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God Took a Selfie and Gave Him to UsApril 20, 2025 - 12:01 pm
These Four WallsApril 18, 2025 - 3:34 pm
No Holding BackApril 6, 2025 - 11:31 am
Prodigal GodMarch 30, 2025 - 12:40 pm
Eat, Drink, BreatheMarch 23, 2025 - 12:56 pm
God is Close, Real Close
SermonEaster 6A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago As part of training for ministry 30 years ago, I spent a summer working as a chaplain at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge. I […]
From Heaven to Earth
SermonEaster 5A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Death by stoning is a horrible way to die. Yet despite the violence directed against him, Stephen prayed for his enemies. “He knelt down and […]
Living Resurrection
SermonEaster 3A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago When he was about eighteen, Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (1599–1660), created one of his first paintings, titled simply, “Kitchen Maid.” A copy at […]
Wounded Healers
SermonEaster 2A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Few things focus our minds on mortality than our own injuries. I remember playing sardines at a youth lock-in when I slipped on a small […]
Rolling Stones
SermonEaster Sunday A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Alleluia! Christ is risen. (Christ is risen indeed. Alleluia!) Because Easter falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring […]
Your Everyday Survival Kit
SermonLent 5A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago The week after Christmas my family headed out on a 3,800-mile trip to Montana and back. I was excited but also a little anxious. I […]
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
SermonLent 4A-23 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago The disciples ask Jesus, ‘who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’ (John 9:2). The answer, of course, is neither. The […]