Gentle Spirit Christian Church
An independent, affirming and progressive church serving metro Atlanta. We are open, positive and inclusive.
Episodes
Third Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 9:35-10:20
Stay alert. This is hazardous work I’m assigning you. You’re going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don’t call attention to yourselves. Be as shrewd as a snake, inoffensive as a dove. (Verse 16)
Second Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 9:9-13
Jesus, overhearing, shot back, “Who needs a doctor: the healthy or the sick? Go figure out what this Scripture means: ‘I’m after mercy, not religion.’ I’m here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.” (Verses 12-13)
Pentecost Sunday | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: 1 Corinthians 12:1-13
Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain—his Spirit—where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves—labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free—are no longer useful. We need somet...
Fourth Sunday in Lent | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Ephesians 5:8-16
You groped your way through that murk once, but no longer. You’re out in the open now. The bright light of Christ makes your way plain. So, no more stumbling around. Get on with it! The good, the right, the true—these are the actions appropriate for daylight hours. F...
Second Sunday in Lent | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: John 3:16-18
This is how much God loved the world: God gave God’s Son, the one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn’t go to all the trouble of sending this Son merely to point an accus...
Fourth Sunday after Epiphany | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Matthew 5:1-12
You’re blessed when you care. At the moment of being ‘care-full,’ you find yourselves cared for. (Verse 7)
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 17:11-19
Jesus said, “Were not ten healed? Where are the nine? Can none be found to come back and give glory to God except this outsider?” Then he said to him, “Get up. On your way. Your faith has healed and saved you.” (Verses 17-19)
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 15:11-32
When they were still a long way off, the parent saw them. Their heart pounding, they ran out, embraced the child, and kissed them. (Verse 20)
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 15:1-10
Count on it — there’s more joy in heaven over one sinner’s rescued life than over ninety-nine good people in no need of rescue. (Verse 7)
Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost | Sermon: Rev. Paul M. Turner, Senior Pastor | Reading: Luke 14:25-33
Simply put, if you’re not willing to take what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you can’t be my disciple. (Verse 33)
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