Second Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 8:31-38 Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace it.” (Verse 34)
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Make sure you don’t take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship — a different kind of “sacrifice” — that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. (Hebrews 13:16)
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First Sunday in Lent Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Genesis 9:8-17 I’m putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. (Verse 13)
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Last Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 1:35-45 A leper came to him, begging on his knees, “If you want to, you can cleanse me.” (Verse 40)
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And to the rest of you, brothers and sisters, never grow tired of doing good. (2 Thessalonians 3:13)
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Last Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 1:35-45 A leper came to him, begging on his knees, “If you want to, you can cleanse me.” (Verse 40)
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Several times a year we distribute 350-500 personal hygiene kits to the homeless on the streets of Atlanta. Since starting our hygiene kits ministry in 2010, we have distributed thousands of kits. Our goal is to distribute 2,000 kits a year. Our next distribution will be at 9am Sunday, May 31, 2015 in place of our regular
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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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Rev. Paul M. Turner of Gentle Spirit Christian Church is a signatory to a theological statement against gun violence that was delivered in 2014 to Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle and the state Legislature and published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in response to the “guns in church law” that Gov. Deal signed into law that
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God is love. When we take up permanent residence in a life of love, we live in God and God lives in us. This way, love has the run of the house, becomes at home and mature in us, so that we’re free of worry on Judgment Day — our standing in the world is
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