Sing! Play! Summer! – Hymn of Promise / In the Garden
Text: Isaiah 46:8-13 I’m just going to say it out loud… these have been some difficult weeks we have shared together: The loss and grief…
Ordinary Time
Sing! Play! Summer! – Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty
Text: Isaiah 6:1-8 “We keep a troubled vigil at the bedside of the world,” writes Howard Thurman, “Thus we clutch the moment of intimacy in…
Sing! Play! Summer! – Amazing Grace
Text: Luke 15 I have a fantastic sense of direction. If you drop me in a new place with a map, I can easily get…
Sing! Play! Summer! – The Old Rugged Cross
Text: 1 Corinthians 1:18-29 A young rabbi found a serious problem in his new congregation. During the Friday service, half the congregation stood for the…
Sing! Play! Summer! – Chainbreaker
Text: Isaiah 58:6-9, Psalm 107:10-16 For the first 20 or so years of my life, I understood salvation as one concrete idea: that Jesus died…
Sing! Play! Summer! – Here I Am, Lord
Text: 1 Samuel 3: 1-11 Earlier this spring, we invited everyone at Immanuel to share with us some of your favorite hymns and songs. And…
General Conference Reflections #gc2019
I knew that whatever decisions we made or didn’t make during this past week in our General Conference that this Transfiguration text would be appropriate…
Mystery: Restored!
Text: Job 42:1-6, 10-17 This morning, I want to tell you a story about little Henry. Henry walked to school every morning with his grandpa….