Pastor Rob's Sermons

Transfiguration 2025 (March 2) Eat Less Fear; Behold More Glory We eat a LOT of fear in daily lives.  This works disease in our souls,...

February 23, 2025 “Love your enemies… Turn the other cheek.”  (Luke 6)    Does Jesus know how the world works? Turns...

February 9, 2025 Jesus calls Peter and his fellow fishermen to push out their boat a little and then cast their nets into the deep. In the...

February 2, 2025 Love is patient and love is kind. Yet the people want to throw Jesus off a cliff (Luke 4:18-30)!  Where is the love? ...

3 Epiphany (Sunday, January 26, 2025) Today we hear Jesus’ inauguration speech as he gives his first sermon (Luke 4:11-21).  In this...

January 19, 2025 Today St. Paul celebrates the confirmation of five adults.  (Confirmation is a public affirmation by a teen or adult of...

January 12, 2025 (Baptism of Jesus) Today we have a special event at St. Paul — the Baptism of five youth/older children. It gives us...

Christmas II/Epiphany (January 5, 2025) What are your resolutions, dreams and goals for 2025? Are they about your star rising or orienting...

Christmas Eve 2024 How do you measure time?  Luke’s Gospel offers us a number of ways By who is in power By months of pregnancy By...

Advent 4 (Dec 22, 2024) In countless Christmas movies, the plot remains the same:  Something has jeopardized Christmas.  If the...

Advent 3 (December 15, 2024) There are no “small” roles! When Elizabeth discovers that Mary is pregnant with Jesus, Elizabeth...

Advent 2 (Dec 8, 2024) Pastor Rob begins his sermon by admitting that he has an obsession with correctly loading the dishes.  It turns out...

Advent 1 (December 1, 2024) Did you know that Barbie was launched on March 9, 1959?  It turns out that the makers of the Barbie movie made...

Christ the King Sunday (Nov 24, 2024) The Love of Power or the Power of Love? The trial scene of Jesus before Pilate has two witnesses, one...

November 17, 2024 Often in life, the things we build fall apart.  Even big and glorious things — like the ancient temple in...

November 10, 2024 Jesus praises a poor widow for giving two small coins to the temple treasury.  In itself, this is a powerful story of...

All Saints Sunday 2024 (Nov 3) The sunflower on the maintenance road didn’t get the memo — it didn’t belong there and it...

October 27, 2027 (Reformation) “Jesus stood still.”  Days away from the election that would change everything in his life,...

October 20, 2024 Jesus offers us a freedom that at first seems like a strange freedom:  The freedom to serve others. We are inclined to...

October 13, 2024 “I am the rich Jesus is talking about???” When Jesus says, “It is easier for a camel to enter through...

October 6, 2024 “I believe, help my unbelief!” cries the father who has brought his sick son to Jesus (Mark 9:24). Like all who...