We Have Seen Love
First Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 14:8-14 Believe me: I am in my Creator and my Creator is in me. If you can’t believe that, believe what you see — these works. (Verse 11)
Lent 2022 Readings, Worship Schedule and Worship Topics
Lenten call to worship: Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law
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God’s Love Never Quits
Palm Sunday Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love never gives up. (Verse 4)
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God of Process
Fifth Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 12:20-33 But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you’ll have it forever, real and eternal. (Verse 25)
No Condemnation
Fourth Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 3:14-21 God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending the Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. Jesus came to help, to put the world right again. (Verse 17)
The Shopping Mall of Faith
Third Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 2:13-22 Get your things out of here! Stop turning my Father’s house into a shopping mall! (Verse 16)
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An Ordeal
Second Sunday in Lent Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Mark 8:30-38 It is necessary that the Son of Humanity proceed to an ordeal of suffering, be tried and found guilty by the elders, high priests, and religion scholars, be killed, and after three days rise up alive. (Verse 31)
Change Your Life and Believe the Message
First Sunday in Lent Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 1:9-15 Time’s up! God’s kingdom is here. Change your life and believe the Message. (Verse 15)
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Ash Wednesday
Concelebrated with First Christian Church of Decatur Officiants: Rev. Dr. James Brewer-Calvert, Senior Pastor, First Christian Church of Decatur Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor, Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Lent 2021 Pastoral Call to Repent, Reflect and Resolve to Act
Our Lenten Journey Lent is the period of 40 days that precedes Easter in the Christian calendar. Beginning on Ash Wednesday, Lent is a season of reflection and preparation before the celebrations of Easter. By observing the 40 days of Lent, we as followers of Jesus replicate his sacrifice and withdrawal into the desert for
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