Rogate Sermon 2007| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| John 16:23-30 Today is called Rogate Sunday. Rogate comes from a Latin word that means to call upon someone. The topic of today’s Gospel Lesson is prayer. Jesus himself invites us to call upon God. He promises that God will answer our prayers. He tells us that the…
Rogate Sunday Sermon | Rev. Rolf D. Preus | May 21, 2006| John 16:23-24 “Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” (John 16:23-24) Jesus’…
Rogate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 1, 2005| John 16:23-30 Prayer is one of the greatest privileges we Christians have. God’s word and the prayers of Christians combine to keep and sustain the Holy Christian Church on earth. God speaks to us and by speaking He elicits faith in our hearts. He reaches…
Rogate Sunday (Confirmation)| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 16, 2004 “And in that day you will ask Me nothing. Most assuredly, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My name He will give you. Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your…
Rogate Sunday| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 22, 2014| James 1:22-27 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and…
Rogate Sunday| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 13, 2012| St. John 17:15-21 “I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them by Your truth. Your…
Rogate Sunday (Mother’s Day)| Rev. Rolf Preus | May 9, 2010| St. John 16, 21-22 “A woman, when she is in labor, has sorrow because her hour has come; but as soon as she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been…
Rogate Sunday| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 17, 2009| St. Matthew 10:32-33 “Whoever confesses me before men, him will I also confess before my Father who is in heaven. But whoever denies me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.” Matthew 10:32-33 We don’t believe what we choose…
Rogate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 25, 2003 “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11) Jeremiah is known as the weeping prophet. He is the author of the biblical book…
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| February 9, 2020| Matthew 20:1-16 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. Now when he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he…