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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…

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…

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…

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…

Over the past week, I’ve been working to get my garden prepped a bit for spring and to start some of the seeds that will…

In the beginning… Most years when we get to the season of Advent, we dive deep into the gospel texts. We want to hear…

This morning, our church choir shared some of the great hymns of the faith with our church in a cantata style celebration of music. Instead…

Everyone is gone for the day. The church is quiet and still. And here I sit, pouring over the words in the hymnal and songbooks….