Proper 16A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago It looked bad for the Israelites. Once they were welcomed guests. Now they were feared aliens and oppressed slaves. A new king rose up in Egypt who did know Joseph nor remember how he once saved the nation from famine (Exodus 1:8). Imagine a ruler, wishing to solidify his political […]
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Proper 15A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago They lied, conspired, and hid their crime telling Jacob, their father, Joseph was dead. ‘Probably he was killed by a wild animal,’ they said (Genesis 37:33). No one would blame him for hating his brothers. No one could expect him to forgive them. Yet, as we read, Joseph chose love […]
Proper 12A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago You’ve heard of United States Representative, civil rights leader, and conscience of the Congress, the late John Lewis, and of Bloody Sunday, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama on March 7, 1965 which lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. No doubt you […]
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Proper 11A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago COVID-19 is on the rise in Chicago among 18 to 29-year-olds. This week, Mayor Lightfoot threatened to be the mom who would stop the car and make kids walk home if they didn’t take the virus and the public health more seriously. “We are at the precipice,” she said. “We […]
Proper 10A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago We have green beans! These are the first fruits of the season from my backyard. We always had a garden when I was growing up. I remember eating tomatoes and vegetables, like this, straight from the vine. A few years back I bought, cut, and screwed together some 2” X […]
Proper 9A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago 12 score and 2 years ago our ancestors brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “All men,” of course, referred narrowly only to people of that same gender, who were white, who had lived on […]
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Proper 8A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Put ourselves in Abraham’s sandals. God said, “Abraham!” And Abraham said, “Here I am.” God said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, the one I promised you, the one you waited nearly your whole life for, the son whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and […]
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Keys to the Future
SermonProper 16A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago It looked bad for the Israelites. Once they were welcomed guests. Now they were feared aliens and oppressed slaves. A new king rose up in Egypt who did know Joseph nor remember how he once saved the nation from famine (Exodus 1:8). Imagine a ruler, wishing to solidify his political […]
God’s Great Gamble
SermonProper 15A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago They lied, conspired, and hid their crime telling Jacob, their father, Joseph was dead. ‘Probably he was killed by a wild animal,’ they said (Genesis 37:33). No one would blame him for hating his brothers. No one could expect him to forgive them. Yet, as we read, Joseph chose love […]
“Live So As to Get Kicked Out”
SermonProper 12A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago You’ve heard of United States Representative, civil rights leader, and conscience of the Congress, the late John Lewis, and of Bloody Sunday, the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama on March 7, 1965 which lead to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. No doubt you […]
Weeds into Wheat
SermonProper 11A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago COVID-19 is on the rise in Chicago among 18 to 29-year-olds. This week, Mayor Lightfoot threatened to be the mom who would stop the car and make kids walk home if they didn’t take the virus and the public health more seriously. “We are at the precipice,” she said. “We […]
Seed and Soil
SermonProper 10A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago We have green beans! These are the first fruits of the season from my backyard. We always had a garden when I was growing up. I remember eating tomatoes and vegetables, like this, straight from the vine. A few years back I bought, cut, and screwed together some 2” X […]
A New Birth of Freedom
SermonProper 9A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago 12 score and 2 years ago our ancestors brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “All men,” of course, referred narrowly only to people of that same gender, who were white, who had lived on […]
Test Your Faith, Stop the Killing
SermonProper 8A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Put ourselves in Abraham’s sandals. God said, “Abraham!” And Abraham said, “Here I am.” God said, ‘Take your son, your only son Isaac, the one I promised you, the one you waited nearly your whole life for, the son whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and […]