May 18, 2012

Immanuel Lutheran Church

616 Lake Street, Evanston, Illinois 60201

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Q: Why does your website change colors?

A: You will notice that our website changes colors with the liturgical seasons:

Advent - Blue is used for its references to hope.

Christmas - White/Gold is used, as a reference to the purity of the newborn Christ, and to our light and joy in him.

Lent - Purple is indicated, as the stark color of repentance and solemnity.

Holy Week - Scarlet is the color for Holy Week, as it suggests the deep color of blood.

Easter - White/Gold as the color of joy in the Resurrection.

Pentecost - Red as the color of fire is used when we remember the tongues of fire descended on the crowd in Jerusalem.

Other Sundays of the year use green to indicate our growth in faith as we follow the teachings and ministry of Christ.

Liturgy

God's Word, Christ's Sacraments

Service

God's work, our hands.

Worship

The people's work.

Fellowship

Christ in community.

Welcome to Immanuel!

We invite you to join us for worship and fellowship and to see if this might be the right congregation you. Our congregation is known for its warm hospitality to all visitors, as well as its rich liturgical and musical traditions and hands-on social ministry projects.

We believe that God comes to us in Jesus Christ through the preaching of the word of God and the administration of the sacraments of Christ. The Holy Spirit creates and enlivens faith through these outward means of grace. This faith is actualized in works of love for our neighbors near and far.

This Week at Immanuel...

Ascension Day May 17, 2012

Spoken Eucharist at 7:15 pm; Council meeting at 7:45 pm

Seventh Sunday of Easter, May 20, 2012

9:15-10:00 a.m. The Joy of Learning - Carol Krizman on Running a Marathon

9:15 a.m. Sunday School

Holy Communion at 10:30 a.m.

5:00 p.m. Confirmation Class

8:30 p.m. Compline

Sermon for May 13, 2012

Sixth Sunday of Easter. Year B. May 13, 2012

Text: John 15:9-17
Most of us know that the phrase caveat emptor means, "Let the buyer beware." The p...

"The Joy of Learning" May 20

This Sunday at 9:15 a.m. catch up with Carol Krizman, who will talk about about running marathons. Last month Carol finished the grueling Boston Ma...

7th Sunday of Easter

Service Music for May 20, 2012

We continue singing Setting One of the Communion liturgy in the Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) during the Eas...

"The Joy of Music" May 13, 2012

Not only is this coming Sunday Church Music Sunday, but we will have a delightful program of music before worship, our regular second-Sunday-of-the-...

Service Bulletin for Easter 6

Click here to see the bulletin for the Sunday, May 13, 2012 service.

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Sermon for May 6, 2012

5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER 2012

Jesus says, “I am the Vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from ...

6th Sunday of Easter

Service Music for May 13, 2012

It's Church Music Sunday at Immanuel! We will have two trumpets adding to our joyful noise. During the East...

Organ Recital May 6th 4pm

The 2012 Immanuel Church Music Outreach Endowment Organ Award recital will be Sunday, May 6 at 4:00 in the afternoon in our church's sanctuary. Thi...