Grace, God’s Forgiveness sermon
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
While I was waiting to receive my first call in the months before I was ordained I worked in the St. Paul, Minnesota Public School system as a substitute schoolteacher. Those five months gave me a good taste of what that line of work is all about, and how so many of my friends and […]
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 […]
Transfiguration Sunday
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
One day almost twenty centuries ago, three men followed their loving and mystical teacher up a mountain in the countryside of Israel. As happened so many times in their discipleship and friendship with this rabbi, they did not know where they were going, or why up a mountain? Yet they followed willingly, for in their […]
Reformation Sunday
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
Today is Reformation Sunday, the Sunday of the year when we take the time to look back at history, and to get a glimpse of where we have come from as the church, both Protestant and Catholic. Yet I believe that it is also a time for us to take a look at where God […]
Seeing is Beleiving
Pastor Nestor Joel Rova-Hegener
How often have you heard someone say, or have you yourself used one of these following phrases. “I can’t believe it!” “Show me.” “I am standing here in utter disbelief at what I just witnessed.” “Prove it to me.” “I can’t believe my eyes!” You know the old saying, “Seeing is believing.” Well I think […]