Trinity 7| Mark 8:1-9| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 31, 2022 In our Gospel lesson Jesus feeds four thousand people. If you have a good memory, you may remember that we learned how Jesus fed a crowd of five thousand back at the end of March on Laetare Sunday. But despite what some might…
Trinity 6| Matthew 5:17-26| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 24, 2022 I think a helpful way for you to follow this sermon and distinguish the Law and the Gospel is to try to answer these simple questions. What are the three uses of the Law? What are the three…
Trinity 5| Luke 5:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 1, 2018 They had toiled all night and caught nothing. Jesus was well aware of this. Yet, still he tells Peter to push out into the deep and let down the nets. Although this seems to Peter to be a futile task, he…
Trinity 4 Sermon| Luke 6:36-42| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.” What does it mean to be merciful? Jesus tells us, “Judge not, condemn not, forgive, and give. This is how you show mercy. “Judge not.” Because this statement of our Lord is so grossly misused,…
Trinity 3| Luke 15| Pastor James Preus| July 3, 2022 Luke chapter 15 is one of the most beloved chapters in the entire Bible. These three parables communicate God’s immense grace and desire to save sinners. Even the one sentence the Pharisees and scribes speak in this chapter is pure Gospel, “This man receives…
Gospel: Luke 14:12-24 12 [Jesus] said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. 13 But when you give a feast,…
Gospel: Luke 16:19-31 19 [Jesus said] “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table….
Trinity Sunday| Romans 11:33-36| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 12, 2022 Once a year on Trinity Sunday the Church confesses the Athanasian Creed. You’re familiar with the Apostles’ Creed. The Apostles’ Creed was confessed when you were Baptized. You were taught it in Catechism Class. It should be a part of your…
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…
Ascension Observed| Mark 16:14-20| Pastor James Preus| May 29, 2022 St. Luke tells us in Acts 1 that when Jesus ascended into heaven, a cloud took him out of their sight. I wonder then. Where did he go? Had the cloud not obscured their vision, for how long would they have seen Jesus ascend?…