Unity Lutheran Church + Cross of Life Campus15 March 2020 + Lent 3AJohn 4.5-42; Exodus 17.1-7Rev. Josh Evans, preaching This week at Unity, we live-streamed our Saturday liturgy at the Cross of Life Campus and our Sunday liturgy at the Christ the King Campus. The COL recording is linked here, and the gospel reading and …
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Unity Lutheran Church4 March 2020 + Midweek Lent 1Esther 7.1-6, 9-10; 9.20-22Rev. Josh Evans, preaching The story of Esther is a fascinating and complicated one. It’s not a story we get to hear very often, appearing only once in the entire three-year cycle of readings -- and even then only a few verses cobbled together, …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus14 April 2019 + Palm / Passion SundayLuke 22.14—23.56Rev. Josh Evans, preaching What would you do if you knew when you were going to die? Would you change your perception of time and how you spend it? Or even your perception of your money and possessions? Would you …
Unity Lutheran Church + Cross of Life Campus7 April 2019 + Fifth Sunday in LentJohn 12.1-8Rev. Josh Evans, preaching This is a tale of two women. First: She’s at this big party, a wedding feast to be exact. Everything’s going great, and everyone’s having a great time… until: They run out of wine. With an …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus24 March 2019 + Third Sunday in LentIsaiah 55.1-9Rev. Josh Evans, preaching So there we were: hiking through the Badlands National Park in South Dakota. This was one of many summer vacation trips my dad and I took when I was growing up. One year took us all …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus17 March 2019 + Second Sunday in LentLuke 13.31-35; Genesis 15.1-12, 17-18Rev. Josh Evans, preaching We trust in many things: Just this morning, all of us trusted in our cars — and the driving of those around us — to get us safely to church.I’m 100% not a …
Unity Lutheran Church13 March 2019 + Midweek Lent 1Ezekiel 36.24-28Rev. Josh Evans, preaching There is nothing quite so satisfying as that unusual but strangely familiar sensation of stepping outside, bundled up in your winter jacket, hat, and gloves… only to realize, all of a sudden: Huh, it’s actually not that cold today. I had that …
Unity Lutheran Church + Christ the King Campus6 March 2019 + Ash WednesdayJoel 2.1-2, 12-17; Matthew 6.1-6, 16-21Rev. Josh Evans, preaching I’ve long thought of Ash Wednesday as a “reset” button of sorts. Which is really just a new way of saying what this day has always been about. From the earliest days of this …
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Chicago 17 March 2018 + Lent 5B Jeremiah 31.31-34; John 12.20-33 Wakanda Forever! (Not to be confused with the Illinois suburb, Wauconda.) It’s the rallying cry of a remote African nation at the heart of the recent theatrical blockbuster Black Panther. Theirs is a civilization technologically advanced beyond that of any …
Augustana Chapel at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 5 March 2018 + Lent 3B John 2.13-22; Exodus 20.1-17 What does this mean? I can still hear those words as if I were hearing them in my childhood confirmation classroom. “What does this mean?” “We are to fear, love, and trust God above all …
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Pastor Josh Evans 