Lent 1
February 21, 2021
Pastor Rob reflects on Christ in the Wilderness (Mark 1:9-15). We are all in a wilderness right now, a time of brokenness; a time in which we hear the constant voice of the one who lies.
What is the work of Christ in times of wilderness to bring us healing? A sermon of hands, truths and angels.
Ash Wednesday
February 17, 2021
Do we truly need an Ash Wednesday this year? Haven’t we been stuck in lent? Haven’t we confronted our mortality enough in this past year?
Pastor Rob offers a reflection on how to approach death, given how frequently it has come around these days…
February 7, 2021
Fifth Sunday of Epiphany
Healing isn’t the same thing as getting rid of a disease. Healing is something more; it is about becoming whole again in mind, body and spirit.
Right now we are all looking to the vaccine as a place of healing. While it will protect against the disease and lead to many other changes, it in itself, cannot bring the healing that we need in our lives.
Pastor Rob reflects on both Jesus’ healing of Peter’s mother-in-law Mark (1:31-41) and God’s transformation of the exiles in Isaiah (40:21-31) as ways to understand God’s work of healing and wholeness in our lives and in our world.
This sermon concludes with an invitation to join St. Paul this Lent, as we journey to the cross, with Jesus, that we may be healed and made whole through his life and love.
January 31, 2021
4th Sunday of Epiphany
Mark 1:21-28 describes a series of events unlikely familiar to us: A person possessed by and the exorcised of an unclean spirit!
Pastor Rob reflects on how we might understand “unclean spirits” and the work of evil in our world today. One thing reflected on in the sermon is the Holocaust, certainly an example of “unclean spirits” dwelling in our world.
The sermon also reflects on how we can see Jesus at work, freeing people from unclean spirits. Pastor Rob takes up the question, what might an exorcism today look like?
