St. Paul Lutheran Church, Matteson, Illinois & Pastor Troester

David praises God for forgiveness, peace and prosperity.

When people do evil things to us, we take it to the Lord.

Turn to God in faith and confidence and look beyond the circumstances to the cross of Jesus and see God's love for you.

Jesus teaches us about faithfulness to Him along, and warning about giving that faithfulness to anything else.

We are servants, who need the good spiritual milk of God's Word, not thinking to highlyh of ourselves, while having everything in Christ alone.

All authority comes from God and is to be His servant to protect, the enforce the laws for the good of those they serve.

Jesus ministry on earth began with the message to repent, turn back to God, and follow.

The victory of death and the enemy (satan and his evil angels) is won by God and is salvation for all people who put their trust in Him.

James gets to the heart of our conflicts with others and with God, which is that we are by nature self-centered and selfish.

Our God is an AWESOME God!

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

The last of Isaiah's accounts of the Suffering Servant, telling us about Jesus and how He would come to serve and win new life for us.

The battle between God and the devil, fought for us and won by Jesus on the cross, and the life of the church, God's people, everyday until we reach heaven.

We get a glimpse of the reality of heaven, even now, in the middle of the effects of sins in ourselves and in our world, yet we have hope for this future.

The details of Jesus before the Roman Governor, Pilate, and Jesus crucified, died and buried.

The details of the original Passover, which forshadows the sacrifice of Jesus, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, and gives us His Body & Blood, in, with and under the bread and wine of the Lord's Supper.

The events of Holy Week, the last week of Jesus' life, before He rises from the dead on Easter.

God chose to have His only Son take the punishment for sins that we have committed and make it available to us by faith.

Jesus has won the battle over sin, death and the devil, and while we still struggle with sin in this life, our faith is in Jesus and His death and ressurection, and we are saved.

The Peter who denied Jesus three times, who was forgiven by Jesus and reinstated to lead the early church, tells us how to battle with our own denial of Jesus, and to do it with great hope. Jesus is calling you to return.

Accounts of God fighting for His people and giving them victory over their enemy, and even when they grumble against God and are dying, God provides a way to rescue and save them.

Jesus becomes like us and takes on our greatest trouble, sin, death and the devil, and wins the victory for our forgiveness and life.

Not only the birth of Jesus Christ, but also His circumcision into the covenant, His purification, presentation in the temple and His visit to the temple as a 12 year old boy.

Jesus is our Sabbath, our rest in Him for eternity, given to us by faith.

God's Law points us to our sin, and how we have fallen short, but the Gospel is that by faith in Jesus Christ, God delights in us.