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Sunday Worship 10:30 A.M.
June 23, 2019 @ 10:30 am - June 2, 2024 @ 11:30 pm -
Third Saturday Morning Prayer Circle:
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Women of Spirit: Tour of the Edgewater History Museum: July 27th at 11:00am
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E.C.T. Youth Group Mission/Service Learning Trip: August 3-August 8th
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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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Chicago, Illinois 60660
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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, […]
Food for the Journey
SermonPentecost Sunday C-19 “Wind, wind, you come from nothingness and go to nothingness, and when you are still, there is nothing we see, nothing we hear, and you surround us in our not seeing and not knowing.” (Excerpts from the poem Wind, wind – a reflection on the Spirit, by William Loader, an Australian Bible […]
One God One People
SermonImmanuel Lutheran, Chicago Jesus only had time for a few last words before his arrest and crucifixion. He told them to love one another as I have loved you. “By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35) It’s interesting to notice what Jesus didn’t say. He […]
Successful Failures
SermonThe credits roll. The music plays. Lights come up in the theater. Yet people linger in their seats. They stay for the outtakes—scenes not included in the movie. Sometimes stories include an epilogue that reveals what ultimately happens to the principle characters. We learn Oskar Schindler died bankrupt and penniless in Germany. Bilbo and Frodo Baggins leave their beloved Hobbitsville and […]