Entries by Pastor Monte

God’s Love Calls Us To Belonging

By Rev. Kelly Nieman Anderson Given July 27, 2025 Throughout July, we’ve been reflecting together on how God’s love calls us to live.  In today’s scriptures, God’s love calls us […]

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Body and Soul

Proper 8C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “He set his face to go up to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51-62). And so, Jesus began his sojourn from Galilee to the cross.  From now until […]

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Casting Out Demons

Proper 7C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago The Prophet Isaiah reveals God’s own breaking heart. “I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask, to be found by […]

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The Arc of Justice

Trinity Sunday C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Does not wisdom call and understanding raise her voice?  (Proverbs 8:1) Wisdom is depicted as a women sitting on a mountain, at the crossroads, […]

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Boldness to Live without Fear

Pentecost Sunday C25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Today, on this the Feast of Pentecost, we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, the ingathering of the church and the disciple’s great […]

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I Am Because We Are

Easter 7C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Jesus is in his final hours. The disciples asked, and Jesus has taught them, the Lords’ Prayer. Now, like children listening in while the grown-ups […]

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No Need for Tribalism

Easter 6C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago The words we read today are among the last spoken by Jesus to the disciples. He is preparing them to carry on without him. Life […]

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Love is Your Birthright

Easter 5C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Live every day as if it may be your last, because someday, it will be true.” (The gospel according to Steve Jobs.) In his final […]

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