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Jesus crosses dividing lines and heals two people. In these healings, we see that God's love is for the people we might label as "them," and we see that Jesus pushes past the dividing lines we create in order to reveal God's mercy. Mark 7. September 9, 2018.

When we are content to point out the faults of others, Jesus invites us instead to tune into our own heart. Jesus’ message of “You worry about you” becomes a life-giving corrective that blesses us even though it is the harder work to do. Mark 7. September 2, 2018.

Jesus generously gives of himself so that we receive abundant life. The mystery and power of Jesus, the bread of life in John 6:51-58.

In our baptism, God baptizes us into Christ and calls and sends us to be Christ to one another and to all people. Laura and Ruth reflect on God’s call in their life and how they bless others with God’s love.

Jesus says, “I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” This sermon uses a loaf of Wonder bread and a loaf of organic French bread to explore Jesus’ comparison of the bread that leaves us hungry and the Bread of Life that satisfies our hunger and that is God’s gift for you. John 6:25-35. August 5, 2018.

Jesus feeds 5,000 people from one boy’s bread and fish. Jesus teaches us to entrust what we do have into his hands so that he can feed people with God’s love rather than get discouraged by what we fear we don’t have and can’t do. John 6. July 29, 2018

God calls us into a life of loving one another just like Jesus loves us. Heather and Laura reflect on how they live this daily calling as mothers, as a hair stylist, a volunteer, and more. July 22, 2018. Vocation series Part 2.

God sends his Son to seek us out when we are lost and God calls us to be part of the rescue team. Luke 15. VBS Sunday 2018.

We are freed by God’s love to be God’s love. Jesus leads us to love our neighbors as ourselves and everybody is our neighbor: family, friends, coworkers, and beyond. June 24, 2018. John 13

God calls, frees, and sends each of us to be Christ to one another and to our neighbor. This is Part 1 in a series in which the people of Resurrection Lutheran Church, Channahon, Illinois tell their personal stories of following God’s call in their daily life. June 17, 2018: Lisa and Jeanne.

Jesus upsets the apple cart with God’s Love. He messes with the way the world normally works to free us with a new truth and way of being. Mark 3:21-35. June 10, 2018

God gifts us with Sabbath for renewal and refreshment of our heart, mind, soul, and body. The challenge is actually stopping and discerning what actions suit the Sabbath. Mark 3. June 3, 2018

Each and every day God makes us well through grace and then asks, “Who will go for us? Whom shall I send?” Our faith and walk with Christ compels us to raise our hand and say, “Here am I. Send me.”

The Holy Spirit empowers us to be fluent in both God’s language and the local language so that we can live and speak God’s life-giving gift of Jesus Christ. Pentecost Sunday. Acts 2.

Jesus prays for you, and in his prayer, he gives thanks for you and prays for your daily discipleship. His prayer is for you and for all the disciples as we live in the world but are not of the world and yet are called to reveal the love of God within the world. John 17. May 13, 2018.

Jesus commands us to imitate him: to love one another in the same way he loves us. In so doing, God’s Love is shared and our joy is complete. John 15:9-17. May 6, 2018

God blesses us with gracious love to also be a blessing God's gracious love to others. This sermon is about how we abide in God's love and how we prune what gets in the way of connecting with God. John 15: 1-8. Link to the video in the sermon: https://youtu.be/Wt7X1Rx6aLU

God is the good shepherd and we are the sheep. God frees us from the anxious cycle of wanting and instead gifts us with a content and grateful life through Jesus Christ. April 22, 2018

Jesus opens our eyes to God’s full use of the color palette to reveal God’s love for us and the world. Luke 24

Although we know Good Friday and dying, in Jesus's resurrection, God assures us that resurrection and living always have the final word. Easter Sunday 2018. Mark 16:1-8.

God gifts us with Eternal Life in the present, and God sends his Son so that we experience eternal life as we follow him. This sermon explores how Jesus leads us in the ways of eternal life using his image of a seed dying to bear much fruit. Link to see the photos that accompany the sermon: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1B1DORdTuTPV3QBDmYn8RJBO5d7QMsKRd , or visit Resurrection’s Facebook page a...

God loves us so much God gives us his Son so that we experience eternal life in the here and now. This sermon explores how God shifts us from withering to flourishing today and also how we’ve limited the gift of this passage by seeing eternal life as something that only kicks in after we die. March 11, 2018.

It is because God loves us first, that God calls us to live as beloved people. This sermon explores the context of the Ten Commandments and how they continue to bless our relationship with God and one another. March 4, 2018.

Jesus dies so that we can rise to new life with him, and Jesus leads us to give of ourselves to follow him and bless others with God’s resurrecting love. Sunday February 25 sermon. Mark 8: 31-38.

In Mark 1:9-13, Jesus is baptized, tested, and sent. We experience this same sequence in our daily life of following Jesus: loved/baptized, tested, and sent. Sunday February 18, 2018.