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
April 15, 2024 • 28 mins
In Luke 24, Jesus speaks about how everything needed to be fulfilled that was written about Him throughout the Old Testament – which speaks to how important it is for us to read and know God’s Word, both Old and New Testaments, and to see how all Scripture points us to Jesus. He then opened their minds to be able to understand the Scriptures. He continues to do that for us yet today and through faith and through God’s Word, as Jesu...
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April 8, 2024 • 34 mins
Continuing our celebration of Easter and Christ’s victory, we read in Acts 4 how the resurrection empowered the disciples to live selfless and giving lives. Gratitude, generosity, and love shown through their lives as they gave of themselves, their finances, and their resources to share Christ’s love and the power of the resurrection with others. It’s not about coercion but how the resurrection transforms our lives. Both the 1 John...
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April 1, 2024 • 26 mins
Focusing on the Gospel account from John regarding the resurrection, we are going to look more closely at the wide range of emotions that we see from the disciples, from His other followers, and even from Jesus Himself as we recognize that the Easter story isn’t just a “story,” but rather it is God conveying to us ever so clearly that He knows everything that’s going on in our lives, that He deeply cares for and about us, and that ...
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March 25, 2024 • 27 mins
This is Palm Sunday and the start of Holy Week! As we continue with our Lent focus on the psalms, we’ll be looking more closely at Psalm 118, a psalm that is filled with prophecy and very direct connections to Palm Sunday. We hope you can join us as we begin the amazing journey once again through the last week of Jesus’ life on earth and celebrate the love He showed to us through Holy Week.
As always, if you can’t be here in-person,...
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March 18, 2024 • 28 mins
Psalm 119 is essentially a devotional on the Word of God. The psalm gives us a powerful directive that speaks to both how we’re called to live our lives as God’s people as well as what God’s Word truly provides for us. Over and over the psalm writer points us straight back to God in His Word. I hope you can join me as we take a look at this small part of Psalm 119 together.
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March 11, 2024 • 27 mins
Psalm 107 was likely used in a liturgical sense with one of Israel’s annual religious festivals. It’s a psalm of praise to God for His unfailing love – a response for His hearing and answering the prayers of His people in need and of His saving actions. This psalm gets very real with regard to the troubles, the challenges, and the hardships we face, including being up against death itself. And these are the stories that we’re to be...
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March 4, 2024 • 25 mins
Psalm 19 is a beautiful psalm extolling the wonders of creation and the glory of God. God’s glory is reflected in creation and also in God’s Word. We are reminded through this psalm to not take for granted the beauty we see all around us. We’re also encouraged to take to heart the beauty and power of God and His Word. We hope you can join us as we take in Psalm 19 together!
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February 26, 2024 • 27 mins
Psalm 22 is another psalm written by King David. No other psalm is quoted more frequently in the New Testament than Psalm 22. This is a psalm that, more than almost any other, points directly to Jesus and His suffering on the cross on Good Friday. We’ll focus on some of those direct images tied to Jesus’ Passion and also ask what they mean for us. If you want honesty, this is a psalm where King David pours out his heart in a very p...
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February 20, 2024 • 25 mins
We continue our new Lent series which we began on Ash Wednesday, The Psalms: A Book of Honest Emotions, as we look more closely at a wide variety of psalms throughout the season of Lent. This Sunday we focus on Psalm 25. Psalm 25 is one of many psalms written by King David. This psalm was written as a psalm of trust, leaning into God’s mercy and His covenant of grace and love. It’s a prayer asking for guidance, wisdom, and directio...
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February 20, 2024 • 18 mins
Psalm 51 is a classic and well-known Psalm of David, written after Nathan had confronted King David following the king’s adultery (and more!) with Bathsheba. Many pieces of the Church’s liturgy have flowed out of this psalm with the power that it speaks to confession, forgiveness, and the possibilities with God of where a truly penitent and grace-filled life can lead.
Old Testament: Psalm 51:1-17
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Gosp...
Old Testament: Psalm 51:1-17
Epistle: 2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10
Gosp...
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February 12, 2024 • 30 mins
We wrap up the Epiphany season and our Called, Gathered, and Enlightened series with our observance of Jesus’ Transfiguration. However, I’m not going to focus as heavily on the Transfiguration event itself as I have in the past. As we’ve spent this season in St. Paul’s letters to the Corinthians, I’ll be focusing on 2 Corinthians reading for the day. Here, Paul again speaks to our times when it comes to the Gospel, the Light shinin...
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February 5, 2024 • 28 mins
We hear from St. Paul the mandate that flows out what we are called, gathered, and enlightened to do – to share the Gospel and “to win as many as possible.” There is some amazing freedom given here, as exemplified by Paul’s own life examples, when it comes to how important the mission is! Isaiah reminds us, with this well-known passage, exactly where the power to do what we do comes from – it is the Lord who will renew our strength...
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January 29, 2024 • 24 mins
St. Paul speaks right into our times once again this week – not only current times, but from the Enlightenment and Modernity with a jump to very recent times and the constant refrain we heard a couple years ago about trusting the science. Where does our trust lie? Is it in our knowledge or is it in love? Paul gives some great direction when it comes to how we live our lives, or, as he puts it, how we exercise our freedom. We’ll lea...
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January 22, 2024 • 26 mins
This Sunday will be a reminder to keep a loose grip on the things of this world. Why? Because “this world in its present form is passing away.” What does that mean for us as we are Called, Gathered, and Enlightened? St. Paul lays this out in just a few short verses which will give us opportunity to consider what Jesus has to say in the Gospel reading, that “the time has come... the kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the goo...
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January 16, 2024 • 26 mins
As we start our new Epiphany series, Called, Gathered, and Enlightened, we begin our 5 week journey through 1 Corinthians with some tough stuff – sexual immorality. The Lord through St. Paul is pretty direct as He speaks on this particular topic – and for good reason. I’ll dive into why that it and some direction and encouragement for all of us. I hope you can join me!
As always, if you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our...
As always, if you can’t be here in-person, take advantage of our...
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January 8, 2024 • 27 mins
Epiphany Sunday is always a celebration of light. We’ll hear the powerful promises and encouragement the Lord gives us through the prophet Isaiah in this week’s Old Testament reading. Isaiah also speaks to the reality of the darkness all around us and how we as God’s people are here to stand up and shine with the light of our Savior’s love to brighten this dark world. We hope you can join us for this service and celebration of Ligh...
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January 2, 2024 • 31 mins
On the cusp of a new calendar year, we’ll take time on this New Year’s Eve Sunday morning to reflect on 2023 and look with anticipation toward 2024. We’ll consider the reminder from Solomon in Ecclesiastes 3 about the many different times and seasons of life and the value that can be gleaned in the ups and the downs that we go through, clinging always to the promises of our Savior. We take the closing words of Scripture in Revelati...
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December 26, 2023 • 20 mins
Christmas Day is the opportunity to move beyond the wonderful sentimentality and to celebrate the power behind this miracle of Christmas. We hear those profound words from the opening of John’s Gospel in chapter 1, taking us back to the very beginning of creation and making clear for us God’s plan to save us, using images of light and darkness, thinking of Jesus as that “Word made flesh.”
December 25, 2023 (Christmas Day)
Old Testame...
December 25, 2023 (Christmas Day)
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December 26, 2023 • 26 mins
Rather than talk about Christmas in general or a specific piece of the Christmas story, this message simply walks us through Luke 2 and gives us the opportunity to soak in with a sense of wonder and awe, this miracle of God’s promise fulfilled. We encourage you to grab a Bible or pull up your Bible app and follow along as we step through this amazing part of God’s Story from Luke 2.
December 24, 2023 (Christmas Eve)
Old Testament: Is...
December 24, 2023 (Christmas Eve)
Old Testament: Is...
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December 26, 2023 • 25 mins
This message does NOT have a focus on Christmas. This Sunday was the Fourth Sunday in Advent as we wrap up our Advent series, The Bible: Our Book of Advent(s), focusing on the many advents or comings of Jesus. We’ll reflect on God’s promises for the Promised Land for the people of Israel and on our own promised inheritance of eternal life with our Savior in the new creation. What does “land” have to do with the promises of Jesus’ c...
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