Invocavit (Lent 1)| Matthew 4:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 9, 2025 Do you children know what Monergism means? Monergism comes from the Greek words for alone and working. Regarding our salvation, God works alone. You don’t help at all. As David went out on the battlefield by himself with his sling…
Invocative Sunday (Lent 1)| Matthew 4:1-11| Trampling Satan| Pastor James Preus In 1 Samuel chapter 17 a hefty wager is made on a strange battle. Goliath the Philistine giant made a wager with the Israelite army. He would fight any of them. If an Israelite soldier could defeat him, then the Philistine army would…
Invocavit Sunday (Lent 1)| Matthew 4:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| February 26, 2023 When God commanded Moses to lead Israel out of Egypt, He sent him to Pharoah saying, “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the LORD, Israel is my firstborn son, and I say to you, “Let my son go that…
Invocavit Sunday (Lent 1)| Matthew 4:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 6, 2022 When people think of Satan, they often think of two extremes that are both false. The first extreme is that Satan is a harmless spirit, who couldn’t hurt you if he tried. (This is why many so flippantly play around…
Invocabit (Lent 1)| Genesis 3:15| Matthew 4:1-11|Pastor James Preus| February 21, 2021 “The Lord God said to the serpent, … ‘I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise his heel.’” (Genesis 3:15) When Adam sinned, he plunged the entire human race…
The First Sunday in Lent| March 1, 2020| Rev. Rolf Preus| Matthew 4:1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are…
Matthew 4:1-11| First Sunday in Lent| Rev. Rolf Preus| February 17, 2002 At the very heart of the Christian faith is the incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ. God the Son became a man. He is eternal according to his divine nature. He is “begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God,…
First Sunday in Lent| February 29, 2004| Rev. Rolf Preus| Matthew 16:21-26 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day. Then Peter took Him…
First Sunday in Lent| February 25, 2007| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 4:1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If…
First Sunday in Lent| February 10, 2008| Rev. Rolf Preus| St. Matthew 4:1-11 Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, afterward He was hungry. Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If…