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Com’in Straight On For You!December 8, 2024 - 12:56 pm
Lord Save UsDecember 1, 2024 - 12:58 pm
Birth PangsNovember 17, 2024 - 1:28 pm
A Passion for JusticeNovember 10, 2024 - 1:02 pm
Come Out!November 3, 2024 - 12:59 pm
Com’in Straight On For You!
SermonAdvent 2C-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago John the Baptist, and not St. Nick is the one whom Luke calls “prophet of the Most High” (Luke 1:76). God appointed the wild and […]
Lord Save Us
SermonAdvent 1C-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Now when these things begin to take place, look up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near” (Luke 21:28). To understand the […]
Birth Pangs
SermonProper 28B-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Do you see these windows and that great red granite cross? “Not one stone will be left upon another,” Jesus said (Mark 13:2b). On this […]
A Passion for Justice
SermonProper 27B-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Jesus is in Jerusalem. It is the week of the passion, the final week of Jesus’ life. He rode in with shouts of Hosanna three […]
Come Out!
SermonAll Saints B-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago The ancient Celtic Christians believed the veil between heaven and earth becomes especially thin at this time of year. Through the lens of autumn […]
Seeing What Blind Bartimaeus Sees
SermonProper 25B-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Fall has come to Chicago. The incandescent season, when the trees reveal their fiery colors, the sky turns deep blue, the air is cool, and […]
Commonwealth is God’s Commandment
SermonProper 23B-2024 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? The young man in our gospel today does—or at least, he wants everything. He is very disciplined. He seems […]