Home
Home
Podcasts
Podcasts
Library
Cancel
Sign in
Gentle Spirit Christian Church
Rev. Paul M. Turner
Follow
An independent, affirming and progressive church serving metro Atlanta. We are open, positive and inclusive.
read less
Religion & Spirituality
Religion & Spirituality
Start Here
Nov 27 2023
Thanksgiving Rewards
Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: Matthew 25:31-46 Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me — you did it to me. (Verse 40)
Episodes
Nov 27 2023
Thanksgiving Rewards
Twenty-Sixth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Vicar Alyce Keener | Reading: Matthew 25:31-46 Whenever you did one of these things to someone overlooked or ignored, that was me — you did it to me. (Verse 40)
Nov 20 2023
Consequences of Fear
Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 25:14-30 The master was furious. "That’s a terrible way to live! It’s criminal to live cautiously like that! If you knew I was after the best, why did you do less than the least? The least you could have done […]
Nov 13 2023
Preparations
Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner | Reading: Matthew 25:1-13 So stay alert. You have no idea when he might arrive. (Verse 13)
Nov 6 2023
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)
Oct 30 2023
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 […]
Oct 16 2023
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)
Oct 9 2023
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)
Sep 25 2023
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)
Sep 18 2023
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.”
Sep 4 2023
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)