Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: Mark 10:46-52 So now we have a high priest who perfectly fits our needs: completely holy, uncompromised by sin, with authority extending as high as God’s presence in heaven itself. (Hebrews 7:26)
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And don’t say anything you don’t mean. This counsel is embedded deep in our traditions. You only make things worse when you lay down a smoke screen of pious talk, saying, “I’ll pray for you,” and never doing it, or saying, “God be with you,” and not meaning it. You don’t make your words true
Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Mark 10:35-45 Jesus said, “You have no idea what you’re asking. Are you capable of drinking the cup I drink, of being baptized in the baptism I’m about to be plunged into?” (Verse 38)
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Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don’t make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won’t be applauding.
Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor
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Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor
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What are you waiting for? Return to your God! Commit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don’t give up on God — ever!
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Lance Helms, Director of Communications | Reading: Mark 10:2-16 Pharisees came up, intending to give him a hard time. They asked, “Is it legal for a man to divorce his wife?”
“Don’t push these children away. Don’t ever get between them and me. These children are at the very center of life in the kingdom. Mark this: Unless you accept God’s kingdom in the simplicity of a child, you’ll never get in.” Then, gathering the children up in his arms, he laid his hands of blessing
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: James 5:13-20 Pray for each other so that you can live together whole and healed. (Verse 16)
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