Easter Sunday A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago That first Easter, the women went before dawn prompted by grief, and returned from the tomb quickly, propelled by fear and great joy with good news for the disciples. Alleluia! Christ is risen! (Christ is risen, indeed.) Let all things living rejoice. In our gospel all things living includes […]
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Palm Sunday A-20 Immanuel, Chicago I’ve had this old cross more than twenty years now. It has cracks, saw marks, dents, and worm holes. It is so time-worn and irregular it appears it was fashioned by nature rather than by human hands. Every angle tells a story. It’s just two pieces of wood—three if you […]
Lent 5A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.” (John 11:39, KJV) The King James translation may not be as reliable as other versions, but it is often […]
Lent 4A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Three weeks ago, was Ash Wednesday. Back then, we still gathered for worship and went about business as usual. If you would have asked me, I would have thought social distancing was a dating strategy not public health policy. None of us expected to give up so much for Lent. […]
Lent 3A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago When Jesus tells the Samaritan woman who he is, she leaves her water jar at the well, runs back to her city, and said, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” (John 4:29) She left her water jar. […]
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Lent 1A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Sometime in July 1673, seven men left the Mississippi to paddle up the Illinois to the Des Plaines River. They found an Indian trail running along what is now Irving Park Road, portaged a mile and a half, then put into the Chicago River which they were startled to discover […]
Transfiguration A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago 500 years before Christ, Rabbis called Mount Tabor “the navel of the world.” The peak rises abruptly, yet gently, from the plain like the belly of a pregnant woman. It is modest, covered in pine, about 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It rises almost 2,000 feet above […]
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Let All Things Rejoice
SermonEaster Sunday A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago That first Easter, the women went before dawn prompted by grief, and returned from the tomb quickly, propelled by fear and great joy with good news for the disciples. Alleluia! Christ is risen! (Christ is risen, indeed.) Let all things living rejoice. In our gospel all things living includes […]
This Old Rugged Cross
SermonPalm Sunday A-20 Immanuel, Chicago I’ve had this old cross more than twenty years now. It has cracks, saw marks, dents, and worm holes. It is so time-worn and irregular it appears it was fashioned by nature rather than by human hands. Every angle tells a story. It’s just two pieces of wood—three if you […]
Lord, It Stinketh
SermonLent 5A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.” (John 11:39, KJV) The King James translation may not be as reliable as other versions, but it is often […]
Blind Sight
SermonLent 4A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Three weeks ago, was Ash Wednesday. Back then, we still gathered for worship and went about business as usual. If you would have asked me, I would have thought social distancing was a dating strategy not public health policy. None of us expected to give up so much for Lent. […]
Soap and Water
SermonLent 3A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago When Jesus tells the Samaritan woman who he is, she leaves her water jar at the well, runs back to her city, and said, “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?” (John 4:29) She left her water jar. […]
Pathways of Grace
SermonLent 1A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Sometime in July 1673, seven men left the Mississippi to paddle up the Illinois to the Des Plaines River. They found an Indian trail running along what is now Irving Park Road, portaged a mile and a half, then put into the Chicago River which they were startled to discover […]
It is Good Lord, to Be Here
SermonTransfiguration A-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago 500 years before Christ, Rabbis called Mount Tabor “the navel of the world.” The peak rises abruptly, yet gently, from the plain like the belly of a pregnant woman. It is modest, covered in pine, about 11 miles west of the Sea of Galilee. It rises almost 2,000 feet above […]