Lenten Season (Page 3)
A Call To Return | Ash Wednesday | February 17, 2021
Worship Service for Ash Wednesday ***THE IN-PERSON SERVICE FOR TODAY IS CANCELED DUE TO WEATHER. WATCH OUR BROADCAST ONLINE INSTEAD.*** Rev. Gregory Mech | February 17, 2021 | Ash Wednesday | Midweek Lenten Worship Service | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE-ONLY TODAY – Joplin, Missouri Still Wearing Face Masks, Some Classes and On-Campus Activities Have Returned | In-Person Services and Holy Communion are back! Limited Seating. Learn more. Lent 2021 begins this week, February 17, with Ash Wednesday. Join us for…
God’s Eyes | Sermon for Good Friday April 10, 2020
Sermon for Good Friday Rev. Gregory Mech | Good Friday, April 10, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. Help keep Immanuel’s ministry going through the Coronavirus Outbreak. Give Online Today. Join us for Easter ONLINE at Immanuel! From Pastor Mech’s Good Friday Sermon entitled, “God’s Eyes”: We all crucified the Son of God by our sin. As we sang in the Lenten hymns: I caused Your grief and sighing…
More Than Meets The Eye | Sermon for Maundy Thursday April 9, 2020
Sermon for Holy Thursday Rev. Gregory Mech | Maundy Thursday, April 9, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. Help keep Immanuel’s ministry going through the Coronavirus Outbreak. Give Online Today. Join us for Easter ONLINE at Immanuel! Eyes on Jesus: More Than Meets The Eye This Lent, we have been using the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion.…
The Humble King | Sermon for Palm Sunday, April 5, 2020
Worship Service for the Triumphal Entry of Our Lord Rev. Gregory Mech | Sunday, April 5, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE – Joplin, MO | Today’s Sermon: “The Humble King” See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. We invite you to join us ONLINE for our Holy Week Broadcasts on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and again on Easter Sunday! “It is not my intention to ever pray in the name of a dead man. Every time I…
Worldly Eyes | Sermon for April 1, 2020
Sermon for Lent Midweek 5 Rev. Gregory Mech | April 1, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. Help keep Immanuel’s ministry going through the Coronavirus Outbreak. Give Online Today. Join us for Easter ONLINE at Immanuel! Eyes on Jesus: Worldly Eyes This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood…
Wanting to Be Anywhere But Here | Sermon for March 29, 2020
Worship Service for the Fifth Sunday in Lent Rev. Gregory Mech | Sunday, March 29, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. “Wherever you are on that long journey to resurrection, Jesus has come to be with you. He is the Resurrection and the Life — even in the midst of sorrow, filling our present-days with love, life and hope.” -Pastor Mech from today’s sermon, entitled “Wanting to Be…
Murderous Eyes | Sermon for March 25, 2020
Sermon for Lent Midweek 4 Rev. Gregory Mech | March 25, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. Help keep Immanuel’s ministry going through the Coronavirus Outbreak. Give Online Today. Eyes on Jesus: Murderous Eyes This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who He was and what He was…
In a Time of Social Distancing | Sermon for March 22, 2020
Worship Service for the Fourth Sunday in Lent Rev. Gregory Mech | Sunday, March 22, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church ONLINE – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. “When we are feeling disowned, depressed, deceitful, dishonest, devastated, disappointed… Jesus comes and touches us and sends us to the water, and says, ‘Fear not, I am with you. I never leave you or forsake you. I never will.’” —Pastor Mech from Today’s Sermon, “In a Time…
Denying Eyes | Sermon for March 18, 2020
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3 Rev. Gregory Mech | March 18, 2020 | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. Help keep Immanuel’s ministry going through the Coronavirus Outbreak. Give Online Today. Eyes on Jesus: Denying Eyes This Lent, we will use the metaphor of eyesight to examine how the various people in Mark’s Gospel viewed Jesus during His Passion. In most cases, they misunderstood who He was and what He was…
Clear Thinking and Decisive Action | Sermon for March 15, 2020
Sermon for the Third Sunday in Lent Rev. Gregory Mech | March 15, 2020 | Sunday Morning | 10:30 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO See how Immanuel is responding to Coronavirus. Click here. In response to growing concern over the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic, Pastor Mech clears our thinking and focuses our action with the same truth and assurances from God’s Word that Martin Luther shared during the bubonic plague in 1527. Let us cling to Christ during…
A God Exposed | Lent Midweek 3 Sermon
Sermon for Lent Midweek 3 Rev. Gregory Mech | March 27, 2019 | Wednesday Lenten Service | 4:00 pm | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO A God Exposed Before their sin, Adam and his wife were both naked and unashamed. Shame requires self-awareness that only sinners possess. Without sin, their eyes and thoughts didn’t descend to idolatrous navel-gazing. But as soon as they doubted God’s Word and disobeyed His commandment, as soon as they ate, their eyes were opened,…
A God Who Prays | Lent Midweek 1 Sermon
Sermon for Lent Midweek 1 Rev. Gregory Mech | March 13, 2019 | Wednesday Lenten Service | 4:00 pm | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO A God Who Prays The Second Commandment demands perfect prayer. But who does that? What human being never misuses the holy name of the triune God but ceaselessly prays, praises, and gives thanks to God in any time of need or blessing? Whose prayers are always sincere? Only one: Jesus. Why should Jesus have…