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Kandungan disediakan oleh Pastor Robert Myallis. Semua kandungan podcast termasuk episod, grafik dan perihalan podcast dimuat naik dan disediakan terus oleh Pastor Robert Myallis atau rakan kongsi platform podcast mereka. Jika anda percaya seseorang menggunakan karya berhak cipta anda tanpa kebenaran anda, anda boleh mengikuti proses yang digariskan di sini https://ms.player.fm/legal.
This website is based on: http://www.zionslutheranjonestownpa.com/Sermons. This provides a way to podcast the sermons.
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25 episod
Tandakan semua sebagai (belum) dimainkan
Manage series 1072099
Kandungan disediakan oleh Pastor Robert Myallis. Semua kandungan podcast termasuk episod, grafik dan perihalan podcast dimuat naik dan disediakan terus oleh Pastor Robert Myallis atau rakan kongsi platform podcast mereka. Jika anda percaya seseorang menggunakan karya berhak cipta anda tanpa kebenaran anda, anda boleh mengikuti proses yang digariskan di sini https://ms.player.fm/legal.
This website is based on: http://www.zionslutheranjonestownpa.com/Sermons. This provides a way to podcast the sermons.
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25 episod
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×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 same way, Jesus calls us. Sometimes this call is for something small; other times for something that seems riskier and harder. Peter laments this call of Jesus, saying that he is worn and the fish aren’t moving. Peter doesn’t believe this his actions will make a difference. In our lives and in our world today, we can also often feel like our actions will not make an impact. But we are not called to figure it all out. Instead, we are called to obey our call and let go of the results. This as it turns out…is also a challenge, not just for us, but for Jesus to take on.…
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? Pastor Rob offers that the people in Jesus’ hometown do have love, it is just misguided and blinding. We struggle with this today as well as our love can be misguided and blinding. Our love of one person or one group can block our loving another person or another group. As humans, we have a strong inclination to love “us” and not “them.” A reflection on Jesus’ patience and kindness toward our misguided love that finally breaks down the “us” and “them.”…
3 Epiphany (Sunday, January 26, 2025) Today we hear Jesus’ inauguration speech as he gives his first sermon (Luke 4:11-21). In this sermon, Jesus lays out the fundamental direction of his ministry: Uplifting the poor By…opening the eyes and hearts of the rich to share what they have so that… all may live in a “body” that loves God and loves neighbor It turns out this message was fundamentally different than the way the world worked 2,000 years ago. The message continues to be different from how our world works today. Then, and today, the culture’s moral foundation was a trinity of the self: self-expression, self-achievement and self-pleasure. Which brings us the image for the sermon – bubbles of potential college majors. Pastor Rob invites us to a different way to talk to young people about their futures, one that would be less pagan and more focused on Christ’s teachings.…
January 19, 2025 Today St. Paul celebrates the confirmation of five adults. (Confirmation is a public affirmation by a teen or adult of their baptism, which typically happened at a younger age). The story of Jesus turning water into wine at Cana (John 2:1-11) provides a framework for thinking through: What then are we confirming? We are confirming that God is a God who turns water into wine. We are confirming that we are not gods who can turn water into wine, but we can fill the cup to the brim, trusting that God in Jesus Christ will make water into wine, for God’s glory.…
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 an opportunity to reflect on the question — what do we want to pass along to the next generation about faith? What is most important to know about our Baptisms and our life as a disciple of Jesus? Pastor Rob offers three things You are loved Others are loved too …well, you will have to listen to find out 🙂…
Christmas II/Epiphany (January 5, 2025) What are your resolutions, dreams and goals for 2025? Are they about your star rising or orienting your life to the one who causes the stars to rise? Pastor Rob recommends “S.T.A.R.” goals, reflecting on the journey of the magi (aka wisemen)
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 grass growth in the fields By beginning relationships and births within families These are all familiar in our lives. So far, so good. But the angels point toward another reality though, that somehow Jesus life is beyond time; that all of time hinges around him. What does this mean that the eternal entered into a human timeline? How does this change how we measure time in our lives? This image comes from a blog page -- where it is not cited, but seems like it originally is a creation of Olga Ptashko .…
Advent 4 (Dec 22, 2024) In countless Christmas movies, the plot remains the same: Something has jeopardized Christmas. If the characters don’t get their acts together and love, cheer, sing and believe enough, Christmas might just not happen — the sleigh might not have enough Christmas Spirit to run!! All too often, we function like the people in the movies, believing that Christmas depends on us. This just rachets up the stress. As an antidote for our Christmas stress, Pastor Rob offers us the promises given to John the Baptist. Christmas isn’t about you Christmas is for you…
Advent 3, 2024 There are no “small” roles! When Elizabeth discovers that Mary is pregnant with Jesus, Elizabeth does something amazing (Luke 1:39-55). Instead of feeling threatened that her own pregnancy would be overshadowed, she rejoices and magnifies Mary’s joy. What allows Elizabeth to do the almost divine thing here, to celebrate, free of jealousy, for another’s humans success? Perhaps it is her conviction that she had a part to play in God’s unfolding drama in Jesus Christ. Elizabeth knows in this story, every role, every person matters. This allows her to rejoice in her own role and rejoice to discover how God works in the lives of others. That said, in Elizabeth’s life, there were many times when she wasn’t sure what her role actually entailed. In our lives too, we don’t always know. Instead, we must live by the promise, that we matter to God and that God’s mercy is from generation to generation. For the stuff that Mary sings about — the world turning upside down — doesn’t happen overnight and requires our faithful actions over the generations.…
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 for that task — and for many others — we need information. Mary is given the world’s biggest task, namely, bear the son of God in her womb. Yet, God gives her an incredibly little amount of information. Why is this? Pastor Rob reflects on the call of Mary as well as our own callings in life and reminds us that ultimately, if we follow the call of God, we will discover the cross. If we knew all about the crosses we would face in life, we might never get out of bed, much less say yes to God’s call to love and serve our neighbor! Instead of information, Mary is given two things. First, a friend who is wise. Second, the promise that “Nothing will be impossible with God.” These two things God also gives to us. And with them, we can say, like Mary: “Lord, Here I am. Let it be with me according to your Word!”…
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 the odometer of the car read “030959” in homage to this date. This is one of many “Easter Eggs” in the film; many films have “Easter Eggs”, references to other films or historical events. You likely miss them the first time, but when you replay the movie, they bring a smile and recognition that the director is good and creative. In life, God drops lots of Easter Eggs for us — small things that point us to the fact that life’s “director” is faithful, creative, if not even humorous. Yet, we miss them! And even when we see them, we often struggle to believe that they are revelations of God’s goodness in our lives. In the story of Zechariah meeting the angel Gabriel in the temple (Luke 1:8-20), Zechariah struggles to believe. Zechariah’s struggles of faith are like ours, as life grinds us down, closing off our heart to God’s work in our lives. Pastor Rob reminds us that the solution of the angel for Zechariah’s unbelief is silence. Likewise, the medicine for our inability to see the “Easter Eggs” is silence. This Advent, these weeks leading up to Christmas, we too are invited into silence, to contemplate the Easter Eggs both in Scripture but also our lives. For God, in Jesus Christ, has promised to be faithful to us, even when we struggle to believe.…
Christ the King Sunday (Nov 24, 2024) The trial scene of Jesus before Pilate has two witnesses, one testifying to the power of love (Jesus); one testifying to the love of power (Pilate). After reflecting on how we see these two worldviews colliding throughout history, both in secular society but also in the church, Pastor Rob brings it back to our lives. What does your life bear witness to: The power of love or the love of power? This testimony is first borne out in our lives. This testimony is also borne out at the communion rail, where we acknowledge both our tendency to give into the love of power, but also confess our ultimate hope in the power of love, who is Jesus. The image of from James Tissot’s work: Jesus Before Pilate, Second Interview (Jésus devant Pilate. Deuxième entretien) , 1886-1894…
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 sacrificial giving. What really makes it striking though, is that this very temple is declared to be corrupt by Jesus. Yet Jesus still praises her. When we give as Christians, we do so in a world in which there is corruption, greed and hardness of the human heart. Yet Jesus still commands and praises generosity. Why? — Giving is an act of obedience to a faithful God; it declares human sin will not limit God’s action — Giving is an act of defiance to a faithless world; it declares human sin will not limit our action The sermon ultimately focuses on the faithfulness of God, for Jesus’ teaching and life — as well as the ministry of St. Paul congregation — bear witness to how God works in, with and under generosity.…
All Saints Sunday 2024 (Nov 3) The sunflower on the maintenance road didn’t get the memo — it didn’t belong there and it was too late in the season. Yet it was there, and for the folks walking by, it became a beautiful symbol of God’s faithfulness. In spite of how broken our world is, there remains enough signposts and sacraments, signs of God’s goodness, that we are forced to reckon with the reality of God’s presence and faithfulness in our lives. This All Saints Sunday we reflect on the sunflowers on the road of our lives — the people whose presence bore witness to God’s faithfulness in our lives. We link back to Jesus meeting people on the road of life’s sorrows (John 11:32-44) as he becomes the chief sunflower on the road for us.…
O c t o b e r 2 0 , 2 0 2 4 Jesus offers us a freedom that at first seems like a strange freedom: The freedom to serve others. We are inclined to think of freedom differently, as the ability to do what we want, when we want to, because we want to. Yet, precisely if we’ve swum in those moral waters, the “do what you want” waters, we realize that freedom is not freedom and is not life. We are hungry for a different kind of freedom. This freedom is the freedom Christ gives – the freedom to love and serve others. To reflect on this freedom, we look at the life of the Apostle John. He had many chapters in his life – chapters of arrogance, chapters of grief, chapters of rivalry. Yet he writes a book whose chapters are about humility, resurrection and fellowship. What happened to him? He followed Jesus, who was not simply his teacher, but his ransom, who set him free to serve others. (Note, in the middle ages, people would often symbolize John with an eagle, for his Gospel “soared” above the others. John certainly had insight and talent, but it would need to be set free, free from his own agenda, his grief and his rivalry. This striking image was found on Flickr; the artist, Lawrence OP , as beautiful photos of church art.)…
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