Trinity 12| Mark 7:31-37| Pastor James Preus| August 27, 2023 What’s the difference between a Christian and a heathen? Well? How do you tell the difference? Two men eat lunch, one is a heathen the other, a Christian. How do you tell them apart? The heathen eat just like the Christians do. Two men…
Trinity 10, 2019| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus Jesus wept over Jerusalem as he made a horrifying prediction concerning this ancient city, beloved by God. Jesus spoke of an event that would happen less than 40 years later, when Roman troops would surround the city and besiege it for months causing mass starvation, then…
Trinity 9| Investing in God’s Kingdom| Luke 16:1-13| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 6, 2023 “The master commended the unrighteous steward for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light. And I tell you, make friends for yourselves…
Trinity 8, 2018| Matthew 7:15-23| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church When I was a young boy, maybe six-years-old, my mother dressed my sister and me snug in our winter wear, so snug hardly an inch of skin was showing on our entire bodies and the snow pants and coats were so bulky that…
Trinity 4| Luke 6:36-43| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| July 2, 2023 You can’t give what you don’t have. If you are to be merciful, you must first receive mercy. Many misunderstand Jesus’ words, “Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful,” to mean that you must prove yourself merciful before God can…
Romans 5:6-15 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we have now been justified…
Trinity 1| 1 John 4:16-21| Trinity Lutheran Church| Pastor James Preus| June 11, 2023 “God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” These are true and immensely important words written by the Apostle John; however, unless you know what love is, you can never understand what…
Trinity Sunday| John 3:1-15| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| June 4, 2023 Jesus cannot get any clearer, if you are to be saved and enter the Kingdom of God, you must be born again? Your first birth does you no good. You must die and come to life again. You must become a…
Ascension Day (Observed) and Confirmation Sunday| Mark 16:14-20 and Acts 1:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| May 21, 2023 Imagine you lived two thousand years ago in a village in Israel, going about your daily work. And then, you saw a great crowd come into your village. The multitude was following a man,…
Gospel: John 10:11-16 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees…