All Things Renewed
Text: Revelation 21:1-6, 21:22-22:5 Many of you know that I love to garden. Digging in the dirt is a spiritual practice for me. Pulling weeds…
Immanuel
Behind Closed Doors
Text: John 20:18-20 Almost every Easter, we focus on the tomb. We focus on the women. We spend all of our time and attention on…
An Altogether Joy
Text: Psalm 30:2-3, 5; 1 Thessalonians 5:12-24 One of tasks of preaching is to take a part a text, study it, let the Holy Spirit…
Grounded with our Ancestors
Text: Matthew 1:1-17 The very name of our church, Immanuel, means “God-with-us.” God is with us. Right here in this very time and place. Living,…
The Redemption of Scrooge: Facing the Yet to Come
Text: Romans 8:4b-17, Luke 4:18-19 There are a number of personality inventories out there, but one that has captured my imagination lately is the Enneagram….
God Moves In
“Before the creation of the world,” Ephesians tells us, God had a plan. Before you made plans to join us here in worship at Immanuel….
The Peaceable Kingdom
Since the end of September, we have had a guest at the Dawson house… a young female cat named Twiggy. Twiggy belongs to my brother…
Drop Kick Me, Jesus
Yesterday after the Iowa – Iowa State game, Chad Leistikow wrote that it was a game “neither team deserved to lose.” [1] You all know…