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, to try and speak against your very nature? HOW? How? Look at the disciples, they don’t get how to do it. In fact they don’t […]
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 our understanding of what it is all about. Well, this morning I want to share with you another aspect of what the feeding of the […]
Phillip, the Eunach, and Greece
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
As many of you know, Emily and I were gone last week at the Association of International Churches in Europe and the Middle East pastors and spouse conference. The AICEME is comprised of English speaking churches in cities from Oslo to Cairo, and from London to Moscow, including Paris, Zurich, Stockholm, Berlin, Vienna and many […]
God calls us to be Under Shepherds
Sharon Hermanson
This is Good Shepherd Sunday. The Fourth Sunday after Easter. The church year is in 3-year cycles for the Scripture liturgically, yet we read a part of this chapter in John’s Gospel every year. It is seen to be that important in our Christian lives. Our sermon hymn today begins, The Lord is my Shepherd. […]
Silver and Gold, I do not have
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Peter and John were walking through the temple gate called ‘Beautiful’ one day, when a man lame from birth called out to them for a gift of money. This man sat each day at the temple gate begging. That is how he survived. He was a fixture there, everyone who regularly used the ‘Beautiful’ gate […]
Jeremiah 31
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
The reading this morning from Jeremiah is one in which Jeremiah is speaking on behalf of God to the people of Judah who have been taken into captivity in Babylon. Through Jeremiah, God is promising to his people a new day, a day that will dawn for them at some time in the future. It […]
Follow Me; Not the World’s Leaders
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Up until this point I have refrained from speaking in specifics about the words or actions of Donald Trump, but this week I need to speak up as a Christian, and as a pastor, for Trump’s comments this past week went beyond even his normal lack of decency. They moved beyond politics into the realm […]
God`s Peace
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Have you ever seen those bumper stickers that say, “Envision World Peace?” Or have you heard the phrase, “Peace in our time?” These sayings, “Envision World Peace,” “Peace in our time” and “Peace now” declare the utopian hopes, even dreams of many people. But you know, I think the idea of world-wide peace is preposterous. […]