Living Faith Lutheran Church, Pembroke Pines

Living Faith Lutheran Church, Pembroke Pines Living Faith is a dynamic, growing Lutheran church in Western Pines. If there is something missing in your life, come join us Sundays at 9:30am!

Our mission is to share the joy of a Living Faith in Jesus Christ with the people of Pembroke Pines and Southwest Broward County. We are a congregation that reaches out to our community, worships with joy and thanksgiving, and encourages members to grow, give and to serve others. As a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Florida-Bahamas Synod of the ELCA, we partner wi

th national and worldwide organizations to help in worldwide natural disasters and the needs of South Florida. Watch our past sermons: http://livingfaithlutheran.org/resources/past-sermons/

09/06/2026

What happens when a relationship breaks? When the circle has an empty place? Jesus does not tell us to pretend the fracture is not real. He tells us to fight for reconciliation with everything we have -- deep, hard-fought, wholehearted, exhaustive effort.

In Matthew 18:15-17, Jesus lays out a path toward restored relationships. But here is the thing: even when someone refuses to return, we are called to treat them the way Jesus treated tax collectors -- with pursuit, with welcome, with love that refuses to become hatred.

We build the bridge because we hope they will cross it. And if they will not, we leave the door open, trusting that Jesus has a habit of finding people outside the circle and saying, "Follow me."

Will the circle be unbroken? That is not a question. It is the longing Jesus gives his church. Lord, let it be so.

08/31/2026

I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME!

Music is good for the soul! Happy Sunday ☀️🙏
08/31/2026

Music is good for the soul! Happy Sunday ☀️🙏

08/30/2026

Peter got the answer right. "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God." But knowing the title and understanding what it means are two very different things.

Jesus did not come to be the Messiah everyone expected -- a conquering king who defeats enemies by force and puts his followers on the winning side. He came to rewrite what power and victory look like entirely. Suffering. Death. Resurrection. That is Messiah 2.0.

And if the Messiah gives himself away rather than protecting himself, his followers cannot build their lives around protecting themselves either. "Those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake will find it." (Matthew 16:25)

The gates of death threw everything they had at him. On the third day, it still was not enough. Join us this week as we explore what it truly means to follow a self-giving Savior.

08/20/2026

What does it mean to have the right answer but not understand what it means? In Matthew 16, Peter correctly identifies Jesus as "the Messiah, the Son of the living God" -- but Jesus knows Peter does not yet grasp what that answer costs or what it conquers.

Standing near Caesarea Philippi, a place associated with death and the underworld, Jesus makes a staggering declaration: the gates of Hades will not prevail against his church. And here is the detail worth sitting with -- gates do not attack. They defend. Which means something is coming against them.

Some of us know those gates. We have stood beside graves. We have received frightening news. We have felt like death gets the last word. Jesus stands in the face of all of it and says: No. Those gates will not hold.

Sometimes, when we do not understand what God is doing, knowing who we are looking at is enough. Join us this Sunday.

08/09/2026

Have you ever been doing something new, finally started to get it, and then your brain kicked in and said "wait, how am I doing this?" and suddenly you couldn't do it anymore? Psychologists call it paralysis by analysis. Peter walking on water in Matthew 14 is exactly that.

Little faith is still faith. It gets out of the boat. It wobbles. It sinks. It cries out "Lord, save me!" And every single time, Jesus reaches out his hand. That is how faith grows, not by never struggling, but by discovering over and over that Christ is faithful even when we are still learning to trust.

Join us this Sunday as we dig into what it really means to take those first unsteady steps and why Jesus calls it little faith rather than no faith at all.

08/02/2026

What do you do when you show up with only five loaves and two fish? Jesus looks at his disciples -- exhausted, overwhelmed, staring at thousands of hungry people -- and says, "You give them something to eat." Not someone else. You.

This Sunday's message from Matthew 14 reminds us that Jesus never intended compassion to stay a feeling. Hungry people stay hungry when compassion never moves. He feeds us with himself, then sends us out carrying that same compassion in our hands.

We come to the table with empty hands and leave with a calling. Our post-communion prayer says it plainly: "Make us to be what we receive here, your body for the life of the world." Those are not just nice words. They are forming us into something. Come and find out what.

Join us this Sunday as we dig into the feeding of the five thousand -- and what it means that Jesus still says to us today, "They need not go away."

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927 NW 178th Avenue
Pembroke Pines, FL
33029

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+17043084694

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