Gentle Spirit Christian Church

The Ultimate Metaphor

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 6:51-58
I’m telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. (Verse 47)

Tinctures of Truth in the Tincture of Time

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Ephesians 4:17-5:2
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that. (Verses 1-2)

When We Are Overwhelmed

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 6:1-21
Philip answered, “Two hundred silver pieces wouldn’t be enough to buy bread for each person to get a piece.” (Verse 7)

Miracles, Again?

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Mark 6:30-34, 53-56
And whoever touched Jesus became well. (Verse 56b)

The Man Who Wrote Twice

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 8:1-11
Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger in the dirt. They kept at him, badgering him. He straightened up and said, "The sinless one among you, go first: Throw the stone." Bending down again, he wrote some more in the dirt. (Verses 6-8)

The Baggage We Carry

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 6:1-13
But in the next breath they were cutting him down: “He’s just a carpenter — Mary’s boy. We’ve known him since he was a kid. We know his brothers, James, Justus, Jude, and Simon, and his sisters. Who does he think he is?” They tripped over what little they knew about him and fell, sprawling. And they never got any further. (Verse 3)

Inward Belief, Outward Proclamation

Third Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 4:26-34
How can we picture God’s kingdom? What kind of story can we use? It’s like an acorn. When it lands on the ground it is quite small as seeds go, yet once it is planted it grows into a huge oak tree with thick branches. Eagles nest in it. (Verses 30-32)

What Is the Real Fake News?

Second Sunday after Pentecost Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: Mark 3:20-35
"Listen to this carefully. I’m warning you. There’s nothing done or said that can’t be forgiven. But if you persist in your slanders against God’s Holy Spirit, you are repudiating the very One who forgives, sawing off the branch on which you’re sitting, severing by your own perversity all connection with the One who forgives." He gave this warning because they were accusing him of being in league with Evil. (Verses 28-30)

What Inheritance?

First Sunday after Pentecost (Trinity Sunday) Sermon: Alyce Keener, Vicar Reading: Romans 8:12-21
And we know we are going to get what’s coming to us — an unbelievable inheritance! (Verse 17)

Three Movements of the Spirit

Pentecost Sunday Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor Reading: John 16:4-15
I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now. But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. (Verse 12)