Trinity 16| Luke 7:11-17| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 24, 2023 Jesus enters a sad scene. A funeral procession for a young man, who left his mother childless, and she was a widow. Widows often form stronger bonds with their sons after their husbands die. And even more so with this widow,…
Trinity 15| Matthew 6:24-34| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 17, 2023 The First Commandment is, “You shall have no other gods.” Our Small Catechism explains the First Commandment, “We should fear, love, and trust in God above all things. Martin Luther explains in the Large Catechism that whatever you fear, love, and…
Trinity 13| Luke 10:23-37| Pastor James Preus| September 3, 2023 Immediately before Jesus declares His disciples blessed for seeing and hearing what many prophets and kings desired to see and hear and before He told the story of the Good Samaritan to the self-righteous lawyer, He prayed this to His Father, “I thank You,…
Trinity 14, 2019| Luke 17:11-19| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church “Were there not ten cleansed? Where are the nine? Was no one found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?” These words of our Lord seem peculiar in a couple of ways. First, why is Jesus disappointed that only one…
Trinity 12| Mark 7:31-37| Pastor James Preus| August 27, 2023 What’s the difference between a Christian and a heathen? Well? How do you tell the difference? Two men eat lunch, one is a heathen the other, a Christian. How do you tell them apart? The heathen eat just like the Christians do. Two men…
Trinity 11| Luke 18:9-14| Pastor James Preus| August 20, 2023 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” This oft-repeated proverb of Jesus summarizes how one goes to heaven or hell. To exalt oneself means to lift oneself up high. No one is more highly…
Trinity 10, 2019| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus Jesus wept over Jerusalem as he made a horrifying prediction concerning this ancient city, beloved by God. Jesus spoke of an event that would happen less than 40 years later, when Roman troops would surround the city and besiege it for months causing mass starvation, then…
Trinity 9| Investing in God’s Kingdom| Luke 16:1-13| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 6, 2023 “The master commended the unrighteous steward for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves…
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…