Sixth Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 6:17-26 Popularity contests are not truth contests — look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular. (Verse 26)
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Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the misfits. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute! (Proverbs 31:8-9)
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Fifth Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 5:1-11 When he finished teaching, he said to Simon, “Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch.” (Verse 4)
What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ’s body we’re all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself. (Ephesians 4:25)
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Fourth Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 4:21-30 He answered, “I suppose you’re going to quote the proverb, ‘Doctor, go heal yourself. Do here in your hometown what we heard you did in Capernaum.’ Well, let me tell you something: No prophet is ever welcomed in his hometown.” (Verse
Love from the center of who you are; don’t fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle. (Romans 12:10)
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Third Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Luke 4:14-21 God’s Spirit is on me; God has chosen me to preach the Message of good news to the poor, sent me to announce pardon to prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, To set the burdened and battered free to
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Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God’s Law and Prophets and this is what you get. (Matthew 7:12)
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Second Sunday after Epiphany Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. (Verse 8)
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Gently encourage the stragglers, and reach out for the exhausted, pulling them to their feet. Be patient with each person, attentive to individual needs. And be careful that when you get on each other’s nerves you don’t snap at each other. Look for the best in each other, and always do your best to bring
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