Transfiguration B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago On the mountain of his transfiguration, Peter, James, and John learn something you and I already know. Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of Man, the Son of God. The Greek word used is metamorphothe and is translated as transfigured, yet it comes closer to expressing something English […]
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Fourth Sunday after Epiphany Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago We’re twenty verses into the first chapter of Mark. Jesus is already collecting disciples and casting out demons. Neither are from places you’d expect. He finds disciples from the hard-scrabble, unrefined, unlearned shores of the Sea of Galilee. He cast out demons from inside the synagogue. In the […]
Epiphany 2B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago It was a 17-minute speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. had been so preoccupied with the logistics of the historic March on Washington he hadn’t given much thought to what he’d say. He began to write less […]
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Baptism of our Lord B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago For now, we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. —1 Corinthians 13:12 We navigate by the uncertain light of epiphany. Without all the details, we make decisions. […]
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Christmas 2B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Every sermon I’ve written since 2005 is on the computer through which I’m speaking to you now. Yet there was no sermon for the second Sunday of Christmas—until now. Last year, on New Year’s Eve, I was embarrassing my kids on the dance floor at the YMCA of the Rockies. […]
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Christmas Day B-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Have you opened gifts yet? I got off easy this Christmas. I installed a closet clothing rod in Joe’s room before he came home. Other years, I’ve assembled a bicycle, a free-standing basketball hoop, and an outdoor playhouse. And, of course, many things from Ikea. There’s a storage unit […]
4th Sunday of Advent Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago As I sit here the little light next to the built-in camera on my laptop is shining green. I can see many of you, although not all of you, on a large external monitor. I have on my clergy shirt. I’m wearing my blue stole for the Advent […]
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Seeing with Your Ears
SermonTransfiguration B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago On the mountain of his transfiguration, Peter, James, and John learn something you and I already know. Jesus is the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of Man, the Son of God. The Greek word used is metamorphothe and is translated as transfigured, yet it comes closer to expressing something English […]
Casting Out Demons
SermonFourth Sunday after Epiphany Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago We’re twenty verses into the first chapter of Mark. Jesus is already collecting disciples and casting out demons. Neither are from places you’d expect. He finds disciples from the hard-scrabble, unrefined, unlearned shores of the Sea of Galilee. He cast out demons from inside the synagogue. In the […]
Tell Them About the Dream
SermonEpiphany 2B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago It was a 17-minute speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. had been so preoccupied with the logistics of the historic March on Washington he hadn’t given much thought to what he’d say. He began to write less […]
What We Saw on Epiphany
SermonBaptism of our Lord B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago For now, we see through a glass, darkly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. —1 Corinthians 13:12 We navigate by the uncertain light of epiphany. Without all the details, we make decisions. […]
Home is Where We Start From
SermonChristmas 2B-21 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Every sermon I’ve written since 2005 is on the computer through which I’m speaking to you now. Yet there was no sermon for the second Sunday of Christmas—until now. Last year, on New Year’s Eve, I was embarrassing my kids on the dance floor at the YMCA of the Rockies. […]
Assembly Required
SermonChristmas Day B-20 Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago Have you opened gifts yet? I got off easy this Christmas. I installed a closet clothing rod in Joe’s room before he came home. Other years, I’ve assembled a bicycle, a free-standing basketball hoop, and an outdoor playhouse. And, of course, many things from Ikea. There’s a storage unit […]
Cast Off Your Pandemic Doldrums
Sermon4th Sunday of Advent Immanuel Lutheran, Chicago As I sit here the little light next to the built-in camera on my laptop is shining green. I can see many of you, although not all of you, on a large external monitor. I have on my clergy shirt. I’m wearing my blue stole for the Advent […]