Who ever wants to be first shall be last
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Jesus is a hard master to follow. He is! I mean, how do you follow someone who constantly is asking you to to try and live, to try and do, […]
Who do you say that I am
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
“But who do you say that I am?” Jesus asked this question of his disciples during his ministry. Yet, it is not a question that only those who shared his […]
A Wideness in God’s Mercy
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
This faith business, this following of Jesus can be hard. How is it that we walk as Christians when confronted with issues that divide and confuse? Well, we turn to […]
Hypocrisy, the Contamination of the Heart
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
This morning I am going to jump right in, ‘cause I cannot think of any cute stories about hypocrisy or people judging people, and I cannot even think of a […]
Ephesians 6
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Unlike most of his other letters, the Apostle Paul wrote Ephesians to the believers in the church in Ephesus to teach and encourage them in their daily lives as a […]
Live In Gods Wisdom
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
The Reverend Antti Lepisto was a wise man. I regarded Antti as my mentor, it was never formal, but for me as a pastor, he was the man whom I […]
The life to which we are called
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
This past week my family, along with my younger brother’s family did something very Norwegian, we went hiking in the mountains. A week ago yesterday we traveled by train North […]
Jesus, Justice, Jazz
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Today’s reading, the feeding of the 5,000, is a story that is so well known and remembered that sometimes it is hard to preach upon, because each of us have […]
He had compassion for them
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Over the last weeks, it seems that I have been confronted again and again with the reality of our human frailty, and physical mortality. I have had news of friends’ […]
Be Still and Know that I am God
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
When I was seven, my two brothers and I stayed with our Grandma for a few weeks while my parents were traveling in Finland, Sweden and the USSR. It was […]
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