Second to Last Sunday| Matthew 25:31-46| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| November 17, 2024 The day is surely coming when all peoples of every nation upon the earth will stand before Christ for final judgment. The dead will be raised. The living will be gathered. Every last soul will stand before Him as…
Episode 25 of the Christ for Us Bible Study Podcast is a response to a CARM.org article, which claims that certain early church fathers denied the real presence and taught a symbolic interpretation of the Lord’s Supper. “Catholics routinely say that the all the Church Fathers agreed with the Roman Catholic view of the…
Trinity 24| Matthew 9:18-26| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church|November 10, 2024 I want to tell you this morning of a beautiful faith of a beloved daughter of God. Faith is the belief and trust that a person has in the heart. And the Holy Spirit gave us a vivid picture of this woman’s…
All Saints Day Sermon| Revelation 7:9-17; 1 John 3:1-3; Matthew 5:1-12| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| November 3, 2024 All Saints Day is a celebration of the Church Triumphant. John tells us of his vision in Revelation 7, where he sees an innumerable crowd clothed in white robes, praising and worshipping Christ the…
Reformation SundayRomans 3:19-28Pastor James PreusTrinity Lutheran ChurchOctober 27, 2024 “But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary…
I’ve subscribed on YouTube to a channel called, “Ready to Harvest,” by a man named Joshua, who is a professor, who gives good concise explanations of what different Christian denominations believe, including comparisons between different groups of the same family, like the LCMS, WELS, and ELCA. I recommend his videos for my congregation on…
Trinity 21 John 4:46-54 Pastor James Preus Trinity Lutheran Church October 20, 2024 Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee. You know that town from the story of Jesus’ first miracle of turning water into wine. When a nobleman from Capernaum heard that Jesus was in Galilee, he went to Cana to ask Jesus to…
Trinity 20| Matthew 22:1-14| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| October 13, 2024 “Many are called, but few are chosen.” These words of Jesus could also be translated, “Many are invited, but few are elected.” Our nation is currently going through election season, where we will elect officials at the state and federal level….
Trinity 19| Matthew 9:1-8| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| October 6,2024 One of the problems with much of our medicine is that it does not deal with the root problems, but simply masks the symptoms. We take pain killers to alleviate the pain of an injury for a while, but it does not…
Introduction The controversy between venial and mortal sin has led to great confusion, not only among Roman Catholics, but especially among Lutherans! The Roman Catholics erroneously define mortal and venial sins, so Lutherans laity have been led to believe that there is no such distinction between mortal and venial and many mistakenly assert that…