Gentle Spirit Christian Church

Role Models

Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 5:1-12
And know that you are in good company. My prophets and witnesses have always gotten into this kind of trouble. (Verse 12)

Isn’t It Obvious?

Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 22:34-40
“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 and the Prophets hangs from them.”

Choices

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 22:1-14
Then he told his servants, "We have a wedding banquet all prepared but no guests. The ones I invited weren’t up to it. Go out into the busiest intersections in town and invite anyone you find to the banquet." (Verse 8)

The Gospel of the Pets

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 6:25-33
Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Creator feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? (Verse 26)

Unfair

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 20:1-16
Here it is again, the Great Reversal: many of the first ending up last, and the last first. (Verse 16)

Avoiding the ’F’ Word

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 18:21-35
At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, “Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?” Jesus replied, “Seven! Hardly. Try seventy times seven.”

What Is the Profit?

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 16:21-28
Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to finding yourself, your true self. What kind of deal is it to get everything you want but lose yourself? What could you ever trade your soul for? (Verses 25-26)

Why Doubt Doesn’t Compute

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 14:22-33
But Jesus was quick to comfort them. “Courage, it’s me. Don’t be afraid.” (Verse 27)

When the Math Doesn’t Compute

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 14:13-21
The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children. (Verse 21)

Hidden Treasure

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52
Jesus said, “Then you see how every student well-trained in God’s kingdom is like the owner of a general store who can put their hands on anything you need, old or new, exactly when you need it.” (Verse 52)