Trinity 7| Romans 6:19-23| Pastor James Preus| August 3, 2025 You are either a slave to sin or you are a slave to righteousness, that is, a slave to God. There is no such thing as complete independence. You are always bound to something. Satan lies and says that sin is freedom to do…
Trinity 4| Luke 6:36-42| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 14, 2019 In this lesson Jesus tells us what God is like and what we his disciples should be like. God is merciful. What does it mean that God is merciful? It means that he does not judge or condemn us, but instead…
Third Sunday after Trinity| Luke 15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 6, 2025 In Luke 15, our Lord Jesus tells us a three-part parable of the lost sheep, the lost coin, and the lost son. Each story in the parable serves to address the grumbling of the Pharisees and scribes, who complain…
Ascension (Observed)| Mark 16:14-20| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 1, 2025 In the words of a creed, we find the fundamentals, the bedrock of a person’s faith. The word creed comes from the Latin for “I believe.” When a person is baptized, He is joined to a confession of faith. From the…
Sermon by Rev. Rolf Preus on Isaiah 53:4-6. Audio only.
Quinquagesima| Luke 18:31-43| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 2, 2025 “Your faith has saved you.” Jesus said to the blind man. This is one of Jesus’ most oft repeated statements, “Your faith has saved you.” (Matthew 9:22; Mark 10:52; Luke 7:50; 17:19; 18:42) While often, the statement is translated, “Your faith has…
Epiphany 2| John 2:1-11; Ephesians 5:22-33| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 19, 2025 “This, the first of His signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested His glory. And His disciples believed in Him.” His disciples believed in Him. What did His disciples believe? They believed that Jesus is the heavenly…
Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks…
After recording this episode, I discovered that Charles Porterfield Krauth’s “Conservative Reformation” is available free online at lutheranlibrary.org as a pdf. You can find it here. You can also purchase “Conservative Reformation” from CPH . Course of Error in the Church By Charles Porterfield Krauth When error is admitted into the Church, it will…