Sermons by Rev. Robin Jacobson
Cost of Discipleship
It always costs us to be the one prepared to lose face by apologising first, make the first move, the first to blink, first to reach out, show we care, make the call!
A People Of Faith
This is us! By faith. By God’s action in Christ within us and all creation.
Pentecost
Fire illuminates, fire energizes, fire consumes.
That We May Be ONE !
they will know we are Christians by our love…
Holy Spirit Alongside
The Holy Spirit is God’s voice within us – guiding, teaching, nudging, reminding, and how we all SO need that voice…
Serving Christ ~ Outside the Lines
Outside the lines. This God that we like to say we so love and serve is huge and everywhere, waaaay beyond just the small & parochially approving thing we like to worship on our terms.
Reviving The Servant Spirit: The Raising of Tabitha
Our reading describes an interaction of Peter with a much loved, local woman, who had died.
Jesus and Peter – Feed My Sheep
God’s love for us and Christ’s working through us is – thankfully – not stopped by our willingness to deny him!
Risen & Revealed
He comes to reassure, to breathe new life into us, to give us a future that we could never give ourselves.
Easter Sunday
Don’t you just love all the newness of life at Eastertime?
Walking As A Fickle People
What has your faith reaction tended to be when what we have hoped for hasn’t happened just as we have prayed?
Walking Anointed …
anointing is always given to us as a physical device to re-establish our awareness of the spiritual reality of God’s deeper purposes and plan.
Walking In Spaciousness
Our initial faith response to Christ’s prompting may be for us to want to ‘clean up’ our acts: to become better people, to do better things…
Remembering … As A Covenanted People
we are to remember that we are God’s covenanted people. The point is not just to enjoy its fruit, but to produce that awareness in other covenanted people.
Temptation of Christ
A wrestling Jesus in this passage, represents a wrestling us. And a temptation-resisting Jesus represents us – perfected.
Transfiguration
Thank God for ‘Transfiguration’ moments like this one, glimpses we are given that, despite whatever is going on, do blow open our awareness to expose what is almost most real, all the time.
Living God’s Reality
The point is that Jesus’ teachings aren’t so much about some impossible ideal as about describing God’s only true way for us in the world, and in this text we find Jesus teaching something of what our living in this God-created reality actually looks like.
Delighting In The Law Of God
We listen to Psalm 1
Faith Becoming Real
Love it! Live it! ‘Be-lieve’ ‘Be-live!’ it!
Jesus Rejected!
leaving me with a renewed sense of hope! Hope. It reminds me of how Christ’s presence is never limited just to my very small and self-serving agendas.
Jesus Launches His (and our) Ministry
By declaring his mission Jesus is giving us our commissioning!!!
Wine From Water
Notice how instead of talking about Jesus turning water into wine, I guess what I’m suggesting here is that this miracle should be seen as Jesus drawing that wine out from the water.
Holy Spirit Baptism
How do we get to be filled with this empowering Holy Spirit of God?
Seeing Clearly Now
Epiphany.
Boxing Day
The First Sunday after Christmas.
Christmas Eve
Sing carols to welcome the new baby Jesus.
Advent Four – LOVE
we believe that birthing the LOVE of God within us and for others through us is still very real.
Advent Three – JOY
Biblical JOY which is so very much more than any transient or superficial experience of mere ‘happiness!’