Trinity 17| Luke 14:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 22, 2024 St. Augustine begins his famous work, Confessions with a prayer to God in which He says, “Man, a little piece of Your creation, desires to praise You, a human being ‘bearing his mortality with him (2 Cor. 4:10), carrying with him…
Trinity 17| Luke 14:1-14| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| October 1, 2023 The leaders of the Pharisees invite Jesus over for dinner on the Sabbath, and in attendance is a man suffering from dropsy, a disease, which causes his body to bloat up. These Pharisees are experts in the law. And they…
Trinity 17| Luke 14:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| October 9, 2022 “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath, or not?”, Jesus asks. What kind of a question is this? Why wouldn’t it be lawful to heal on the Sabbath? The question lies in the Third Commandment. God gave Moses the Third…
Trinity 17| Luke 14:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 26, 2021 There’s the letter of the law and then there’s the spirit of the law. The letter of the law uses words to command outward obedience. The spirit of the law is the meaning behind the words, the true intent of the commandment. If…
Trinity 16| Luke 7:11-17| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| September 19, 2021 “What have you against me, O man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to remembrance and to cause the death of my son!”, cried the bereaved widow to Elijah (1 Kings 17:18). With these words, this…
Trinity 17| Luke 14:1-11| Pastor James Preus| Trinity Lutheran Church| October 4, 2020 “For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.” With these words our Lord Jesus not only sums up his parable, but he sums up one of the most common lessons throughout Holy Scripture….
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| October 13, 2019| Luke 14:1-11 Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And…
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| October 12, 2014| St. Luke 14:1-11 Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. …
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| September 30, 2012| St. Luke 14:1-11 Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely. And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy. And…
The Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity| Rev. Rolf Preus| September 27, 2015| Ephesians 4:1-6 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called, with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit…