Immanuel Lutheran Loveland

This Sunday we wrap up our Honest Repentance series with the topic, “Salvation.” The Exodus is THE salvation event in the Old Testament. This story is not only about what happened to the Israelites long ago. It sets forth a pattern of God’s deliverance that we can see repeated multiple times in the Bible and in our own lives as well. The story itself echoes the pattern that God established at crea...

This Sunday’s topic in our Honest Repentance series isn’t one that is talked about much – purification. A few weeks ago we explored the theme of water throughout the Bible. This week, we’re going to be thinking about fire and how it’s used by God – and specifically how He uses it to purify us. We’ll be looking at fire from two different perspectives both helping us along the path of the cross. If...

This Sunday will be a core Sunday in this series as we’ll be talking very directly about “Repentance” – Honest Repentance! To get there, we’ll take a look at the account of the prophet Jonah when God commanded him to go to the city of Ninevah, a city of great wickedness, darkness, and evil, and call them to repentance. Jonah wasn’t thrilled about it but, without giving too many spoilers, it is ama...

This Sunday we’ll be hearing about Abraham and the unthinkable command that God gave to him to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. As Abraham, by faith, trusted God and obeyed what He commanded him, God stopped Abraham from actually killing his son, this act of faith became the foundation from which faith is talked about throughout the rest of Scripture. How does that continue to speak into our lives y...

Throughout the season of Lent we’ll be thinking about Honest Repentance. On Sunday we’ll consider the chaos that life so often brings – chaos all around us as well as chaos within us. As part of our consideration, we’ll be looking at all the metaphors connected to water that we find throughout the Bible. God uses this to convey some powerful, helpful, and even healing truths. You can take advantag...

As we wrap up the Epiphany season with Transfiguration Sunday, we’re reminded in no uncertain terms that it’s always about Jesus. The Transfiguration event in Matthew 17 was all about Jesus – pointing to Him, the presence of Moses and Elijah giving clarity about Jesus and who He truly is, the glowing/shining and then the words of affirmation from the Father/the voice from the cloud, it’s all about...

The Scriptures for this Sunday are beautiful and powerful expressions of LIFE and what the Lord very clearly puts in front of us. He gives us choices and His ultimate desire is that we listen to Him, obey Him, and follow Him. As we continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, these choices are significant when it comes to what we shine and how we shine as children of God. Below are the Scripture re...

We continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, thinking about how we as God’s people are being looked upon as being more foolish every day. This is good because it’s a testimony that we represent the Light of Christ. We hold dear the message of the cross, the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which is life-giving and life-sustaining. If you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our livestream option on...

We continue our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, continuing to talk about darkness and light. But this Sunday we’ll be looking at these realities in the context of living in the Kingdom of God. Jesus had some things to say about Kingdom-living and they relate pretty directly to what we hear throughout God’s Word and some of the challenges we’re up against as Epiphanized children of God. January 29th...

Our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, continues as we hear in all three of our Scripture readings this week of the truth of how the Light is truly shining brightly all around us. As Epiphanized people of God, we’re reminded again of just how that same Light is shining in us and through us. Below are the Scripture readings if you want to take a look at them. January 22nd – The Second Sunday after the...

We are continuing our Epiphany series, Epiphanized!, as we look at what exactly that means. We’ll do that in light of the account of Jesus’ baptism (Matthew 3) and in light of our own baptism. It all starts with Jesus (as everything does!!) and continues to flow in and through us. It promises to be a Sunday of encouragement and hope for these days in which we’re living.

On Sunday we are celebrating the Epiphany of our Lord, a celebration of light (The Light!) shining into our world and into our hearts. There’s some serious darkness that we’re contending with these days so this Sunday’s time of worship, including the music, candles, God’s Word, and the sermon, are needed more than ever! It will be a powerful time together as we are reminded, equipped, and encourag...

We begin the New Year by talking about prayer. Prayer is such a rich gift of God’s grace and love to us. Jesus not only taught us how to pray but assures us that the “doors of heaven” are swung wide open because we have bold access to the Father through Christ. God is inviting us into a deeper, growing relationship with Him through prayer. God is interested in our prayers because He is interested...

And so we hear the Christmas Story from Luke 2 – a story far from a fairy tale but a story we hold to be true and filled with Truth and Hope and Life.

It’s Christmas and we’ll be talking about what you would expect – what Christmas is truly all about for us as we live lives in these ongoing crazy times.

Where do you look for guidance? There are lots of options in our world today. As followers of Jesus we know where we should go and where we should look. In this episode we’ll dig a bit deeper into why and how the guidance our Lord provides can make such a big difference in our lives. This is the third week of our Be Born in Us Today Advent series and we hope you can join us as we continue to prepa...