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/

05/31/2026

What if being a disciple isn't about passing theology exams, but about walking so close to Jesus that you're covered in the dust of His feet?

This Holy Trinity Sunday, we're skipping the complicated explanations and going straight to what Jesus actually said: "Go and make disciples." In Hebrew, that word means apprentices of life—people who don't just learn about Jesus, but live like Him. Jesus showed us exactly how: He ate with outcasts. He touched lepers. He welcomed children. He washed feet. He fed thousands. He forgave enemies. He listened to the hurting.

The mission is beautifully simple: See what Jesus does, then ALT—Act Like That. Feed people. Welcome outsiders. Serve humbly. Love radically. Challenge injustice. That's discipleship. That's the Kingdom of God in action.

Ready to walk in His dust?

05/24/2026

Are you living in a locked room of fear, shame, or past failure? This week's message reminds us that God's Spirit refuses to be contained in our small boxes of control and consternation.

From the explosive power of Pentecost to Moses discovering the Spirit wouldn't stay in the tent, we see a pattern: God's grace was never meant to be confined. The disciples moved from hiding behind locked doors to boldly proclaiming in the temple. Living water refuses to sit still. Every week we watch water overflow the baptismal font because God's promises can't be dammed up.

Maybe that little room once protected you, but nests were never meant to become cages. Jesus says "Peace be with you" and invites you to open the door. The Spirit empowers and propels us beyond our limits, working in community to help us explore and experience all of creation. The wind is already blowing.

05/17/2026

Jesus prayed for one thing before ascending to heaven: "that they may all be one" (John 17). Yet from the very beginning, the early church struggled with division, pride, complaints, and conflict. Sound familiar?

Here's the beautiful truth: Jesus knew exactly who He was praying for. He knew Peter would fail. He knew we'd fight over doctrine, form camps, and curve inward into ourselves. And still, He prayed for us anyway.

The curious case of the missing L: Remove love from "all one" and you're left "alone." We were created for WE, not ME. When we gather at the Communion table, Christ gives Himself to fractured people because that's where grace lives. The world sees Jesus through whether we love, forgive, and bear one another's burdens. That's the Big L—the love that refuses to let us remain alone.

05/04/2026

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05/02/2026

Ever built something that looked right but didn't quite fit? The religious leaders of Jesus' day had that problem. They were checking all the corners, following all the rules, but missing the diagonal—the big picture of God's love and justice.

They rejected Jesus because He didn't fit their wonky framework. But He was the true cornerstone all along. Truth without justice destroys. Fairness without love misses the point. Being right without compassion leaves people wounded on the roadside.

This week, don't just ask "Am I right?" Ask "Am I aligned with Jesus?" Check your life against the true cornerstone. The good news? God doesn't discard wonky frames—He realigns them with grace. Bring your decisions, habits, and assumptions to Him and let Him square things up.

When your life lines up with Christ, everything else comes into square.

04/24/2026

Jesus declares "I AM the gate" in John 10, using God's own name to show us that true life comes through Him alone. But here's the challenge: it's possible to be very religious, very certain, and still miss life when it shows up right in front of us.

The blind man in this story received his sight and his voice, but the religious leaders tried to shrink him back down to something manageable. False gates don't always look like cruelty. Sometimes they look like rules, expectations, and labels that say "you can come this far, but no further."

Jesus didn't come to give us barely-there life. He came that we "may have life, and have it abundantly." We're not called to be gatekeepers, but gap-standers, those who stand in the breach for others who've been hurt or ignored. Where do we see life expanding and feel the urge to control it? Let's choose instead to participate in the abundant life Christ offers to all.

04/18/2026

Ever feel like your heart is burning with something you can't quite name? The two disciples on the road to Emmaus knew that feeling. Disappointed and walking away from their hopes, they encountered a stranger who opened the Scriptures to them. But it wasn't the Bible study that changed everything—it was opening their door.

When they invited the stranger to share their table, everything ignited. In that simple act of hospitality, Christ was revealed in the breaking of bread. The slow heart became a burning heart. The closed door became an open invitation for the Spirit to breathe.

Jesus still shows up at our thresholds—in the stranger, the hungry, the lonely, the one who needs welcome. The question is: Will we open the door? Will we set another place at the table? Because that's often where transformation happens—not in having all the answers, but in making room for love.

What if the burning in your heart is Christ walking beside you, waiting for you to offer that cup of cold water, that act of mercy, that moment of welcome?

01/04/2026

For centuries, brilliant minds tried to unlock the mysteries of light—how it moves, how fast it travels, how it bends. Even today, with all our technology, light remains one of the great mysteries of the universe.

But here's what John understood that the scientists of his day didn't: we're not just struggling with physical darkness. We're wandering in the darkness of depression, grief, anxiety, loneliness, and loss. That's the darkness that really matters.

John flipped the question from "What is light?" to "Who is light?" Jesus didn't just have light—He gave it. People felt lighter because He listened. They stood straighter because He noticed them. Their shame lifted because He touched them.

And here's the beautiful part: darkness isn't a force. It's just an absence. Light has substance. The moment even the smallest light appears, darkness is defeated—not by fighting, but simply by shining.

You don't have to be the source of the light. You just have to reflect it. Like a small mirror catching sunlight, we find meaning in reflecting the light of Christ to others.

This week, let someone see His light in your words, your deeds, your presence. You don't have to manufacture brilliance—just let His light shine through you. When it touches someone's life, it will travel farther than you ever imagined.

Go shine.

12/20/2025

What do Spider-Man and Joseph have in common? More than you'd think.

Peter Parker learned the hard way that with great power comes great responsibility. When he could have stopped a thief but chose to look out for number one instead, it cost him everything. His uncle's death became his turning point, his moment of metanoia, a complete change of heart.

Joseph faced his own impossible moment. His fiancée was pregnant, and he wasn't the father. In his culture, staying with Mary meant social su***de. He'd carry her shame, lose his reputation, spend years explaining what people would never believe. The easy choice was to walk away quietly.

But Joseph chose to BE righteous rather than SEEM righteous. He chose the quiet yes that cost him everything but changed the world.

Neither Peter nor Joseph got a manual. Neither got applause. They just took the next step into responsibility they didn't ask for but couldn't shrink from.

Here's the Advent truth: God works through ordinary people in the middle of uncertainty to bring hope into the world. Your baptism is your radioactive spider bite. You're marked, claimed, freed from sin and death. That freedom is your power.

God doesn't need you to be extraordinary. God needs you to say yes even when it costs you something. Even when people misunderstand. Even when you feel completely ordinary.

The question isn't whether you're qualified. The question is: will you step into the responsibility God is placing before you?

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927 NW 178th Avenue
Pembroke Pines, FL
33029

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