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Immanuel Lutheran Church is Grounded in Christ, Guided by Grace and Growing to Serve our Joplin, Missouri community since 1897. Our pastor is Rev. Chris Ramstad.
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Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 27, 2026 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Lutheran Church Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 27, 2026 On the Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 27, the readings asked an ordinary question. Does the work I do actually matter? Paul asks it in a letter to the church at Philippi. Jesus asks it in a short story about two sons and a vineyard. Pastor Christopher Ramstad preached on how Paul answers it. “I did not run in vain or labor in vain.” God doesn’t need your good works, but your neighbor does — Eighteenth S
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 20, 2026 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Lutheran Church Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 20, 2026 The Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost fell on September 20. Out in the narthex (the lobby) before the 8:00 service, Pastor Christopher Ramstad asked a group of people whether anyone was looking for work. He said he needed laborers for the vineyard. Nobody volunteered. That question ran through the whole morning. Pastor Christopher Ramstad as Izzy of Parable Town — Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost at Immanuel Luth
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 13, 2026 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Lutheran Church Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost — September 13, 2026 The Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost fell on September 13, and when people opened their bulletins they found the hymn spaces empty. The boards at the front of the nave were blank too. That was on purpose. We held a hymn sing, which means the congregation picked every hymn from the pew, out loud, while the rest of us waited to see what we were about to sing. Pastor Christopher Ramstad set one rule from the front. Anyth
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost — August 16, 2026 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Lutheran Church Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost — August 16, 2026 The Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost brought the people of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, Missouri to one of the most uncomfortable sentences in the Gospels. A desperate mother begs Jesus for mercy, and He calls her a dog. Pastor Christopher Ramstad refused to soften it — and showed the congregation why the woman’s answer, “Yes, Lord,” is one of the great confessions of faith in all of Scripture. Twelfth Sunday after Pe
Tenth Sunday after Pentecost — August 2, 2026 (opens the original)
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Immanuel Lutheran Church Tenth Sunday after Pentecost — August 2, 2026 On the Tenth Sunday after Pentecost, the people of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Joplin, Missouri gathered around Word and Sacrament to hear about a Savior who wanted to get away — and who fed a hillside instead. Pastor Christopher Ramstad preached the Holy Gospel from Matthew 14, the feeding of the five thousand, and from the children’s message all the way to the Lord’s Table the whole morning circled four simple verbs: He too
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