There’s trouble ahead when you live only for the approval of others, saying what flatters them, doing what indulges them. Popularity contests are not truth contests — look how many scoundrel preachers were approved by your ancestors! Your task is to be true, not popular.
Fifth Sunday after the 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)
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When he finished teaching, he said to Simon, “Push out into deep water and let your nets out for a catch.”
Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: 1 Corinthians 13 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe,
If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than
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Third Sunday after the Epiphany | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: Luke 4:14-21 Then Jesus started in, “You’ve just heard Scripture make history. It came true just now in this place.” (Verse 21)
God’s Spirit is on me; It 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 announce, “This is God’s time to shine!”
Second Sunday after the Epiphany | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | 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. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety
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Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! The variety is wonderful.
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First Sunday after the Epiphany | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 And along with the Spirit, a voice: “You are my Son, chosen and marked by my love, pride of my life.” (Verse 22)
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