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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Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first.
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 18:21-35 At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.” (Verses 21-22)
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At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.”
For generations, LGBTQ+ people have been told that the Bible is clear about us: Our relationships are sinful, our identities are contrary to God’s will, and faithful Christianity requires us to deny an essential part of who we are. But is that really what the Bible says? “Homosexuality & Transgender Identity: A Bible Study” takes
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Get out of bed and get dressed! Don’t loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!