Thirsting for What Is Good: Sermon for the 150th Anniversary of the LCMS
Pentecost, 1997 By Rev. Rolf Preus St. John’s Lutheran Church, Racine, WI
How Can We Love Jesus?
Pentecost 2024| John 14:23-31| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 19, 2024 If you asked people today if they love Jesus, most will say, “yes.” I think that is safe to say. Yet, how do they love Jesus? The truth is, many claim to love Jesus, when their actions show that they do…
The Work of the Holy Spirit
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?…
All Who Call Upon the Name of the Lord will be Saved
Pentecost 2022| Acts 2:1-21; John 14:23-31| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 5, 2022 What was the greatest miracle the Holy Spirit did on Pentecost? There were many. On Pentecost the Holy Spirit rushed upon the disciples and caused divided tongues of fire to rest on each of the heads in whom the…
The Holy Spirit Grafts Us into The True Vine, So That We Bear Much Fruit
Pentecost/Confirmation Sunday| John 15:5; John 14:23-33| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 23, 2021 Joel Alexander Hallgren, your confirmation verse is found just a few verses after the end of our Gospel lesson, John 15:5, Jesus says, “I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it…
The Treasure of the Church
Pentecost Sermon| May 15, 2016| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. John 14:23-27 “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you…
True Spiritual Peace
Pentecost| Rev. Rolf Preus| June 8, 2014| St. John 14:25-27 These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. …
The Peace of Pentecost
Pentecost| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 27, 2012| St. John 14:23-31 “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you…
Teaching Peace
Pentecost| Rolf D. Preus| June 12, 2011| St. John 14, 23-27 “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you…
The Spirit and Jesus
Pentecost Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 31, 2009| John 14, 25-27 These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to…