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…
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| February 17, 2019| St. 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…
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| February 12, 2017| St. Matthew 20:15-16 “Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with my own things? Or is your eye evil because I am good? So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.” The…
Septuagesima Sunday| January 24, 2016| Rev. Rolf Preus| St 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…
Septuagesima Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 20:16| February 16, 2014 “So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.” St. Matthew 21:16 The story of the workers in the vineyard is a compelling one. Jesus knows what we think is fair. Working twelve long…