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Our fall series, Kingdom People, continues this Sunday with another pretty challenging yet important topic – forgiveness. We hear a powerful example of forgiveness through Joseph in the Old Testament as he extends (and doesn’t renege on) forgiveness to his brothers after his father Jacob died. Jesus tells another story in response to a question from Peter regarding forgiveness – a story that speak...

We start this new fall series with a pretty major and even difficult topic – reconciliation. Jesus speaks to it very directly in the Gospel, St. Paul speaks to this in a more indirect way in Romans 13, and even the Old Testament reading from Ezekiel holds up in no uncertain terms the responsibility that we have toward one another. How do we live out reconciliation in our lives? What does it look l...

Using Romans 12 and Matthew 16, we wrap up our summer “complicated” series. We’ll hear from both Jesus and from St. Paul about what following Jesus entails. Some of it, particularly as Paul describes, is pretty simple and pretty straight-forward. But in other ways, as Jesus describes it, it’s complicated, it’s difficult, and it can feel far beyond what we can possibly do. And that’s where the Holy...

What is God’s will? Not an easy question and certainly no easy answers. But we see again, through God’s Word, how God’s will is carried out. Paul in Romans 12 provides some wonderful guidance with regard to knowing God’s will. And in Matthew 16, Sunday’s Gospel reading, we hear Peter proclaim, as prompted by the Holy Spirit, that Jesus IS the Christ, the Promised One. We’ll see how that plays into...

We’ll be hearing the story of Joseph and his brothers from the end of Genesis – and what a life Joseph led! It was filled with ups and downs (actually a lot more downs on the front-end!) but Joseph continues to trust the Lord. As we look at Joseph’s life, we get a glimpse into how God works which, as we’re discovering this summer with so many aspects of our lives, is complicated! If you can’t be h...

What scares you? With our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, we’ll look that question square in the eyes because it’s something that all of us deal with at some level. Complicated for us as followers of Jesus? It was for Elijah of the Old Testament and for Peter and the other disciples in the first century and you can count it being no different for you and me today. We’ll also b...

Our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, continues with a focus on the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000. We’ll be walking through that miracle and, in the process, we’re going to learn a lot more about Jesus, His heart, and the ways in which He chooses to work. It’s pretty cool to see how Jesus does what He does and the part we get to play in that. If you can’t be here in-person,...

This Sunday in our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, we hear Solomon asking God for wisdom and reflecting more on what we’re asking the Lord for in our lives – do we ask for wisdom and what does that look like? Romans 8 is packed with promises and assurances that the love we know in Jesus is a love that no one and nothing can take away from us. God’s love is real and plays into...

For our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, the focus this Sunday will be on Jesus’ parable of the weeds in Matthew 13 and the question of “Why evil?” We hear the wisdom Jesus shares in this parable and how that plays out – but it’s still confusing and very complicated. So we’ll be asking, What’s Up With the Weeds? If you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our live stream...

For our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, we continue for another week in St. Paul’s letter to the Romans. Paul begins Romans 8 right where we left off last week, with the ongoing struggle in which we’re engaged as we strive to live our lives as followers of Jesus. In this chapter he sets up the “flesh” versus the “Spirit” and challenges us to consider on which of those we are s...

Our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, takes us to Romans 7 and the classic sinner-saint struggle. The question, even for us as Christians, is “Why do I do what I do?!” This is asked especially when it comes to the temptations to which we fall and the less-than-Christlike-attitudes and actions that we sometimes demonstrate. We’ll delve into that struggle. What Jesus offers in the...

With our nation’s Independence Day celebration right around the corner, our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, will have us thinking about the real freedoms we enjoy as followers of Jesus. To get us there, we’ll be taking a deep dive into Romans 6:12-23 where St. Paul talks about slavery and freedom in multiple ways. If you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our live stre...

Our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, takes on another major topic – Grace. How complicated could “grace” possibly be? Well… We’ll focus on some of what St. Paul shares in Romans 6 when it comes to some of the abuses that were happening already in the first century. We hear some of the awesome expressions of what grace can look like. Then in Matthew 10, Jesus also speaks of a li...

We continue our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, hearing in Matthew 9 and 10 how Jesus sent His disciples out and the accompanying instructions He gave them for the journey. Talk about confusing! Talk about scary! Talk about crazy! If we pay close attention to exactly what Jesus was saying, how Jesus sent them out makes no sense. It was complicated. But the crazy thing is, in s...

We continue our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated, thinking about how we live by faith. We tend to make it sound so easy – we “live by faith” – but the reality has always been that it’s hard to live by faith. It was hard for Abram/Abraham and all that he went through. Paul expounds on that challenge in the Epistle reading from Romans 4. It’s complicated, but not impossible! The i...

This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, the first Sunday after Pentecost, and the official start of our summer series, Life in the Spirit: It’s Complicated. On Trinity Sunday all three readings point us to the mystery of the Trinity and include references to our belief in one God who comes to us in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We’ll explore this mystery using all three readings, which inclu...

This Sunday is Pentecost Sunday – a celebration that goes back thousands of years, deep into the Old Testament. We’ll look more at the history of this particular celebration and what has happened over time to make it what it is today. We’ll see and hear how the plan was always to transform this celebration to be so much more than it was originally – but that’s how the Lord always works! We’ll be t...

This Sunday we hear Peter refer to Satan as a “roaring lion looking for whom he may devour.” We’ll look at the realities of Satan and his work in this world as well as the important direction our Savior gives to us as to how to counter that roaring lion in our midst. These are again some powerful Words to Live By. In the meantime, keep working on memorizing and putting God’s Word in your heart, es...

This Sunday the Lord is encouraging us to be ready, to be prepared. For what? To give an answer to anyone who asks us about our faith, about Jesus, about how we live like we do, which is a life filled with hope. These again are some powerful Words to Live By. In the meantime, keep working on memorizing and putting God’s Word in your heart, especially this passage from last Sunday – “But you are a...

This Sunday we hear some powerful words of affirmation from our Lord through Peter in this week’s Words to Live By. My prayer is that as we gather in worship, we are reminded of some very important promises and words our risen Savior has given us – words that speak pretty directly to some of the confusion and challenges that we’re up against in our culture today. Keep working on memorizing and put...

This Sunday’s Words to Live By are all about healing. What does that healing look like? Healing takes many different forms but when it’s all said and done, healing is what we need – all of us! In the meantime, keep working on memorizing and putting God’s Word in your heart, especially this passage from last Sunday – “For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, throug...

We get some more amazing Words to Live By from our Savior through 1 Peter. This week, we hear about the power of the Word itself and we’ll think more about how that plays out for us in our lives. In the meantime, keep working on memorizing and putting God’s Word in your heart, especially this passage from last week in 1 Peter 1:3-4 – “In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope...

We continue in the afterglow of our Easter Sunday celebration, marveling at our Savior’s love and all that He provides for us to live in this crazy world! We take a deep dive into 1 Peter 1 and the very significant way the apostle Peter starts his letter. We hope you can join us in what promises to be a very relevant and helpful series! If you can’t be here in-person, you can take advantage of our...

He is risen! He is risen indeed, alleluia!! This Sunday we begin a new series titled Words to Live By for our glorious Easter celebration! If you can’t be here in-person, you can always take advantage of our live stream option on Immanuel’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/ImmanuelLove... . Below are the Scripture readings if you want to take a look at them. April 9th – The Resurrection of...

This Sunday we begin the awe-inspiring journey through Holy Week. It all started with Jesus riding triumphantly into Jerusalem amidst cheers and shouts of joy, palm branches and coats being laid before Him, and His preparation for how this world-changing week would unfold. You won’t want to miss this glorious celebration, or any of the worship services in the week ahead. If you can’t be here in-pe...