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 […]
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 […]
Mustard Tree
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Here we are on June 17th, getting ready to have our church picnic. Though on the calendar, summer does not start for another four days, already it seems that we […]
Here are my mothers and brothers
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Throughout the gospels Jesus declares whom he is with a great variety of different statements, for instance he declares at various times, “I am the good shepherd. I am the […]
The Lord of the Sabbath
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Our two stories from Mark this morning are linked by a number of commonalities. What links them? Let’s start with what is the most obvious link between these two stories […]
I give a new commandment
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Just a few weeks ago we read other passages from this same section of John’s Gospel. For this section was a part of the Maundy Thursday reading. In fact the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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