Sermons by Rev. Robin Jacobson
Jacob & God’s Holy Creation
to simply bearing witness to the holiness of all of what actually is!
Kingdom Economy
We’re talking God’s economy here.
Wheat & Weeds
“Why is ‘evil’ allowed to exist?”
The Sower, The Seed, The Earth
What is our role? How aware are you of the influence your life is having there where you are?
Veronica – Towards the Restoring of a True Image of God, of Jesus, of Self
Three questions to ask ourselves.
Gift Of Grief: Lamentation
We dare not try embracing that future hope without respecting and expressing our sadness at what is lost.
This is Life!
What do you allow to define you, to drive you? Who or what does your life serve?
Jesus Saves!
OUR SALVATION is about us being saved from the dark, worst effects of our smallest, false selves.
Great Commission – Trinity Sunday
‘The Great Commission’ is about Jesus telling us NOT to be silent! We have our instructions: May God’s smiling on us be the result of our good and faithful response to all of what Christ instructed those 1000s of years ago, and what he still so clearly instructs today – that our lives come to model all of the loving justice, compassion and healing hope that Our Trinity God intends, the Redeeming Christ has secured, and the Empowering Holy Spirit has sealed for us all.
Pentecost
Our primary identity is that we are MADE in God’s image!
Jesus’ Ascension
It’s about our being given a whole new appreciation of life NOW.
Holy Spirit as Advocate
Focussing on today is just one clear and undistorted image of what scripture describes God the Holy Spirit as doing: ADVOCACY.
Jesus Christ as the Way, Truth & Life
How are we seeing the way of Christ as revealing God’s character in the world today?
Hearing the Shepherd’s Voice
The voices that we choose to listen to, and to follow.
Emmaus Walk
This invitation is a real thing!
Jesus’ Appearance To Disciples
The way of living & believing revealed to us by the risen Jesus Christ is quite impossible to achieve in and on our own.
Easter Sunday
Reclaim with me a curiosity at what the dying and rising Jesus is doing within each one of us.
A Time of Waiting
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and then the waiting of Saturday.
The Triumphal Entry!
Who are you in this Palm Sunday narrative?
The Valley of Dry Bones
Our truest selves – are being woken up!
The Lord is my Shepherd
Robin Jacobson brings Trinity United worship to your home.
Water From The Rock
So many people and situations that may seem solid and together but who are actually just crying out for life-giving water to be released from within them!
From Whence Cometh My Help?
When we cry out for help, from where do we hope our help may come?
The Temptation of Christ
Summary Today’s passage (Matthew 4:1-11) reveals for us both the nature of temptation and the wiles of how we are led into temptation. Temptation draws from what we know – in Christ’s case it was his own authority as well as his deep knowledge of scripture – but then twists those things in our minds towards some toxic, nefarious end for which they were certainly not intended. There’s the Tempter’s straw man argument of ‘…if you are…then…’ To which Christ’s…
The Transfiguration
Christ’s transfiguration is presented as God’s endorsement of who Jesus is
Transcendence
We are invited to “chew” on the difficult text.
Salt, Light, Law!
Following Christ is meant to be what makes life worth living
Food for the Hungry
What is the food Christ longs for you to be eating?