Sermons by Rev. Robin Jacobson

Healing Pathways

It’s a call for us to be living all our lives with honest and absolute gratitude and joyful praise.

Job ‘gets it!’

Zacchaeus, The Pure! Who have been some of those precious sycamore trees in your life, people who have allowed you to see the true character and nature and purpose of Jesus Christ.

the attitude / posture that we need to maintain in order best to engage with God

Do you pray?

How best are we to show our gratitude?

‘faith’ is the gift we’ve been given to grow this in us!

Directing all our efforts and energies towards discovering & celebrating just this one sacred goal – our unity – with God, with nature, with others, even ourselves.

What it seems most atheism struggles with is this idea of a God that is somehow outside of our reality …

Do you pray? How do you pray? What do you pray?

Christ and Christ alone who completes us, makes us one with God, and so brings us into an awareness of abiding within God’s tent, dwelling on God’s holy hill!

Who – currently – is my neighbour and to whom am I called to be a neighbour?

As Christ followers, that is the ‘wall-tearing-down’ unity we choose to define us! On this week of Canadian celebration, we pray that that truly may become our lived reality.

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!

This is us! By faith. By God’s action in Christ within us and all creation.

Fire illuminates, fire energizes, fire consumes.

they will know we are Christians by our love…

The Holy Spirit is God’s voice within us – guiding, teaching, nudging, reminding, and how we all SO need that voice…

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.

Our reading describes an interaction of Peter with a much loved, local woman, who had died.

God’s love for us and Christ’s working through us is – thankfully – not stopped by our willingness to deny him!

He comes to reassure, to breathe new life into us, to give us a future that we could never give ourselves.

Don’t you just love all the newness of life at Eastertime?

What has your faith reaction tended to be when what we have hoped for hasn’t happened just as we have prayed?

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.

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…

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.