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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Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23 Are you listening to this? Really listening? (Verse 9)
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But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind. (Isaiah 40:31)
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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do
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The minute I said, “I’m slipping, I’m falling,” your love, GOD, took hold and held me fast. When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up. (Psalm 94:19)
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Fourth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Matthew 10:40-42 We are intimately linked in this harvest work. Anyone who accepts what you do, accepts me, the One who sent you. Anyone who accepts what I do accepts my Father, who sent me. Accepting a messenger of God is as good as being God’s
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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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