Sermons Archive
Are you searching for worship services and sermons with substance? Are you wanting to hear God’s Truth from the Bible? Are you longing to find some Good News that brings hope?
Look through our Services and Sermons Archive, and discover preaching from our pastor, Rev. Chris Ramstad, as the Good News is boldly proclaimed from God’s Holy Word. Hear about God’s Law, that guides our lives and shows us how we all fall short. Listen to the Gospel, which shows us how our God has brought us forgiveness, life, and hope through His Son Jesus Christ. Who is Jesus?
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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…
Love Service Sacrifice | Sermon for February 16, 2020
Sermon for the Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany Rev. Gregory Mech | February 16, 2020 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO In the end, true sacrifice breeds real love. Love is service, and there’s no finer example of it than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Pastor Mech, from today’s sermon Divine Service, Setting Three Hymn With the Lord Begin Your Task Hymn 869 Invocation, Confession and Absolution Introit Psalm 98:2, 7-9 The…
Something Better Someone Better | Sermon for December 8, 2019
Sermon for the Second Sunday in Advent Rev. Gregory Mech | December 8, 2019 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO The worst that humanity can do will not overcome the promise that God has given. Pastor Mech, from today’s sermon Divine Service, Setting Four ♫ HYMN OF INVOCATION Hark the Glad Sound Hymn 349 INVOCATION, CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION page 203 INTROIT In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; Make straight…
Come Not In Terrors | Sermon for Pentecost 23
Sermon for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost Rev. Gregory Mech | November 17, 2019 | Sunday Morning | 8:00 am | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO Opening Hymn We Praise You, O God Hymn 785 Invocation, Confession and Absolution Psalm 98; antiphon Luke 21:33 Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. Oh sing to the Lord a new song, for he has done marvelous things! His right hand and his holy arm have…
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…
A God Who Hungers
Sermon for Ash Wednesday Rev. Gregory Mech | March 6, 2019 | Wednesday Lenten Service | 4:00 pm | Immanuel Lutheran Church – Joplin, MO A God Who Hungers “Behold the man!” was Pontius Pilate’s short, yet most profound, sermon. Our endeavor this Lententide and Easter Sunday is to behold the man, God in human flesh, Jesus. Each time together, we are meditating on and proclaiming His real, bodily suffering and death as well as His physical resurrection. He knew…