Trinity 8, 2018| Matthew 7:15-23| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church When I was a young boy, maybe six-years-old, my mother dressed my sister and me snug in our winter wear, so snug hardly an inch of skin was showing on our entire bodies and the snow pants and coats were so bulky that…
Trinity 7| Mark 8:1-9| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 23, 2023 Seven loaves of bread are not enough to feed 4,000 men! These seven loaves of bread were probably intended to feed Jesus and His twelve disciples. They wouldn’t be able to feed many more. There is only a finite amount of…
Trinity 6| Matthew 5:17-26| Pastor James Preus| July 16, 2023 “For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” What does Jesus mean by righteousness? Righteousness is an attribute of God. It is the order by which He runs the universe….
Luke 5:1-11 On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on [Jesus] to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, 2 and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 Getting into one of the boats,…
Trinity 4| Luke 6:36-43| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 2, 2023 You can’t give what you don’t have. If you are to be merciful, you must first receive mercy. Many misunderstand Jesus’ words, “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful,” to mean that you must prove yourself merciful before God can…
Trinity 1| 1 John 4:16-21| Trinity Lutheran Church| Pastor James Preus| June 11, 2023 “God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” These are true and immensely important words written by the Apostle John; however, unless you know what love is, you can never understand what…
Trinity Sunday| John 3:1-15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 4, 2023 Jesus cannot get any clearer, if you are to be saved and enter the Kingdom of God, you must be born again? Your first birth does you no good. You must die and come to life again. You must become a…
Pentecost Sunday| Acts 2:1-21| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 28, 2023 Pentecost celebrates the work of the Holy Spirit. What is the work of the Holy Spirit? The Holy Spirit sanctifies us. What does it mean to sanctify? To sanctify means to make holy. But what does it mean to make holy?…
Ascension Day (Observed) and Confirmation Sunday| Mark 16:14-20 and Acts 1:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 21, 2023 Imagine you lived two thousand years ago in a village in Israel, going about your daily work. And then, you saw a great crowd come into your village. The multitude was following a man,…
Rogate Sunday| John 16:23-30| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 14, 2023 “Amen, Amen, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, He will give it to you. … Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.” So promises our Lord Jesus Christ. But what…