Trinity 14| Luke 17:11-19| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 18, 2022 It has become common for English speaking Lutherans to refer to their Sunday worship as the Divine Service. This is a translation from the German, Gottesdienst, which literally means, “God’s Service.” Yet, the term God’s Service or Divine Service is a…
Trinity 13| Galatians 3:15-22 (& Luke 10:23-37)| Pastor James Preus| September 11, 2022 Today, I want to teach you two words, so that you can avoid at all costs becoming one of them: legalist and antinomian. A legalist is someone who, claiming to hold a strict interpretation of the law, manipulates the law to…
Trinity 12| Mark 7:31-37| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 4, 2022 “He has done all things well. He even makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” In Genesis one, after each thing that God creates, Moses writes, “And God saw that it was good.” At the end of the sixth…
Trinity 11| Luke 18:9-14| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 28, 2022 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.” Few statements so succinctly articulate the Christian religion as well as this. But what does it mean to exalt oneself? And what does…
Trinity 10| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 21, 2022 Less than a week before Jesus is betrayed into the hands of wicked men, beaten, flogged, spit upon, and finally crucified to death, he entered into Jerusalem with crowds shouting, “Hosanna! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna!”…
Trinity 9| Luke 16:1-13| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 14, 2022 In our Gospel lesson for today, Jesus tells us a story of a no good, double tongued, self-serving cheat. And he tells us to be more like him. How can this be? Certainly, Jesus isn’t serious! He is serious, and you…
Trinity 8| Matthew 7:15-23| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 7, 2022 Jesus warns us to beware of false prophets, who come to us in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. A false prophet is a false teacher, someone who teaches errors and falsehoods about God and his Gospel. Now most people these…
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…