Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 15:10-28 She was quick: “You’re right, Master, but beggar dogs do get scraps from the master’s table.” (Verse 27)
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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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Tenth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 14:22-33 But Jesus was quick to comfort them. “Courage, it’s me. Don’t be afraid.” (Verse 27)
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As it is, you are full of your grandiose selves. All such vaunting self-importance is evil. In fact, if you know the right thing to do and don’t do it, that, for you, is evil. (James 4:16-17)
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Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 14:13-21 “All we have are five loaves of bread and two fish,” they said. (Verse 17)
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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 11)
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Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Romans 8:26-39 Absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Savior has embraced us. (Verse 39)
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For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” (Galatians 5:13-14 NRSV)
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Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 The field is the world, the pure seeds are subjects of the kingdom, the thistles are subjects of Evil, and the enemy who sows them is Evil. The harvest is the end of the age, the curtain of history. The
Get along among yourselves, each of you doing your part. Our counsel is that you warn the freeloaders to get a move on. 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
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