Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 8:26-39 Later, a great many people from the Gerasene countryside got together and asked Jesus to leave — too much change, too fast, and they were scared. (Verse 37)
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A conversation between Rev. Paul M. Turner and Vicar Alyce Keener of Atlanta’s Gentle Spirit Christian Church on the subject of a Christian and LGBT response to the tragedy in Orlando.
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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Matthew 7:21-29 These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. (Verse 24)
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Don’t hit back; discover beauty in everyone. If you’ve got it in you, get along with everybody. Don’t insist on getting even; that’s not for you to do. (Romans 12:17-18)
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Third Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 7:11-17 As they approached the village gate, they met a funeral procession—a woman’s only son was being carried out for burial. And the mother was a widow. When Jesus saw her, his heart broke. (Verse 12)
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Third Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 7:11-17 As they approached the village gate, they met a funeral procession—a woman’s only son was being carried out for burial. And the mother was a widow. When Jesus saw her, his heart broke. (Verse 12)
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My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about
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So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline. Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear
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Second Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Philippians 3:12-21 By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I’ve got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward — to Jesus. I’m off and running, and I’m not turning back. (Verse 14)
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Friend, don’t go along with evil. Model the good. The person who does good does God’s work. The person who does evil falsifies God, doesn’t know the first thing about God. (3 John 1:11)
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