this statement, because Jesus was only about thirty-years-old and the patriarch Abraham had died…
Rev. Rolf Preus| The Fourth Sunday in Lent| March 15, 2026| Galatians 4:26 “But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.” We pray to our Father in heaven every day. Jesus taught us to pray, “Our Father.” We call God Father because by the merits of his Son Jesus…
Laetare Sunday| Galatians 4:21-31| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 15, 2026 “He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave…
The Third Sunday in Lent| Rev. Rolf Preus| March 8, 2026| Luke 11:14-28 Good and evil are not just ideas. God is real. The devil is real. God is not the personification of good. He is good. The devil is not the personification of evil. He is evil. All good in this world comes…