Trinity 10| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 4, 2024 The United States of America will be destroyed. I am not speaking hyperbole. The destruction of Jerusalem, which Christ predicted and which came to pass just forty years later, foretells the destruction of every nation. Israel was God’s chosen people. Jerusalem…
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 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 10| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 8, 2021 What makes Jesus weep? Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, because he knows that the city will be destroyed in the most brutal way. About forty years later in the year 70 AD, the Roman general Titus besieged Jerusalem when it was filled with people, who had…
Trinity 10| Luke 19:41-48| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| August 16, 2020 Jesus’ prediction of the destruction of the temple was one of his most controversial prophesies. It filled his disciples with wonder and his enemies with ire. The idea that the temple would be destroyed was offensive to the religious elites, because…
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| July 31, 2016| St. Luke 19:41-48 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your…
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| August 24, 2014| St. Luke 19:41-48 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. …
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| August 12, 2012| Mark 1:11 “Then a voice came from heaven, ‘You are My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” St. Luke writes in his Gospel that the twelve-year-old boy Jesus “Increased in wisdom and stature and in favor with God and men.” …
The Tenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| August 16, 2009| Luke 19:41-48 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For…
Trinity Ten Sermon 2005| Rev. Rolf D. Preus| Luke 19:41-48 No Audio. When God became a man and joined us where we live He did not cease to be God. He did not change. God is unchangeable. From the eternal past to the eternal future God is God. The name by which He chose…