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Nov 13/14 – Readiness and Endurance | Veterans Day – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Like the disciples of old, we look around us and presume that our accomplishments will endure. But even now, they are falling, brick upon brick. There is no repairing a world that must be replaced by a new heaven and a new earth. The urgent need is not to predict when these things will happen, but to endure when they do come. The world is in labor until God delivers His eternal kingdom, but you are not of the world. You belong to the Lord. Through your witness, the elect of many nations will be called by the Spirit through the preaching of the Word. The world will reject you, but you belong to God. He who endures in this faith to the end will be saved. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Nov 6/7 – Together in Christ – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In his day, the reformer Martin Luther did a similar thing, restoring the Gospel of Jesus Christ front and center to be the main thing in everything. The main thing is the justification of the sinner by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Filter everything through that, through Him, and your faith is secure. We do well to open the catechism even daily to help us stay on track. In the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer, we have the heart and center of the Christian faith, the sure guide of God’s Word. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 30/31 – Looking Through the Lens of Christ – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In his day, the reformer Martin Luther did a similar thing, restoring the Gospel of Jesus Christ front and center to be the main thing in everything. The main thing is the justification of the sinner by God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ. Filter everything through that, through Him, and your faith is secure. We do well to open the catechism even daily to help us stay on track. In the Ten Commandments, the Creed, and the Lord’s Prayer, we have the heart and center of the Christian faith, the sure guide of God’s Word. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 23/24 – Caring for the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Just as Jesus charged his disciples in Matthew 28:18-20 to go and make disciples of all nations, he also charges us to do the same. So as we move out to journey life with our Ones, it’s important to remember that this journey is one that is Charged by the One. Living life with our One is exactly what Jesus directs us to do. We are indeed making disciples, one person at a time. How will you respond to Jesus command to “Go and make disciples”? Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 16/17 – Committed to the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Apostles were deeply committed to witnessing their faith by teaching and preaching about Jesus even in the face of imprisonment, beating, and persecution. They were
maturing and kingdom activated disciples of Christ. The Apostles’ entire focus was being so committed to The One, Jesus, that they set their eyes on those who were in earlier stages of their walk of faith in Jesus, particularly to those who were ‘willing to try’ and those who were ‘infant disciples’ in the Journey of Following Jesus. Today we continue to learn more about that journey and how Christians find themselves as ‘maturing disciples’ who are ‘kingdom activated’. Where to you find yourself on this journey of faith? Are you willing to reach back and bring someone along? Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 9/10 – Caring for the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Throughout the Bible we see how God cares for His people. That was evident in the story of Moses as a baby where God had a plan to protect him and return him safely to his family. God cares for each one of us. It’s that care that God daily shows to us we reflect to our ONES. We are CARING for our ONES. For each one of us the care that we extend to our ONES will look different. The most important way that we CARE for our ONES is by sharing the love of Christ with them. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 2/3 – Connected to the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
How are you connected to your One? Family? Friend? Co-worker? Having a strong connection to your One already makes it easier to share deeper more meaningful moments of life with, particularly God’s love for them. While this connection is important, being connected to ‘The One’, Jesus Christ is the greatest and most eternal connection. Being connected to ‘The One’ provides everything you need in this endeavor to intentionally engage and live life with your One. Zacchaeus found out first-hand how incredible it is to be Connected to The One. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Sep 25/26 – A Light for the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
There is so much darkness in the world today. We see it on the news, we see it in the interactions between people, in the lives of the people around us and our own lives. There is only one light that can outshine the darkness of this world and that is Christ, He is the Light of the World! God uses us to spread the Light of Christ to those around! We are a Light for the One! As we live intentionally with our Ones, we share with them the Light of Christ. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Sep 18/19 – United for the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Not only are we CHOSEN for the ONE we are UNITED for the ONE! We are UNITED as
the Body of Christ to carry out God’s mission to build His Kingdom. We are UNITED as we reach our ONES as we get to hear the stories of the ONES of our church family. We are UNITED as we pray together over all the ONES. We all make up the body of Christ and each one of us is needed. Just as Paul wrote to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians each part of the human body is important, each one of us is important to the body of Christ. As the body of Christ we are UNITED for the ONE! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Sep 11/12 – Chosen for the One – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Not only are we CHOSEN for the ONE we are UNITED for the ONE! We are UNITED as the Body of Christ to carry out God’s mission to build His Kingdom. We are UNITED as we reach our ONES as we get to hear the stories of the ONES of our church family. We are UNITED as we pray together over all the ONES. We all make up the body of Christ and each one of us is needed. Just as Paul wrote to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians each part of the human body is important, each one of us is important to the body of Christ. As the body of Christ we are UNITED for the ONE! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Sep 4/5 – Are You Sure? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We focus today on the words of James, which call us to an active faith that loves our
neighbors. We are forced to ask ourselves: What good is a faith that bears no fruit of love and service to others? Such a question might make us worry about our salvation. Friends in Christ: do not fear; your living, saving faith in Christ will inevitably overflow with His good works. Christ powerfully works in us as we live out our daily vocations. Serve the Lord with gladness. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Aug 28/29 – Ready to Go – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we see the importance of God’s Word in our lives. God’s Word is what kept the
Israelites as they entered the Promised Land. God’s Word is the sword of the Spirit, a portion of the armor of God we are given and told to put on. God’s Word leads us, protects us, and helps us fight against the evilone. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Aug 21/22 – Clean Hands, Dirty Heart – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we consider the temple, the place where God’s people worshiped and prayed for
generations. The temple in Jerusalem was destroyed more than once. Worshiping in the
temple was a tradition passed down from generation to generation, but the temple was
razed to the ground. In our lives, we build up our own temples, our own idols, our own
human-made traditions that likewise need to be razed to the ground. But we will always
find that what remains when our creations are destroyed is someone uncreated— Jesus
Himself. He is the one true tradition that must be passed down by every generation. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Aug 14/15 – Backpacks, Blessings, Barbeque and Bandshell- Lutheran Weekend Worship
IMMANUEL HAS LEFT THE BUILDING!
We’re out in our community, taking our Sunday worship service on the road and into the Palatine bandshell. Back-to-School Backpacks were assembled and blessed, we praised our God in Praise and we learned of “The One.” We hope and pray that you will be as blessed and renewed by this worship service, as we were bringing it to you and into our community. Listen-In or Watch below. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Aug 7/8 – No Expiration Date- Lutheran Weekend Worship
Most food we make, purchase, and use has a shelf life. Some longer, some shorter, but at some point, we know goods expire. This is especially true with bread. When not used in a
timely manner, bread dries out, hardens, and even molds. How different is the bread Jesus teaches of, the bread that is Himself.
Continuing in John 6, He teaches the people what He came to provide, which is Himself from heaven. In our worship, in our reception of His Means of Grace, in our prayers and praise, and in our daily lives, let us rejoice in the Bread that lasts for our needs of faith and forgiveness, that we, too, may continually “taste and see that the LORD is good!” Listen-In or Watch below.
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July 31/Aug 1 – Looking for Clarity – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Have you ever heard the phrase “Can’t see the forest for the trees”? It means to be so caught up with the smaller focuses (the trees) that a grander picture (the forest) is not noticed. After Jesus miraculously fed the multitudes of people, they struggled to see the forest for the trees. Many marveled, and rightfully so, at their earthly needs met through Christ’s power. Yet, Jesus came for more than providing meals and filling stomachs. He came to provide the greater things of forgiveness and eternal life. Through His teaching, people then and we now learn more of those greater things for which He came, that all in time could be able to see the forest from the trees,namely, forgiveness from the tree—the cross to which He would go. Listen-In or Watch below.
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July 24/25 – The “I” of the Storm – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When we walk with Jesus, he shows his amazing power that is at work in our lives. Especially when we are in our most desperate situations, he says “It is I” and does the unthinkable and gets us through the storm. We stand amazed at him, but as we continue to walk with him, we begin to see that he actively heals us and strengthens us to move forward in this life. He is truly the “I” of the storm. Listen-In or Watch below.
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July 17/18 – Jesus’ Math Lesson – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Jesus takes what we have and multiplies it so that his blessings overflow in our lives. He feeds us and fills us up, even leaving us with leftovers for the days ahead. Listen-In or Watch below.
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July 10/11 – Count Your Blessings – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In today’s Old Testament Reading, the prophet Amos, though previously a herdsman and
dresser of sycamore figs, must speak, for the Lord has called him. His word of judgment is only part of the message; in other places, he calls people to choose the Lord and live and also announces a great reversal. It is dangerous being a prophet, as John the Baptist learned in the Holy Gospel. But we know the end of the story: before creation, we were
destined to salvation, as we read in the Epistle. Whatever we face, our faith tells us to listen to what the Lord has to say before paying attention to any other voice. “He will speak peace to His people” (Psalm 85:8). Listen-In or Watch below.
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July 3/4 – A Hard Truth – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When Israel was in exile, God called Ezekiel to speak for Him to tell the truth to Israel. The Lord made no promises about results, but at least the people would recognize that a prophet had been among them. After His hometown did not believe His Messiahship, Jesus still sent out the Twelve to the surrounding towns. Not only did He instruct them about what to do or say, He also prepared them for rejection and how to respond to it. Now it is our turn, as we are called to tell others the truth about sin and grace. But we might think we are not up to the task. Here, Paul is our model, for he was well aware of his limitations, including his thorn in the flesh. Rather than keep silent, he spoke and wrote, confident that God’s power was made perfect in weakness. Our worship today is a reminder that above all else, the truth reveals God’s great love for us in Christ. Listen-In or Watch below.
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June 26/27 – The Calm Before the Storm – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Do you forget to pray now and then? This is fallen human nature. God never forgets to listen. The Lord’s steadfast love never ceases. When Jesus walked this earth, this was evident as He raised Jairus’s daughter, who had died between the request and Jesus’ arrival at his home. And He cured a hemorrhaging woman whose only prayer was touching His robe. But God does more than restore us to physical life and health. Jesus left the riches of heaven, becoming a poor and despised human being so that we might become rich with everlasting life. How can we ever thank Him? Paul encourages us to share generously and joyfully whatever God has so graciously given us. Listen-In or Watch below.
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June 19/20 – The Calm Before the Storm – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In today’s Gospel, Jesus commands the wind and the sea to become calm, which understandably stuns the disciples. “Who is this?” they wonder. The other Readings today
reaffirm that we know that Jesus is one person of the Holy Trinity. The Creator puts creature Job in his place. We also ought to remember with whom we are dealing when we request or complain. Paul encourages his readers, then and now, to put their circumstances into the context of the whole Church. Our situations do not define us! Sure of God’s care and emboldened by the strength He provides, we are called to live out our faith confidently. We know who this is: He is Jesus, our Savior.or Watch below.
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June 12/13 – Small But Powerful – Father’s Day Weekend Worship
Though much is made of the smallness of the mustard seed, the focus of Jesus is on outcome— the plant that becomes large enough to give nest and shade to all the birds of the air. The kingdom of God seems small and even irrelevant in the face of large problems, challenges, and problems of this mortal life, and yet it is the kingdom of God that is great. God gives to us the forgiveness that makes a clear conscience, the life that is stronger than death, and the joy that is greater than every joy this world can deliver. In this way, the small seed makes for a great plant, large enough for us to find refuge and a home in its shade.
How the kingdom of God grows may seem part of the mystery, but we know that it is a seed planted in the good soil and fed and nourished by God’s grace to the day when the harvest delivers us into His presence forevermore. Listen-In or Watch below.
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June 5/6 – Blood is Thicker than Water – Lutheran Weekend Worship
As the family is the shape of our lives on earth, so is family God’s design for eternity. When Adam and Eve succumbed to Satan’s lies and were lost to God, He was relentless in working to restore them and their children. He delivered up His own Son to rescue and redeem us and make us His children once again. God’s family is all those who are bound by blood—the blood of Christ—and who have been born anew, adopted, and marked as His own. Satan’s claim on us is paid in Christ so that we might be free to be the children of God, to call God Father, and to know and trust in His gifts, grace, and promises. This is our identity today by Baptism and faith, and this is our future in everlasting life. Listen-In or Watch below.
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May 22/23 – Loved, Born, Saved – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Sunday following Pentecost is always Holy Trinity. On this day we are confronted with who God is through what God does. He is the mighty God, the One in Three, before whom we give our praise. He is the loving and merciful Father, who calls us His children. He is also the Christ, the Savior who comes in flesh to redeem His fallen creation and restore the lost to Himself. He is also the Spirit who blows when and where He wills but breathes life into those dead in trespasses and sin and bestows faith where fear once lived. It all is expressed in the God who so loved the world—the most familiar and beloved Bible passage. Here, in this Gospel in a nutshell, is the triune God at work for us and our salvation. Listen-In or Watch below.
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May 15/16 – United We Stand – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It feels like everywhere we look we see things that constantly divide us. It’s not just in the things of this world, but we see division in the church. Divisions in church take our attention away from the mission God has called all Christian to do, make disciples of all nations. As Christians we all are united in faith in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Let’s focus on sharing what Christianity is centered on, Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior. Listen-In or Watch below.
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May 9/10 – All You Need is Love – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We hear so many mixed messages of what love is. Popular songs from the past decades or even more contemporary ones tell of what love can and should be; poems, memes, and other influences also are commonly read and seen; even our own emotions and feelings strive to tell us what love is and should feel like. Despite all these mixed messages, our Lord tells us how we are to know real and perfect love. In our Epistle we hear, “By this we know love, that Jesus laid down His life for us” (1 John 3:16). Today, we focus on the fact that as our Good Shepherd, Jesus has laid down His life for His sheep. By that sacrifice on the cross and Easter victory, we can rejoice in a perfect love that lasts and an unconditional love that forgives as our Good Shepherd continues to guide, lead, and direct us through all our days. Listen-In or Watch below.
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May 2/3 – Stay Connected – Lutheran Weekend Worship
So many people are looking for purpose in life and to be connected with something positive. Jesus as the vine gives us that purpose and that connection, we are all seeking in life. We are the branches that grow from His vine. When we stay connected to Him, we will be fruitful and find joy in life! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Apr 17/18 – The Aha Moment – Lutheran Weekend Worship
For the fourth time, Jesus explains all that needed to happen to him. He needed to suffer and die, and on the third day rise. He does this after coming into the locked room, showing the disciples his nail pierced hands and the spear wound of his side. But the fourth time is different, because Jesus ‘opened their minds to understand the Scriptures. All that is written about Jesus in the Law of Moses, Prophets, and Psalms must be fulfilled. Jesus is giving his disciples the most powerful ‘Aha Moment’ ever. He’s doing this now because the next phase of their assignment is about to begin. They are to be witnesses to the world. And they will have the power of the Holy Spirit with them to lead them. We have that same Spirit in us, that helps us witness our faith. Do you need an ‘Aha Moment’ from Jesus? Listen-In or Watch below.
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Apr 10/11 – Have No Fear – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Though Easter is a season and not merely a Sunday, it can be hard to sustain the enthusiasm when attendance drops on “low Sunday.” That said, the source of our joy is not in the size of the crowd but the greatness of the gift that Christ has given us. We have the forgiveness of sins, and where there is forgiveness for our sins, there is also life and salvation. We are held captive to fear, to the guilt of our sin, and to the power of death until Christ enters our locked rooms, shows Himself to us, and we, by the power of the Holy Spirit, rejoice in our Lord and God. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Apr 4 – Easter Sunday! – Lutheran Worship
The Day of Easter appeals to all of the senses—especially the sense of sight. With joyfilled eyes, we view our place of worship, which has a singular beauty at Easter. We return and see and rejoice. But the greatest visioning of Easter on this holy day is that we are called to come and see the risen Christ. By faith, we see the salvation won for us. This is the feast of victory for our God—and by His grace, once again, we get to view it“up close and personal”! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 3 – Easter Vigil – Lutheran Worship
The gathering of the followers of Jesus Christ has special meaning on every occasion. On
the day between the commemoration of His death on the cross at Calvary and the
celebration of His resurrection from the garden tomb, there is a singular opportunity for
reflection and for worship. Through the death of Christ upon it, the cross has become a
symbol for the end and the beginning of life. As we who are the Church keep an Easter
vigil, we rejoice that our Lord has called us into an eternal relationship with Him and
with one another. Honoring our Lord, we keep this feast with sincerity and truth. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Apr 2 – Good Friday – Lutheran Worship
Peter addressed the people in Solomon’s Portico at the temple in Jerusalem after the
time of Pentecost, and said directly, “Men of Israel . . . you denied the Holy and
Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you, and you killed the
Author of life” (Acts 3:12, 14–15). In the service of Good Friday, we reflect on that truth
and remember the sacrifice that Jesus made for each of us. The hymnist describes the
event with poignant beauty: “The Shepherd dies for sheep that loved to wander” (LSB
439:4). Good Friday is good for us. It is good to be here! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Apr 1 – Maundy Thursday – Lutheran Worship
On this night known in the Church as Holy Thursday, Jesus invites us to join Him once
again at His Table. He knows our need for strengthening and reassurance. The place in
which we gather is filled with the blessing of fellowship as we remember the new
command of our Lord Jesus to love one another. Our Lord serves us in many ways, most
singularly as the Host at His Table, where we receive His body and blood for the
forgiveness of sins. Time and again we are invited to return to the Table, where truly we
experience a foretaste of the feast to come. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 28 – Confirmation 2021! – Lenten Worship
Welcome to our Confirmation 2021 celebration! We pray that all of our 2021 confirmands will rest comfortably in the arms of Jesus and may their faith be the rock-solid foundation on which they stand, all the days of thier lives. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 27/28 – Off He Goes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Sunday, “the eighth day of the week,” is celebrated by Christians as the first day of the eternal life into which they were baptized. Today, the beginning of the great and Holy Week of Lent, we begin with the note of great joy as the crowds receive Jesus entering Jerusalem. This will be the last time He comes to the holy city. For we then follow Him to the judgment hall, the cross of suffering, and the fearful tomb of death. The penitential season of Lent concludes with the three holy days, the Triduum of Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Let us follow our Lord and allow Him to take our sins upon Himself that we may receive His new life in the forgiveness of our sins and the joy of the resurrection. The Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 20/21 – To Serve or Be Served? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
To Serve or Be Served? That is the question. Do you come to worship to be served?
Are you here for what you want, or are you here to serve others? What would you be willing to do for someone else to come to know Jesus? Jesus said, “For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” The Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 13/14 – Not the God We Deserve, but the God We Have – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Church has what the world doesn’t want: God’s Law, which always accuses us sinners,
and His Gospel, which allows for no boasting on our part. To this day, Jewish leaders teach
that God will not demand what we cannot achieve. What a stumbling block, preaching a
Messiah who becomes a sacrifice for our failings, both in our actions and our very nature.
The polytheistic society of Paul’s day and the secular one of ours both find the Law an
encumbrance, preferring to judge by their own standards (or lack of them). What folly,
our society believes, to preach a God who chooses people whom everyone knows to be
weak. Today is a day for foolish preaching: Christ crucified, the power and wisdom of God. The Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 6/7 – Not the God We Deserve, but the God We Have – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Church has what the world doesn’t want: God’s Law, which always accuses us sinners,
and His Gospel, which allows for no boasting on our part. To this day, Jewish leaders teach
that God will not demand what we cannot achieve. What a stumbling block, preaching a
Messiah who becomes a sacrifice for our failings, both in our actions and our very nature.
The polytheistic society of Paul’s day and the secular one of ours both find the Law an
encumbrance, preferring to judge by their own standards (or lack of them). What folly,
our society believes, to preach a God who chooses people whom everyone knows to be
weak. Today is a day for foolish preaching: Christ crucified, the power and wisdom of God. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Feb 27/28 – Life in the Upside Down Kingdom – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today, Jesus asks the disciples, “Who do you say that I am?” In response, impetuous, impulsive Peter gets all excited and professes that Jesus is indeed the long-promised Messiah. Jesus then begins to explain things to his disciples saying, “It is necessary that the Son of Man proceed to an ordeal of suffering, be tried and found guilty by the elders, high priests, and religion scholars, be killed, and after three days rise up alive.” As soon as Peter hears this, he immediately backs away and rebukes Jesus. Jesus’ words shatter the glamor of following this long-expected Messiah. This is certainly not the kind of life Peter wants to undertake. While Jesus seems to be the Messiah, the Jewish people had never expected a leader who must suffer and die. That was simply ludicrous and irrational. Who in their right mind chooses to “proceed to an ordeal of suffering” as Jesus says he is doing? And, who in their right mind wants to follow a leader who is on his way to die? Listen-In or Watch below.
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Feb 20/21 – It Is Written – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac, and he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, ‘Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.’ He considered that God was able even to raise him from the dead, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back” (Hebrews 11:17–19). The writer to the Hebrews makes such a beautiful statement about something that must have been literally gut-wrenching for Abraham. Losing a loved one is hard. Losing a child is incredibly hard. But being asked to sacrifice your one and only son? It seems unfathomable. Yet, this presents a poignant truth for us—when everything looks so wrong, God provides by keeping His promises for us and by being with us. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Feb 17 – Ash Wednesday – Lenten Worship
Welcome to our Ash Wednesday worship service. We pray that you will be blessed by God’s Word, our music and our fellowship in Christ. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Feb 13/14 – Seeing Something Out of this World – Lutheran Weekend Worship
There is nothing quite like being an eyewitness, giving a special perspective to share on the event. Peter writes about being on the Mount of Transfiguration as he, James, and John were privileged to have a special vision of the Lord Jesus Christ. He states: “We were eyewitnesses of His majesty. For when He received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to Him by the Majestic Glory, ‘This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased,’ we ourselves heard this very voice borne from heaven, for we were with Him on the holy mountain” (2 Peter 1:16b–18). Today, through the words of Scripture, we, too, become eyewitnesses and are given a glimpse of glory in the vision of our transfigured Lord! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Feb 6/7 – Everybody Gets a Prize – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In our world today, it feels like a lot of people are all about themselves. Many people tend to put their own needs before the needs of others. In our reading from 1 Corinthians, Paul is encouraging us to follow his example of being a servant to all. Paul was following the lead of Jesus who displayed the ultimate act of service with His death on the cross. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 30/31 – The War of the Worlds – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In today’s Gospel from Mark 1, we are reminded of Jesus’ divine authority in His teaching
to the people and also in His power over evil spirits. This is the War of the Worlds,. The
war in the spiritual realm. This power and authority was foretold by prophets such as
Moses, pointing to the One who would fulfill all things as the long-awaited perfect
prophet and Savior. In that power and authority, Christ has won our victory through His
death and rising, and we are blessed with freedom in that faith to be used to His glory in
service to others. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 23/24 – Will You Come and Follow Me – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When someone calls you on your phone, do you always answer? In our present day with caller identification, many are apt to let the call go to voicemail to wait and see what the message is and who it’s from and at times wait to respond depending on the level of importance. How about when God calls? Especially, if that call is one to repentance? Do you answer? We hear in today’s readings of the response of some. Jonah was a reluctant follower. He went to Nineveh begrudgingly, but through him God would issue a call for the Ninevites to repentance. Jesus would call Simon, Andrew, James, and John to follow Him, and promised that through them, God would issue a call of repentance to many. In Baptism, God has called us to follow Him in a life of faith and repentance, and He promises that through us, others will also be called to that same repentance and new life. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 16/17 – Do You Even Know Me? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Do you even know me? This question is often said out of frustration when someone feels
misunderstood. Have you ever felt misunderstood by someone, and feel like people really
don’t truly know you? Jesus showed Nathanael that he truly did know him before Philip
told Nathanael that he found Jesus, the One spoken by Moses and the Prophets. The
young boy, Samuel found out that the Lord knew Him by name as God called him by name
in the temple. David wrote in Psalm 139 how the Lord knows him so deeply, and there is
no way to flee from His presence. Do you feel that God truly knows you? Do you really
believe that he understands you and all your needs? Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 9/10 – Home Along – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we celebrate the Baptism of Jesus. Such a day is also a good time to remember our
own Baptism. In Baptism, we are buried with Christ. We are united with Him in a death
like His. In Baptism, we are also raised to new life as re-creations. As we are united to
Christ in death, we will also be united with Him in resurrection when He returns and raises the dead. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 2/3 – Home Along – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The end of a calendar year and the beginning of a new set of months brings a special
opportunity to look at our lives. What has been most memorable in our lives in the
past weeks and months? How might our priorities change in the next months? The
Readings in today’s service are not often heard because the calendar does not always
bring two Sundays after Christmas. Wisdom is waiting to be found by each of us here
in this place today as we hear God’s Word and seek His kingdom in this New Year of
grace. God’s wisdom is here to bless us each time we gather for worship! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Dec 31 – New Year’s Eve – Party Like It’s 2021 – Lutheran Worship
As the world rings in the New Year, there are many who consider those who have died in the past year. We consider our own sins and failures. But we also consider all of the ways in which Jesus has continued to lead and guide us. On this night, we remember the love of hrist that sustains us through eah passing year, and we pray His blessing on another year of grace. Watch below!
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Dec 26/27 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Have a blessed and renewing Christmas Holiday! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Dec 25 – Christmas Day! – The Dwelling Place of the Lord – Lutheran Worship Service
Glory is the theme of both John’s account and Luke’s familiar details of the Savior’s birth. They are not mutually exclusive but speak of the same event. The surprise is that glory is not where we would have expected it or what we would have expected it to be. Hidden
in the manger is the Word made flesh, the same creating Word that spoke all things into being. Hidden in the flesh of a baby is the glory of the God who becomes His people’s Savior. Hidden in the faith that trusts this Word are eyes to see and ears to hear the glory as of the only Son of the Father, full of grace and truth. In the Word made flesh, God has
displayed His glory, and that glory appeared in order to give us the right to become the children of God.
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Dec 24 – Christmas Eve – Lutheran Worship
Abraham is a great example of faith. As we often pray for faith and good courage to the
Lord who has called us “to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet
untrodden, through perils unknown,” Abraham lived with this courage. From Haran to
Canaan, Abraham was led by the hand of God toward the unfolding future God had
prepared in the incarnation of His only-begotten Son to be our Savior and Redeemer.
During Lent we join with Abraham of old and all the saints in trusting the Lord through
the unknown tomorrows to the outcome and end we do know in Christ—everlasting life. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 19/20 – The Greatest Story – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We stand at the threshold not only of an old and familiar story but also that of an old yet familiar mystery, the greatest mystery ever told. It doesn’t appear on any list of greatest novels or plays written by earthly authors. It is the mystery of God. More specifically, it is the mystery of His love for the salvation of the world. But as we prepare to review the mystery of God—the Son of God becoming incarnate in our human flesh and born of the Virgin Mary—the greater mystery is that He, Jesus, looks over your shoulder now in the retelling and hearing of Christmas. The greater mystery is that you not only know the old, familiar story but also that you believe it. And believing brings about the best mystery of all—that your sins are forgiven, that you have a new, eternal life, that you are forever a child, a son, a daughter born of God. The Gospel—the wisdom and mystery of God—is no longer a secret. For it is told by your own mouth singing of God’s love and salvation in Jesus Christ. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Dec 16 – Wednesday Advent Lutheran Worship
Join us on our second-week-of-Advent worship service, as we begin our preperation fir celebrating the birth of our Savior. This worship service features our school’s K-2nd grade Christmas program! Watch below!
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Dec 13 – Christmas Musical – “LOVE was Born a KING!”
We hope and pray that you and your family will be blessed and renewed by our Christmas Musical, “Love was Born a King!”
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Dec 12/13 – The Voice – Lutheran Weekend Worship
John testifies to Jewish leaders asking, “Who are you?” that he is not the Christ but was sent to prepare the way for Him. As a faithful servant, John sets the example of humility and reverence for us. Ironically, the One whose sandal John was unworthy to untie became the Suffering Servant, who bore all our sins. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Dec 9 – Wednesday Advent Lutheran Worship
Join us on our second-week-of-Advent worship service, as we begin our preperation fir celebrating the birth of our Savior. This worship service features our school’s 3rd-5th grade Christmas program! Watch below!
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Dec 5/6 – The Middle – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This year, the holy evangelist St. Mark greets us to lead us through a new Church Year. He does not, however, greet us as we might expect. For one thing, he seems to have forgotten all about Christmas! At least Matthew and Luke tell of Mary and Joseph and the baby lying in a manger and of angels and shepherds. But Mark? While Christmas is the earthly “beginning” of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, this preacher means that his entire Gospel, the whole biblical story, is but “the beginning of the Gospel.” It is as if he means to say that the Baptist’s call to repentance comes to us In Medias Res, that is, in the middle of everything else, in the middle of the biblical story and in the middle
of our lives and activities, right now. He is saying, “Stop what you’re doing. Repent again and welcome the Greater One, Jesus Christ, the Son of God.” The Christian faith and life is one of continual repentance and faith. Watch and listen as our Lord comes to us again, now, by His Spirit in His Word and Sacraments. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Dec 2 – Wednesday Advent Lutheran Worship
Join us on our first-week-of-Advent worship service, as we begin our preperation fir celebrating the birth of our Savior. This worship service features our school’s 6-8 grade Christmas program! Watch below!
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Nov 28/29 – Grace and Peace: More than a Wish – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Paul starts his letter to the Corinthians with two small words; Grace and Peace. Beginning a letter or a speech with platitudes is always a good way to win and engage your audience. Sometimes it’s used as a feel good for some difficult points that will follow. The latter might be true of Paul’s greeting, but the former is not at all a mere wish of Grace and Peace. It means so much more to the believer in Christ in Corinth and also to you! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Nov 14/15 – Wake Up! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Dad, Wake Up!” is a phrase that I hear with regularity late at night, after having dozed
off while watching a t.v. show or movie on the couch. After repeated rounds of getting
the preverbial ‘head nods’, attempting to fight the good fight, I am unable to ‘stay awake’
and often drift off into a deep sleep. This makes for some good comedy in our house that
causes the family to break out their cell phones and take some fun pictures and videos of
my chin buried into my chest. LOL!!!
Perhaps you’ve been told to ‘wake up!’ and fight the good fight to stay awake. However,
being told to ‘wake up’ is nothing new to the Christian who places their identity in Christ.
We too are to ‘wake up’ and arm ourselves with the armor of God, encouraging one
another of the coming Day of the LORD, when all will ‘be awakened’ by The LIGHT that
pierces the darkness of this world, our Lord Jesus Christ. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Nov 7/8 – Ressurection Hope! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We hear today the extremely encouraging words from the apostle Paul concerning our everlasting life. Paul tells us, “We will always be with the Lord.” What comforting words! What encouraging words! You have the assurance that when Jesus returns, you will spend
everlasting life in His gracious presence. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 24/25 – Our Refuge and Strength – Reformation Weekend!
The Reformation is a great time to hear the words of Psalm 46, that ‘God is our Refuge and
Strength. A very present help in time of trouble’. These words mattered so much to Martin Luther that he penned his most beloved Hymn “A Mighty Fortress” with this Psalm in mind. Given all that we have undergone this year, and also how we are just a little over a week away from what seems to be a very important Presidential election for our nation, it is extremely important for us to not only be reminded of the words of Psalm 46, but also use them as a daily guide for strength. With an unknown future ahead of us, knowing that God is our refuge and strength helps us to live out the end of the Psalm so that we can ‘Be still and know that He is God.” Listen-In or Watch below.
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Oct 17/18 – Fully Committed – Lutheran Weekend Worship
As the Lord speaks to us in His Word, He calls the righteous to live by faith and always gives reason why His people can do so through His continual presence, power, and providence. The Readings today urge us, in various ways, to live by faith in our confession and conviction. In Isaiah, He with great conviction reminds through the prophet, “I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides Me there is no God.” In the Epistle, Paul assures the Thessalonians, “He has chosen you, because our gospel came to you not only in word, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction.” Finally, in today’s Gospel, Christ urges us to live by faith and as stewards of all He has provided, to “render . . . to God the things that are God’s.” Moved by His Spirit out of gratefulness for the salvation earned for us by Christ Jesus, we then give God our willing obedience, dedicated service, and the glory due His name as we in confession and conviction live by faith in and through Him. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Oct 10/11 – The Mountaintop Cookout – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Come to the table.” In our daily experiences, there is no invitation that is more readily received and fully appreciated. To be at the table is to be assured of nourishment and refreshment. In Psalm 23, we are told of a table that is prepared under challenging circumstances. Yet, even there, the cup of God’s blessing overflows. Our gathering for worship and our coming to the Table of the Lord is an experience of overflowing blessing filled with signs of God’s gracious presence. We rejoice that we are invited to His amazing table! Listen-in or Watch below.
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Oct 3/4 – The Mountaintop Cookout – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Paul had many achievements to recommend his life to the judgment of heaven. But he preempts that vote by voting “no confidence” in his flesh, in his own human efforts to please God. Instead, he throws every one of his human achievements in the trash and puts all his confidence instead in Christ’s death and resurrection. Our Lord justifies us by grace through faith. He sanctifies us in that same way. He deserves and rightly receives all the glory. The more we grow up in Christ, the clearer this truth will become to us. May our Lord grant us the insight He gave Paul! Listen-in or Watch below.
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Sep 26/27 – God’s Good and Gracious Will – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It has become commonplace to speak of God as responsible for determining life and death for us. So we wonder where is God’s justice when the innocent suffer or His mercy when tragedy strikes. But the Lord insists He has no pleasure in the death of anyone—not even the sinner who deserves his punishment. God’s good and gracious will is that all would be saved and come to the knowledge of His Son. Think how differently we would approach the troubles and trials that affect us and the greater disasters of the world if we took the Lord at His Word and trusted in His will. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Sep 19/20 – Forgiveness – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In the Old Testament reading for today, Isaiah invites us to, “Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near.” We are all seeking for answers in our lives, we needn’t look any further than Scripture. Through Scripture, we will find the answers that we are looking for in life. Those answers will give us hope, peace, and strength. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Sep 12/13 – Forgiveness – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Forgiveness is filled with questions. How often must I forgive? Is there a limit to the grace of forgiveness? What is the connection between God’s forgiveness to me and my forgiveness to others? The answer to these questions lies in Christ. As our heavenly Father has forgiven us, so do we forgive one another in His name. This forgiveness is clearly and beautifully shown in the example of Joseph, who was sold into slavery by his brothers and then forgave them because of God’s mercy. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Sep 5/6 – Traits of a Child – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When His disciples wanted to know who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven, Jesus pointed to a child as an object lesson for true humility. One who assumes the posture of
complete dependence— having nothing, yet needing everything—is valued by God. Our gracious Savior calls us to such humility, repentance, and faith this day. As we come before Him to receive forgiveness and new life through His very presence in His Word and at His Table, we, too, assume a posture of penitence. This posture doesn’t point to ourselves and our supposed worthiness; no, it points to Jesus and His sacrifice for us, the unworthy children of the Father. As the only perfectly humble child of God, Jesus stoops to serve us today and fill us with the forgiveness we desperately need. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Aug 29/30 – What Are You Setting Your Mind Upon? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Peter genuinely thinks he is helping Jesus when he tries to talk Him out of suffering and death. At times, we also fail to understand God’s ways, thinking we know better. Jesus knows that He has to take up the cross of our salvation. Peter will learn that truth later, a truth that continues to give us comfort and peace. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Aug 22/23 – Backpack, Barbeque & Blessings Weekend! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Sat, Aug 22
God’s people have gifts that are signs of His loving presence and demonstrations of His
gracious power. In a sermon preached in 1538, Martin Luther observed, “Whoever comes
to faith can only say that the Holy Spirit comes when and where and to whom He pleases
at the time He pleases. He comes when and where He pleases and also gives a person as
many gifts as He pleases” (WLS § 2057). As people in whom the Spirit dwells, we have the
joy of discovering special gifts of God in one another and in ourselves as well. May that
mutual discovering and celebrating be truly God pleasing in every way!
Sun, Aug 23
Immanuel has left the building… again!
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Aug 15/16 – Break the Walls Down – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The earthly ministry of Jesus was for the most part in a restricted geographical area. For the three years of His public work, He traveled in the area of Judea and Galilee with a singular sojourn through Samaria. But at least on one occasion, He went beyond familiar boundaries north to the district of Tyre and Sidon, in what today is Lebanon. There He brought healing for the daughter of a Canaanite woman, a person seen as a Gentile and an inferior by the Jews of His home area. The love of Jesus broke down barriers and
reached across divides. As people who have been sought out by Jesus, we seek ways to extend His love as the Holy Spirit works in and through us. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Aug 8/9 – The Last Dance – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Gospel stories of Jesus often have a familiarity to us that may diminish what the sacred writer wants us to understand. Simply put, there has never been any individual on this earth like Jesus. He has divine power that can heal the sick, revive the dead, and multiply bread and fish to feed multitudes. And He can even walk on water. Nobody else has ever done that. Only Jesus. As we worship and hear the Gospel account shared today, let us rediscover in Jesus our one and only Savior. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Aug 1/2 – Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Miracles tend to be big things in our minds. But the miracles Jesus does are more often
tied to the simple things of ordinary life—like food! Jesus provides the simple things
of life in miraculous ways. That is one of the things the five thousand learned when
Jesus took a light lunch and fed thousands. It also confronts us here in simple water
that becomes the means to new and everlasting life, or in simple bread and wine that
feeds us the flesh and blood of Christ, or in efficacious words that accomplish what
they say. But this is also true in our daily lives, as our Good Shepherd supplies all our
needs of body and soul. Listen-in or Watch below.
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July 25/26 – Taking Care of Business – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Word works! The Word of God is our only source of everlasting life. Through Isaiah, God explains that His Word is as effective as rain causing growth in plants. As David writes poetically, His care causes all the trees of the field to clap their hands. And the Word will work in our lives so that we will “go out in joy and be led forth in peace,” as Isaiah puts it. Indeed, Jesus, the Word in the flesh, succeeded in giving us peace and joy by rising victorious over sin, death, and the power of the devil. As a result, Paul explains in the Epistle, we are God’s adopted children, calling out to Him, “Abba, Father.” But there is work for us to do! As we let the Word work through us, we can expect that, in spite of opposition of all sorts from the world, if we but hear and understand, we will certainly bear fruit for our heavenly Father. Listen-in or Watch below.
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July 18/19 – Taking Care of Business – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Immanuel has left the building! Please enjoy our second outdoor Drive-In worship event on Sunday, July 19th!
Why must we endure the questions, the challenges, and the things that are not as they should be? The disciples long ago wondered about this too. Why are there weeds in God’s field and what can be done about it? The seed was good, but God has enemies, and so do you. It is not given to us to resolve this until the Lord’s time, when He will separate the weeds from the wheat. It is enough for us to know that God knows the hearts of people and that this tension will not endure. When Jesus comes in His glory, the angels will gather out of His kingdom all who do not belong. Then the righteous shall shine like the sun, so take heart, people of God. Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 12 – Confirmation 2020! – Immanuel Lutheran Church
Today is a special day in the lives of those who have prepared themselves for the Rite of Confirmation. Today they will profess their faith in Jesus Christ and begin their commitment of faith within the church and the world that will sustain them for the remainder of their lives. Confirmation-one’s own Affirmation of Baptism. As important as this day is for them, this day should also be a day of reflection for us all. Listen-In or Watch below:
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July 11/12 – Taking Care of Business – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Word works! The Word of God is our only source of everlasting life. Through Isaiah, God explains that His Word is as effective as rain causing growth in plants. As David writes poetically, His care causes all the trees of the field to clap their hands. And the Word will work in our lives so that we will “go out in joy and be led forth in peace,” as Isaiah puts it. Indeed, Jesus, the Word in the flesh, succeeded in giving us peace and joy by rising victorious over sin, death, and the power of the devil. As a result, Paul explains in the Epistle, we are God’s adopted children, calling out to Him, “Abba, Father.” But there is work for us to do! As we let the Word work through us, we can expect that, in spite of opposition of all sorts from the world, if we but hear and understand, we will certainly bear fruit for our heavenly Father.Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 4/5 – Time to Plant and Water – Lutheran Weekend Worship
You guessed it. Another Beatles tune to tie into our Gospel text. Paul McCartney penned a short little song about ‘Carrying that Weight’, but the lyrics said that the boy was gonna carry that weight a ‘long time’. That is so true of us. We tend to ‘carry that weight a long time’. What weight are you carrying? Why are you carrying it? How long have you been carrying it? Why not let Jesus ‘carry that weight?” He’ll do it for a long time. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 27-28 / Special – Seeing the Truth – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Without the truly good news of the Gospel we cannot see the hard truth that we and all people are poor sinners who deserve nothing but punishment from almighty God. It takes the Gospel to open our eyes wide to the severity of God’s Law, which our Savior took on Himself in our stead. In Jeremiah’s day, and our own, false prophets proclaim an easy peace that requires little change in our daily living. Now, as when Paul was writing, some people in the Church think the freedom Christ won for us can mean a disregard for God’s Law. And when Jesus was calling disciples, He had to warn them (and us) that some of their own family members would actively oppose their following the Lord. But the Gospel announces what is real and good: God has kept all His promises in our Savior Jesus Christ. His death shows the enormity of the punishment we deserve, and His resurrection assures us of eternal life. Because our Lord gave His life for us, with eyes wide open we can lose ourselves in service to Him and with the psalmist “sing of the steadfast love of the LORD, forever” (Psalm 89:1). Listen-In or watch below!
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June 20-21 / Special – Shaped and Formed – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Some of you may remember a beloved cartoon character called ‘Underdog”. He was a caped crusader who’s physique in no way struck fear into the heart of the evil doers he sought to avenge. He was like young David who came ready to slay Goliath. His opponents often laughed at him. Nevertheless, whenever Sweet Polly Purebread got in trouble and cried out for help, Underdog would faithfully say “There’s no need to fear, Underdog is here!” Each time his words proved true. Every time he would save Sweet Polly Purebread, who would exclaim ‘My Hero!”. As Jesus sends out the twelve disciples, he tells them that there will be persecution, but that there is no need to fear, because The Heavenly Father loves and values them above all creation. So just like the disciples, even we have nothing to fear even though things are scary and we may fell like we need help from our hero – Jesus. Jesus inspires us to speak boldly of Him even in the midst of persecution. Yet, when we do fear, we can cry out for help and be saved! Listen-In or watch below!
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June 13-14 / Special – Shaped and Formed – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We begin the long, green season of Sundays after Pentecost by acknowledging the
apostolic ministry whereby the authoritative Word of God is delivered to the world.
Fundamental to faith in the Word is the understanding of our sin and the love of God for
all. Through the apostle Paul, we are given this understanding—sin is an inherited disease
from which no one is exempt as descendants of Adam. Even greater, however, is to
understand and believe that forgiveness of
sin and eternal life come to all who hear and
believe the Gospel call to repentance. By Baptism we receive forgiveness and the
righteousness of Christ our Savior. God’s Word continue to be proclaimed to this day.
Thank God for the ministry and His ministers who open to us the way of saving faith. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 6-7 / Special – Shaped and Formed – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our Savior Jesus Christ told us He was going to His Father. The first disciples saw Him do this, actually leaving them and us behind, ascending through the clouds. But they and we are to know His “going” is not exactly His “leaving.” For He has not left us alone as orphans. We are to know that His real presence with us is now not by sight but by faith through His Sacraments. It is His voice we hear from now on, saying, “I forgive you all your sins.” By faith we know that Holy Baptism and Holy Communion are not primarily something we do only to remember Him but the Means by which He washes us and fills us now with His righteousness. Through it all, we are formed by His cross, enduring suffering for His sake with the great and sure hope that, in the end, we will be with Him forever. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 31 / Drive-In Worship and Communion! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Here’s your chance to checkout (or re-live) Immanuel’s Drive-In Worship service and Communion, during the Covid-19 shutdown. We hope and pray that you will be blessed by our fellowship, words and music. You can also checkout the time-lapse video of the event’s setup activity and high-altitude drone video of the live event. Watch below!
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May 30-31 / Special – Oh Lord, Fill us with Your Spirit! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we recall the Feast of Pentecost, fifty days after our Lord’s resurrection. In God’s wisdom, this is one of the feasts all were required to attend in Jerusalem. In this way God provided for the largest gathering from the farthest reaches where His people lived in order to discover what Pentecost was really all about. Today with the lavish outpouring of God Himself, the Holy Spirit, “the Lord and giver of life,” would proclaim the glory of salvation and eternal life through Jesus, the Son of God. So today we hear the Word of God spoken to us in our own language, that powerful, mighty Word through which the Holy Spirit creates and strengthens the gift of saving faith in us. This faith is like living water flowing through our entire being bringing the refreshment of the forgiveness of all of our sins and a new and godly purpose for the living of our days. The water Jesus gives is the true water of life. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 23-24 / Special – Shaped and Formed – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our Savior Jesus Christ told us He was going to His Father. The first disciples saw Him do this, actually leaving them and us behind, ascending through the clouds. But they and we are to know His “going” is not exactly His “leaving.” For He has not left us alone as orphans. We are to know that His real presence with us is now not by sight but by faith through His Sacraments. It is His voice we hear from now on, saying, “I forgive you all your sins.” By faith we know that Holy Baptism and Holy Communion are not primarily something we do only to remember Him but the Means by which He washes us and fills us now with His righteousness. Through it all, we are formed by His cross, enduring suffering for His sake with the great and sure hope that, in the end, we will be with Him forever. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 16-17 / Special – Help! I Need Somebody – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Beatles had a great hit in the 60’s simply titled; “Help!”. It’s a snappy tune that captures your attention right away with the exclamation; “Help! I need somebody, Help! Not just anybody!…..” Each one of us, at some point in our lives has needed help. Very often, help or assistance is not something we are readily willing to ask for. Too often, we wait until all seems hopeless and lost before we cry out the words ‘Help!” Jesus knew that his disciples would need help after he accomplished the work of His death and resurrection. Jesus knew that He had to go back to the Father in Heaven, and leaving
his disciples alone without him. So he promised them he would send “another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth” (John 14:16–17). The Holy Spirit is wherever He creates and sustains faith through God’s Word. However, our Easter celebration will break forth before the world on the Day of Pentecost.
Jesus says the world cannot receive, see, or know the Spirit. Paul found this to be true in Athens as he noticed an altar dedicated “To the unknown god.” Though many in our day certainly have heard about Jesus, they do not know Him apart from faith in His word. But you know Him! Baptized into Christ, His resurrection life has given us new life, which for now is but the beginning to be stretched out into life eternal. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 9-10 / Special – A Gift Received – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our fifty-day celebration of Easter continues as we solemnly gather in the presence of our
crucified and risen Savior Jesus Christ. Present He is for we see and hear Him touching and speaking to us through His Spirit, in the water of Holy Baptism, in His very body and blood in Holy Communion, in His words of Holy Absolution, and in the preaching of His Word. We gather not as much to give anything to Him but to receive from Him His gifts of deliverance, salvation, and righteousness. Today, once again He bestows on you His own righteousness, making of us a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His own possession. Our sin has been taken away, and we are renewed with eternal life by the faith created in us by His Spirit. In this faith our doubts and fears are taken away as we look forward to our heavenly home, the many rooms and mansions, the place prepared for us, as we await His final return. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 2-3 / Special – Following Only His Voice – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Whose voice gets your attention? Your parents? Your boss? Your teacher? Your spouse?
There is probably someone in your life right now that you are most tuned into. Lots of
people listen to podcasts of various speakers, and they follow their advice. The speaker
has grabbed their attention and they trust what they are saying. How do you respond to
the Good Shepherd’s voice? Do you know the voice of Jesus – your Shepherd? We often
times crave to hear His voice. Sometimes we get confused if what we hear came from
our shepherd. Let’s talk about ways the Good Shepherd’s voice leads us, guides us,
protects us, and reminds us of who we are. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 24-25 / Special – A Life Changing Encounter – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Something life changing happened to two disciples of Jesus, who thought all hope had
been lost when they were confronted with Jesus’ death on the cross. Even when they
heard reports that Jesus body was found not be in the tomb, they couldn’t overcome the
grief they were experiencing the profound loss of hope when their teacher had died. Yet
something amazing happened on the road back home when a stranger walked alongside
them on the road to Emmaus. What was about to transpire from that encounter was life
changing. How has the news of our Lord’s Resurrection changed your life? Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 18-19 / Special – Peace in the Midst of Chaos – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The word “peace” is central for God’s people to hear time and again as part of worship.
The peace of the Lord is exchanged between pastor and congregation and often also
spoken among the people of the congregation. It is the last word in the Benediction and
is therefore the most frequently used word to close the service. In the era of the
Reformation and the decades following, the hymn “Grant Peace, We Pray, in Mercy, Lord”
was used immediately after the sermon as a reminder of how important the Lord’s peace
was in a world that knew unrest and challenges. It is our blessing to hear that word of
peace from our Lord once again today in our world—which also has unrest and challenges. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 12 / Easter Sunday! – Angel Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Early on Easter morning, the angel, which means “messenger,” announced what he
knew to be true: the tomb was empty because Christ had risen. The women were
initially overcome with fear, as anyone would be if confronted by a holy herald from
God. Their physical eyes would not see our Lord until He revealed Himself. But we have
been given the angel’s eyes, as it were, for by faith we see our Lord with us now. The
news the angel proclaimed is too good to keep to ourselves. As Watch below!
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Apr 11 / Easter Vigil – Resting Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent we have been using the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various
people in St. Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they
misunderstood who He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith
people did recognize Him correctly.
Various disciples rested their eyes upon the dead Jesus, cared for His body, and buried
it. As Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses rest their eyes upon the sealed
tomb and contemplate further anointing of His body the next day, they cannot see that
Jesus’ own eyes are merely resting temporarily, and that Easter morning will bring a
dramatic reversal.
This service is the first service to celebrate the resurrection, because the liturgical day
begins at sundown the evening before. Watch below!
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Apr 10 / Good Friday – Eyes on the Cross – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent, we have been using the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people
in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who
He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize Him
correctly.
As we conclude these forty days of Lent, looking within ourselves as people of faith in our
day, we again ask how we are like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh. Most
important, as we gather for worship, we see again what Jesus has done to save us from our
sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent suffering and death.
We are standing at the foot of the cross, but there are others standing with us. Simon of
Cyrene, the people who mock Jesus, and the centurion all have their eyes on the cross as
well. But the only viewpoint that truly matters is that of the triune God. The Father sees our sins taken upon Jesus on the cross, the Son looks on us in forgiving mercy, and the Holy Spirit sees the message we are to proclaim. “Oh, come, let us fix our eyes on Jesus”
(Hebrews 12:2). Watch below!
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Apr 9 / Maundy Thursday – More Than Meets the Eye – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent, we have been using the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize Him correctly.
As we conclude these forty days of Lent, looking within ourselves as people of faith in our day, we again ask how we are like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh. Most important, as we gather for worship, we see again what Jesus has done to save us from our sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent suffering and death.
It is difficult for us to look through the eyes of the disciples when they were celebrating
Passover, but it was within that context that Jesus pronounced the bread and wine to be His body and blood. Today, it is within the liturgy of the Lord’s Supper that our Lord’s words call us to recognize more than meets our physical eyes. What do we perceive? Watch below!
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Apr 4-5 / Special – Palm Sunday – Worldly Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Palm Sunday begins with unbridled joy as we recall how Jesus entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey, while being acclaimed by the crowds with loud shouts of “Hosanna” and boisterous waving of palm branches. So today we begin with songs of praise and waving of palm branches as we hail Jesus as the One worthy of all glory, laud, and honor. But then the solemnness of Holy Week also begins. With a time of silence, the service shifts our focus to Jesus’ path to the cross. As foretold by prophets long ago, Jesus was stricken and afflicted, beaten and spit upon, crucified, and He died. He did this out of divine love for all of humanity, taking on Himself the sins of all people for our forgiveness. Today’s worship reflects the pattern of our lives. At times we experience unbridled joy and celebration. And then, sometimes in the next moment, we experience heartbreaking suffering. Jesus is there with us—in the joyful celebrations, in the heartbreak and suffering. He alone can transform it all into deeper love for God and neighbor. The hour of Jesus’ death on the cross is the hour of our life and salvation. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 1 / Wed Lent – Denying Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in
Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who
He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize
Him correctly.
We have these forty days of Lent in which we may look within ourselves as people of
faith in our day. How are we like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh? Most
important, as we gather for worship, we will see what Jesus has done to save us from
our sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent sufferings and death.
Today, we learn of Pilate’s worldly view and how, to keep his position and placate the
Jewish leaders and crowd, he handed Jesus over for crucifixion. The soldiers saw the
opposite of a worldly king, but their ironic hailing of Him as “King of the Jews” proclaims
who He really is. The world looks for power and glory; God’s way is suffering and the
cross. Which way do we look in the daily decisions we make?Watch below!
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Mar 28-29 / Special – Jesus IS the Resurrection and the Life – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Long before Jesus’ death and resurrection, God made clear to His people that death would
not have the last word. As Ezekiel was inspired to write of the dry bones of death having
life breathed into them, it would foreshadow the future for God’s people through the One
who conquered death and grave once for all. In a world of death and decay, we are
sustained in our journey now until the resurrection of all flesh through Jesus Christ, our
life-giving Lord and Savior. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Mar 25 / Wed Lent – Denying Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize Him correctly.
We have these forty days of Lent in which we may look within ourselves as people of faith in our day. How are we like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh? Most important, as we gather for worship, we will see what Jesus has done to save us from our sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent sufferings and death.
At first, Peter and the other disciples cannot see how they could ever fall away from Jesus. Then, when Peter is spotted by a servant girl and realizes that his own neck is on the line, he sees fit to deny Jesus, which leads to his weeping in remorse. What does it take for us to move beyond our own remorse to the discipleship we and our Lord desire? Watch below!
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Mar 21-22 / Special – When Darkness Falls – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It’s said that darkness is nothing more than the absence of light. Darkness and blindness
are words often used throughout Scripture to describe our sinfulness—the absence of the
true Light. In our continued Lenten journey, we prepare our hearts for the dark afternoon
of Good Friday at the cross. Yet even in that darkness, Jesus Christ brings the light of life.
In our times of spiritual blindness and comfort in the darkness of this world, we gather
again today to see His light through our vision of Spirit-given faith, that our eyes may look
to Him who is the light of the world—the light no darkness can overcome. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Mar 18 / Wed Lent – Denying Eyes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize Him correctly.
We have these forty days of Lent in which we may look within ourselves as people of faith in our day. How are we like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh? Most important, as we gather for worship, we will see what Jesus has done to save us from our sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent sufferings and death.
At first, Peter and the other disciples cannot see how they could ever fall away from Jesus. Then, when Peter is spotted by a servant girl and realizes that his own neck is on the line, he sees fit to deny Jesus, which leads to his weeping in remorse. What does it take for us to move beyond our own remorse to the discipleship we and our Lord desire? Listen-In or Watch below!
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Mar 14/15 – Confronted by Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
God’s mercy and grace are revealed to those who deserve anything but. The Israelites
who wandered the wilderness complained of no water. They didn’t deserve anything
because of their sinfulness, yet God responds in mercy and grace, providing water from a
rock. A marginalized Samaritan woman didn’t receive compassion from her community
and didn’t deserve it from our Savior Jesus Christ, yet she was given and shown mercy
and grace and came to believe He is the Savior of the world. We, too, have gone astray
and deserve much less than mercy and grace from God Himself. Yet, while we were still
sinners, Christ died for us. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Mar 7/8 – Enduring Temptation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Abraham is a great example of faith. As we often pray for faith and good courage to the
Lord who has called us “to ventures of which we cannot see the ending, by paths as yet
untrodden, through perils unknown,” Abraham lived with this courage. From Haran to
Canaan, Abraham was led by the hand of God toward the unfolding future God had
prepared in the incarnation of His only-begotten Son to be our Savior and Redeemer.
During Lent we join with Abraham of old and all the saints in trusting the Lord through
the unknown tomorrows to the outcome and end we do know in Christ—everlasting life. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 29/Mar 1 – Enduring Temptation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The apostle Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 10:13, “No temptation has overtaken you except
what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond
what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you
can endure it.” Indeed, God will provide the escape from temptation that is brought in
full force by Satan, the Great Deceiver. Satan is looking to take you down, and thankfully,
Jesus shows us how to withstand and escape the devils attempts to make you fall. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 26 – Eyes on Jesus: Misjudging Eyes – Wed Lenten Worship
This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in
Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who
He was and what He was doing; then again, sometimes by faith people did recognize
Him correctly.
We have these forty days of Lent in which we may look within ourselves as people offaith in our day. How are we like or unlike the people who saw Jesus in the flesh? Most
important, as we gather for worship, we will see what Jesus has done to save us from
our sins by His holy, precious blood and innocent sufferings and death.
Today, we consider the disciples. They failed to see that Jesus had to leave them so He
could die and rise for them and for us. And they misjudged the selfless, loving act of the
woman who anointed Jesus with expensive ointment. He saw it as a beautiful, selfless
act of devotion that prepared Him for burial. We need to examine ourselves, lest we
seek public approval or divine reward for our good deeds. Only what our Lord has done
for us makes us pleasing to the Father. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 22/23 – Time to Plant and Water – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Featuring guest Pastor, Rev. David Walker. We consider the Father’s words on the Mount of Transfiguration: “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him.” The Father bears witness to the authority of the Son. Remember God’s words to listen to the voice of Jesus.
We also recall the brightness of Jesus shining upon the disciples. Jesus’ transfiguration
reminds us of the blessing we hear every week at the end of worship in the Benediction
for the Lord’s face to shine upon us. In the person of Jesus, God’s face certainly shines
upon us, and we look forward to the day when Christ returns in glory to permanently
shine His face upon us. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 14/15 – Time to Plant and Water – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We need to continue to Join Jesus on His Mission by continuing to give serious efforts
toward planting the seeds of faith as well as watering those planted seeds into the hearts
of those we interact with on our daily journey of loving others as Christ loves us, in order
that God can do the difficult work of bringing about growth of faith in the hearts of those
people God has brought us to interact with. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 8/9- Be a Shining Star – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We consider today Jesus’ words, “You are the light of the world.” Jesus tells his followers that their light should not be hidden, but rather it should help others to see. As we go about our daily lives, by God’s grace, we walk in the light of Jesus. Warmed by His light, we share that light He has given us with others in how we act, in what we say, and especially in spreading the good news about Jesus’ forgiveness. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Feb 1/2- Beholding Salvation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Simeon longed to see the Messiah. His faithfulness paid off as he was blessed not only to see His Lord as Jesus parents presented him at the temple, but he also beheld his salvation in his own hands. Such a special blessing for Simeon, as a faithful man. We too are blessed to behold our salvation each time we received Christ’s body and blood at Communion. As we behold Christ in Communion, we too can proclaim that we have seen our salvation. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 25/26- Our School’s 150 Year Anniversary!– Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we celebrate the ministry of our school where we have answered the Lord’s Call for 150 Years following Him and becoming fishers of men and making disciples of all nations. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 18/19- Pointing to Him – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Epiphany” means a “showing forth” or “revelation” of a divine being. It can also mean having a meaningful insight about something related to an individual’s life. In the season of Epiphany, we rediscover that, like Jesus, we have a calling to bring glory to God. In words of counsel to first-century Christians, Peter wrote: “Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that . . . they may see your good deeds and glorify God” (1 Peter 2:12). Not only is Jesus, the great Servant, shown forth in this season, we as His servants are on display as well. May we show forth servanthood in ways that glorify God! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 11/12 – Connecting Water with Wood – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Baptism of Jesus begins the work of Jesus as our substitute that made us at one with the Father. When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan River he began to point Jesus work directly to the cross, where he died for our sins. He stood in our place in the Jordan, and Jesus stood in our place on the Cross. The water of the Jordan and the wood of the Cross forever unites us with Jesus in His death and resurrection. That’s why our baptism links us deeply to Jesus whom the Father proclaims publicly is His beloved Son. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 4/5 – All Grown Up – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It is hard to think of Jesus as a baby, born of Mary, but even harder to think of Jesus growing up as children do. Our Lord grew and became strong not only in body as a man but in wisdom and the favor of His heavenly Father who sent Him. He is a pattern of our own call to grow up into Christ, our Head, leaving behind the childish ways of unbelief and rebellion, and learning the path of faith and obedience from Him. We hear today a call to grow up into Christ and to live as His holy, beloved, and righteous brothers and sisters, loving the Lord’s Word and His house as did Jesus! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 28/29 – “Taking the ‘Red Eye’ to Egypt – Lutheran Weekend Worship
God’s revelation leads Joseph to take Mary as his wife. He later flees to Egypt and finally
settles permanently in Nazareth with God’s guidance. These events may have seemed
confusing to Joseph, but God had a plan. All of the Lords’ leading was to fulfill prophecies.
We do not always know where God is leading us, but we can be sure that He will be with us
and that His plans are for our good. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 25/Christmas Day – Turn Off the Darkness – Lutheran Worship
We recall the words of Isaiah the prophet who speaks of a people sitting in darkness beholding a great light. That light is Jesus, the light of the world. He has shined upon us, and we are called to spread His light to the world. Consider those in your life who are struggling with darkness and need the light of Christ.
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Dec 24/Christmas Eve – Lutheran Worship
3 PM & 5 PM – “When Two Worlds Collide”
The days and weeks preceding Christmas are full of hustle and bustle for many. Between parties and shopping, cooking and baking, wrapping and card writing, along with many more things, we are occupied and busy as we anticipate this night and the assured joy to come celebrating the Savior born for us. Over two thousand years ago, though, that wasn’t the case. Nobody was prepared for what was to take place. Yet everything soon changed in that little town of Bethlehem. Quietly, unexpectedly, even “like a thief in the night” was born in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ, our Lord. Tonight we gather amid the
busyness to reflect, rejoice, and ponder anew the joy of our Savior born and to prepare our hearts to receive the greatest gifts ever given and received by and through Him—hope, forgiveness, newness, and an assured promise of eternal life through faith in Him
11 PM – “Sit Back and Rejoice”
The days and weeks preceding Christmas are full of hustle and bustle for many. Between parties and shopping, cooking and baking, wrapping and card writing, along with many more things, we are occupied and busy as we anticipate this night and the assured joy to come celebrating the Savior born for us. Over two thousand years ago, though, that wasn’t the case. Nobody was prepared for what was to take place. Yet everything soon changed in that little town of Bethlehem. Quietly, unexpectedly, even “like a thief in the night” was born in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ, our Lord. Tonight we gather amid the
busyness to reflect, rejoice, and ponder anew the joy of our Savior born and to prepare our hearts to receive the greatest gifts ever given and received by and through Him—hope, forgiveness, newness, and an assured promise of eternal life through faith in Him.
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Dec 21/22 – Come and See – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Some videos go viral as our friends tell us, “Look at that!” Centuries ago, people would join a parade through city gates so they all could be part of some great event. As we share the news of Jesus entering human history, we bring our friends to that once-for-all yet eternal event. God kept His promise, Joseph named Mary’s son Jesus, and we are called saints by the grace of God. It’s news that can’t be kept to ourselves; we have to tell our friends, “Look at that! Look at what God has done!” Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 18 – Wed Advent Worship – 3rd-5th Grade Christmas Program
ADVENT WORSHIP (7:00) – Wednesday evening Advent worship service. 3rd-5th Grade Christmas Program and Worship Service.
Dec 14/15 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
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Dec 8 – Christmas CONCERT! – Let the Whole World Sing!
“Let the Whole World Sing” is a musical inspired by how the gospel message has moved across the globe. From the Celtic lilt of “In the Bleak Midwinter” to the African rhythms of “Come, Come, Emmanuel,” through the Caribbean styled “Christ Is Born,” these arrangements gently underscore the universality of the gospel message. New music is blended with familiar, traditional carols in a wide variety of styles to create an interesting and fresh retelling of the Christmas story. Traditional carols are woven throughout for all to sing together with a live orchestra!
WATCH – Let The Whole World Sing!
Dec 7/8 – Your King is Coming! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It’s time to “Hear that Voice Again”. You know, that voice that cries from the wilderness. That voice of John the Baptist that beckons you to “Prepare the Way of the Lord”, also calls upon you to “bear fruit in keeping with repentance”. It is certainly a time of
preparation, with Christmas only a couple of weeks away. Are you prepared for all that comes with Christmas? How is your spiritual preparedness coming along? Do you Hear that Voice Again? Listen to the voice that speaks of the One who is coming, not only at Christmas, but coming soon. Christ is coming! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Nov 30/Dec 1 – Your King is Coming! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
I know what you’re thinking. Why are we talking about Palm Sunday in Advent? Is pastor mixed up on his church seasons? Those are good questions, and no, it is not Palm Sunday, but it is important to recognize how Jesus came as King. In this season of Advent, we celebrate and anticipate His Coming. He came not only as a baby born in a manger in
Bethlehem, but He also came as a different kind of King into Jerusalem on the week of His Passion. He will also come again as King on the Day of the Lord. As we prepare our hearts
this Advent, let us welcome our King, Jesus Christ, Messiah! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Nov 27/28 – Thanksgiving Services – Lutheran Worship
We celebrate Thanksgiving, a day dedicated to remembering all that God has done for us and thanking Him for His abundant blessing. Though you may have food to cook and relatives to entertain, take a moment and pause before the Lord, who has provided You with many blessings, chief among them sending His Son, Jesus Christ, to give you eternal life. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Nov 16/17 – A Promise Kept – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Jesus gives us some warnings, signs, and assurances as we live in a world that seems to be falling apart all around us. Even during these dark and difficult times, Jesus gives us opportunities to bear witness of our faith, and will be give us the words to do it. Even in
the darkest moments of our life, Jesus will give us encouragement to endure and gain eternal life. The dawn of eternal life is upon us through our Lord, Jesus Christ. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Nov 2/3 – A Promise Kept – Lutheran Weekend Worship
On the Feast Day of All Saints’, we pray that we would be numbered among those who
rejoice in the blessings of the fuller presence of God in His eternal kingdom. With
thankfulness, we recall those who have completed their earthly journeys in faith and who
now rest from their labors. On this special day, we remember the blessed saints of times
long past and those of recent times as well. As we think of their blessed state, we also
rejoice that we, too, are among the blessed, living out our daily lives as the baptized
children of God in this time and place. By God’s grace in Christ, we have a promised place
among the saints and can joyfully claim this day as ours! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 26/27 – Living a Legacy of Faith – Special Weekend Worship
Today our entire congregation gathers together to confess our faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, just as Martin Luther did in 1517 when he nailed the 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church. Luther continued to teach and preach this confession, just as we do every week in worship. Today is especially important, as we gather together with fellow believers from many generations who were Confirmed at Immanuel, as we continue to celebrate our 150 Year Anniversary. May we make that same good confession of faith today as we are reunited together through Christ alone! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 19/20 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
While the Five Practices put us into position to join Jesus on his mission everyday, the missional community and the Five Questions help us stay intentional and inspired for the missional life. Mission doesn’t happen only in our missional community, but mission
doesn’t last without our missional community. So, who will you invite? Where will you gather? When will you start? Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 12/13 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“What Will Your Story Be?” -Luke 10:36-37 – Over time, neighboring allows us to answer key missional questions about the people God has put around us:
- Who are these people.
- What is Jesus already up to in their lives?
- How can I join him?
Jesus can do more through us with neighbors who are friends than he can with neighbors who are strangers. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 5/6 – Simple Practices for Joining Jesus: Part 2 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It’s easy for join Jesus on His mission. Today, we will finish our look at simple practices
for Joining Jesus on His mission. This week we will look at the last three steps of this
simple practice. Today, we look how we talk with people, doing good, and ministering
through prayer. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 28/29 – Simple Practices for Joining Jesus: Part 1 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It’s easy for join Jesus on His mission. Over the next two weeks we will look at simple practices for Joining Jesus on His mission.This week we will look at the first two steps of this simple practice. We look at what it means to seek the Kingdom of God and how hearing from Jesus helps on this mission. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 21/22 – Seeking What’s Already Happening – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Seeking What’s Already Happening” – Matthew 6:33 It really is this simple. Jesus’ secret
weapon for accomplishing his redemptive mission was hanging out with sinners and
enjoying them in his Father’s grace. It was inefficiently effective. We can question this
strategy, but Jesus would have us imitate it. Let’s see what Jesus tells us about ‘seeking,
recognizing, and responding” to what he is already doing in the lives of the people we
have started enjoying. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 14/15 -The River Moved – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It’s hard to take, but it is what it is. The river has moved. You are a missionary to your
own community. It time to trust Jesus and join him in building the next span of bridge
to our current US culture. Jesus has made our participation in his redemptive mission
simple. Let’s keep it that way. We make it hard to do the work of Jesus rather than
what he gave us to do. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 7/8 – What’s Jesus Up To? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). We are urged to a path of humility, not thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought and thinking of others before us. With this very purpose, Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath and reveals the character of God’s patient and powerful love. We
are invited to follow Christ’s own example and to be people of such love and humility that God is glorified and the mercy of God is exalted. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 31/ Sep 1 – Follow the Example – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted” (Luke 14:11). We are urged to a path of humility, not thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought and thinking of others before us. With this very purpose, Jesus heals a man on the Sabbath and reveals the character of God’s patient and powerful love. We
are invited to follow Christ’s own example and to be people of such love and humility that God is glorified and the mercy of God is exalted. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 24/25 – Joining Jesus on His Mission with Rev. Greg Finke – Lutheran Weekend Worship
As we kick off our fall emphasis, “Joining Jesus on His Mission,” we are excited to have
the book’s author and mission expert Rev. Greg Finke with us. Greg will be sharing with
us how we can join Jesus on His mission in our everyday lives in ways that are simple,
doable and a lot more fun than we may think! We don’t go FOR Jesus but WITH Jesus. We
are not Jesus-salespersons but Jesus-followers. It is Jesus’ job to convert and save
people. Our job is to love people, get to know people, and then look for what Jesus is
already up to in their lives. How do we do this? Greg has some inspiring thoughts for us
to consider. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 10/11 – Anxious – Lutheran Weekend Worship
How easy it is to become anxious when things go differently than we had hoped. We worry about ourselves and our loved ones. We experience everyday anxieties and big cosmic ones too. Sometimes anxiety can become so serious that professional help is needed. Paul writes in Philippians 4:6, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” Easier said than done, Paul! Jesus invites us to let anxiety be. Concerning the things most of us worry about—like food, clothing, provisions—Jesus observes that just as the birds, the lilies, and the grass are well-provided for, we will be taken care of as well. The adventure of life is one of faith: entrusting ourselves to the care of God, seeking first God’s reign, and experiencing the rich provision enjoyed by all of creation as a gift. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 3/4 – Labels – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our world enjoys labeling people. Whether by skin color, gender, economic status, ethnic
background, political affiliation, age, or whatever else it may be, labels are popular. This
sort of labeling divides people into categories and causes much strife and argument.
There was labeling going on in Colossae as well: Greek, Jew, circumcised, uncircumcised,
barbarian, Scythian, slave, free. But in Colossians, Paul gives us a label that we share and
a label that leads not to divisive evil but to amazing generosity and love. Paul writes, “You
have been raised with Christ.” Imagine that. He doesn’t say that you will one day in the
future be raised with Christ (although that is also true), he says, “You have been raised
with Christ.” That is the label we are marked with in Holy Baptism. This comes to us by
grace and calls forth from us a life abundant with generosity. Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 27/28 – Real, Present, God – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Every three years the LCMS holds the National Youth Gathering. This year it was July 10-
15, in Minneapolis. There were 21,000 youth who attended the NYG a couple weeks
ago. The theme for this year was, “Real, Present, God” based off Psalm 46. We have a
God, who is real, He is present in our lives, and He is the one true God. Throughout our
lives we can go to Him to be our refuge and strength. Today, we will reflect upon the time
that was spent in Minneapolis at the 2019 NYG. Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 20/21 – Better than Busy – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our only hope is Jesus! He is the eternal Word of God who in love entered our world to
bring life and salvation to all people. Jesus proclaimed Himself Lord and Christ and then
commissioned His apostles and disciples to proclaim repentance and forgiveness in His
name to all nations. In churches, in homes, in crowded marketplaces, and along road and
pathways, the Gospel has been proclaimed, and still is proclaimed, to save sinners. We’ve
gathered to hear Jesus speak. The Spirit of God is working to draw us to our Savior. Lord,
give us grace always to choose “the good portion.” Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 13/14 – Rescued – Lutheran Weekend Worship
God’s people have been rescued! The heavenly Father has “delivered us”—rescued us—from the darkness of sin, death, and the power of the devil. He has “transferred us” into the kingdom of grace in His Son, our Lord Jesus Christ (Colossians 1:13). Against the backdrop of God’s great rescue or deliverance, our Scripture Readings point to the redeeming, restoring work of God. We have been set free to serve God in the power and example of Jesus: He seeks, He loves, He saves. Listen-In or Watch below!
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July 6/7 – You are Free to Go – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In the Gospel for today, Jesus sends out seventy-two of His followers with power to heal
and cast out demons. They go and do as Jesus asks. When they come back, they are
rejoicing that even the demons were subject to them in the name of Jesus. Jesus refocuses
them on what is more important: that their names are written in heaven. You may have
a lot on your mind. You may be distracted by worries or joys or anger. Remember our
reason for rejoicing: we have been saved by the blood of Jesus, and our names are written
in heaven. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 29/30 – A Costly Decision – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When people are confronted by the claims of Jesus, they sometimes reject Him. We see this in today’s Gospel as an entire Samaritan village rejects Jesus. The cost of following Jesus is high. We see Jesus set His face to go to Jerusalem, to go toward suffering and death. As we follow Jesus, we must be aware that suffering and death may be where Jesus chooses to lead us. Following Jesus means denying ourselves, picking up our cross daily, and going where Jesus leads. It is a bit sobering, but we trust that Jesus is for us, and
whatever trouble we face in this world, we know that Jesus has overcome the world. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 22/23 – Set Free to Share – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We are held captive by many things in this earthly life, but three main enemies emerge: sin, death, and Satan. In the Gospel, Jesus encounters a man who is possessed by many demons. This man had been chained so he wouldn’t hurt himself or others, but chains could not stop the demons. Jesus comes to this man in his captivity and sets him free. Not only is the man set free from Satan, but Jesus also sets him free to tell of Jesus’s mercy and compassion. By His death and resurrection, Jesus sets us free from our enemies, from sin, death, and Satan. We are also free to tell of Jesus’s mercy and compassion. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 15/16 – What’s In a Name? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Whenever we contemplate the mystery of God being three persons in one God, we are
in awe of how far above us He is in His divine nature. We were called into being when we
were nothing, we were saved while still in our sins, and we were given faith to trust Him,
purely by the grace of God. Today’s Psalm provides another impetus for awe: God’s
creation itself is majestic in scope and grandeur. The more we learn about it, especially
the vastness of cosmic space, the more we recognize the grace of God in His caring about
us at all. Our planet is but a blue marble when seen from most of our solar system. Few
of humanity’s accomplishments are visible even from the space station in near-earth
orbit. God has not only provided the one place where we might thrive, but He also became
one of us to die for us and then gave us the ability to trust Him for all things. Indeed, how
majestic is His name in all the earth, especially in our hearts and minds! Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 8/9 – How is the Spirit Alive in You – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Many people seek wise counselors. The Holy Spirit is the world’s best counselor. In today’s
Gospel, Jesus promised that the Father would send the Holy Spirit in His name as
Counselor. In this ministry, the Holy Spirit both honestly convicts us of sin and tenderly
comforts us with good news of forgiveness for Jesus’ sake. We gather to hear God’s Word
and receive the Sacrament, which together have been called “the Means of the Spirit”
through which the Holy Spirit applies the Law and the Gospel in our lives. Listen-In or Watch below!
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June 1/2 – The Empty Tomb – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Welcome to the first service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of
Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of the
resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at the role of the martyrs, who testified about the resurrection and gave their very lives for it. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 25/26 – The Men of the Resurrection – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Welcome to the fifth service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of
Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of
the resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at the men whose lives
were changed by the resurrection of Christ. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 18/19 – Confirmation Graduation & Women of the Resurrection – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Sat (5:00):
Today is a special day in the lives of those who have prepared themselves for the Rite of Confirmation. Today they will profess their faith in Jesus Christ and begin their commitment of faith within the church and the world that will sustain them for the remainder of their lives. Confirmation-one’s own Affirmation of Baptism. As important as this day is for them, this day should also be a day of reflection for us all
Sun 8:00 and Sun 10:30:
Welcome to the fourth service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of
Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of
the resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at the women who were
named as the first eye-witnesses to the resurrection of Christ.
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May 11/12 – The Trial – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Welcome to the third service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of the resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at references to the resurrection in the trial of Jesus as he proclaims his identity as the Son of God.
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May 4/5 – Resurrection Revealed Through Scripture – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Welcome to the second service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of the resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at the words of Scripture that describe in great detail the events of the resurrection.
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Apr 27/28 – The Martyrs – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Welcome to the first service in the “Resurrection Revelations” series for the season of Easter, in which we serve as detectives uncovering the evidence regarding the truth of the resurrection of Christ. In this worship service, we take a look at the role of the martyrs, who testified about the resurrection and gave their very lives for it.
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Apr 21/ Easter Sunday – The Empty Tomb: A Place of Remembering
“Alleluia! Christ is risen!” “He is risen indeed! Alleluia!” This ancient greeting sounds
among us again today, for today the Church celebrates Easter. The resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead. Christ has defeated sin, death, and the devil and opened the
kingdom of heaven to all believers.
Today, we welcome you to come and be a part of God’s people who gather to
remember and to rejoice in what Christ has done.
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Apr 21 – Easter Sunrise / 6:00 AM – The Tomb: A Place of Life – Lutheran Worship
On this Easter Morning, we remember that when Christ rose from the tomb, he opened
the door to a new heavens and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. God’s will for
us as Easter people is to fix our eyes on the new creation of perfect paradise prepared for
us in heaven.
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Apr 20 – Sat Easter Vigil – The Tomb: A Place of Life – Lutheran Worship
The forty days of Lent now draw to a close in the last of the three great days of Holy
Week: Holy Saturday.
Come tonight and watch and wait for your Lord’s rising. He has labored in love and
offered His life for the forgiveness of your sins. Tonight, you will wait for His resurrection
from the tomb. As you witness that moment of Christ’s resurrection, however, you will
hear it as part of a much larger story. It will not be simply one activity on a long weekend. It will be the work of God, known from before the foundation of the world,
for you.
The readings will take you through this larger, greater work of God. Watch as God
creates the world; rescues His people from the punishment of His wrath, from the rule
of their enemies, from sin, death, and the power of the devil; and calls all people to
come and taste the goodness of life in Him. The baptismal rite will reveal to you God,
alive and active in our midst. And the prayers will lead you to bring all things before God
that He might renew all things in His love.
Come. Listen. Watch. Pray. Tonight you will see what your God has done and cry out
with joy that your Savior is risen. “He is risen indeed.”
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Apr 19 – Good Friday -Golgotha: A Place of Simple Love – Lutheran Worship
When Jesus hung upon the cross in the middle of the day, the sun stopped shining
and darkness covered the earth. As the Lord of all creation died upon a tree, creation
closed its eyes and bowed its head.
Today, we gather to bow our heads at this great wonder: God’s way of salvation
within the world. Greater than all earthly temples, God forgives us in the temple of His
Son. Greater than all of creation, God creates new life through the death of His Son.
Greater than all earthly miracles, God restores all things in the destruction of the cross.
Come now to sing, pray, listen, and meditate upon this great wonder. When His people
were lost in sin, God opened for them the way of salvation, turning the horror of the
crucifixion into a place of wonder, love, and praise.
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Apr 18 – Maundy Thursday – The Last Supper: A Place of Forgiveness – Lutheran Worship
The forty days of Lent now draw to a close in the three great days of Holy Week, the
Triduum: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. Often treated as one long
service, these three days place our Lord’s Passion at the center of our lives. We go home
to rest and rise to labor, only to return and find that our Lord continues to labor for us.
This one long service traces the days of our Lord’s Passion, when He labored in love and
offered His life for the forgiveness of our sin.
This evening, we gather to remember our Lord’s celebration of Passover, His
institution of the Lord’s Supper. When faced with betrayal, Jesus remained faithful to
His Father’s mission. He prepared the Passover table, creating a place of forgiveness for
His disciples. This evening, He opens that place of forgiveness for you.
Meditate now on the wondrous love of your Savior, who in the face of certain sin
offered His life to be the certainty of your salvation.
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Apr 13/14 – The Difference a Few Days Makes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today’s service is full of contrasts. We recall Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, with its pomp and pageantry. Then we plunge into the Passion, which ends with Jesus’ burial. There is a unifying factor: On Sunday, the crowds hailed Jesus as the King of Israel, and on Friday He reigned from His cruel throne, the cross. There He destroyed death for the sake of His subjects. We offer thanksgiving for His royal, benevolent rule over us and all who bend the knee and call Jesus Lord.
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Apr 6/7 – Cornerstone vs. Stumbling Stone – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Jesus can be polarizing. He can be the Cornerstone of your life upon which whom you
build your life and faith upon. He can also be a Stumbling Stone upon which you trip over
in this life seeming to become a major impediment to get around, especially when you
are trying to build your life without Him or around Him.
Many people want to build their lives upon their own accomplishments, status, and
prestige. When confronted by Jesus, they can become resistant to him, much like the
Pharisees, who wanted to kill him. Jesus sends a warning to these kind of folks that if you
don’t have Him as your Cornerstone in life, then the weight of the rest of the stones on
the foundation of your life may crush you. The Good News is that when He is your
Cornerstone, the rest of your life will be built solidly upon Him.
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Apr 3 – Wed Lenten Service – The Courtyard: A Place of Renewal – Lutheran Worship
Christ comes to us in the midst of life. He does not wait until we get it all together.
He comes to us as we are. This means that He often finds us at our worst. But
remember, He does not come to accept us; He comes to forgive. He comes to
strengthen our faith and to renew our lives with His love.
This evening, as Jesus is tried by religious authorities, Peter is tried before servants
in a courtyard. Peter fails and falls. But Jesus remains firm, a foundation for all sinners.
He comes to Peter and renews his strength.
This evening, we remember the words and work of our Lord. He comes to us in the
midst of our weakness and sets us firmly upon the foundation of His love.
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Mar 30/31 – The Depth of the Father’s Love – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift; that’s why we call it the present.” This short statement speaks volumes about our new life in Christ. Yesterday is history—in Christ, all our sins have been paid for, forgiven, and cast away as far as the east is from the west. Tomorrow is a mystery—not only do we not know the day or hour of Christ’s glorious return, but we also have no guarantees about what will happen in our lives mere moments from now. Today is a gift—the present time is indeed a gift, a present, from our gracious Father. He mercifully comes running to His prodigal children and embraces us in His arms. His love picks us up and places us into the nail-scarred hands of His Son, Jesus Christ, who puts to death our old lives, which were once lived without Him, and freely gives to us our new lives, which are now fully lived in and through Him.
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Mar 20 – Wed Lenten Service – The Upper Room: A Place of Service – Lutheran Worship
Tonight, we gather and listen to Jesus. In the Upper Room with His disciples, He
takes an argument about glory and turns it into an invitation for service.
Jesus knows that His people often get things wrong. From the Israelites who
elevated their worship of God over the God they worshiped, to the disciples who placed
their following of the Lord over the Lord they followed, God’s people frequently struggle
with glory and service.
Tonight, Jesus has gathered His disciples for the Passover, and yet, as He looks over
the room, He witnesses division and strife. The disciples are broken apart by arguments
over greatness and glory.
Into this place of broken discipleship, Jesus brings the wholeness of salvation. His
body and blood, His betrayal and death, transform the Upper Room from a place of
strife over glory to a place of glorious service.
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Mar 16/17 – Even Unbelief Doesn’t Stop Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
During Jesus’ earthly ministry, countless people saw Him. But not everyone came to see
Him by faith for who He truly is: the blessed One who comes and saves them in the name
of the Lord. People today often “see” Jesus from a safe distance, but they refuse to see
Him for the Savior He truly is, and they reject the work He has done to make the world
right with God. Today we seek to be different than the majority around us. We long to
see Jesus up close and personal, receiving Him in faith, acknowledging with heart and
voice the redeeming work of His death and resurrection. Seeing Him now through His
Word and Supper, and believing in Him by grace, we look forward to the day when we
shall see Him face-to-face in the glories of heaven, singing forever with all of God’s
gathered children: “Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!”
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Mar 13 – Wed Lenten Service – The Upper Room: A Place of Service – Lutheran Worship
Tonight, we gather and listen to Jesus. In the Upper Room with His disciples, He
takes an argument about glory and turns it into an invitation for service.
Jesus knows that His people often get things wrong. From the Israelites who
elevated their worship of God over the God they worshiped, to the disciples who placed
their following of the Lord over the Lord they followed, God’s people frequently struggle
with glory and service.
Tonight, Jesus has gathered His disciples for the Passover, and yet, as He looks over
the room, He witnesses division and strife. The disciples are broken apart by arguments
over greatness and glory.
Into this place of broken discipleship, Jesus brings the wholeness of salvation. His
body and blood, His betrayal and death, transform the Upper Room from a place of
strife over glory to a place of glorious service.
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Mar 9/10 – Finding Certainty in the Wilderness of Doubt – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Like an army runs to find refuge in a castle, we run to Jesus in every time of need. He is our fortress, our God. Today He mercifully invites us into His presence and shields us from the power of our adversary. He will guard and defend us! What makes Him completely trustworthy to be our fortress? What gives us confidence in knowing that He will deliver us from sin, death, and the devil? He Himself was tempted and can understand our temptation. He Himself was protected from the evil one and can
protect us in our hour of need. He Himself battled Satan and won. He invites us to share in the victory of His cross and resurrection. Find refuge in Him today! He is our mighty fortress. He is our God.
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Mar 6 – Ash Wednesday – Lutheran Worship
This Lent, we will gather for a season to reflect on the places of the Passion. We will read through the entire Passion account as told by Luke, a small portion each week, and you won’t be surprised at the story.
It’s a simple story, and you’ve been to these places before. The Upper Room, the Garden of Gethsemane, the halls of Pontius Pilate, the hill of Golgotha—these are the places we remember when we meditate on our Lord’s Passion. Yet when Jesus enters a place, He never leaves it as He finds it. The most troubling places in our lives become the most amazing places of God’s grace when Jesus visits them.
We will see tonight and every night that no matter where we are in our lives, God is still coming and claiming us as His children. God is still coming, preparing a place at His table for you.
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Mar 2/3 – 150th Year Anniversary Celebration – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Immanuel, or “God with us”, was the name which the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Palatine, Cook County, Illinois chose for itself 150 years ago. As we look back over those 150 years we can definitely say God has been, is, and will be with us! 150 years of God’s own Word, regular preaching, Holy Sacraments, grace, love, protection, comfort, instruction, admonition – 150 years of genuine blessing has been the gift of God to Immanuel. For this undeserved mercy, we give thanks, praise, honor and glory to God alone.
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Feb 23/24 – Can I Know God Personally? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Most of us have experienced a feeling of wanting there to be something more, a longing to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. After a particularly rough day, disappointing week, or devastating year, we sometimes find ourselves involuntarily hoping that this isn’t all there is.
Such thoughts have led many of us not only to wonder about the existence of God but even to ask ourselves how we can go about getting to know such an entity. For better or worse, there may be as many opinions on how to know God as there are grains of sand on the seashore. But do you believe there’s even a God to know?
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Feb 9/10 – Is Jesus Really God? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
For all of us, there was a time when we didn’t fully understand who Jesus was. And if we’re
honest, none of us knows for sure, even now. That’s the beauty and complexity (and, at
times, the difficulty) of faith. It’s having hope and confidence in unseen things that we
cannot prove. And yet, billions of people over the course of the past two thousand years
have reached the conclusion that there is something special about Jesus. That he was no
ordinary man. How did they come to that conclusion? Well, let’s take a look, below.
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Feb 2/3 – Is Christianity, Too Narrow? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
How can I loving God send anybody to hell? All roads lead to heaven. All you need to do to get to heaven is just be a good person. Have you ever heard somebody say one of those previous sentences? Many people would agree with those sentences because they make sense to them. If you limit who goes to heaven based on who believes in Jesus Christ, you aren’t loving and you are making getting into heaven too narrow. As Christians, how do we answer the question, “Is Christianity too Narrow?” Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 26/27 – Why Does God Allow Pain and Suffering? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” —Elisabeth Kübler-Ross— Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 19/20 – Is There a God? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
One of the biggest questions out there is, “Is there a God?” Many people have wondered
that questions over the years. It can be a difficult question to answer because we don’t
see the physical being of God. Or people question the existence of God because of the
negative things that occur in life. Despite all of that, we can know for a fact that God is
real. Evidence of God comes from creation, morality, intelligence, and love. Once we
establish that there must be a God, we are ready to discover who God really is. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 12/13 – Does Life Have a Purpose – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Who should I spend time with? Where should I work? How should I spend my money?
Most of us do not spend a lot of time thinking about our purpose, at least on a cosmic
scale. But the times we do can be pretty troubling, especially if we suspect that there is no
purpose. On the other hand, even for those who believe that our lives are heading
somewhere—who believe there is an ultimate meaning—finding answers to life’s simple,
everyday questions can be difficult. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 5/6 – A Message to All – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Mystery means something hidden that is now revealed. While many “mysteries” surround the Epiphany of Our Lord, Paul reminds us of the central mystery of how Gentiles are
fellow heirs of the promise and partakers in that promise in Christ Jesus. We are curious about who these Magi were or the nature of the star that led them to the Christ Child, but these fade into the profound revelation that Christ is come not for the few but for all—Jew and Gentile. Through the proclamation of the Gospel, the Lord calls all people into the light of Christ by faith. This was God’s eternal purpose, but it was hidden until the
right moment when it was fully revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord. So the Church rejoices with Peter that God shows no partiality but has provided salvation for all through Jesus Christ. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 29/30 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We hope and pray that your Christmas was safe, renewing and joyous!
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Dec 25 – CHRISTMAS DAY!!! Lutheran Worship
Please join our celebration as we rejoice over the birth of our Savior!
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Dec 24 – Christmas Eve Lutheran Worship
Candlelight worship service!
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Dec 22/23 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Christmas is almost here! Join us as we prepare for our celebration of His birth.
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Dec 15/16 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Wishing you a renewing and joyous Christmas season!
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Dec 12 – Advent Worship – 3rd-5th Grade
Our 3rd through 5th Grade Christmas Program and Advent worship service.
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Dec 9 – Sing-Along Messiah!
Sing along with our Orchestra and Choir as we rejoice in the birth of our Savior!
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Dec 8/9 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Wishing you a renewing and joyous Christmas season!
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Dec 1/2 – A New Hope – Lutheran Weekend Worship
While the secular calendar won’t switch to 2019 for another month, the Church Year begins anew today. Advent is a season of waiting and preparation. One Advent tradition is to mark the four Sundays in Advent with four words that encompass what Jesus brings as He comes into the world to be our Immanuel—God with us. These four words are hope, peace, joy, and love. Today we focus on hope. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but hope exists in Christ’s incarnation, death, resurrection, and return.
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Nov 17/18 – Boundary Lines with Rev. Dr. John Nunes – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Rev. Dr. John Nunes is our guest preacher this weekend. Rev. Nunes is president of Concordia College New York. Please extend a warm Immanuel welcome to him and his wife Monique. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Nov 10/11 – Looking Back, Up, and Forward – Lutheran Weekend Worship
OUR STRONGER TOGETHER 3-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION! – Three years ago, God’s Spirit breathed something fresh into the hearts of the people of Immanuel. We called it Stronger Together. We dreamed. We had visions. God directed us to Build a Community In Christ. We became unified to accomplishing this by reaching the youth, reaching out into our community, creative messaging, and updating our facility. We launched. We dared to begin something new. God blessed. God stretched. God challenged. We made strides. We struggled. Satan battled. We experienced failure. We experienced joyful surprises. We stand here today, continuing to look ahead, keeping our eyes fixed on our Leader, Captain, and Savior – Jesus! With Him all things are possible. We must continue to be faithful, as He is faithful. We have started something potentially incredible for our community. So we must continue to remain Stronger Together. Listen-In or Watch below!
We do this by keeping our eyes on Jesus, the champion who initiates and perfects our faith. Hebrews 12:2 (NLT)
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Nov 3/4 – The Game Changer – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This weekend we observe the feast of All Saints’ Day. While many congregations use this service to remember those saints who have departed this life in faith, we do well to remember that “saint” is simply another word for “believer” or “follower of Jesus.” All of
those who gather to confess Jesus as Lord are indeed already saints. This is the ‘Game Changer’ that Jesus brought about when he died on the cross and rose victoriously on the third day. Because of this the whole church, visible and invisible, all believers, worship our Lord together today and for all eternity. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 27/28 – Reformation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
While 2017 was the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, our celebrations continue into the 501st year since Martin Luther posted the Ninety-five Theses on the practice of indulgences. The Reformation is a celebration of freedom in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This can particularly be found in today’s Epistle from Romans 3. In a marvelous, great exchange, Christ takes our unrighteousness and gives us His righteousness. Even though we all sin and fall short of the glory of God, we are justified by God’s grace, as a gift. We celebrate God’s love and activity on our behalf to save us. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Oct 13/14 – Do I Have To? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Has a friend ever asked, “Why do you go to church?” While there are many good answers
to that question, we are reminded today of the primary reason we gather in a place like
this, for a service like this, on a day like this. The author to the Hebrews reminds us: “For
we share in Christ” (Hebrews 3:14). Going to church isn’t primarily something we do;
church is, first and foremost, something God does for us. Through His Son, Jesus Christ,
who is present with us through His Word and Sacrament this day, we are privileged to
share in the blessings of the blood-bought forgiveness and Easter-sealed life our Father
gives to us. So, the next time someone asks you why you attend church, let them know
about the Savior you encounter and get to know every time you gather in a place like this,
for a service like this, on a day like this. We have come to share in Christ!
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Oct 6/7 – Hold On – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it” (Hebrews 2:1). These words from today’s Epistle are spot-on. In a culture that is quickly drifting away from the values we once held sacred, it’s imperative for us, as the people of God, to hold firmly to the Word we have heard. Today as we gather to listen to God’s Word and receive His gifts of grace, we are drawn close to the Redeemer, who has given His life in exchange for ours. Only in our relationship with Christ will we ever be made complete—members of His eternal kingdom, sons and daughters of our King. Once we see how our true identity is found in Jesus, we can better understand our unique roles
in the relationships with one another that He has given to us. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 22/23 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Mohammed Ali often boasted by saying “I am the greatest!” He very well might have
been the greatest boxer of all time. He certainly left his mark upon boxing and upon the
world. People in general desire to do the best they can especially in their work, but also
in all areas of their life. Some desire to be the greatest. In our world, being great is
equated with the power and strength of the individual to be best in their particular field
or vocation. Even Jesus’s disciples quibbled about who is the greatest in Jesus’ Kingdom.
They desired status and prestige. They wanted to be the top disciple. Being ‘the greatest’
in the Kingdom of God comes in an entirely different way. So like Martin Luther King said,
“You want to be great? Wonderful!” Jesus will tell us what that means today.
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Sep 15/16 – All Inclusive Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Imagine if you were the father in today’s Gospel. Since childhood, his son has been
plagued by an unclean spirit that makes him mute and throws him down, doing bodily
harm. The dad brings his son to Jesus’ disciples, and they are of no help. The father comes
before Jesus and asks him to help . . . if He can. Jesus responds, “If you can! All things are
possible for one who believes.” To which the father cries out, “I believe; help my
unbelief!” (Mark 9:23–24). This father, who is at the end of his rope, cries out with faith
mixed with desperation. Thankfully, his worthiness, and our worthiness, does not depend
on the greatness or smallness of faith. Instead, it depends on Jesus, the object of our faith.
When we face desperate times, we, too, cry out in prayer and faith, “Lord, I believe; help
my unbelief!” Listen-In or Watch below! And Oh, BTW, Pastor Warren Accepts Our Call to become our Senior Pastor!
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Sep 1/2 – Ready For Battle – Lutheran Weekend Worship
One of the greatest accomplishments of Satan is tricking people into believing he is not real. After all, if people think he does not exist, then they aren’t prepared for his attacks. Today, however, the apostle Paul reminds us of the reality of the old evil foe. Satan and his threats are real, but God does not leave us defenseless. We are to “take up the whole armor
Sep 8/9 – All Inclusive Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Sometimes when a student does a good job on an assignment, the teacher will reward him or her with a gold star. A gold star is a symbol for a job well done. Yet, not every assignment that a student completes is handed back with a gold star on top. Not every
test or paper is done well. Jesus, however, is different. The crowds in today’s Gospel proclaim with astonishment, “He has done all things well” (Mark 7:37). The people are right: Jesus can do only good because He is God, and God is good! In His healing, preaching, and teaching, He does all things well. Even right up to the end as He cries out from the cross, “It is finished,” Jesus does His Father’s will with gold-star perfection. With His death, resurrection, and eventual return, Jesus has done, and will do, all things well. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Sep 1/2 – Ready For Battle – Lutheran Weekend Worship
One of the greatest accomplishments of Satan is tricking people into believing he is not real. After all, if people think he does not exist, then they aren’t prepared for his attacks. Today, however, the apostle Paul reminds us of the reality of the old evil foe. Satan and his threats are real, but God does not leave us defenseless. We are to “take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm” (Ephesians 6:13). When Paul calls us to put on the full armor of God, the pieces of armor are all given in the one garment we put on in Holy Baptism. Clothed in Christ and His strength, we are able to stand against Satan, confident that even though he is a real threat, we need not fear! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 25/26 – It’s Just Plain Tradition – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Jesus criticizes the Pharisees for being overtly concerned with man-made observances
while failing to fulfill God’s Commandments. Such hypocrisy still abounds, as most people
worry about human opinions than what God thinks. Given our own failures in this regard,
it is a good thing that the Lord not only commands in His Word, but also graciously forgives and promises goodness.
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Aug 18/19 – Getting Your Attention – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We are an audiovisual culture. Everywhere you turn, people use a wide variety of means
to get your attention: billboards along the highway, commercials on the radio, pop-up
advertisements on social media, telephone surveys that interrupt your family dinner. The
list could go on and on. Jesus, too, used a variety of means at His disposal in the first
century to communicate His message of life and salvation. He Himself is the greatest
communication in any time and place—the very Word made flesh. Christ gives words that
are spirit and life. He speaks. We listen. Christ also does the saving work of removing
darkness by His death and resurrection. He shines. We see and live. Talk about an
audiovisual Savior! Today, let us listen, touch, taste, and see. As we respond to God’s
grace with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, let us lift up thankful hearts to our Father
in the name of Jesus. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 12 / 10:30 – Backpacks, Barbecue and Blessings! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Oh, Oh. Immanuel has left the building… we’re worshiping out-and-about in our community… at the Palatine Band-shell. Video and audio coming soon!
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Aug 11/12 – Living the New Life – Lutheran Weekend Worship
As we live out each day, we reflect on our faith in our words and actions. Each of us is an
example of the Christian life as we struggle to live in forgiving love toward one another,
and also as we continue to trust in the forgiveness Christ won for us. In today’s Old
Testament Reading, Elijah almost gives up, but he is strengthened with miraculous food.
Then in the Epistle, Paul provides a list of what our life in Christ should look like because
of our new birth in Baptism. In the Gospel, Jesus spells out the connection between
receiving His body and blood in the Lord’s Supper and living in hope each day. He is the
bread of life from heaven, who enables each of us to discard our old ways, live in the new
life of God’s forgiving love, and adorn ourselves with gladness.
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Aug 4/5 – Look and See – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Last week, 12 of our youth and four adult chaperones went to Boston to partner with 516 Mission in serving the community of Boston. Throughout the week, we served in many ways along while also reserving some room for devotional time. The overall theme of the study was, “What do you seek?” In this weekend’s worship services, we are going to dig into this same question.
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July 28/29 – Jesus is Greater than the Storm – Lutheran Weekend Worship
God cares for us, but we aren’t always aware of it. When Jesus stilled the storm that was
hindering the disciples in the boat, all they saw was His power, and they were terrified.
But when other people saw Him, they recognized a healer and brought the sick to Him.
God always cares, of course; the rainbow is a reminder He won’t flood the earth again—
out of care for us. In today’s Epistle, Paul prays that God’s love in Christ would fill us. God
will do that; He cares that much for us. We ask today that God would strengthen us to
care for the people around us. May they see His love through our caring.
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July 21/22 – When the Walls Come Tumblin’ Down – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We live in a divisive world. There are so many things out there that can divide us, including political viewpoints, race, gender, age, fashion, and many more. There are wars, conflicts, and rumors of war floating around every day in the news. In the Epistle, Paul speaks of a dividing wall of hostility. We have many such walls. Yet in Christ, we are reconciled to God and to one another. The walls that divide us are toppled over, and Christ makes peace between nations and peoples by His own blood. We are now one Body, one Church, serving under one Lord. May God’s peace reign in your life and break down any walls that divide you from God or from others.
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July 14/15 – Difficult Words – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When Amos speaks God’s Word to Israel, they do not want to hear it. Amos is told to prophesy elsewhere. John the Baptist’s message of repentance landed him in Herod’s
prison and, eventually, in the grave. Speaking God’s Word is not always easy. It often meets resistance and sometimes even violence. As you gather with fellow hearers of God’s Word, consider how you have been resistant to God’s Word. Which portions have you chosen to skip over? Consider how you might better hear and speak God’s Word this week.
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July 7/8 – Called to Freedom – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“For freedom Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1). On this day when people across our great land celebrate the freedoms that belong to us in the United States of America, the people of God bow before the Lord in humble praise and prayer, acknowledging the true source of our freedom. Set free from our captivity to sin and Satan by the redeeming work of Christ, we live as free people. We belong to God! As citizens of heaven with temporary citizenship in our country, we treasure all the earthly blessings we now have, including the freedoms of our country. Today, let us use those freedoms for the sake of the One who sets us free. We are free to love our God. We are free to worship Him in Spirit and truth. We are free to love our neighbor. And we are free to bring the saving Gospel to all we meet. God bless America! And God bless all His people this day—and every day—with the freedom that is ours in Christ! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jun 30 / Jul 1 – Called to Freedom – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“For freedom Christ has set us free” (Galatians 5:1). On this day when people across our great land celebrate the freedoms that belong to us in the United States of America, the people of God bow before the Lord in humble praise and prayer, acknowledging the true source of our freedom. Set free from our captivity to sin and Satan by the redeeming work of Christ, we live as free people. We belong to God! As citizens of heaven with temporary citizenship in our country, we treasure all the earthly blessings we now have, including the freedoms of our country. Today, let us use those freedoms for the sake of the One who sets us free. We are free to love our God. We are free to worship Him in Spirit and truth. We are free to love our neighbor. And we are free to bring the saving Gospel to all we meet. God bless America! And God bless all His people this day—and every day—with the freedom that is ours in Christ!
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Jun 22/23 – Pastor Tom’s Farewell Thoughts – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Wind. Storm. Waves. This describes what Jesus’ disciples experienced on the Sea of Galilee, and they thought they were perishing! Can you relate? Perhaps you’ve felt the
bluster of sickness or the storm of financial crisis or the waves of worry and anxiety. In the storms of life, know that the same Savior who was with His followers in the tempest on Galilee is with you today. The One who brought peace with His Word still gives peace in His Word and Sacrament today. Listen-In or Watch below as Pastor Tom delivers his farewell sermon and farewell thoughts.
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Jun 16/17 – Dad: The Sower of Seeds – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The role of a father is a very special role. A father has a unique opportunity to sow seeds
into the lives of his children. A dad can sow seeds that are both positive and negative.
He can sow seeds of faith, joy, hope, and love. He can also sow seeds of strife and harm.
With the help of his Heavenly Father, a dad quickly learns in humility which seeds he
should spread into his child’s life. He also learns that it is God who makes things grow,
even when dad is sleeping. How has your Heavenly Father made seeds in your life grow?
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Jun 9/10 – The Right Focus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Not all news is good news. Not every story is a happy story. But the Scriptures tell us of
the grace God has shown to His people, even in their sinfulness and rejection of Him. God
does not give up on His creation. The seeds He has planted will bear fruit according to His
promise. There will be a happy ending! In this season of growing things, we renew our
hope in the Lord, who is our health and salvation. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jun 2/3 – Shaping the Clay – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In our second reading today, St. Paul says we have a treasure, but it is in clay pots. It is
an extraordinary treasure that belongs to God and not to us. Paul is not very impressed
with clay pots. He is much more interested in what they hold. And he wants to make
sure that we do not confuse the clay pot with what the clay pot holds. Paul wants us to
focus not on the container but the contents.
However, like a lot of things in life, we get it wrong. We get it backwards. We focus on
the clay and forget about the contents. We value the vessel and forget about what’s in
it. We get it backwards and miss the power. Confused? Pastor Tom will explain all in
today’s message.
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May 26/27 – 13 Folds + 3 in 1 = Ultimate Sacrifice” – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Riddle me this? What does thirteen folds and 3 in 1 have in common? Let’s find out… Listen-In or Watch below:
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May 26/27 – 13 Folds + 3 in 1 = Ultimate Sacrifice” – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Mothers are nurses & doctors & psychologists & counselors & chauffeurs & coaches.
Mothers are developers of personalities, molders of vocabularies, & shapers of
attitudes. Mothers are soft voices saying, “I love you.” And mothers are a link to God, a
child’s first impression of God’s love. Happy Mother’s Day
May 12/13 – Mother’s Day 2018 – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Mothers are nurses & doctors & psychologists & counselors & chauffeurs & coaches.
Mothers are developers of personalities, molders of vocabularies, & shapers of
attitudes. Mothers are soft voices saying, “I love you.” And mothers are a link to God, a
child’s first impression of God’s love. Happy Mother’s Day
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May 5/6 – Confirmation Graduation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Join us as we celebrate the confirmation students (at the Worship & Praise Service).
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Apr 21/22 – Laying It All Down – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Jesus calls Himself the Good Shepherd to describe His intimate relationship with His
followers and the love that moved Him to lay down His life for them. Sheep who ignore
the Good Shepherd’s voice (His Word) have only themselves to blame and will fall prey to
Satan. Unlike human love motivated by self-interest, Christ’s love for His own moved Him
to voluntarily endure even death on a cross for our sake. Listen-In or Watch below:
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Apr 14/15 – Demanding Proof, Demanding Faith – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Peter and John were passing by a man who was lame from birth, he could not walk and laid daily at the gate of the temple. Seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked to receive money. Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you”. What did he have to offer that made the difference that day, and what do we have that can make the difference today? Listen-In or Watch below:
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Apr 7/8 – Demanding Proof, Demanding Faith – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Thomas is seldom remembered for anything other than his doubt. In our quest to find
relatable biblical characters, we often leave Thomas as a man who needed evidence—
proof. We may miss his bold confession: “My Lord and my God!” While the other ten
disciples had seen Jesus eight days earlier, none of them confessed as Thomas did. And
none of them believed until Jesus appeared to them and spoke His Word to them. Focus
today not on Thomas’s doubt but rather on his confession of faith.
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Apr 1 – EASTER SUNDAY! – Lutheran Worship Service
In this service for Easter Sunday, we remember that when Christ rose from the tomb, He opened the door to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells. God’s will for us as Easter people is to fix our eyes on the new creation of perfect paradise
prepared for us in heaven. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Mar 24/25 – Willing vs. Unwilling – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Palm Sunday Palms are Eco-Palms, a “fair trade” palm purchased through Lutheran
World Relief. By purchasing these palms, the harvesters in the forests of Mexico and
Guatemala have a chance to improve their income and living conditions. Also, Eco-Palms
are “sustainably” harvested and managed, protecting the palms and the forests they
need for shade.
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Mar 21 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
Join us for our sixth week of Lenten worship.
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Mar 17/18 – Riding a River of Grace – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In this service for Week 5 of Lent, we remember that Lydia followed the will of God by
responding in faith and hospitality when the Gospel message of Christ’s sacrifice was
preached to her. We follow the will of God by resp
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Mar 14 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
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Mar 10/11 – The Fresh Prince of Damascus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In this service for Week 3 of Lent, we remember that, in humility, Mary dutifully accepted
the role God had given her to become the mother of our Savior. That Son would later
accept his role, faithfully following the path his Father had in mind for him to save us all.
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Mar 4 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
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Mar 3/4 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
In this service for Week 3 of Lent, we remember that, in humility, Mary dutifully accepted
the role God had given her to become the mother of our Savior. That Son would later
accept his role, faithfully following the path his Father had in mind for him to save us all.
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Feb 28 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
Join us for our third week of Lenten worship.
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Feb 24/25 – God’s Will and My Dreams – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We all have dreams and plans for our life. Sometimes our plans get flipped upside down
and things don’t go as we planned. Does that mean that God doesn’t care? At times it
might feel that way. We can rest assured that God cares. God has His own plan for each
one of us. Sometimes, His plans don’t match up with ours and it can cause struggles in
our life. Even in those times God is still working and still cares for us. God makes promises
to His children and He always keeps them. As His children we can lean into the promises
of God during our struggles to find comfort and peace.
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Feb 21 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
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Feb 17/18 – Avoidance, Confidence and Dependence on Jesus – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Ever feel like God has given up on you? Today we recall how God does not give up on
Moses but humbles him and brings him back into relationship with him. Moses will not
go into the Promised Land, but God will still use him. And the Promised Land will be his
in the resurrection. When we have a “take-charge” attitude and our proud gets the best
of us, God steps in. He does not give up on us.
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Feb 14 – Wednesday Lenten Worship Service
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Feb 10/11 – An “E.F. Hutton” Moment – Lutheran Weekend Worship
This day ends the Epiphany season and prepares us for Lent. Jesus has been revealing His
true nature through His words and actions, and on the Mount of Transfiguration three
disciples see His glory revealed as transfiguring light. Moses and Elijah appear with Him,
talking about His departure in Jerusalem. But our Lord then commands the disciples not
to tell about the event until after Easter. Because we live after His resurrection, Paul
writes in the Epistle, we recognize Jesus’ true glory in going to the cross for us, for God
has “shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ” (2 Corinthians 4:6).
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Jan 27/28 – Looking for Clarity – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land and Moses was about to die,
he announced that the Lord had promised another prophet to follow him. While the
people saw Joshua as that prophet, centuries later, Jesus was the complete fulfillment of
the prophecy. When He spoke, all creation—including unclean spirits—obeyed, to the
amazement of the people in today’s Holy Gospel. Unfortunately, as Paul reminds us in the
Epistle, we do not always hear a clear command from our Lord as we deal with one
another. But Jesus’ sacrifice for us frees us to put our neighbor’s needs above our own.
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Jan 20/21 – Distractions – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we are talking about “distractions.” As you prepare for worship, consider these few
questions.
1. What is your main purpose in life?
2. What is your second most important purpose in life?
3. What is your third most important purpose in life?
4. Finally, does the way you are living your life truly reflect those goals?
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Jan 13/14 – An Open Invitation – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“Speak, Lord, for Your servant hears.” With this invitation, the prophet Samuel opens himself to receive God’s Word for His people. In the Epistle, Paul reminds us that we are not our own. Rather, we belong to the Lord because we have been bought with the price of Jesus’ precious body and blood given and shed for the forgiveness of sins. This Jesus is God’s first and final Word to all humanity—the Logos incarnate. Born in Bethlehem and heading for Golgotha, Jesus invites people to follow Him. From one disciple to another, the invitation is to come and see the One whom Moses and the prophets foretold—Israel’s Messiah, Jesus of Nazareth, our Lord and our God.
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Jan 6/7 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When we think of the “In the beginning” of God’s creation, we usually think of the perfection and paradise of the Garden of Eden. But the Bible tells us more about God’s work of creation. We can peek under the curtain of what was even before God’s creative
work. The Bible tells us, “The earth was without form and void.” The Hebrew word means
primeval chaos—formlessness, confusion, unreality, emptiness. Life cannot exist in chaos.
We know that as a practical matter. Lies, accidents, and frustrations—sin—does not
produce life. The wages of sin is death! God’s Word, however, “Let there be,” brought order, peace, and the paradise of His creation. As God spoke His creative Word in the beginning, so at our Lord’s Baptism, God spoke again, “You are My beloved Son.” By Baptism into God’s beloved Son, God’s Word is spoken over you, bringing order, peace, and salvation. That’s because Jesus took all our chaos—our sin—into Himself to the depths of its wages, namely, death on a cross. By faith in the crucified Lord, our sin and the power of the chaos around us is taken away. In Christ, we have peace.
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Dec 30/31 – Looking into the Future – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Hindsight may be 20/20, but it’s often difficult to recognize what is right in front of us. How, then, do we recognize what God is doing in our midst? The answer comes in journeying with Mary and Joseph to the temple, where their infant son, God’s Son, is presented before the Lord. As has been promised over the centuries, the Lord Himself comes to His temple, and all nations will rejoice before Him. Within the temple courts, Simeon beholds the long-awaited Messiah and rejoices that righteousness has come to him. Not only has this gift come to Simeon, but it has also come to us all! When we receive Jesus through His Word and Sacrament this day, we, too, can recognize the sign of God’s great love for us and rejoice in His salvation.
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Dec 23-25 – Christmas Worship & Celebration – Lutheran Worship
“Glory to the newborn King!” The refrain of the familiar Christmas song invites us to proclaim that Christ is born in Bethlehem. Today we celebrate God coming into the history of our earth in person—in the person of a baby born in Bethlehem. “This is My beloved Son!” God proclaimed this years later when Jesus arrived at the Jordan River at the time of His Baptism. But already at the time of His birth, Jesus’ special nature was established as God in the flesh—in our human flesh! We express our thankfulness and our joy at that blessed coming!
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Dec 20 – Wed Advent – Kindergarten to 2nd Grade – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our 6th through 8th grade classes lead us through our last Wednesday in Advent service, as we complete our preparations for our Savior’s birth. Listen-in or Watch below:
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Dec 16/17 – The Year of Jubilee – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“The good old days.” “They don’t make them like they used to.” Oftentimes, we look to the past with a feeling of nostalgia. We think that things were better or safer or greater “back then.” Perhaps we have this feeling with good reason; after all, the future can be scary! What’s going to happen in the Middle East? Where is the economy headed? What kind of world will my children live in? Yet, in today’s Gospel, John assures his listeners of greater things to come. His message is one of hope in the coming Savior. In Christ, we, too, have greater things to come—including resurrection and life with Him forever. That’s reason for rejoicing, now and always! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Dec 13 – Wed Advent – Kindergarten to 2nd Grade – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our 3rd through 5th grade classes lead us through our second Wednesday in Advent service, as we continue our preparations for our Savior’s birth. Listen-in or Watch below:
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Dec 9/10 – How God Comforts You in The Middle of Hurting – Lutheran Weekend Worship
We see the truth of the words of today’s Old Testament Reading all around us. “The grass withers, the flower fades” (Isaiah 40:8). The flowers of summer fade and fall as autumn arrives and gives way to winter. The car we saved up to purchase piles on mileage and begins to require costly repairs. The once new wedding dress has yellowed with age. The things of this world wither and fade. But that’s not the end of what the prophet Isaiah has to say: “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.” In our ever-changing fallen world, there is one thing that remains unchanged—God and His Word. Listen today to the unchanging promises of God for you, anchored in His Son, Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Lissten-In or Watch below:
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Dec 6 – Wed Advent – Kindergarten to 2nd Grade – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Our Kindergarten through 2nd grade classes lead us through our first Wednesday in Advent service, as we begin our preparations for our Savior’s birth. Listen-in or Watch below:
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Dec 2/3 – Look! Here Comes the Messiah Motorcade! – Lutheran Weekend Worship
When a dignitary like a president, prime minister, or monarch comes to town, people know it! Often, just for that one VIP, there is a police escort, support vehicles, and multiple limousines. Crowds stand behind barriers, bodyguards surround the dignitary, and everything is orchestrated to bring the leader swiftly and safely to his or her destination. But not so on Palm Sunday. Jesus rides a humble donkey. He plods down the road at a slow pace. The crowds interact with Jesus, throwing their cloaks along His way and waving palm branches. Jesus has no security detail—just His disciples. Jesus is a different kind of dignitary. Even though the crowds may not fully realize it, He is the King of kings and Lord of lords who comes in humility. This King chooses to come humbly and lay down His life for those who line His way and for all people—including you.
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Nov 25/26 – Waiting is the Hardest – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“To be continued… ”Those simple words sometimes show up on the screen at the conclusion of a television show, announcing that something is yet to come to complete what has already been presented. The theme of the Last Sunday of the Church Year is that sort of message. Over the past Church Year, the history of salvation in Christ has been presented, and the work of the Holy Spirit through the Church has been celebrated. Now, the return of Christ the King is awaited, when the divine plan is unfolded. To what has been, what is now, and what will be in God’s design, we add our joyful “Amen!”
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Nov 22/23 – Stop and Give Thanks – Thanksgiving Lutheran Worship
Gratitude does not depend on what is given or what is received. Gratitude is an attitude
of the heart. One with a grateful heart stops immediately. Nothing else can go on until
thanksgiving is expressed. That is what we see in the one leper who is healed. He cannot
go back to his old life, nor can he begin his new life until he returns to Jesus, the source
of healing, and offers Him thanks and praise. Our nation has been richly blessed by God.
Each of us has received mercies new every morning. The key to contentment and peace
is neither the abundance of gifts nor an absence, but a heart that returns thanks to the
source of those gifts. Today we pause to do that, as a nation, as a people, and as
Christians. Listen-In or Watch Below:
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Nov 11/12 – You Snooze You Loose – Veteran’s Day Lutheran Weekend Worship
The final three weeks of the Church Year are traditionally concerned with “the last
things.” The lessons of the Church bring a special opportunity to reflect on the end of time and on the end of our earthly lives. In the Apostles’ Creed, we affirm our belief in the resurrection of the body, which is God’s good but temporary gift to us while we are living on earth. With all who have died in the faith before us, we await the coming of the Lord. Paul writes, “We shall all be changed.” Our faithful worship helps us prepare for that glorious event!
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Nov 4/5 – What Are We To Do? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Life in this world has often been described as a “valley of tears.” You’ve been there, haven’t you? You shed tears when your body hurts due to an injury or when your heart hurts due to the death of one you love. You weep when you feel lonely or when your heart breaks out
of sympathy for a friend. Life is filled with tears. In His compassion for you, Jesus enters this “valley of tears” through His life, suffering, and death so that He may eternally embrace you. And, because He is risen from the dead, Jesus promises to wipe away every tear from your eyes, enabling you to share in His resurrection victory. Today, as you celebrate those saints who have died in the faith, you may find yourself shedding tears, but you can do so with confidence that your risen and reigning Savior lives to wipe away the tears of all who trust in Him! Listen-in or Watch below:
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Oct 28/29 – The 500th Year Anniversary of the Martin Luther Reformation!
The Lutheran Reformation is still all about Jesus; that is, faithfully preaching and teaching the good news of Jesus Christ and standing for the teachings of God’s Word as they have been confessed in all times and all places wherever the Gospel is purely taught according to a pure understanding of it and where het Sacraments are administered according to Christ’s Institution. With Martin Luther, we still say, “Here we stand, we cannot do otherwise. God help us. Amen.”
It was all about Jesus as the apostle Paul penned, “We hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Romans 3:28). It’s still all about Jesus today as we receive the Means of Grace – Word and Sacrament. It will be all about Jesus when He returns in glory on the Last Day. As we observe the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, we celebrate that it always has been, and always will be, all about Jesus!
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Oct 21/22 – What Are We To Do? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The people of Jesus’ day chafed under Roman rule, but Jesus taught to “render to Caesar” his due. It was under the Roman occupation, after all, that Jesus was born, lived, died, and rose for our salvation. Knowing that God is so resolute in His determination to use even evil and ungodly intentions for His purpose and holy will, we can live in peace. We can trust Him for our physical and spiritual needs. Whenever we doubt God’s care, then the end of the story, God’s victory over all things, is our comfort for time and eternity. Listen-In or Watch below:
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Oct 14/15 – I Do – Lutheran Weekend Worship
God has worked faith in our hearts to respond in joy to His gracious invitation. But our preoccupation with our personal agendas and the world’s allure can turn our hearts away. Worse, we might think that we can enter heaven, the eternal banquet, on our terms, supposing we need not be clothed in Christ’s righteousness alone. Yet God’s preoccupation is to keep sending out His special invitation to one and all. Our current circumstances mean nothing compared to the eternal banquet to which the overflowing grace of God invites us.
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Oct 7/8 – The Hardest Thing to Do – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Forgiveness can be defined as: canceling a debt, setting free, understanding, releasing negative emotions, letting go, ceasing resentment, and abandoning one’s claim against a person who has done wrong. True forgiveness is the hardest thing in the universe. However, forgiveness is a gift and an act of kindness. For the sake of Jesus Christ, God gives you the gift of forgiveness.
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Sep 30/Oct 1 – Who Do You Think You Are, Anyway? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The Scriptures are our ultimate and trustworthy authority for faith and practice. This doesn’t mean that the Bible is the only place where truth is found, but it does mean that everything else we learn about God and his world, and all other authorities, should be interpreted in light of Scripture. The Bible gives us everything we need for our theology. Every word of the 66 books of the Bible is inspired by God’s Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit also helps us to understand and obey Scripture. The Bible is about Jesus Christ and his role as God and Savior. The scripture alone is our highest authority.
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Sep 23/24 – It’s Not Fair – Weekend Worship
Our reward for being called to work in God’s kingdom does not change based on how long we have been in our Lord’s service. After all, we are saved by grace through faith, not by works. Isaiah’s call for the wicked and unrighteous to return to the Lord shows God’s immense compassion for all people, no matter when they return to Him. God’s ways are not our ways, yet we continue to work in His kingdom until He calls us when we die. Paul is struggled with a desire to depart and be with Christ and a desire to go on living and laboring for the Lord. Death and life contend, but Paul knows life will win. He knows that Jesus will return, raise the dead, and dwell with them forever.
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Sep 16/17 – Relationships with Forgiveness – Weekend Worship
The Readings for today focus on relationships. Joseph forgave his brothers, even though they had sold him into slavery. Paul urges us not to quarrel over opinions about earthly matters, but to honor the Lord in all we do. Jesus tells a parable about God’s overwhelming forgiveness and how such forgiveness leads us to forgive others. We can live with amazing relationships because He has forgiven our sins. God has removed our sins as far as the east is from the west. When we practice such forgiveness with one another, we are living together as the family of Christ.
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Sep 9/10 – The Hardest Thing To Do – Weekend Worship
Forgiveness can be defined as: canceling a debt, setting free, understanding, releasing negative emotions, letting go, ceasing resentment, and abandoning one’s claim against a person who has done wrong. True forgiveness is the hardest thing in the universe. However, forgiveness is a gift and an act of kindness. For the sake of Jesus Christ, God gives you the gift of forgiveness.
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Sep 2/3 – But That’s Not How I Planned It – Weekend Worship
How often do your plans fail to line up with Jesus’ plans? That’s probably not all that unusual. Often our plans fail to line up with God’s plans. It happened to Peter in today’s reading. What can we learn from Peter when thing don’t go as we planned? How can
we respond when God’s plan doesn’t match our own?
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Aug 26/27 – Have You Tasted My Jesus? – Weekend Worship
Today is the final message in our series on Dr. Seuss. No sermon series involving Dr Seuss
would be complete without “Green Eggs and Ham”. It may be a children’s book, but it’s main character has a lot to say about effective witnessing for Christ. “Have You Tasted My Jesus?” Our scripture reference is 2 Timothy 4:1-8 “. . . be ready in season and out of season …”. Listen-In or Watch as Pastor Tom concludes this summer preaching series.
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Aug 19/20 – Zode In The Road – Weekend Worship
Today we continue our August series on God and Dr. Seuss. Dr. Seuss dedicated himself to writing simple, entertaining, and thoughtful poems that used basic words children would understand. But occasionally, Dr. Seuss would introduce what some people would consider nonsense words – like in his poem about the Zode in the Road. Apparently, even this clear nonsense word was deeply researched. “Zode” came from a Greek word that meant “ladder”, a device people would use to get somewhere. With that insight, I’ll consider Dr. Seuss’ poem: “The Zode In the Road” and a couple of verses from the Old Testament prophet, Jeremiah 6:6, 16.
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Aug 12/13 – Oh, the Places You’ll Go – Weekend Worship
Today we continue our August series on “God and Dr. Seuss”. I’ll consider a book Dr. Seuss wrote titled: “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”. It’s a cute poem that tells children they have potential, they have feet in their shoes that enable them to go places and brains in their heads and they “know what they know”. As time goes on, they’ll be able to decide what to do with their lives. They will need some guidance, but they can figure out a lot of it all on their own. I got a little uncomfortable when I first read the poem. What makes a person proud? I’m reminded of the businessmen in James 4:13-16 who don’t seem to be boastful and proud to me… and yet God says they were. So, I’ll talk today about “Oh, the Places You’ll Go”
This week’s Contemporary worship service left the building to become the centerpiece of our “Backpacks, Barbecue and Blessings” community event in a nearby park. Full video to follow shortly… please stand by!
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Aug 6/7 – Turtle Top Theology – Weekend Worship
I’m beginning a series of messages today I’m calling “God and Dr. Seuss”. Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel) dedicated himself to writing simple, entertaining, and thoughtful poems that used basic words children would understand. Like you, I’ve read many Dr. Seuss books to my kids and grand kids. However, his stories do more than entertain our children, they teach us all some important lessons. In fact, lessons that Jesus also taught.
Today we begin with one of Dr. Seuss’s more famous poem, called “Yertle the Turtle”. It’s all about wanting to be great? And what’s wrong with that? Well, when I read this poem, I’m reminded of Jesus words “. . . he who is least among you all is the one who is great (Luke 9:46-50).” I call it Turtle Top Theology.
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Jul 29/30 – Living out our mission by Building the Community in Christ – Weekend Worship
Last words are often lasting words. Jesus last words to his disciples were, “But you will
receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in
Jerusalem, and in all of Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8). Jesus
not only asked us to believe, but to follow him and to bear witness to the world around
us. Being a disciple is active, not passive, and the reproduction of disciples is an essential
part of that activity. We are to seek to be the hands and feet of Jesus, serving and raising
up others. Serving God means reaching out to others and becoming part of the mission
of Jesus.
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Jul 22/23 – Obedience as the Crux of Discipleship – Weekend Worship
Discipleship isn’t simply about reading a book together or going through a course of study. It’s not an add on to the rest of life. It is the rest of life- and how we can live it in obedience to God. “Obedience” can be a difficult word to hear. For many of us, it brings to mind legalism, checklists of rules, or even doing out of fear what someone else wants. The obedience God calls us to, however, is nothing of the kind. It has its roots deep in the love of God. We live in obedience to God out of response to his great love for us: “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). True obedience of the heart, then, must have its motivation set firmly in the foundation of love.
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Jul 15/16 – The Mosaic of Discipleship and Growing Together in Groups – Weekend Worship
When thinking of an approach towards discipleship, we often gravitate to a step approach. However, our own path of faith tends to be more mosaic, so it makes sense that our approach toward making disciples be similar. Mosaic is an artistic term referring to a design made up of smaller, disparate elements that come together to form something greater than the sum of its parts. Life is like that. So is discipleship.
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Jul 8/9 – Getting Started in the Community – Weekend Lutheran Worship
Going out into our community to share Christ can bring some anxiety and fear. It’s the kind of thing that would make you quickly say to yourself, “I’ll do this another day.” Then “another day” turns into “another day”, and so on. The good news is that you are not alone. Even the disciples after Pentecost felt the same way. That’s why they prayed for boldness. They prayed, “Grant your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness”. Let us pray the same for us.
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Jul 1/2 – Being Transformed: What does that look like? – Weekend Lutheran Worship
How do we become Stronger Together? What does that look like? Where do we begin?
It takes transformation. That’s what it took for the early believers in Jesus, after he
ascended into heaven. It took a transformation that was from God himself, through
His Holy Spirit, at Pentecost. A major change happened among all the believers. They
devoted themselves to the teaching of the apostles. They met together often. They
shared many things together to help others who were in need. Here at Immanuel, we
want to become Stronger Together, and God has indeed infused us with His Holy Spirit.
So are you ready to become transformed personally and collectively? Let’s see what
this transformation looks like.
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Jun 24/25 – Hitting the Snooze Button – Weekend Worship
As we conclude the series on the book, Not a Fan by Kyle Idleman, we look at the invitation that Christ has given to us to be a follower. The question is, are you going to come up with an excuse of why you can’t follower Jesus now or wait until tomorrow? There is no reason to wait on being a follower of Jesus. Saying “tomorrow” to Jesus is like hitting snooze on your alarm in the morning.
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Jun 17/18 – The Relationship Defined – Father’s Day Weekend Lutheran Worship
People all over our country today will be celebrating Father’s Day as we give thanks for
our earthly dads, grandfathers, and other men who are special to us. Father’s have a
special relationship with their children. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father is no
different. It’s a special relationship. As we continue to look at the difference between a
fan and a follower, we want to define the relationship we are to have with our Heavenly
Father.
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Jun 10/11 – The D.T.R. – Weekend Lutheran Worship
Today the Church celebrates Trinity Sunday. It is a day to bask in the wonder of knowing the triune God—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—who has been revealed to us in the Scriptures. While we often think about the three persons of the Trinity having their own areas of expertise (the Father creates, the Son redeems, the Spirit sanctifies), the Readings for today focus on how the three persons of the Trinity work together in every task. They are in a relationship with one another. Their relationship is perfect, but how about your relationship with the Trinity? Have you ever taken time to think about your relationship with God? Let’s define the relationship we have with God. Listen-In or Watch below:
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Jun 3/4 – What Does This Mean? – Memorial Day Weekend Lutheran Worship
“What does this mean?” This question might sound familiar to anyone
who has spent time studying Luther’s Small Catechism. As the catechism covers each
of the Six Chief Parts, the question is asked again and again: “What does this mean?”
And then explanation follows. This same question was asked by many in the crowd on
the Day of Pentecost, as recorded in Acts 2. As the people hear and see these
miraculous events, they are amazed and perplexed, asking one another, “What does
this mean?” In the verses that follow, Peter gives explanation from the Old Testament.
He proclaims that God has fulfilled His promise to “pour out His Spirit on all flesh.” The
gift of the Holy Spirit has been given for all nations. As you celebrate the Day of
Pentecost today, reflect on these events by asking yourself, “What does this mean—
for me?”
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May 27/28 – There is a Redeemer – Memorial Day Weekend Lutheran Worship
We human beings have been created for oneness with God the Holy Trinity and with all of life. Our sinful turning away has corrupted our nature and led us into overwhelming fear and shame. Yet, God in His mercy has given His Son to live and die and rise for us having done everything necessary to bring us back to our Father’s loving embrace. Now, where death once reigned, eternal life has broken in, and this is what that means: People come into a relationship with the only true God through faith in Jesus Christ, whom He has sent. To enter this relationship of love is to enter into oneness—no more separation—and life eternal begins now!
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May 20/21 – Confirmation 2017 / Too Superstitious – Lutheran Weekend Worship
10:45 – “Rite of Confirmation 2017”
Today is a special day in the lives of those who have prepared themselves for the Rite of Confirmation. Today they will profess their faith in Jesus Christ and begin their commitment of faith within the church and the world that will sustain them for the remainder of their lives. As important as this day is for them, this day should also be a day of reflection for us all.
5:00 / 8:00 / 9:15 – “Too Too Superstitious”
Three buddies were discussing death and one asked the group: What would you like people to say about you at your funeral? The first said, “He was a great humanitarian, who cared about his community.” The second wanted, “He was a great husband and father, who was an example for many to follow.” The last man said, “At my funeral I want people to say, Look, he’s moving!” What about you?
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May 13/14 – The Depth of a Mother’s Love – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today we celebrate our moms. They love their children in a way that is reflective of God’s love for us. Their love is unconditional, sacrificial, and protective. They love their children even when their children aren’t always easy to love, and when their children don’t appreciate their expressions of love. Their love grows for their children more and more each day. In fact, if you ask any mom, without fail or second thought, they would be willing to give up their life for their children. Sound familiar? Let’s see how that compares to God’s love, who provides One Way to salvation, by The One who gave His life for you.
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May 6/7 – The Fellowship of Believers – Lutheran Weekend Worship
It is possible that we can go through the motions of “being a church” all the while losing sight of the objective. Why did God plant His church in the first place? You may be surprised but it is not for our own comfort and benefit. No! God planted the church so He could “add to their number day by day those who are being saved”. God put us here to rescue a lost and dying world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Is that what we are all about at Immanuel? Pastor Tom’s message today will talk about the purpose of our church we call Immanuel! Listen-In or Watch below:
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Apr 29/30 – – Lutheran Weekend Worship
The world has had remedies for sin and evil throughout the centuries, but they are all futile. Peter reminds us that gold and silver could not have saved us from our sins, but only the precious blood of Christ. The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem thought death by Roman crucifixion would silence our Lord’s condemnation of their futile ways. It would take nothing less than repentance and Baptism into His name to be saved. And who could blame even the disciples for figuring that Jesus’ death belied their hopes and dreams? In the breaking of the bread, the risen Christ set aside all their gloom and brought them to endless joy— joy that is ours today.
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Apr 22/23 – What To Do After All The Eggs Are Gone? – Lutheran Weekend Worship
On Easter evening and again the following Sunday, because the disciples saw Jesus alive, they knew the resurrection was real, and they believed in Him. They were then able to witness to their faith in spite of opposition and persecution from the Jewish council. Though grieved by various traits, it was the “living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ” (1 Peter 1:3) that enabled the Early Church to rejoice. The reality of the resurrection becomes evident to people around us as we live out our faith, confessing Jesus as Lord and offering peace and forgiveness in His name. As they come to faith, they join us and “have life in His name” (John 20:31).
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! H E I S R I S E N !
Traditional (8:00) – – “A Tomb That Tells All” – With Pastor Tom
Blended (9:15) – “The Greatest Game Changer” – With Pastor Warren
Contemporary (10:45) – “What Are You Looking For?” – With Pastor Donald
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Mar 15 / Good Friday – When Water Thirsted – Lutheran Worship
Overwhelmed by fears unknown, hanging helpless on the cross alone, suffering pain and deepest woe, we behold the Lamb of God. No greater love was shown the world than when Jesus died that mournful day. For God so loved the world he gave his Son, we form sin and death might be saved! Even as his precious life blood flows, deep compassion for the world he shows. Seeking pardon from his bitt’rest foes, we behold the Lamb of God. No greater love was shown the world than when Jesus died that mournful day. For God so loved the world he gave His Son that we form sin and death might be saved!
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Mar 14 / Maundy Thursday – Left Alone and What to Do? – Lutheran Worship
Join us for our Maundy Thursday worship service (with foot washing).
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Apr 8/9 – A Convergence of the Committed, Curious, and Critical – Lutheran Weekend Worship
So it all comes down to this. “It all” is the history of our Lord’s incarnation, birth, preaching, teaching, healing, calling disciples, and now, —Jesus coming to His goal in Jerusalem. This is Sunday is so full of meaning that it cannot even be succinctly summarized. The meaning of it all unfolds before us as we spend an entire week, cheering the King at His triumphal entry, then gathering with Him in the suspenseful quiet of the Upper Room, then the garden, then His arrest, then the trials, and ultimately the cheers turn into jeers and He reaches His goal in Jerusalem. He dies. Only knowing who Jesus really is and the reason for His death, only in knowing the purpose of God’s Law can we discover the joy of the Gospel, the good news of the forgiveness of our sins, new birth and new life—eternal life! That spiritual knowledge gives us the stamina to endure this week and the rest of our lives.
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Mar 25/26 – The Light Cures Blindness – Lutheran Weekend Worship
From the start of His public ministry to its conclusion, Jesus performed many miracles. In bringing sight to the blind, He gave them a new vision of the world and opened new possibilities for them. As the One who brings the light of salvation to His people, Jesus opens new possibilities for our lives. As our perfect substitute, He takes the weight of sin from us and lightens the burdens we bear. Both lightened and enlightened, we rejoice in the miracles we experience each day by His grace. Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Warren tells us all about it.
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Mar 18/19 – Life Isn’t Fair – Lutheran Weekend Worship
She was tired. She was tired of knowing that if she walked into a room full of people laughing and chatting, it would go eerily and suddenly quiet the moment she walked through the door. She was tired of hearing people whisper as she walked by, and knowing exactly what they were talking about. Life was not going well. She wasn’t very lucky in love, lonely and living paycheck to paycheck. Do you know anyone like this? I do – hear more about her today! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 15 – Unconditional Love – Lenten Worship
Wednesday evening Lenten Worship. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 4/5 – Swordfight in the Desert – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Have you ever felt like you’re in a desert? Not an actual desert like the Arizona-Sonora Desert, but a desert in your life situation? A place where you feel heat from those who are unhappy with you, a place where you see nothing but emptiness and loneliness in your relationships. Have you been in a place that is empty of anything good, living, thriving, bursting with the colors of happiness? Perhaps you just feel dried up for lack of water from the God’s Word, fellowship with other believers, or anything seeming to have come from the heavens above? Have you been in that place? Are you in the desert? There is real hope! Jesus went to battle for you – and he won!
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Mar 1 – All Torn Up on the Inside – Ash Wednesday Lutheran Worship
Join Pastor Warren as we join in fellowship at our Ash Wednesday worship service.
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Feb 25/26 – The Way of Worship – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Reflecting on the experience of the transfiguration of Jesus, Peter wrote in his Epistle, “We were eyewitnesses of His majesty” (2 Peter 1:16). The three disciples on the mountaintop, Peter, James, and John, were also “ear witnesses” as they heard the voice of God the Father say, “This is My beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to Him” (Matthew 17:5). As we listen to the proclamation of the Gospel, we become “ear witnesses” as well. The working of the Holy Spirit that shapes our witness as we share it with others leads us to be those who make manifest the fruit of the Spirit, including gentleness and self-control, in our lives. Listen-In or Watch below as Pastor Tom tells us more.
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Feb 18/19 – The Basic Building Blocks – Lutheran Weekend Worship
“We are God’s house of living stones, Built for His own habitation.” These words from stanza 3 of the well-known hymn “Built on the Rock the Church Shall Stand” are a reminder to us of who we are, and it gives us a sense of belonging. As we gather for worship, we are those stones being piled up together one more time. Whether the pile is small or huge, includes many pebbles or none at all, it is the use of the stones that is important. The stones are fashioned by the working of God for His own habitation. They—and we—can serve no greater purpose!
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Feb 11/12 – Integrity or “Doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” – Lutheran Weekend Worship
Today as we get back with Jesus on the Sermon on the Mount, we are going to see what Jesus has to say about integrity. In our Gospel lesson Jesus Says: Let your Yes be Yes, and your No, be No; anything beyond this comes from the evil one. C.S. Lewis, the famous British novelist, teacher and Christian apologist, called “integrity doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” What value do you place on integrity?
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Feb 4/5 – Being Christ to Others – Weekend Worship
People often look to a variety of resources to help them in their daily living. Nowadays, there are numerous avenues in which to find these resources, from books and blog posts to inspirational speakers on TV or online. Generally, everyone has a desire to be kind and good to others so as to pass along positive vibes or energy to others. Yet, we as Christians are called to live in this manner, but yet do it uniquely to the rest of the world. We must live according to the directives that Jesus lays before us, so that our daily living not only send positive signals, but actually be Christ to others so they give thanks to God. Let’s explore how we carry this out.
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Jan 28/29 – iWorks or God Works – Weekend Worship
The word “boast” is one that can have a wide variety of meanings and applications. Initially we may portray the word in a negative way, as we teach the children that it is not polite to boast. Yet there is a form of “blessed boasting.” Hymn writer Johann Olearius, who lived in the seventeenth century, sums up that form of boasting simply as he writes: “The Lord, my God, be praised, In whose great name I boast” (LSB 794:4). Boasting in Christ can be more than polite. Boasting in Christ, lovingly and winsomely expressed, can be a confession of faith.
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Jan 21/22 – Empowering For Adventure – Weekend Worship
The journey of a disciple of Jesus may take many directions. As one of the first men called to discipleship by the Lord, Peter found that his world was turned around and changed forever. And yet, in following the Lord, he found a peace that passed all understanding. In the final words of his second epistle, he wrote to his Christian flock, “Therefore, beloved . . . be . . . at peace” (2 Peter 3:14). The people of God are peaceable people through whom the Spirit works, fashioning them as peacemakers and peace-bringers to a world in need of the peace that is in Christ alone. Listen-In or Watch below…
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Jan 14/15 – Jesus: Substitute, Savior, & Son – Weekend Worship
Christianity today often attempts to portray Jesus as the best advice giver that provides a strong moral direction for our lives, in order that we might live in harmony with our neighbor. Some people also see Jesus as an excellent teacher that passes along excellent quotes that turn into Tweets, Memes, or Facebook statuses that help us through our anxieties and fears. Sometimes, we need a call back to our foundations to truly understand how Jesus reveals himself to us. John the Baptist does just that by proclaiming “Behold, The Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”. John is revealing Jesus as Substitute, Savior, and Son.
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Jan 7/8 – “Reflecting the Love of God – Weekend Lutheran Worship
“This is My beloved Son!” exclaims God the Father at the Baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. God knows well how to love. His love is not limited to His Son or even to His chosen people. His love extends to all humanity. As God’s well-loved people, we reflect that love in our interactions with those around us. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Jan 1 – Power in the Name of Jesus – New Year’s Day Lutheran Worship Service
Life has a certain rhythm. Worship has a certain rhythm to it as well. Each service begins and ends in a specific way—with the name of God. We begin worship with the name of the Trinity in the Invocation. We later end worship with the Benediction, “The LORD bless you and keep you . . .” (Numbers 6:22–27). This rhythm of worship can serve as a model for each new day. In his Small Catechism, Luther wrote, “In the morning when you get up, make the sign of the holy cross and say: ‘In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.’ ” Luther also suggests that in the evening when you go to bed, make the sign of the cross again as God’s name is spoken.” This New Year’s Day, what better way is there to conclude the old year and begin the new one than in the name of our Lord?
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Dec 31 – Don’t go to bed early tonight…Stay awake! – New Year’s Eve Lutheran Worship Service
As a child, New Year’s Eve was all about staying up until midnight to ring in the New Year. Parents tell their children to go to bed, but kids want to stay up. As adults, a big part of New Year’s Eve is also about staying up until midnight. Sadly, the struggle now is more about the ability to stay awake that late. Many of us, watch the celebration in New York, so we can at least go to bed by 11 p.m., others simply don’t care, and go to bed early. In our Gospel, Jesus commends those who stay ready and awake if the master comes in the second or third watch of the night. Is Jesus giving us permission to stay up late tonight? Probably not, but let’s see what he means about staying awake for Him. Listen-in or watch below, as Pastor Warren closes out 2016.
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Dec 24/25 – CHRISTMAS Weekend Worship & Cantata Musical
We hope and pray that your family is blessed and spiritually renewed this Christmas by God’s Word and our music.
On Dec 24 at 5:00, Immanuel Lutheran presents our Christmas Cantata Musical, in celebration of our Lord and Savior’s birth!
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Dec 17/18 – The Long Awaited Announcement – Weekend Worship
A heavenly announcement draws us to the pinnacle moment of the coming of the long awaited One. It is a proclamation that we are to receive with the shepherds. It is not another demand or appeal for us to do something, but rather it is a declaration of what God has done. This announcement is a proclamation that is meant to fill us with great joy and praise – that the Divine has become Human in order to save us.
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Dec 14 – Wed. Evening Advent Lutheran Worship
Welcome to our fourth week of Advent worship service, featuring our 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students.
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Dec 10/11 – Simeon’s Search – Weekend Worship
This song is usually kept back for the post-Christmas/Epiphany time, but it is a theme that characterized God’s advent from the start. God sent Jesus to be “for the glory of Israel” (mentioned in Simeon’s second line); but this glory was that he was the Light of God “to shine on the Gentile community,” a theme that Luke displays in his gospel and in the book of Acts as the very plan of God. Through Simeon’s song we are led to celebrate God’s love for the world and to let God’s Light shine through us.
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Dec 3/4 – Trusting in His Power – Weekend Worship
Doubt to prophecy. Zechariah was an elderly priest who doubted the angel that told him, that his wife was going to be having a child. He witnessed firsthand God’s power in his life by the blessing of a child bore to his wife. Filled with the Holy Spirit after the birth of his son, Zechariah sings a prophecy about the coming Messiah. His prophecy proclaims that the coming Messiah, comes in power and brings salvation to all people. Listen-In or Watch below:
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Nov 30 – The ‘God Is My Redeemer’ Song – Wed. Advent Lutheran Worship
Mary’s song, dearly known as “The Magnificat” as recorded only in Luke’s gospel, celebrates the redeeming nature of God, the nature that addresses people personally. In this song, Mary repeatedly speaks personally of how God has touched her in his redemptive and caring way. Her song goes beyond the personal connectedness to speak of the very nature of God the Redeemer. God addresses injustice and unexpectedly turns this world’s way of worshiping its celebrities upside down (or right side up).
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Nov 26/27 – Redemption through Joyful Humility – Weekend Worship
From humility comes joy. A young faithful Jewish woman, Mary, has been chosen to become the mother of a child who will bring salvation unto all people. After visiting her cousin, Elizabeth, who announces to her how blessed she is to believe that the fulfillment of the Messiah would come from her, now begins to rejoice with great humility in her circumstance. For Mary draws upon her servant heart and begins to realize the magnitude of what God is doing through her. Her soul is magnified and filled with joy toward the Lord for doing this marvelous work through a woman such as her. She is a true vessel for the Lord’s redemption.
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Nov 24 – The Reason for a Thankful Heart – Thanksgiving Day Lutheran Worship
“It has long been the custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us.” These words written by President Woodrow Wilson for Thanksgiving one hundred years ago are just as timely now as they were then. We are a blessed people, and there is so much for which we can turn in praise and thanksgiving to God! As the Lord Jesus sets a Thanksgiving banquet before you today in His Word, join with your Christian family to turn and give Him thanks and praise for the saving work He does in your life. “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; for His steadfast love endures forever!” (Psalm 118:1).
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Nov 23 – Enter His Gates With Thanksgiving – Thanksgiving Eve Lutheran Worship
“It has long been the custom of our people to turn in the fruitful autumn of the year in praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God for His many blessings and mercies to us.” These words written by President Woodrow Wilson for Thanksgiving one hundred years ago are just as timely now as they were then. We are a blessed people, and there is so much for which we can turn in praise and thanksgiving to God! As the Lord Jesus sets a Thanksgiving banquet before you in His Word, join with your family to turn and give Him thanks and praise for the saving work He does in your life. “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; for His steadfast love endures forever!” (Psalm 118:1).
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Nov 20 – Stronger Together Worship Celebration
Stronger Because Movement Makes Us Immovable
Immanuel is committed to working “Stronger Together”. We are striving to work as a team building our community in Christ. That includes youth, elderly, members, non-members, new Christians and old Lutherans, all! For building a community in Christ requires everyone to use whatever God has given them. It requires changing old practices and habits. It is the old comfortable way of doing things that has led to the necessity to build up the community in Christ. Think about it! Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Karl Galik returns as our special guest.
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Nov 12/13 – – Weekend Worship
You may have heard people say “We are living in the last days”. Usually this is some reference to worldly events that parallel to what is written in Scripture, which point to the second coming of Christ and the end of the world as we know it. Things like the Cubs winning the World Series, or the outcome of our Presidential election cause people to look heavenward for Christ. The ‘last days’ actually have been in effect since Christ’s crucifixion. Today, we are reminded how Christ is faithful through changing and uncertain times. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Nov 5/6 – For All the Saints Who from Their Labors Rest – Weekend Worship
When we think of saints, we likely picture well-known disciples, martyrs, and leaders of the Church throughout the years. Familiar names from the pages of Scripture come to mind such as Peter, John, and Paul—the type of people we name churches after. Perhaps this is rightly so. After all, the Lord worked in the lives of these individuals in powerful ways. On All Saints’ Day, however, we also give thanks to God for “unsung saints.” We remember faithful Christian men and women whose names may not be known to the world but are known to us. We remember the names of mothers and fathers, friends and family, and fellow congregation members who bore witness to Christ through word and deed. We take time to rejoice that they are now in the nearer presence of the crucified and risen Savior they served while among us.
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Oct 29/30 – God’s Grace Finds Us – Resurrection Sunday – Special Worship
The legendary account tells us that one cool October 31st in 1517, the priest Martin Luther defiantly nailed his protest notice to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. These Ninety-five Theses were a list of abuses and errors that he understood were a corruption of the purpose and mission of the Church. In reality, the Ninety-five theses were most likely sent to his Archbishop. And the list was not really a defiant protest as much as it was a sincere call for the Church to begin addressing some of its problems that Luther felt had obscured the Gospel message. In any case, Luther hoped that his Theses would be seen and discussed as a step toward renewal of the Church, so that people might know the truth about God’s forgiveness for their lives. The powerful passage from Romans 3:19-28 had fired his soul and he was so overflowing with joy after years of guilt and a need for forgiveness that he had to share the truth with all that he could. Little did he know the enormous impact on the world that his one simple act would have. His willingness to stand up to the pope and emperor in the name of the Gospel of Christ changed the face of history, and the face and direction of the entire Christian Church. We’ve come together today not to celebrate division but rather to celebrate the movement of the Holy Spirit in our Church and our hearts. It is this movement of the Holy Spirit that bring us newness and renewal, both in our personal lives and in the ministry of the Church.
Our special guest for this extra special weekend is Pastor Keith Haney (Mission Facilitator/Calling Congregation for the Northern Illinois District) delivers this weekend’s sermon. Pastor Warren appears as Martin Lutheran to add to the drama of the day.
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Oct 22/23 – A Matter of the Heart – Weekend Worship
What makes for an acceptable sacrifice to God? What is the right kind of offering? From the very beginning of time, God’s people, such as Abel, have offered to God the very best of all that they have and are. God looks for a heart of faith in His people and finds that heart of faith expressed in an offering of self as well as of goods. It is through Christ that all offerings find acceptance. As the writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews writes, “Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God” (Hebrews 13:15–16).
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Oct 15/16 – Lessons from a Widow – Weekend Worship
We “ought always to pray and not lose heart.” This is how Luke introduces the Gospel today (18:1). Then he records Jesus’ telling of the parable of the persistent widow and the unjust judge. God the Father is kind, gracious, and loving. While we may not always receive the answer we are looking for or according to the time frame we stipulate, our dear Father always delights to hear and answer the prayers of His people. For He is a good God, and He loves us with His whole creation.
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Oct 8/9 – Where Is Your Strength From? – Weekend Worship
When given the chance to return to her own people, the widow Ruth pledged faithful love not just to her mother-in-law, Naomi, but to Naomi’s God. Paul urges his apprentice Timothy to respond with faithful love assuring him of the strength that is received through knowing Jesus. This strength produces the fruit of enduring hardships, running the race, and working in the Lord’s harvest. Yet even when we are weak and falter in our faithfulness, God is ever faithful to keep His promises. This faithful, loving God is the healer of all who suffer. Just as with His almighty Word, Jesus spoke healing to the ten lepers, so with His powerful Gospel promises, He continues to speak healing from sin and death for us today.
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Oct 1/2 – Daily Discipleship Lessons – Weekend Worship
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Sep 24/25 – What If Hell Is Real? – Weekend Worship
We do well to listen throughout our lives. Parents try their best to teach this to children at an early age. The ability to listen is a quality that affects relationships, vocations, and general communication. The same goes in our relationship, work, and communication with the Lord. We do well to listen to Him. The people in Amos’ time learned this as the Lord spoke through him in many “woes” and warnings. This is why Paul writes clear directions to the noble task of overseers, through whom people are to listen to the Lord. Even Jesus’ parable of the rich man and Lazarus reminds us that a day is coming when it will be too late. The Word of God teaches us that now is the time to listen, to repent and to believe. Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Tom probes the answer to this question…
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Sep 17/18 – Generous God: Kingdom Gain Despite Worldly Practices – Weekend Worship
The parable in today’s Gospel has one main point: how generous the master is to his very core. He has a reputation for generosity. When his unjust steward discounts everyone’s bills, he doesn’t assert his legal right to reverse the steward’s actions; instead, he stays consistent with his reputation and generously forgives the debts. So it is with our Master, the Lord God. He is generous, providing each of us with “body and soul, eyes, ears, and all my members, my reason and all my senses . . . clothing and shoes, food and drink, house and home, spouse and children, land, animals, and all I have.” We rejoice in the generosity of God. In our joy, we hear God’s call to use whatever wealth He entrusts to us for extending His reign—providing for the poor and supporting Gospel mission and ministry. Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Warren tells us more.
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Sep 10/11 – Lost and Found – Weekend Worship
A strange and wonderful irony emerges in all three of today’s Readings. The lost are found, whereas those who think they have found God, yet continue to mistreat others, are revealed to be the ones who are actually lost. There is a warning in this for us, who are tempted at times to think that we know God entirely, that we are the righteous and by our good behavior deserve God’s love. Like the fat and strong sheep in Ezekiel, like Saul the smugly self-righteous persecutor, and like the grumbling scribes and Pharisees in Luke, we are tempted to mistreat those we see as lost, strayed, and weak. We are reminded that God Himself comes into the world to seek and to find the lost, the strayed, the weak, and that God rejoices with great joy when a lost sheep is found. The Church is to be a place where sinners are welcome and where lives are transformed by the relentless love of Jesus, who is always seeking the lost?
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Sep 3/4 – A Disciple, Me? – Weekend Worship
Jesus’ words on the cost of discipleship were a wake-up call to His would-be followers. Many had been almost sleepwalking, watching Him from a distance. Now was the time to wake up to the reality of what it would mean to be counted among His disciples. In fact, by comparison to their commitment to follow Him, they would have to hate everyone and everything else. It would mean fighting against most of society, a difficult cross to bear. Jesus was echoing Moses’ challenging words in the Old Testament Reading, to obey God’s commandments, spoken just before the people would enter the Promised Land. Jesus was about to lead into our promised land, heaven itself, by His cross. Because we the end of the story, how can we not respond to the gracious invitation to follow our Lord? Listen-In or Watch below:
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Aug 27/28 – Finding Hope for the Future – Weekend Worship
We like to think of ourselves as worthy of honor and respect. We would like to live as deserving of first-class treatment. But in today’s Gospel, Jesus encourages us to live humbly among people around us, and He echoes the directives in Proverbs. Not only does He instruct us to humbly find the lowest seat, but when we do the inviting, He also cautions against expecting social payback. By ourselves, we would chafe under such limits, but our faith in the grace of God, coming to us through the sacrifice of Christ’s blood on our behalf, moves us to rely on His undeserved favor. That frees us to hear those directives as descriptions of the sort of living by which we may return praise and honor to our Savior—life in first class, indeed!
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Aug 20/21 – Unexpected Grace – Weekend Worship
Jesus is full of surprises. He says and does things differently than we might expect from God. Many will seek to enter the narrow door of the kingdom but will not be able. God’s discipline of His children is an expression of His deep love for us. Some who are last will become first, and some who are first will find themselves last. How strange. The way of Jesus is the way of the cross, of suffering, discipline, and of being last. Divine strength is made perfect in human weakness. Grace unexpected is delivered in Word and Sacrament and through Jesus’ own presence with us in our sufferings. Thank You, God, for grace unexpected and overflowing. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Aug 14 / 10:45 – “Backpacks, BBQ & Blessings” – Worship in the Park!
Coming Soon… Worship at Immanuel has left the building!
Aug 13/14 – Finding Hope for the Future – Weekend Worship (5:00 – Enduring the Race)
Not everyone who claims to speak on behalf of God Almighty actually does so. There have been many false prophets over the centuries, and there are many still today who would fill people with “vain hopes” speaking “visions of their own mind” (Jeremiah 23:16). In contrast, God invites His people to trust what He says is His Holy Word. This is the faith exemplified in the lives of the saints, like Abraham, Joseph, and Moses who have trusted in what God says more than in what their eyes could see. This simple trust is especially important for us who follow Jesus; after all, sometimes His works mystify: a sword that brings peace; His Word that kills and makes alive; and division that results in union (Luke 12:51).
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Aug 6/7 – Excited Anticipation – Weekend Worship
Faith should not be complicated. It is easy to understand faith but sometimes it is difficult to do. Even when our head is telling us we can trust something, actually doing our faith can be scary. Today we read, “faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen”. What does faith look like? Will we recognize it when we see it? Also today at our 9:15 service, we install and bless our 2016-17 school faculty!
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July 30-31 – Feet on Earth – Head in Sky – Weekend Worship
I am told of a custom among some churches in Africa that when a person becomes a Christian they burn their old clothes and put on a new white robe to show their new life in Christ. In our New Testament reading today, Paul tells us that when we become Christians, we need to change our clothes. Our old way of living life is like filthy clothes that no longer fit and need to be taken off and burned. Then we put on new clothes that are nothing like we have ever worn before. In fact, we cloth ourselves with an entirely new lifestyle! Paul talks about “putting Christ on” like a totally new and beautiful outfit.
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July 23-24 – Christ Alone – Weekend Worship
Through faith in Jesus Christ, you are welcomed into the Father’s presence. As you approach the throne of God with both praise and petition, His Spirit grants you the grace to acknowledge him with confidence. Earlier this week 25,000 high school youth and adult leaders did just that as they gathered in New Orleans for the 2016 National Youth Gathering (NYG). Immanuel sent 13 of its youth along with three adult leaders. NYG’s overall theme was “In Christ Alone “. Each evening as the 25,000 gathered the message focused on either Joy, Identity, Humility or the Community of Christ alone. Today’s worship will also focus on those themes and will show us the impact of that experience and what was learned amongst such a large community of believers. Jesus’ disciples learned firsthand the benefits of living “In Christ Alone”. Jesus taught them—and He continues to teach us—that coming together is a gracious opportunity for us to learn and acknowledge the need for “Christ Alone”. May the experience you have today be richly blessed as the Triune God reaches into your life to fill you with His presence and peace!
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July 16-17 – Many Things vs. The One Thing – Weekend Worship
There are many things in this life that occupy our time and overwhelm our minds and hearts to the point that the many things become our focus. This happened with Martha as she lovingly desired to serve the Lord through hospitality. Yet she was distracted by the many things of her preparations away from the Lord. Meanwhile, her sister, Mary chose the one needful thing as her focus. Jesus is that needful thing, or the good portion, which is what we should choose in order to avoid being distracted by the many things. When we listen to Jesus and receive His good portion, it will never be taken from us. Listen-in or watch below:
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July 9-10 – Getting our hands Dirty – Weekend Worship
Immanuel Lutheran Church and School is a biblical Evangelical Lutheran community sharing Christian thought and action to our surrounding community. Our mission is to be outwardly-focused Christians who embody and share God’s unconditional love to all people groups making them authentic and enthusiastic followers of Jesus Christ. Sometimes it’s dirty work, but it’s our calling as a church. Our story is about what we do because we believe. But sometimes we may fear where we will end up if we do what God asks us to do. Listen-in or Watch below.
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July 2-3 – Freedom…Freedom…Oh Freedom!!! – 4th of July Weekend Worship
In the fourth stanza of the “Star Spangled Banner”, Francis Scott Key includes the words “In God is our trust.” As America celebrates its Independence Day, we recall similar words of the Psalms. “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people whom He has chosen as His heritage!” (Psalm 33:12). “It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man” (Psalm 118:8). May our trust be in God for safety, salvation, and all things!
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June 25-26 – Hate and Anger – Weekend Worship
It’s amazing how much hatred one can have of another person simply because of the differences that person may have. Obviously not everybody agrees on certain issues. We can disagree about favorite sports teams but that difference should never become violent as often occurs. Sometimes we disagree about which positions to support, but what is increasingly disturbing is the level of hatred that people have for those who disagree with them. The 2016 Presidential election may be the nastiest in history. I sense an unprecedented level of hatred that both sides have for each other and I’m not speaking about the candidates but rather those who support their candidates. Following the horrendous slaughter in Orlando, it is appropriate we talk about hated and its byproduct, anger.
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June 18-19 – Adopted by the Best – Father’s Day Weekend
Happy Father’s Day! We give thanks for the earthly fathers who have been a blessing in our lives. We give even greater thanks today for our heavenly Father, who has called us all His sons and daughters. In the Word, we are reminded of our beginning in Baptism, when He called us by name and adopted and welcomed us into His family, where we receive lasting blessings that cannot be found in any other place. As His children and heirs, we are favored, forgiven, and free, that we may live in His grace and respond in our lives to His glory and honor. Happy Father’s Day today! Happy “God the Father Day” today and every day living as His children united in His Son! Listen-in or Watch below.
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June 4-5 – Dealing With Grief
Good news today is God is not insensitive when tragedy strikes. Good news is Jesus is not paralyzed when people are hurt, grieving and in shock. Good news is Jesus does not prescribe chemicals or drugs to deal with grief. As the Bible says “His heart overflowed with compassion.” Jesus’ heart broke for the weeping widow in today’s reading. He took the time to be with this sobbing widow whose hope for life, for happiness, for stability, is all stored up in her one son who is now gone. Today learn how Jesus helps us deal with grief. Listen-In or Watch below:
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June 3 – 8th Grade Graduation!
Congratulations to our 8th-grade graduates and their families! Our hopes and prayers go with you, as you continue to grown both academically and spiritually!
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May 28-29 – Remembered Not Forgotten – Memorial Day Weekend
Thousands of years from now, the towns we live in may not even exist, and even the more notable people among us will be forgotten. But we will be remembered by Jesus. He will bring each of us to that place where we shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore, where He will be in our midst and will guide us to springs of living water and wipe away every tear from our eyes. Those who have died in Christ and who gave their lives in service to our nation are remembered today and forever in the love of Jesus.
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May 21-22 – Seeing More Clearly in Cambodia
The Sunday after Pentecost is always The Holy Trinity. As we consider the Trinity, we do not attempt to define or explain God but confess what He has revealed to us in Scripture. He is one God in three persons. His self-disclosure reveals Himself as the God who saves. His delight is in us even though the cost of loving us means offering up His Son on the altar of the cross. This is the heart of God’s self-revelation—the Father’s saving will and purpose is fulfilled by the Son even to death, and the Spirit reveals this to us so that we might know and believe in Him and be saved. God’s wisdom is not theoretical but practical—for us and our salvation. This is His delight, and from this we learn to delight in what He has done! Listen-In or Watch below, as we hear from members of our Cambodian Mission Trip!
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May 15 – Immanuel Lutheran 2016 Confirmation
Family, friends and guests: Today is a special day in the lives of those who have prepared themselves for the Rite of Confirmation. Today they will profess their faith in Jesus Christ and begin their walk in faith within the church and the world that will sustain them for the remainder of their lives. As important as this day is for them, this day should also be a day of reflection for us all. Listen-In or Watch below!
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May 14-15 – Immanuel Lutheran Weekend Worship
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May 7-8 – Mother’s Day Weekend Worship – What’s Your Story?
Thank God for mothers! The celebration of Mother’s Day is not part of the traditional Church Year calendar. Rather, it is an informal celebration that presents an opportunity to give thanks to God for His gift of mothers. In observing the day, we are connected with the biblical record of mothers and grandmothers and are reminded that motherhood is a special vocation. Although the customary celebration of Mother’s Day is focused on family relationships, we can extend our gratitude to God for His faithfulness to all the faithful women who have been blessings in every generation. Listen-in or watch below:
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Apr 30/May 1 – Weekend Worship – Enviando! (Send)
Immanuel welcomes Pastor Dennis Perryman, as our special guest Pastor. Pastor Perryman is an LCMS Pastor working for the Northern Illinois District of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (NID). He is doing development work for ¡Enviando! – a campaign to expand God’s loving reach to our Hispanic neighbors in Northern Illinois. Through ¡Enviando!, the NID hopes to ignite, expand and more firmly secure God’s loving reach to Latinos in Northern Illinois through the sending of missionaries and the launch of new mission. Pastor Perryman’s message focuses on the fact that the church is more than a community of believers; it is Christ’s body in the world to carry out God’s ultimate purpose – to reconcile the world to himself.
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Apr 23-24 – Weekend Worship – The Gift of Music
Since the time of David, the primary means of congregational participation in worship has been music. When God centralized worship in Jerusalem, music became a prominent feature. Through David, God organized an impressive music ministry. This first music ministry had 288 directors and 3,712 singers (1 Chronicles 23:3,5)! Much of what these 4000 Levites sang were psalms. A “psalm” was a sacred poem in praise of God intended to be sung to the accompaniment of stringed instruments. In fact, in the ancient world, all poetry was sung. Music was central. While we celebrate God’s gift of Music at Immanuel this weekend we welcome and formally install our new Director of Music, Brenda Glawe. Listen-In or Watch below!
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Apr 16-17 – Weekend Worship – What’s Your Story?
“Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face” (1 Corinthians 13:12). Our vision of God’s reign is clouded by tribulation and lack, alienation and weeping. Yet, John saw—in living color and high definition—the day when all the people of God from every nation, tribe, people, and language will be gathered around the throne of God in the presence of Jesus. On that day our cry will be, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” (Revelation 7:10). Until then, “we walk by faith, not by sight” under the care of Jesus, our Good Shepherd (2 Corinthians 5:7).
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Apr 9-10 – Weekend Worship – What’s Your Story?
The story of Peter is interesting. It was Peter who first confessed Jesus as Lord—and Peter to whom Jesus said, “Get behind Me, Satan.” It was Peter who insisted he was not like the others and would never abandon Jesus—and Peter who denied the Lord three times. But Peter’s story is also the story of the mercy of God to forgive Peter, to restore him from his falls, and to set him apart for service. Every Christian is like Peter—an enemy of God through sin to whom the Lord has shown His friendship in the Gospel and transformed into His friend! Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Donald tells us all about it.
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Apr 2-3 – Weekend Worship – Believing is Seeing
Easter is not merely a day but a season, and every year we begin the rest of the story with John’s description of Thomas and his encounter with the risen Lord. Perhaps this is descriptive of our attitude as a church and as individual believers. We daily wrestle with our doubts and fears, with what it means to believe and what it means to confess ourfaith openly in the world. Could it be that we are so conditioned by the reality that is death that we struggle to hold on to the new reality of life that is ours in Christ? Thomas found out that seeing is not believing, but believing is seeing. We daily struggle with this very same truth. Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 19-20 – THE RESURRECTION OF OUR LORD: EASTER DAY 2016
Without Easter, there is no hope. Without Easter, there is no real life. Simply put, without Easter, there’s no Christianity. The Resurrection of Our Lord is the day on which the Church throughout the world celebrates the new reality we are given because Christ Jesus is indeed risen from the dead, never to die again! For many people, Easter Day is no different from any other day, except perhaps for a few special traditions involving a bunny, a ham, and an egg hunt for the kids. We know better, don’t we? And we have a blessed opportunity today, don’t we? As we gather for worship this morning, we confess our risen Lord and His saving Gospel before the world! May the world know what we know! Without
Mar 26 – Easter Vigil Worship Service
This evening we recall that God can be seen at work throughout history— in creation, at the flood, in the exodus, in the valley of dry bones, with the three men in the fiery furnace. As we hear these foundational stories, many of us recognize how God has been at work in our lives too. We can also see God at work in Baptism, promising to us a life of dying each day to sin and being raised with Christ each day to live anew. The light of the Paschal Candle reminds us of Jesus’ presence. The vigil is a wonderful way to be reawakened to the wonder and the joy of the resurrection of Jesus for the transformation of our lives.
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Mar 25 – Good Friday Worship Service
As People of the Resurrection… A Special Passion Service for Good Friday…
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Mar 24 – Maundy Thursday Worship Service
As People of the Resurrection… A Special Service for Maundy Thursday…
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Mar 19-20 – Weekend Worship – Palms
Bittersweet. If something is literally bittersweet, it tastes both bitter and sweet at the same time—like a piece of dark chocolate. Different events can be bittersweet too— circumstances that are both painful and pleasant at the same time. Palm Sunday is bittersweet. As we picture Jesus riding into Jerusalem that first Palm Sunday, we don’t know whether to cry or laugh. Does Jesus enter the city in lowliness or pomp? Is He coming to bow His head to die or to reign in power? The answer is bittersweet: yes. Jesus comes in both of these ways and for both of these reasons. As we enter Holy Week, however, we remember that the bitterness of Palm Sunday’s humility, the bitterness of Maundy Thursday’s betrayal, and the bitterness of Good Friday’s death will undoubtedly give way to the sweetness of Easter Sunday’s resurrection and life! Listen-In or Watch below.
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Mar 12-13 – Weekend Worship – Rejected!
In Isaiah’s day, the dreams of the nation of Israel had been shattered; they were in exile. But it was an opportunity to rely anew on God and His gracious plans for them when they would return. Saul had seen his Pharisaic dreams shattered when Jesus proclaimed Himself as the replacement for the sacrifice-filled temple. But newly made Paul was forever changed by the gift of Christ’s righteousness, given even to him. The Jewish leaders held on to the nation and temple as if they were the owners, not mere tenants, as in Jesus’ parable. When the kingdom was given to others, God’s plans for all people were fulfilled. Our self-centered dreams must also be shattered so that God may transform and fulfill them as only His plans for us can. How then shall we live out this new life?
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Mar 9 – Lenten Worship – Week 4
Welcome to our fourth week of Lent worship service. Please join us every Wednesday evening, throughout the Lenten season, as prepare for the resurrection of our Savior!
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Mar 5-6 – Weekend Worship – Reconciliation, Restoration & Rejoicing
We live in a world of broken relationships. Without reconciliation, life is draining, not unlike plants without water or a dead battery. But Isaiah looked forward to a day in which God’s people would not only return from exile in the short term, but “will draw water from the wells of salvation,” as we do. David was drained, his strength “dried up as by the heat of summer,” but he rejoiced that God forgave and reconciled him. The father in Jesus’ parable single-handedly reconciled his prodigal son to himself and offered that to his elder son, as our heavenly Father does to us each day. Drained? In the grace of God, that life “has passed away; behold, the new has come,” Paul writes. In Christ that reconciled life is full—of joy and rejoicing!
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Feb 27-28 – Weekend Worship – Love Forsaken
In our fallen human condition, the experiences of our lives appear to tell us about God’s approval or judgment. We sometimes think that people with terrible problems are being punished. When life is easy, we slip into complacency, believing that God will overlook our minor sins. But God in His grace and mercy is always ready to forgive, if we will but repent. He proclaimed His invitation to repent through Ezekiel: “Why will you die, O house of Israel?” Through Paul, He promised help during temptation, “that you may be able to endure it.” And in Jesus’ parable, we see God withholding immediate judgment, as a tree is given another year to produce fruit. We do not know how long our “year” is; now is the time to reply to the invitation—and repent! Listen-in or Watch below:
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Feb 24 – Lenten Worship – People – Week 2
Welcome to our second week of Lent worship service. Please join us every Wednesday evening, throughout the Lenten season, as prepare for the resurrection of our Savior!
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Feb 20-21 – Weekend Worship – Love Forsaken
God’s Old Testament people would not listen to His Word, but sought other gods. When Jeremiah pronounced judgment, they were ready to put him to death. When God’s Son came, it was only appropriate that the very people He sought to save should execute him just outside Jerusalem. We need to examine whether we are open to God’s guidance, avoiding “earthly things,” as Paul warns. We dare not be as a reluctant brood—chicks scattering while our Lord would gather us under His protecting wings.
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Feb 17 – Lenten Worship – Purpose – Week 1
Welcome to our first week of Lent worship service. Please join us every Wednesday evening, throughout the Lenten season, as prepare for the resurrection of our Savior!
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Feb 13-14 – Weekend Worship – One Little Word
Today’s psalm exudes confidence in God, our refuge in time of trouble. Jesus knew this as He was tempted in the wilderness, though it was Satan who tried to use Scripture to tempt our Lord. When the Israelites would enter the Promised Land, the wilderness would be behind them, a trek through which God had kept them secure in His protection. Their first harvest would be tangible proof. Although we waver in our reliance on God, our Godgiven faith in Christ assures us victory with Him. Listen-in or Watch below:
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Feb 10 – Ash Wednesday – What Happens at Camp, Stays at Camp
Welcome to our Ash Wednesday worship service. Please join us throughout the Lenten season, as we prepare for the resurrection of our Savior!
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Feb 6-7 – What Happens at Camp, Stays at Camp
With the Transfiguration of Our Lord, the Epiphany season reaches its climax and comes to a close. Here on the mountaintop, Jesus’ identity as the divine Son is wondrously revealed. This is the fitting lead-in to the Lenten season, where Jesus shows us another glory in His suffering and death on the cross. Moses and Elijah are there to point to Jesus, but the focus is uniquely on Christ. The Father calls us to listen to His Son, through whom we are made co-heirs with the King in His glory. Pastor Warren explains below…
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Jan 30-31 – Installation of Pastor Don Antor / “What is this Word”
Pastor Don Antor Instalaltion (at the 9:15 Blended Service):
This is a great, historic moment in the life of this congregation. Pastor Donald Antor will be installed as Director of Youth Ministries. This service is rich in tradition, filled with songs of joy, lots of scripture and of course, prayer. It is a marvelous day as we celebrate all God is doing among us.
“What is this Word?” (at all the other services):
The purpose of the ministry of Jesus, unfolding during the Epiphany season, is forcefully expressed in these words: “I must preach the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns as well; for I was sent for this purpose” (Luke 4:43). Jesus preached the good news of the kingdom of God not only in His adopted hometown of Capernaum, where He was well known and comfortable, but also beyond familiar locations to Samaria and even as far the land of Tyre and Sidon. We are called to be those people who go beyond our comfort zones to share the Gospel news that we know and believe by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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Jan 23-24 – Hometown Cookin’
Our response to the proclamation of the Gospel is central to our lives. The hometown relatives and neighbors of Jesus heard Him proclaim in person that He was the fulfillment of the plan of God announced by the prophets. He had come among them as God in person. He personally comes among us today in Word and Sacrament. Day-by-day and week-by-week the Scripture is fulfilled in our hearing, inviting our response of faith and faithfulness. Pastor Warren lays it all out below.
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Jan 16-17 – Destination Wedding
The word Epiphany means “a showing forth.” In this season of the Church Year, we reflect on the ways in which Jesus revealed, or showed forth, to His earthly family, His disciples, and to the world that He was God in the flesh. In John’s Gospel, we have an account of Jesus at a wedding at Cana in Galilee. Here He performed the first of His signs revealing His glory in the presence of His family and neighbors. John concludes the account, saying, “And His disciples believed in Him.” So can we! Listen-In or Watch below!
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Jan 9-10 – I Have Called You by Name, You Are Mine – Weekend Worship Service
The First Sunday after Epiphany takes us down to the Jordan River, flowing from the North, where our Lord Jesus is baptized by His cousin John. We may have not been baptized in the Jordan River, but we share with our Lord the experience of being baptized. For the sinless Son of God, the Baptism was done in fulfillment of the will of His Father. For us, Baptism is a lavish washing away of sin. We are blessed through this Sacrament, which links us personally and intimately with our Lord. Listen-in or watch below.
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Jan 2-3 – “Broken and Hurting” – Weekend Worship Service
Our normal weekend worship services resume this weekend, following the holidays. Listen or Watch below, as Pastor Tom preaches his sermon entitled, “Broken and Hurting.”
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Dec 31 – New Year’s Eve Worship Service
Have a healthy, happy, prosperous and blessed 2016!
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Dec 24/25 – Christmas Worship Services
Warmest Christmas wishes from Immanuel Lutheran Church! We are celebrating the birth of our Savior through these very special worship services. We hope and pray that you and your family will be blessed by our music, fellowship and the Word and promises of Jesus Christ; our Savior.
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Dec 20 – “BLUE Christmas” Worship Service – For the Hurting and Grieving this Christmas
Are you feeling that it might be better to avoid Christmas this year? Has illness or even death visited your home this year? Do the memories of friends and family who passed years ago seem to become more prevalent at this time? If you are in need of comfort and support, or if you wish that this holiday season could be different, then we hope and pray that you will find some of God’s peace and comfort in this worship service.
Immanuel is a place where we can allow feelings of pain, loneliness, worry, sadness, and experiences of dark memories, anxiety, and fear to be lifted up in faith to our Lord. Jesus will hear you even as he helps us bear the burdens and relieve our pain. Join us as together we find peace and comfort in this service, knowing that we are not alone.
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Dec 19-20 – “Blessings Without Limits” – Weekend Worship Service
We are anticipating the celebration of Jesus’ coming, just as Mary and Elizabeth did two thousand years ago. Elizabeth declared Mary blessed among women, meaning that she had received a blessing. Also, Elizabeth says, “Blessed is she who believed.” In contrast
to Elizabeth and Mary, we will not physically see our Savior in this lifetime, but we do share with them the blessings of His coming. We also share a new life with the people of God through the gift of faith that comes by the Holy Spirit.
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Dec 16 – Advent Worship Service and K-2nd Grade Christmas Program
Welcome to our Wednesday evening worship service, celebrating the third week of the Advent season! This worship service also features a Christmas Program program presented by our K-2nd grade students. Join us as we begin to prepare our hearts and minds for the Christmas season.
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Dec 12-13 – “A Manger Suite” Christmas Musical and Lutheran Worship Service
The suite opens with a song “The Promise,” that reminds us that Jesus’ birth brought about the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy as the world was yearning for a Savior. We follow the story of Mary and Joseph being visited by an angel and their journey to Bethlehem. The second song “Son of God,” describes the power of Heaven’s perfect plan unfolding in the birth of this child, as we sing “Gloria, Alleluia-Our God Is With Us.” Then we join with the angels and all of creation in sharing our joy to the world featured in the songs “Sing Noel” and “Christmas Angels.” Pastor Tom’s sermon is entitled “Let’s Go Christmas Shopping!” We hope and pray that you and your family will be blessed by our music and message this Christmas season!
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Dec 9 – Advent Worship Service and 3-5 Grade Christmas Program
Welcome to our Wednesday evening worship service, celebrating the second week of the Advent season! This worship service also features a Christmas Program program presented by our 3rd-5th grade students. Join us as we begin to prepare our hearts and minds for the Christmas season.
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Dec 2 – Advent Worship Service and Middle School Christmas Program Grades 6-8
Welcome to our Wednesday evening worship service, celebrating the first week of the Advent season! This worship service also features a Christmas Program program presented by our Middle School, grades 6-8. Join us as we begin to prepare our hearts and minds for the Christmas season.
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Nov 28-29 Weekend Worship Service – Erupting Joy
Humility and thankfulness: they often go hand in hand. Our Creator humbles His people through times of lack and in seasons of hardship. Then, from their crushed spirits, His chosen ones cry out to Him for mercy and restoration. He always comes through! When God’s people look up to Him as their source and provider of every blessing, how can they not burst forth in songs of thankfulness and praise? That’s what we do today as we begin our Advent journey. We humble ourselves in the sight of our Redeemer. Then, with thankful hearts, we look forward to His new life and never-failing salvation.
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Nov 25 – Thanksgiving Eve Worship Service
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Nov 21-22 Weekend Worship Service – Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
Today is a day of celebration as we dedicate the commitments we have made to God’s vision for us through our Stronger Together campaign. What amazing promises he makes through our Savior Jesus, which we now rely upon as we prepare to begin giving toward his vision. Listen-in or Watch below.
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Nov 14-15 Weekend Worship Service – Signs, Signs, Everywhere a Sign
Jesus warns His disciples about the coming troubles they will face as they bring the Gospel into the world. He encourages them to trust God and rely on the Holy Spirit, especially when they face opposition and persecution. This warning is the same for us, as we endeavor to become Stronger Together by sharing the Good News of Jesus Christ. We are called to remain faithful even when the signs ahead look challenging.
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Nov 7-8 Weekend Worship Service – Take a Deep Breath
This is a special day in the life of Immanuel Lutheran Church and School. We are taking a step of faith by making a commitment toward the vision God has given us; this is a high point in our Stronger Together campaign. Today in worship, we will experience the transforming power of the Gospel as God breathes new life into us. Ready? Take a deep breath and watch or listen-in below…
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Oct 31-Nov 1 Weekend Worship Service – Stronger Together as Children of God
On this All Saint’s weekend, we remember our fellow Children of God who have gone before us in the faith unto life everlasting. It is because of their witness and trust in the Lord throughout their lives that we are indeed Stronger Together today. All the Saints before us have laid a solid foundation of faith here at Immanuel that has brought us to become what we are today in Christ Jesus. We give thanks that we are Stronger Together as the whole church in heaven and on earth. Listen-in or Watch below!
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Oct 25-26 Weekend Worship Service –
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Oct 10-11 Weekend Worship Service –
Parents know that children learn to be generous not by being told to be so, but by being shown how to be generous. Today we will rediscover that we are children of a generous Father, and by realizing his generosity toward us, we grow in our generosity toward others, not out of duty or reward, but for the joy of being part of his house and his mission. Listen-in or watch below.
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Oct 3-4 Weekend Worship Service –
Today as we continue to focus on our Stronger Together campaign, as Pastor Tom tells us about the touching account of how Jesus changed the life of Zacchaeus will reveal how we can respond to God’s blessings in a way that dramatically touches the lives of others.
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Sep 26-27 Weekend Worship Service – Praying for More
More. If you prayed for it, and God’s answer was “yes,” how would your life be different? How would the reality around you change? Who would benefit, and how would they react to your answered prayer? Today, let’s be transformed by the “more” that God wants to give, and find the answers that may differ from our initial thought about those questions.
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Sep 19-20 Weekend Worship Service – An Important Lesson ‘on the way’
While the disciples were ‘on the way’ from Galilee to Capernaum, Jesus took time to teach them an important lesson ‘on the way’. Confused? So were they. The disciples argued that the way into Jesus’ Kingdom was to rise with him and be great. However, Jesus silences the argument by teaching of a different way into the Kingdom – becoming last. Listen-In or Watch below as Pastor Warren tells us more.
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Sep 12-13 Weekend Worship Service “Raw Honesty”
Today God’s Word reveals a real, raw, gut wrenching truth. In one God inspired phrase are words spoken first by a man who had the courage to be truly honest with himself, and honest with God. Have you also spoken these words? “Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!” Listen-in or Watch below.
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Sep 5-6 Weekend Worship Service “Utterly Amazing Grace”
We have one thing that is more amazing than any technology, human achievement, or development. What is always amazing in our lives is Jesus and his love for sinners. If we aren’t amazed and standing in awe of God’s grace then the problem isn’t with God, it’s with us. My prayer for us today is simply that God remind us of all that he has done for us, and how amazing his grace is in our lives. Listen-in or Watch below, as Pastor Tom explores the depths of God’s grace for us.
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Aug 29-30 Weekend Worship Service “Trusting Jesus’ Paradox of Greatness” – Imagine Weekend!
Last spring we put together a “wish list” as we completed the feasibility study. Today, Pastor Karl helps move us from “I wish” to “I see”. It is time to Imagine what Immanuel is becoming through the Spirit’s guidance. Listen-in or Watch below as Pastor Karl presents!
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Aug 26 The Ugandan Kids Choir
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Click Here to visit the Childcare Worldwide website and learn more about the choir or to make a donation.
Watch the Ugandan Kids Choir performance at Immanuel Lutheran Church and School. Ten talented children from Uganda brought a message of hope as the children shared the power of God’s love through their music and dance. These children delighted the audience with their high energy performance and infectious joy.
Each child in the choir comes from a desperately poor background, but they have hope for the future because someone decided to sponsor them. Now these children are touring America for a year on a mission to help other children of like circumstances. They want other children in Uganda to have food, water, the opportunity to go to school, and to find joy in the Lord.
Childcare Worldwide started a small child sponsorship program in Uganda in 1986 in a remote area near Lake Victoria to support children who were AIDS orphans. It now includes 3 villages and over a thousand children. One of the primary ministries in Uganda is Survival Pack Program which exists for hungry families in need of basic food for survival. Another program is a medical ministry and clinic serving one of the children’s homes and a nearby fishing village.
Members of the Uganda Kids Choir are selected to travel to the United States to perform traditional songs and dances and act as ambassadors for children who are in need of sponsorship.
Aug 22-23 Weekend Worship Service “Dirty Hands, Clean Hearts“
A little child learns to wash his hands before mealtime. Having clean hands is important. But a child of God learns something else too. It’s even more important to have a clean heart. While dirty hands can make us sick, dirty hearts of sin can kill us spiritually! We can wash our hands with soap and water, but only God can make our hearts clean. Jesus took our dirty sins to the cross and washed our hearts clean with His forgiveness. We gather to confess our sins. God speaks His word of forgiveness. Our hearts are clean. With clean, forgiven hearts we worship the Lord with thankfulness and joy.
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Aug 15-16 Weekend Worship Service “In Pursuit of Community”
What is the key element to Immanuel’s future? What is the most important thing we need in order to grow our church and school?
Better facilities?
Better/more staff?
More exciting/attractive programs?
More gifted/skilled people?
More financial resources?
None of those is it. Something else is absolutely key, essential, and fundamental to you and I being who God wants us to be and doing what God wants us to do. Without this key, we face mission impossible. With this key, we face mission possible.
This weekend Pastor Tom will reveal the key. We will discover both what creates and what kills this essential aspect of our future.
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Aug 8-9 Weekend Worship Service “It’s Not About You, It’s About Me (Part 2)”
God’s grace sets us free from grumbling. Through the power of the Gospel and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we are able to grumble less and give thanks more. We are able to use our words to build up instead of tear down. Our complaints turn to praise. Listen-In or Watch below, as Pastor Tom completes this two-part sermon series.
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Aug 1-2 Weekend Worship Service “It’s Not About You, It’s About Me”
It’s not about you. I know that is sometimes hard to hear, but it’s true. God’s gifts for you don’t come because you’ve done some good thing, or you’ve been good lately, or just because you’ve done something better than the person sitting next to you. No, God’s gifts to you, his forgiveness, his unwavering love, his mercy, his eternal life are all found in one place, in one person, in one Lord, Jesus Christ, Crucified, Buried, and Risen for you. This weekend I’ll begin the first of a two-part series from John 6. To paraphrase Jesus, “It’s not about you, it’s about me! But they grumbled anyway.”
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July 25-26 Weekend Worship Service “What More?”
How often has Jesus shown you personally through seemingly miraculous events that He is in fact Lord of your life?
Perhaps you can remember your intense gratitude to Jesus when he provided for you when you were out of options. Maybe you can remember how you proclaimed on that day of rescue how you would never doubt or forget his saving hand in your life. But as time goes by and the next overwhelming situation arises, our memory fades and fear takes over our heart. The same thing happened to the disciples. No sooner had they seen Jesus perform a miracle by feeding 5000 men, but that very night, they were rescued again in a boat that was being tossed about by wind and waves. Then when Jesus walks on the water and entered the boat, calming the tempest, they are utterly astounded at what Jesus did. Can you imagine Jesus saying “Really? What more? What more do I need to do to show you that I am God and Lord of all?” Is he saying that to you? Let’s talk about it in worship this weekend.
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July 18-19 Weekend Worship Service “Immeasurably More”
When faced with the task of feeding thousands of people in a desolate place, the disciples look to send them away because it was near the end of the day. The people would need time to get down into the local towns to find food. Jesus challenges them to provide the food. With only so much money in the treasury bag, their resources are limited and they wouldn’t be able to buy enough food for everybody. Going to town to buy food would take time. Time is of the essence. They must act now. Immediately on hand are only five loaves of bread and two fish. Is Jesus demanding too much? The task is too great……or is it? When Jesus takes matters into his own hands, he can bring “Immeasurably More” to the situation. Can Jesus bring you ‘Immeasurably More”?
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July 11-12 Weekend Worship Service “The Power of the Plum Line”
It is a common tool sometimes called a plumb-bob, plummet, or plum-line. The ancient Egyptians used it to make certain that walls were vertical. Surveyors use them to set their instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker so they can place markers in the proper location. Simply a line or cord with a weight at one end, held vertically, it helps a carpenter or mason build straight walls.
Did you know that God uses a plumb-line? This weekend we will talk about God standing beside a wall with a plumb-line. Why? Can’t God determine if a wall is straight or not? And frankly, what does a plum-line have to do with our lives?
Listen-In or Watch this weekend as I’ll show you not only how a plum-line works but also about the power in a plum-line. Not terribly excited? Well how about if I tell you, “Satan wants to mess you up, but I’ll show you real hope and integrity.”
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July 4-5 Weekend Worship Service “Faith During the Delay” – Independence Day
We live in a wonderful land filled with many freedoms for us to enjoy on a daily basis. Freedom is meant to open up our lives to help us experience all that this life offers, so that we can enjoy the pursuit of happiness and become produc!ve in all our endeavors to make our world a better place. That is the positive side to freedom. However, there also can be a negative side to freedom. Peter tells us “Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.” How are you living out your freedom?
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June 5 – Our 2015 Graduation Celebration
It is our pleasure to present the Immanuel Lutheran School’s 2015 Graduating Class. Our hopes and prayers go with you, for a bright future, a great high school experience and an ever-deepening walk with our Lord and Savior.
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May 13 – Carin Ulrich – A Celebration of Life
May God’s peace and promises provide comfort, as we remember and celebrate the life of Carin Ulrich.
May 2 – Feasibility Study Results Presentation! – Pastor Karl Galik
Pastor Karl Galik presents detailed results and analysis of our congregational survey and personal interviews.
Apr 5 – Easter Sunday! – Hallelujah!
8:00 Traditional 9:15 Blended 10:45 Contemporary
Aug 24 – Our Contemporary Lutheran Praise Worship Service Has Left The Building! Worship In The Park!
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Sep 22 – Organ Re-Dedication Recital – Mr. Andrew Schaeffer
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