Laetare Sunday (Lent 4)| John 6:1-15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 30, 2025 At the beginning of John 6, a crowd of 5,000 men, not including their wives and children, advance on Jesus to make Him their king by force, because they loved Him so much for feeding them bread and fish…
Baptism of Our Lord| Matthew 3:13-17| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| January 12, 2025 “And you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21) spoke the angel to Joseph before Christ was born. The next time the Evangelist Matthew uses that name Jesus is here…
Question: Is everyone equal in heaven? Are there rewards in heaven in addition to justification and eternal life? Does God reward people for good works? If you were to do a poll among Lutherans, many of them would say, “No. We are all equal in heaven. God does not reward us for our good…
Advent 4| John 1:19-28 (29)| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| December 22, 2024 John the Baptist refused to speak of himself when asked by the priests and Levites who he was. He wanted only to tell them that He was a voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Make straight the way of…
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…
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…
Old Testament Reading: 1 Kings 17:17-24 17 After this the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became ill. And his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said to Elijah, “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to…
Trinity 13| Luke 10:23-37| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 25, 2024 We Lutherans have been raised and catechized to understand the distinction between the Law and the Gospel. The Law commands works, while the Gospel offers God’s grace for Christ’s sake to be received through faith. The Law convicts you of sin,…
Trinity 8 Matthew 7:15-23 Pastor James Preus Trinity Lutheran Church July 21, 2028 People like to hear the words of St. Paul from Romans 8 that the Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, that we have the right to call God Himself our Father. Yet, people don’t like…
Judica Sunday| John 8:46-59| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| March 17, 2024 Our Gospel lesson today is a portion of one of the most contentious arguments Jesus ever had with the Jewish leaders. They call Him a Samaritan and say that He has a demon, while they claim to be Abraham’s children and…