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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
Looking for Loopholes?
SermonEpiphany 7C-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.” Several colleagues remarked to […]
Just Another Day in the Peaceable Kingdom
SermonEpiphany 6C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago February 16, 2025 If only Jesus had had more days like this. It was beautiful. Jesus stood among a multitude of diverse peoples from the […]
In the Twinkling of an Eye
SermonEpiphany 5C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Paul wrote, “In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed” (1 Corinthians 15:52). Paul should know. The Spirit of Jesus […]
A More Excellent Way
SermonEpiphany 4C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago They were filled with rage and drove him out of town so that they might hurl him off the cliff (Luke 4:28-29. What made the […]
An Impossible Possibility
SermonEpiphany 3C-25 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing” (Luke 4:21). Today. It’s an extraordinary claim, isn’t it? But surely, Jesus doesn’t mean right now? […]
The Song of Water and Fire
SermonBaptism of our Lord -C24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago When Lindsey Crittenden was a little girl, she was practicing that magic trick that is the stuff of childhood — floating on your back […]
In Abba’s House
SermonChristmas 1C-24 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago ‘Chosen ones, holy and beloved… clothe yourselves in love” (Colossians 3:12 & 14). A thousand years before the birth of Jesus Hanna brought Samuel to […]