Third Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 10:24-39 If you don’t go all the way with me, through thick and thin, you don’t deserve me. If your first concern is to look after yourself, you’ll never find yourself. But if you forget about yourself and look to me, you’ll […]
There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear; for fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not reached perfection in love. (1 John 4:18 NRSV)
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Second Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Matthew 9:35-10:9 Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here. (Verse 7)
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Instead, if you really change your ways and your actions, if you act justly toward one another, if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves, I will allow you to live in this place, the land I
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First Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Readings: James 3:17-18, Matthew 7:21-29 Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can
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Real wisdom, God’s wisdom, begins with a holy life and is characterized by getting along with others. It is gentle and reasonable, overflowing with mercy and blessings, not hot one day and cold the next, not two-faced. You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if
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Pentecost Sunday Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: James 4:17 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.
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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 4:17)
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Seventh Sunday of Easter Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: 1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11) You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times. (Verse 5:9a)
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don’t act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are,
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