Immanuel Lutheran Loveland

Immanuel Lutheran Loveland

This podcast is from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Loveland, CO. These weekly sermons/messages are based upon Biblical text and themes for personal spiritual formation and discipleship training. Gather through the common grace of technology with us when you're unable to join in person. New episodes are typically published on Mondays.

Episodes

September 29, 2025 28 mins
We live in a culture of abundance and a societal mindset of “More! More! More!” How do we combat that as Christians? Do we combat it? Should we combat it? Or is it OK to buy into this cultural cadence? St. Paul has a little bit to say about this near the end of his letter in 1 Timothy and what he shares is very counter-cultural and radical!

Old Testament Reading: Amos 6:1a, 4-7 
Epistle Reading: 1 Timothy 6:6-19 
Gospel Reading: Luke ...
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In the 1 Timothy reading, St. Paul expresses God’s ultimate will and desire – that ALL people be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. That sounds great on paper and in theory, but what happens when we really believe that God wants ALL people to be saved. Think about some of the people in your life, people we hear about on podcasts, people we read about in various new sources, people who are different from us, who believe dif...
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When it comes to discipleship, we talk about outreach or the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20) regularly. But to actually live it out can be a radical move when it comes to our discipleship. We’ll dig deeper into this from the story of the lost sheep that Jesus tells in Luke 15, which serves as a radical (read “crazy” and “bad”!) idea for a shepherd. How does it look for us to take our Lord’s mission of reaching others seriously?...
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During this service, Emma Hubble was commissioned and installed as Immanuel’s Director of Christian Education. Emma’s dad, Pastor Scott Giger, preached for this service on the Gospel reading from Luke 14 and the radical nature of how Jesus describes what it means to follow Him. There is definitely a cost that comes with following Jesus and is not easy! But here we are—Emma and the rest of us are hearing and heeding Jesus’ call to c...
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Old Testament: Proverbs 25:6-7
Epistle: Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16
Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14
Sermon Title: Unexpected Commands?

At the end of Hebrews, the writer to the Hebrews lays out many, many practical examples and encouragements of just how it is that can live out our faith. From general hospitality to marriage to our leaders, our faith plays a significant part of guiding us in the day-to-day of our lives. Are these unexpected commands ...
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Old Testament: Jeremiah 1:4-10
Epistle: Hebrews 12:18-29
Gospel: Luke 13:10-17
Sermon Title: An Unexpected Selection

The prophet Jeremiah had some good excuses as to why he wouldn’t be a good choice for God to use as His prophet. How the Lord counters Jeremiah’s pushback is powerful and pertinent – for Jeremiah and also for us! It was Jeremiah who thought he was an unexpected selection – but that wasn’t what God was thinking. How about...
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Old Testament: Isaiah 5:1-7
Epistle: Hebrews 11:29-12:2
Gospel: Luke 12:49-56
Sermon Title: An Unexpected Crowd

Last week we took the first half of the “Heroes of Faith” chapter in Hebrews 11, including the powerful definition of faith. This week we’re going to take the second half and the start of chapter 12, all of which tie together beautifully – and in quite an unexpected and mysterious way. We’ll talk more about this “great cloud ...
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Old Testament: Isaiah 1:1, 10-20
Epistle: Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16
Gospel: Luke 12:32-40
Sermon Title: Faith – with Unexpected Results

Hebrews 11 is the awesome “Heroes of Faith” chapter of the Bible. Reference is made to story after story of Old Testament heroes of faith. Rather than delving into one or two of these people, we’re going to take the big picture of the faith they had in the Promise and see how that compares to the faith we h...
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Old Testament: Ecclesiastes 1:2, 12-14; 2:18-23
Epistle: Colossians 3:1-11
Gospel: Luke 12:13-21
Sermon Title: Where’s Your Head? In Expected or Unexpected Places?

In his letter to the Colossians, St. Paul instructs us about where we are to set our minds – on things above and not on earthly things. Then in the Gospel reading in Luke 12, Jesus tells a very poignant story about greed and contentment, giving a very practical application t...
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Old Testament: Psalm 138
Epistle: Colossians 2:6-15
Gospel: Luke 11:1-13
Sermon Title: An Unexpected Gem

Prayer is an amazing gift the Lord has given to us. Many of us know the Lord’s Prayer and we can rattle it off without even thinking about it. But what would happen if we actually did think about it? That’s what we’ll explore on this Sunday, going deep into this precious, unexpected gem that Jesus gave to His disciples and to us.
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In the short account of sisters Mary and Martha in Luke 10, it appears on the surface to be a pretty open-and-shut case of who was right and who was wrong (or at least needing a little course correction). But is there more going on here than meets the eye?

Old Testament: Psalm 15 
Epistle: Colossians 1:15-29 
Gospel: Luke 10:38-42 
Sermon Title: Lazy or Listening? 

As always, if you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our live st...
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In Luke 10, we hear Jesus telling the story of the Good Samaritan. There is a surprise here that many of us are familiar with. But it’s also important for us hear the context of this story and what prompted Jesus to tell it and then how Jesus wrapped it up. This speaks to underlying questions people today live with when it comes to so much uncertainty in our world and in our lives.

Old Testament: Amos 7:7-17 
Epistle: Colossians 1:1-...
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From 2 Kings 5, we hear the account of a man named Naaman, the lead commander under the king of Aram. When Naaman is diagnosed with leprosy--a death sentence in those days--God uses some rather unlikely people to connect Naaman to not just the king of Israel but to the powerful prophet Elisha. The way Elisha brought healing to Naaman speaks to other very unexpected ways the Lord continues to work in our lives still today.

Old Testam...
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On this Sunday before our nation’s celebration of Independence Day, we hear St. Paul expounding on freedom in Galatians 5. What is real freedom? Where does it comes from? What’s the difference between what we’re celebrating on July 4th and what the Lord is offering to all who believe in Him? These are some of the questions we’ll explore.

Old Testament: 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14
Epistle: Galatians 5:1, 13-25
Gospel: Luke 9:51-62
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First Reading: Acts 1:1-11
Second Reading: Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21
Gospel: John 17:20-26
Sermon Title: “Come, Lord Jesus!" John's vision ends with a plea and an assurance that the Lord is coming soon. We again have to understand God's view of time in relation to His promises, the hope He holds out for us, and the victory which is ours now and will be ours yet to come. We again have more connections to Genesis and Old Testame...
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First Reading: Acts 11:1-18
Second Reading: Revelation 21:1-6
Gospel: Luke 24:13-27

Sermon Title: “A New Heaven and a New Earth”

Sermon Theme: The last two chapters of Revelation are packed, which is
why we’ll take the last three Sundays to look more closely at what is here.
Chapter 21 starts out with a bit of eschatology when we hear about “a new
heaven and a new earth.” That, coupled with the Lord’s statement from the
throne, “I am makin...
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