Sermons by Rev. Robin Jacobson
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!’
Advent Two – Peace
We embrace Peace.
Advent One: Christ, Our Hope!
Our hope is not just that ‘Christ comes one day’ so much as that we get to see/ own/ realize Christ’s presence as having come now, wherever we are!
Christ the King
This is the God who in Christ insists on washing our feet.
Looking Within
Jesus stressed how easy it is to be tempted/ lured into settling for so much less than what God intends
What Jesus Sees vs What We See
In today’s reading we find Jesus choosing to contrast the superficial gesturing of the effortlessly wealthy with the sacrificial giving of the most desperately poor.
Setting Lazarus Free
Even as we embrace our role as the saints that are called to unbind others, or at least to stop being the ones who are unhelpfully binding them into their too soon places of death.
Like Bartimaeus, wanting to see!
To what extent, like Bartimaeus on the side of that road, are you aware and just sick of being blinded by so much in your personal or community life-experience – distorting and darkening your vision?
Path of Descent
We don’t become any holier by puffing ourselves up!
Faith Entered / Experienced / ENGAGED (3 of 3)
As Christ-followers, surely we must know that we are called to notice and to live lives that are dedicated to embracing and reflecting God’s sacred reality
Faith Entered / EXPERIENCED / Engaged (2 of 3)
we look today at how we get to ‘experience’ what we believe?
Faith ENTERED / Experienced / Engaged (1 of 3)
For our faith to be real – more than just some unhelpful abstraction – some vague esoteric theory – it must impact our living in terms of both what we actually experience and then how we live.
Jesus As The Bread (5 of 5)
How do we get to eat this bread?
Jesus As The Bread (4 of 5)
Who can you think of that is really particularly hungry for that ‘Bread of Life’ right now, and how can you be useful as part of Jesus’ food to feed them…?
Jesus As The Bread (3 of 5)
in Jesus Christ, God ensures we understand God’s presence with us as being all very physical.
Jesus As The Bread (2 of 5)
…they felt free enough to offer it – just what they had – and quite miraculously it was enough!
Jesus As The Bread We Need (1/5)
Why this focus on Jesus and the disciples noticing hunger? What are we to take from this?
The Thorns In Our Side
How can we take up this call to action: live out our active hope?
Jesus’ Healing Presence
This week’s scripture reading is full, rich, and far too nuanced for us to do any kind of justice to it in just one sitting, but we can start, and do so curious to discover where it will lead us.
Facing Our Goliaths
We all do actually have everything we need to face and to overcome whatever giant Goliaths may be taunting us!
Crazy in God’s Beautiful World
This world of ours is wonderful, as Louis Armstrong sang it, filled with beautiful nature and with good people and with kindness and respect, and love, it truly is. But it’s also so desperately fraught