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

8-2-2026 “Hope in the Kingdom of Heaven” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

August 3, 2026 • 23 mins
Today’s Gospel in Matthew 13 is Jesus telling a series of very short parables in quick succession – all of them about the Kingdom of Heaven. What do we learn about hope from what He shares with us? We’ll couple those short parables with the Old Testament reading and one of many beautiful images the Lord gives to us in His Word about what eternity with Him is going to be like. Hope? Absolutely!

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7-26-2026 “Hope Through What We Cannot Understand” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

July 27, 2026 • 25 mins
Romans 8:28 is one of those well-known and oft-quoted passages of Scripture. It is a passage that is filled with hope! The verses that follow build on those promises and give reason for our hope to grow and flourish – because of the love we know in Jesus. It’s a love that no one can take away. It’s a love that fills us with hope! I might also relate this to Solomon’s request of God for wisdom – instead...
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7-19-2026 “Hope in the Unseen” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

July 20, 2026 • 24 mins
In Romans 8, Paul speaks about the tension between the flesh and the Spirit. We hear confident promises that we ARE God’s children! He expresses how even creation itself is groaning, awaiting redemption and Christ’s return. He ends this section by speaking about hope – we can’t see it, but we know it is real, it’s a promise. In Jesus’ parable of the weeds, we get a sense of what St. Paul was writ...
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7-12-2026 “Hope in God’s Word” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

July 13, 2026 • 22 mins
The analogy that Isaiah spoke of connecting the rain and the snow with God’s Word is picked up by Jesus in the well-known parable of the sower and the seeds. We’ll look at both of those reading this day and be reminded of the power that comes to us in God’s Word – and the hope we find in it.

Old Testament: Isaiah 55:10-13 
Epistle: Romans 8:1-11 
Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 
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7-5-2026 “The Devil Made Me Do It!” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

July 6, 2026 • 22 mins
St. Paul expresses a frustration that we all feel – we want to do good, we want to do better, we want to be better. But it just seems like we keep falling in the same hole over and over and over again. We’ll explore that frustration (and reality) that is very much part of our lives. Where can we find hope in spite of what we experience with this frustration with sin and my sinful actions? In the throes of our struggles,...
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6-28-2026 “Hope Through Baptism” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

June 29, 2026 • 22 mins
With two baptisms on this day, the profound way that Paul instructs us regarding baptism brings hope – the life-giving connection our baptism makes directly to Jesus and His death and resurrection. How does He do it? We’ll dig deeply into these amazing words and promises from our Lord here in Romans 6.

Old Testament: Psalm 89:1-4 
Epistle: Romans 6:1b-11 
Gospel: Matthew 10:40-42 
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6-21-2026 “From Suffering to Hope?” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

June 22, 2026 • 22 mins
In Romans 5 St. Paul speaks clearly of the unusual place from where our hope originates – from suffering! It’s surprising and unexpected, even unbelievable, from a human vantage point. But this is the way our Lord works and how He chooses to bring hope into our lives – even in the most unusual of circumstances with outcomes we could never foresee. Psalm 86 urges us to come to the Lord in those times of suffering a...
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6-14-2026 “He’ll Take Anyone!” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

June 15, 2026 • 24 mins
The Gospel reading is the short account of Jesus calling Matthew to come and follow Him and be one of His disciples. Many looking on would likely question Jesus’ decision in a significant way – “Don’t you know who this man really is? Why would you select Him as one of Your disciples?!” The hope this brings to us is to understand how our Lord chooses to work – and those in whom He chooses to work....
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6-7-2026 "Faith that Brings Hope" by Pastor Glen Schlecht

June 8, 2026 • 36 secs
We begin this series on hope with the “father of hope,” Abraham, focusing on God’s call to Abram that we hear in Genesis 12, and the accompanying promises God poured out on Abram. We’ll lean heavily on Romans 4 as St. Paul expounds on the significance of what God was doing through Abraham. The promise, as it came to Abraham and as it comes to us, comes by grace through faith in God’s promise – an...
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5-31-2026 “Keep Running with Perseverance” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

June 1, 2026 • 30 mins
Keeping Immanuel’s Mission and Vision in mind, on this Trinity Sunday, we offer our thanks and praise to our wonderful, mysterious, powerful Triune God, who is right here in our midst, who has blessed us with this marvelous creation, and has promised to be with us always – no matter what! On this Commitment Sunday, we make our commitments, not just financially toward the campaign, but spiritually as well – as foll...
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5-24-2026 “Eyes Fixed on Jesus” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

May 26, 2026 • 23 mins
Pentecost Sunday is all about the Holy Spirit – His dramatic coming on Jesus’ disciples 50 days after Jesus rose from the dead as well as His ongoing coming into our hearts and lives still today through Word and Sacrament. We aren’t able to Run with Perseverance or “fix our eyes on Jesus” on our own—we need the Spirit’s power in our lives! With His help we can run, and we can run with our e...
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5-17-2026 “Run Together” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

May 18, 2026 • 25 mins
We’re not in this on our own. Immanuel’s Mission and Vision are both intended to be carried out by all of us – in our individual lives, but more importantly in our life together as God’s people in this place and time. Hebrews 12 speaks of that great cloud of witnesses that we will think more deeply about because our working and serving and following Jesus “together” is far more than just the peop...
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5-10-2026 “Run with Perseverance” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

May 11, 2026 • 22 mins
Perseverance is key for us as followers of Jesus. Life isn’t always going to be easy or fun, new or flashy. Our life of following Jesus can be pretty challenging from multiple angles. We’re reminded in 1 Peter 3 that we always have to be prepared to give an answer to the hope that lies within us. We don’t know when that moment may come – with words or actions. We need to keep persevering – with our eye...
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5-3-2026 “Joy in the Journey” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

May 4, 2026 • 24 mins
All three readings will come into play again this Sunday with many reminders of the joy the Lord brings to us in this journey we are on with Him. There will be three youth who will confirm their faith on this Sunday and all these readings speak directly to them as well as to us. The Gospel reminds us that Jesus is the Way, Truth, and Life, and no one comes to the Father but through Him. His urging to trust in Him and to not be trou...
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4-26-2026 “A Joy-FULL Life” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

April 27, 2026 • 27 mins
Jesus speaks about the imagery of sheep and shepherds. Where does joy come from? It comes in knowing our Shepherd, listening to His voice, trusting Him, and following Him. In the Acts reading, we’re reminded of the joy that comes as we live this life together in community, living life around the basics of what God has both asked of us and what He provides. And Peter, in the Epistle, expresses clearly not only who Jesus is but...
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4-19-2026 “Joy in the Ordinary and the Extraordinary” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

April 20, 2026 • 28 mins
In each of the readings for this Sunday, we hear of the means of grace – God using ordinary elements (water, words, bread, and wine) to accomplish the extraordinary. Acts 2 speaks of baptism; 1 Peter, the “living and enduring Word of God”; and in Luke 24, Jesus reveals Himself by way of the Lord’s Supper and breaking bread. This will be a perfect Sunday to celebrate these ordinary, yet extraordinary, gifts t...
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4-12-2026 “An Inexpressible and Glorious Joy" by Pastor Glen Schlecht

April 13, 2026 • 26 mins
The first letter Peter wrote to his fellow believers was written in the face of extreme persecution. There is, humanly speaking, an irony for Peter to begin this letter with these words of praise and thanks to God – these people were suffering and going through unspeakable horrors because of their faith in Jesus. But that is the point of this journey we are on. It will never be devoid of challenges, difficulties, doubts, or f...
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4-5-2026 “The Journey from Wilderness to Joy” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

April 7, 2026 • 24 mins
Multiple times around Jesus’ resurrection, we hear the words, “Don’t be afraid!” Why? Because this journey we are on takes us from the wilderness into the joy the Lord has brought to us by His Easter victory. The women who had come to prepare Jesus’ body properly for burial, after seeing Jesus, express what real life is for all of us. We’re told that they were “afraid yet filled with joy.&r...
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3-29-2026 “A Surprising Journey” by Pastor Glen Schlecht

March 30, 2026 • 23 mins
Holy Week is finally here. This is arguably the most moving week for us as followers of Jesus. It’s a week that changed the course of history. It’s a week that defines us, inspires us, and gives us life as we hear, observe, and celebrate everything Jesus accomplished on our behalf to bring hope, love, and life back to us and our world. As we continue our Worship in the Wilderness series, we’ll look at this part of...
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3-22-2026 “A Truth-Speaking Journey” by Pastor Kent Schnegelberger

March 23, 2026 • 20 mins
We continue with our Lent series, Worship in the Wilderness, thinking about the wilderness and about this journey we are on with our Lord together. This week we’re going to focus on the need to speak Truth in our increasingly secular society. We live in a wilderness, of that there is no doubt. And there are more and more voices claiming truth. How do we discern? Where do we look for real Truth? Come join together in worship o...
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