Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Emmanuel Lutheran Church

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Emmanuel Lutheran Church episodes

  • Jesus is our Good Samaritan
    The Law cannot help us or give us life. Rather, it confines everyone
    under sin as wounded and naked before God (Gal. 3:15-22). So it is
    that two figures of the Law, the priest and the Levite, passed by the
    injured man on the side of the road (Luke 10:23-37). Only the
    promised Seed of Abraham can rescue us and make us righteous
    before God. Only the Samaritan, our Lord Jesus, had compassion, as
    did the Samaritans of old (2 Chronicles 28:8-15). He came down to
    us in our lost and dying condition, pouring on the oil and wine of the
    Sacraments. He placed us on His own animal, bearing our sin and
    brokenness in His body on the cross to restore us. Jesus brought us to
    the inn, that is, the Church, and gave the innkeeper two denarii, that
    His double forgiveness might continue to be ministered to us. In this
    way the Lord, by whose Law we are torn and stricken, heals us and
    revives us by His Gospel and raises us up with Himself. LCMS Lectionary
    32 min
  • Faith Comes from Hearing
    A man who was deaf and theretore also had an impediment in his
    speech was brought to Jesus (Mark 7:31-37). In the same way, all are
    ov nature deat toward God and theretore also unable to contess the faith
    rightly. for faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of
    Christ (Rom. 10:9-17). Jesus put His fingers into the man's ears, and
    Af spar and touched mis
    tongue. Even sO IN Holy baptism, wate
    sanctified b the words of Jesus mouth is applied to us; and the tinger
    Of God, that IS, the life-giving Holy Spirit (< (or. 5:4-11) IS put into our
    ears in the hearing of the baptismal Gospel. Jesus' sighing "Ephphatha
    opened the mans ears, and his tongue was loosed to speak plainly a:
    Isaiah Drophesied of the Messiah. "In that dav the deaf shall hear the
    words of a book (IS. 29:18-24) S0 alsO, He who sighed and breathed
    His last on the cross for us has given us to hear and believe in Him and
    has opened our lips that our mouths may declare His praise.
    21 min
  • Jesus Calls forth Life from Death
    Jesus Calls forth Life from Death
    A large funeral procession carrying the only son of a widow is confronted
    by another large procession, Jesus and His followers. Death and Life meet
    face to face a the gate of the city (Luke 7:11-17): Filled with compassion,
    Jesus comes into direct contact with our mortality in order to overcome
    it. He touches the coffin and speaks His creative words of life,
    "Young
    man, I say to you, arise."
    » Jesus does what is neither expected nor
    requested. For through Christ, God the Father
    "is able to do far more
    abundamily than all we ask or think" (Eph. 3:14-21). Jesus bore our death
    in His body that we may share in His resurrection. Even as Elijah
    stretched himself out three times over the Zarephath woman's son (2
    Kings 17:17-24), God stretched Himself out over us in the threefold
    application of His name in the baptismal water, breathing new and
    everlasting life into us.
    "To Him be glory in the church and in Christ
    Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen." LCMS Lectionary
    18 min

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Emmanuel is a member congregation of the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod. We unreservedly confess the Holy Scriptures to be the inspired and inerrant Word of God, and we hold fast to the Confessions of…