More Than a Command
Sixth Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: John 15:9-17 But remember the root command: Love one another. (Verse 17)
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John 15:11-15
I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you. This is the very best way to love. Put your life on the line for your friends. You are my friends when you
Abiding in Love
Fifth Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: John 15:1-8 Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless
Abiding in Love
Fifth Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: John 15:1-8 Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can’t bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can’t bear fruit unless
1 John 4:20-21
If anyone boasts, “I love God,” and goes right on hating their brother or sister, thinking nothing of it, they are a liar. If they won’t love the person they can see, how can they love the God they can’t see? The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You’ve
When We Practice Real Love
Fourth Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: 1 John 3:16-24 My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. (Verse 18)
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1 John 3:18-20
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
It Is a Process
Third Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 24:33-49 You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day, and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations —
Luke 24:46
You can see now how it is written that the Messiah suffers, rises from the dead on the third day, and then a total life-change through the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed in his name to all nations — starting from here, from Jerusalem!
Free To Forgive
Second Sunday of Easter | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: John 20:19-31 Then he took a deep breath and breathed into them. “Receive the Holy Spirit,” he said. “If you forgive someone’s sins, they’re gone for good. If you don’t forgive sins, what are you going to do with them?” (Verses