Jesus said, “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets
Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 22:1-14 Then give Caesar what is his and give God what is God’s. (Verse 21)
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Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 22:1-4 Then he told his servants, ‘We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren’t up to it. Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet.’ The servants
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Celebrate God all day, every day. I mean, revel in God! Make it as clear as you can to all you meet that you’re on their side, working with them and not against them.
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 21:33-46 Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they’re interested in is appearances—knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry,
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Steer clear of the barking dogs, those religious busybodies, all bark and no bite. All they’re interested in is appearances — knife-happy circumcisers, I call them. The real believers are the ones the Spirit of God leads to work away at this ministry, filling the air with Christ’s praise as we do it.
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: Philippians 2:1-13 Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being
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Therefore, if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind.
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 20:1-16 Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first. (Verse 16)
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