Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 17, 2016| 1 Peter 2:11-20 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe,…
Jubilate Sunday| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 11, 2014| 1 Peter 2:13-17 Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who do…
Jubilate Sunday| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 29, 2012| 1 Peter 2:11-20 Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul, having your conduct honorable among the Gentiles, that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may, by your good works which they observe, glorify…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf Preus| May 4, 2009| 1 Peter 2: 13-17 “Therefore submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake, whether to the king as supreme, or to governors, as to those who are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and for the praise of those who…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 7, 2006| 1 Peter 2:11-20 We Christians are sojourners and pilgrims in this world. Our citizenship is in another country. Our true home is heaven. In heaven there are no laws. You don’t need any laws because there is no crime. In fact, there is no…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 17, 2005| 1 Peter 2:11-20 Life’s not fair. We might be able to imagine a fair and just world in which perfect justice is meted out to everyone, whether rich or poor. But we can’t find this world. The endless pursuit of justice is just that: endless. …
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| May 2, 2004 “As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.” 1 Peter 2:16 Freedom is the opposite of slavery. A slave is not free. A slave must obey orders given by the master. If the master commands the…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| June 7, 2017| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| Lamentations 3:22-33 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I hope in Him!” The Lord is good to those who…
Jubilate Sunday Sermon| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| April 25, 2010| Lamentations 3, 18-26 And I said, “My strength and my hope have perished from the LORD.” Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall. My soul still remembers and sinks within me. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope….
Tenth Anniversary of St. Timothy Lutheran Church in Williamsburg, Iowa April 13, 2008| Rev. Rolf D. Preus “And I, brethren, when I came to you, did not come with excellence of speech or of wisdom declaring to you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ…