Pastor at the Beach Sermon Podcast

What kinds of expectations do you have about Jesus? In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about these expectations and about the the expectations Jesus may have for us. To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit our website today. Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

In this week's reading we continue to hear from Jesus' missionary discourse. Jesus' followers will be sent out and they need to understand what it means to truly welcome the other. What does that have to do with us? Pastor Paul tells a powerful story of welcome and then invites us into how Jesus' message applies to our lives today. To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please vi...

Jesus is teaching his disciples how to go out into the world to share the Good News and what that will look like, but it doesn't stop there. Matthew's Gospel, written in the late 1st Century, uses Jesus' words to speak into incredibly difficult times for the Jewish people. Finally, these words speak into our own context today. Pastor Paul talks about all three of the arcs presented in the reading...

In this week's reading from Matthew, Jesus has called his disciples. He gathers them together and gives them a job to do, then sends them. As followers of Jesus, we have a job to do, too. Find out how the story connects in this week's message from Pastor Paul. To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit our website at www.cocoabeach.church today. Music provided by and lic...

How have you experienced the Incarnate Jesus? Jesus made real for you? If so, you likely can point to an encounter with God's mercy. Pastor Paul talks about this and more in this week's sermon. Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

We are blessed to have retired pastor and church member Rev. Dr. Neal Hively preaching for Holy Trinity Sunday. To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit our website . Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

The Holy Spirit has been at work since the beginning of it all, but in today's readings we are shown how the Holy Spirit can work. We, too, are given the gift of the Spirit, so how do we respond?   Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

Jesus spends his last moments with his beloved disciples and prays for them. This section of John's Gospel has been about preparing the disciples for what will come next and prayer makes sense. Jesus prays for YOU we well, right now, because you are a disciple, too. Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com Learn more about the church at www.cocoabeach.church today!

Up to 60% of Americans use AI or Artificial Intelligence each day to find answers. That's amazing! But where do we turn when the answers, advice, and guidance we need is about faith? Jesus' words to his disciples in the reading from John's Gospel this week are about just that. They are also a reminder that God will be with us always, and that's Good News.   Music provided by and licensed via www.p...

Jesus' disciples are confused but Jesus addresses their concerns by letting them know that He is the way then and into the future. Jesus shows US the way to carry Christ with us in our daily lives. Learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, visit our website today! Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

When is all falls apart, when we realize that we are in need of a Savior, Jesus holds us in His arms and reminds us of God's great love for us. Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

Two of Jesus' disciples walk the 7 mile road to Emmaus and talk about all that happened in Jerusalem over the last three days. A stranger joins the conversation and in the breaking of bread reveals Himself to be Jesus. How do we walk on the road with Jesus? Why does our worship service always include this story, even if we don't read the scripture from Luke? To learn more about Lutheran Church of...

Jesus appears to His disciples and begins with a word of peace. He repeats the same message and gives the gift of the Spirit. But he doesn't stop there, he comes back a week later so that Thomas might believe and once again, share's the peace. Why does Jesus share His peace three different times in one story from the gospel and why does that matter? To learn more about the church, please visit our...

We are a people in need of a savior. Thanks be to God we are given a Savior. Today we remember the resurrection of Jesus and all that it means for our forgiveness through grace, mercy, and love.   Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

What do we intend to do? Our intentions are driving by what we want. Could it be that Jesus wants to change what we want so that our intentions are about loving God and loving neighbor? This message was recorded during our Maundy Thursday service on Thursday, April 2, 2026.   Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

What kind of king do you expect? Jesus enters Jerusalem to the shouts of the crowd, but do they understand what Christ as King means? In this message, Pastor Paul challenges is us to consider what we expect in a king and offers ways to live into a daily life of discipleship.   Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

This week we hear from John's Gospel again and this time the story of the raising of Lazarus from the dead. Jesus has encounters with Mary and Martha and in this space, Pastor Paul suggests, there is space made for grief. How does Jesus accompany us in our grief in our lives? To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Cocoa Beach, Florida just visit our website. We'd love to welcom...

Here's mud in your eye! Well, sort of. In this week's message, Pastor Paul reminds us that Jesus is present in the light and the dark and that Jesus makes a difference in the lives of those He meets in scripture. So much so that those He heals or to whom He gives hope can't help but tell others. To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection please visit our website . Music provided by an...

To be known is to be loved. To be loved is to be known. In this week’s message, Pastor Paul talks about the woman at the well and how her encounter with Jesus changed her forever because Jesus knows her. Jesus knows you, too. In this message filled with hope, we learn what it means to be known and loved by God.     Music for the Podcast version provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com

In week two of our Lenten series, Jesus encounters Nicodemus in the dark and meets him where he is. It would change Nicodemus' life forever. Jesus meets us where we are, today, and invites us into a life of faith and praying for a change. Music provided by and licensed via www.pond5.com To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit our website today.