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Three members of our PALS Race Reconciliation group combine to speak this morning. Matthew Waterman preaches on how the Transfiguration fits in and Dianne Izzard and Philip Conyers speak about their experiences in the small group. … [Read more...]
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law.” This is arguably one of the best known of Paul’s verses, this list of the fruit of the Spirit found here in the middle of our passage in Galatians this morning. It’s a list … [Read more...]
But now in Christ Jesus you who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, in his flesh he has made both groups into one and has broken down the dividing wall; that is, the hostility between us. Welcome to the 2nd week of our summer preaching series on Paul’s Letter to the Ephesians. Last week we touched on the historic context of the letter and we noted that many scholars think that it was written while Paul was in prison in Ephesus, in the middle … [Read more...]