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Learning to Live Freely and Lightly

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Sermon for July 5, 2020 (Fifth Sunday after Pentecost)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Messages:
“Learning to Live Freely and Lightly” Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30 (MSG)
Key Verses: 28-30 “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 it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

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It’s Best to Start Small

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Sermon for June 28, 2020 (Fourth Sunday after Pentecost)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Vicar Alyce Keener
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Messages:
“It’s Best to Start Small” Matthew 10:40-42 (MSG)
“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 messenger. Accepting someone’s help is as good as giving someone help. This is a large work I’ve called you into, but don’t be overwhelmed by it. It’s best to start small. Give a cool cup of water to someone who is thirsty, for instance. The smallest act of giving or receiving makes you a true apprentice. You won’t lose out on a thing.”

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Going All the Way

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Sermon for June 21, 2020 (Third Sunday after Pentecost)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Messages:
“Going All the Way” Matthew 10:24-39 (MSG)
Key Verses: 38-39 “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 find both yourself and me.”

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Compassionate Love

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Sermon for June 14, 2020 (Second Sunday after Pentecost)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Messages:
“Compassionate Love” Matthew 9:35-10:9 (MSG)
Key Verse 7: “Go to the lost, confused people right here in the neighborhood. Tell them that the kingdom is here.”

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Treating Each Other with Dignity and Honor

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Sermon for June 7, 2020 (First Sunday after Pentecost)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Messages:
“Treating Each Other with Dignity and Honor” James 3:17-18 (MSG)
“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 you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.”

“Connecting the Dots” Matthew 7:21-29 (MSG)
Key Verse 24: “These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on.”

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The Right Thing To Do

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Sermon for May 31, 2020 (Pentecost Sunday)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Message:
“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 (MSG)

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God is at Work

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Sermon for May 24, 2020 (Seventh Sunday of Easter)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Vicar Alyce Keener
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Message: “God is at Work” ( 1 Peter 4:12-14 & 5:6-11)
Key Verse 5:9a: “You’re not the only ones plunged into these hard times.”

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Never Alone

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Sermon for May 17, 2020 (Sixth Sunday of Easter)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Message: “Never Alone” (John 14:15-21)
Key Verses 18-20: “I will not leave you orphaned. I’m coming back. In just a little while the world will no longer see me, but you’re going to see me because I am alive and you’re about to come alive. At that moment you will know absolutely that I’m in my Father, and you’re in me, and I’m in you.”

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No Troubled Heart”

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Sermon for May 10, 2020 (Fifth Sunday of Easter)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Message: “No Troubled Heart” (John 14:1-14)
Key Verse 1: “Don’t let this throw you. You trust God, don’t you? Trust me.”

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Whose Voice will We Follow?

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Sermon for May 3, 2020 (Fourth Sunday of Easter)
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor
Via Facebook Live

Today’s Message: “Whose Voice will We Follow?” (John 10:1-10)
Key Verse 3: “The gatekeeper opens the gate to Shepherd and the sheep recognize the voice.”

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