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The Week that Changed EverythingApril 12, 2026 - 12:23 pm
Truly Human in a Partially Human WorldApril 5, 2026 - 11:49 am
A Circle of FriendsApril 2, 2026 - 7:39 pm
The Life of LazarusMarch 22, 2026 - 12:29 pm
No Heroes but UsMarch 8, 2026 - 12:58 pm
The Week that Changed Everything
SermonEaster 2A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Jesus appeared to Mary Easter morning. She told the disciples, “I have seen the Lord.” Yet, the disciples remain huddled in the place where they […]
Truly Human in a Partially Human World
SermonEaster Sunday A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Alleluia! Christ is risen. (Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia!) But that first Easter morning, the disciple’s minds remain shrouded in grief. We follow Mary […]
A Circle of Friends
SermonMaundy Thursday ABC-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “He got up from supper, took off his outer robe, tied a towel around himself, poured water into a basin, began to wash the […]
The Life of Lazarus
SermonLent 5A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Lazarus was dead. There was no sugar coating it. The scene Jesus and the disciples encounter at the home of Mary, Martha and the dead […]
No Heroes but Us
SermonLent 3A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Jesus and the disciples pass through Samaria on their way from Jerusalem north to Galilee. They took the shortest route –yet no self-respecting Rabbi would […]
Spirit of Restlessness
SermonLent 2A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Sometimes change comes when we, like Nicodemus, start to ask questions. Sometimes change simply knocks us off our horse like Paul on the road to […]
When We are Tested
SermonLent 1A-26 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago We began worship with a walking meditation to symbolize the start of our Lenten journey. Following his baptism the Spirit propelled Jesus into the wilderness—a […]