Pastor Rob's Sermons

January 16, 2022 What is your jug?  That is, what is the simple task to which Christ has called you? In a world that tells us that we are...

Baptism of our Lord January 9, 2022 TMD stands for “Therapeutic Moralistic Deism.”   This mouthful, as it turns out, is the...

Celebration of Epiphany (Magi) January 2, 2022 When Pastor Rob first lived in Germany, he wanted something to bring him comfort and...

Christmas Eve 2021 I love me a crowded nativity!  A reflection about Christmas and making room; for in Jesus Christ, God making room for...

Advent 4, 2021 December 19, 2021 Truth and Peace often don’t seem to coincide.  We seem to have to sacrifice one for the other.  A...

Advent 3 December 12, 2021 “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree” so they say.  In this sermon, Pastor Rob reflects...

Advent 2 (2021) December 5, 2021 Luke’s Gospel, including the stories leading up to Jesus’ birth, are filled with miracles. ...

Advent 1 2021 November 28, 2021 Names, names and more names!  This Advent (the weeks leading up to Christmas), we will focus on the names...

Christ the King Sunday November 21, 2021 “What is truth”?  This is the cynical question asked by Pilate as he sentences Jesus...

November 14, 2021 We are in the midst of the “Great Resignation” as people quit their jobs in record numbers.  The pandemic...

All Saints Sunday, 2021 In many families recipes are passed on from generation to generation.  These recipes are so meaningful, especially...

Reformation Sunday (Oct 31), 2021 Today is not only Reformation Sunday, but also the Sunday in which we confirm youth in our church.  The...

October 24, 2021 Jesus asks a simple question to the blind beggar, Bartimaeus (Mark 10:46-52):  What do you want? It turns out, this is a...

Deacon Emily continues her “On the Way” children’s sermon series, even though we’ve moved inside.  Here is the...

October 17, 2021 We all know of the fault lines in California.  But here in Lititz, we exist on a political fault line, a community that...

October 10, 2021 In life we move from dependent (on our parents, etc) to independent.  Yet the deeper move is from independent to...

September 26, 2021 Jesus speaks of a dark place of suffering:  Gehenna.  This word is sometimes translated as hell, but it means...

September 19, 2021 Breaking News–There is always breaking news! What do we as Christians do with the constant news feed of world...

September 12, 2021 The images and recollection of Sept 11 brought to our mind many images of sacrifice, courage and even the cross. ...

September 5, 2021 Jesus puts his spit in the man’s eyes!  (Mark 8:22-26) What kind of God is this, one who gets down and dirty to...

August 29, 2021 It is easy to be angry with what happens in the world.  But it is also easy to get sucked in, because there are people who...