Jesus heals the crippled woman on the Sabbath
Amsel Flood
From when my youngest daughter was still little, we noticed that she had a particular interest for colors and color effects in the nature. She often expressed her fascination for distinct phenomena on the sky, in the woods, mountains and so forth. She quite often interrupted us from whatever we were doing to ask us […]
Last Sermon
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
What do you say as you end your time in a congregation, in a community? How do you sum up four years of ministry to, and with a community such as the ALC? These are the questions that have been rumbling around in my brain for the past days. How do I adequately sum up […]
Transfiguration Sunday
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Too often when I read the Bible I can get all caught up in the theological implications of what is being said or done, that I forget that the people of whom I am reading were real people. I forget to look at what their emotions or thoughts might have been in the midst of […]
Water into wine
A couple of years, during Lent, at one of the soup suppers we host here on Wednesday evenings we ran out of soup. Two people had volunteered to bring pots of soup, which they did, but that evening the prepared soups were in smaller pots. That, combined with a greater amount of people attending resulted […]
Cycles
Fundi Kayamba Phiri
As I was preparing for today, I started to think of how important the last sermon of the year is for me. See where I come from, for most Christians, the 31stof December is a day you go to church and leave having entered the New Year. It is a time of joy, celebration of […]
Christmas Day
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Welcome everyone and I wish you all a merry Christmas! This morning we gather together in the midst of beautiful greenery and poinsettias, are bathed in the glow of lighted candles and inspired by melodious music. We look around and see families gathered together. We see friends wishing one another a merry Christmas. This morning […]
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 good joke. In Mark’s gospel this morning Jesus speaks a hard truth to the Pharisees, as well as his other listeners. To the Pharisees for […]
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 to Reinheim National Park, South of Åndalsnes. We hiked first to the hytta of Pyttbua, spent the night and then the next day hiked over […]
The blessing and the burden of eating
Fundi Kayamba Phiri
The story of the Israelites in the book of Exodus is one referred to many times, but is nonetheless an important one, that reflects the relationship between God and his people, whether on a personal level or God’s people as a collective. In the scripture that we just read, we see the Israelites receive the […]
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’ being diagnosed with illnesses, visited parishioners in the hospital, talked with family members who are embarking on the hard journeys of fighting disease, and while […]
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