Pastor at the Beach Sermon Podcast

Pastor at the Beach Sermon Podcast

Weekly messages about life, faith, and the connection between them.

Episodes

October 6, 2025 8 mins

Jesus tells his disciples that they have enough faith but the results depend on them actually believing that is true. How do we approach faith? Are you willing, as Pastor Paul suggests, to be the one who climbs into the wheelbarrow?

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit our website at www.cocoabeach.church today. Prefer to watch the video? You can find it on our YouTube channel here.

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Jesus uses another parable about another rich man to teach about our calling to care for the poor and hungry, the hurting, and our neighbor. We turn away and chasms open that we cannot cross, but God can cross them and offers us forgiveness. How do you do at paying attention to those in need around you?

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today!

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September 22, 2025 9 mins

Jesus tells us that we can't serve God AND money. So Pastor Paul invites us to consider who and how we are serving. What gets your attention most? And how can we choose love as the best way to serve?

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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September 15, 2025 11 mins

Jesus welcomes sinners and tax collectors and the religious leaders get grumpy about it. His parables talk about things that are lost, and it could be that what these leaders have lost is their own way. Pastor Paul talks about things that are lost and about God's love finding us and welcoming us to the table.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

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September 8, 2025 14 mins

This week, Pastor Paul connects the theme from each of the readings (choices) and invites us to think about the choices we make. Good news! God chooses YOU!

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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September 2, 2025 11 mins

Pastor Paul talks about the neighborhood kids who played hard and often showed up for lunch for the pbj's he'd make them. What follows is a great reminder that God welcomes all of us to the table (even if we don't deserve it).

 

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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Assistant to the Bishop, The Rev. Dr. Derek Hoven, is our guest preacher this week. Pastor Derek got some new glasses, and that got him thinking about the lenses we use every day to view the world around us and the people we meet. How is God's work of grace, freely given, understood through our lenses? This and more in this week's episode.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church t...

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August 11, 2025 11 mins

One of the most prevalent themes in scripture is God telling God's people "do not be afraid." 365 times this theme is addressed in the Bible! What does that mean for us and how does it apply today? Pastor Paul talks about fear and our response in this week's message.

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August 4, 2025 13 mins

Does Jesus not want us to have any stuff? Well, that's an oversimplification of the parable. In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about stuff and about how the attitudes we have about stuff affect our relationship with God. The ultimate goal, put God first and in doing so we are called to build longer tables to feed the ones how are hungry, instead of building a bigger barn to store our excess.

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July 7, 2025 13 mins

Jesus sends out the 70 to let people know that the Kingdom of God has come near. We are called to do the same by the witness of our lives. Psalm 66 invites us to "come and see the works that God has done" and our gift is to share that experience with the world. But we are afraid, right? In this week's message, Pastor Paul tries to provide some context and perhaps some motivation, to share our story and invite others.

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June 30, 2025 11 mins

This week we celebrate the 4th of July and the freedoms won over time. In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about true freedom, a more important freedom, that informs everything else about how we live.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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June 23, 2025 14 mins

Jesus casts demons out of a man. The demons beg for mercy and are sent into a herd of pigs and drown. But what about the man after he is made whole? There's a lot going on in this week's gospel text and Pastor Paul walks us through the meaning then and now. Thanks for listening!

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

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June 17, 2025 14 mins

It's easy to rush past what we think we know about God, or to assign our own beliefs to who God is because we like to have all the answers. In the message for this week, Pastor Paul talks about the mysteries of God and much more. Thanks for subscribing and sharing the podcast!

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

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On this Day of Pentecost celebration, Pastor Paul talks about the many ways the Spirit has been revealed and is at work throughout scripture. Then, he takes a look at why the Spirit matters to us today.

 

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

 

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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June 2, 2025 12 mins

Jesus prays and we get to listen in as He prays for his disciples in the room, but also for ALL who will come to believe! That's a prayer for ALL TIME! What does that mean for us today?

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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May 27, 2025 11 mins

In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about the LOVE Jesus calls his followers to model for each other and the world, and about how knowing Christ's PEACE makes LOVE more possible for us.

The video of this week's message is also available via our YouTube channel here.

 

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

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May 19, 2025 12 mins

Jesus commands his disciples to LOVE. In this week's message, Pastor Paul talks about that LOVE, the context, and the challenges of being about LOVE today.

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

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May 12, 2025 12 mins

On Good Shepherd Sunday we hear the reading about Jesus' encounter with religious leaders who want him to tell them plainly that he is or is not the messiah. Jesus tells them that he has been telling them through all of the work he has done in his Father's name, but they missed it. In this message, Pastor Paul challenges us not to miss it and lays out a summer long challenge of God Spotting.

 

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In this message, Pastor Paul talks about Star Wars (hey, it was May the Fourth!) to help us think about the importance of Saul's encounter with Jesus and his conversion. Saul becomes Paul and is 100% on team Jesus. The rest, as they say, is history. So how do we encounter Jesus in our lives? Why does that matter? Listen to find out!

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April 20, 2025 12 mins

Memories! We make them all the time. In today's message for Easter, Pastor Paul talks about memories and the importance of them for Jesus' early followers, the women, who came to the tomb to find it empty. Christ is risen indeed!

To learn more about Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, please visit www.cocoabeach.church today.

Music ”Ukulele Beach” provided by YouTube with permission. Written by Doug Maxwell.

 

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