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Sunday Worship 10:30 A.M.
June 23, 2019 @ 10:30 am - June 2, 2024 @ 11:30 pm -
Agape National Academy of Music (ANAM) At Immanuel August 25th at 3:00pm
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Blessing of the Backpacks: Sunday September 1st at Worship
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God’s Work Our Hands Sunday September 8th
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Edgewater Congregations Together Back to School BBQ: September 11th 6:15pm
September 11 @ 6:15 pm - 9:00 pm
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Immanuel is a member congregation of the Evengelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) “This is Christ’s church. There is a place for you here. We are the church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. Liberated by our faith, we embrace you as a whole person–questions, complexities and all. Join us as we do God’s work in Christ’s name for the life of the world.
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1500 W Elmdale Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60660
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773-743-1820
773-743-1849
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churchonelmdale@gmail.com
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Kinship to Kingdom
SermonMary, Mother of our Lord Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth (Luke 1.39-40). A newly pregnant teenager makes for the hills. She doesn’t slow down until she reaches the home of her also-pregnant […]
Hunting for Treasure
SermonProper 14C-19 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “It is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). Perhaps, it is part of the unfortunate legacy of the piety many of us grew up with we are apt to hear many reasons to judge ourselves reading today’s gospel. We list them out: “Do not be […]
A Love Story
SermonProper 12C-19 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Last Saturday, Kari and I attended a summer wedding. Our own Kevin Crowder married Katie Davis. I gave a nuptial blessing as part of a lovely ecumenical service that blended their Catholic and Lutheran traditions with beautiful music, thoughtful prayers, two great homilies and selections from scripture. Marriage today celebrates […]
Who is My Neighbor?
SermonProper 10C-19 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “And who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:28) The lawyer’s face-saving question, put another way is, who is not my neighbor? Who can I exclude? When I think of a neighbor, Mrs. Dugan comes to mind. It was 1970. I was eight years old. We lived in a house on Rodney […]
Simple and Amazing
SermonProper 9C-16 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago July 7, 2019 “See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves” (Luke 10:3). I remember reading the Gospel of Luke for a required college course in religion when these words of Jesus jumped out at me the first time. I felt both delighted and terrified. […]
Follow Me
SermonProper 8C-19 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago June 30, 2019 “He set his face to go up to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51-62). And so, Jesus begins his faithful sojourn to the cross. From now until November 10th our gospel each Sunday follows Jesus on this journey as recorded in ten chapters of Luke (9:51- 19:28). Every trek […]
What is Your Name?
SermonProper 7C-19 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Years ago, I spent a week with 18 high school youth on mission trip to Juarez, Mexico. We helped build a community center and lead vacation bible school for a small church. Every day one youth sent a reflection back home by email. Often, they wrote about the poverty they observed. One wrote, […]