Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 6:1-21 Philip answered, “Two hundred silver pieces wouldn’t be enough to buy bread for each person to get a piece.” (Verse 7)
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Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don’t try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 And whoever touched Jesus became well. (Verse 56b)
Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56 And whoever touched Jesus became well. (Verse 56b)
Live creatively, friends. If someone falls into sin, forgivingly restore them, saving your critical comments for yourself. You might be needing forgiveness before the day’s out. Stoop down and reach out to those who are oppressed. Share their burdens, and so complete Christ’s law. If you think you are too good for that, you are badly deceived.
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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 8:1-11 Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, “The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone.” Bending down again, he wrote some more in the
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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 8:1-11 Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, “The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone.” Bending down again, he wrote some more in the
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There’s more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we’re hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this,
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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 6:1-13 But in the next breath they were cutting him down: “He’s just a carpenter — Mary’s boy. We’ve known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think
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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 6:1-13 But in the next breath they were cutting him down: “He’s just a carpenter — Mary’s boy. We’ve known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think
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