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Cross Talk: God Pulls a Fast One/Ransom Theory of Atonement
Meg Peery McLaughlin Cross Talk: God Pulls a Fast One Ransom Theory of Atonement March 3, 2024 Mark 10: 35-45 Prayer of Illumination As the beams of the cross join together at the point of intersection, meet us here, O God, in the reading of your word. Meet us here at...
Cross Talk: Deny.Take.Follow. The Moral Influence Theory of Atonement
Jarrett McLaughlin Cross Talk: Deny.Take.Follow. The Moral Influence Theory of Atonement February 25, 2024 Matthew 16:21-27 Cold Open: Brian was a ten-year-old public school kid who struggled with math. His mom and dad did everything to help their son...peer...
PCM Student Sunday Sermons
Barrett Bolton, Millie Pulliam, Cameron Mewborn PCM Student Sunday Sermons Feb 18, 2024 Matthew 5:1-12 (The Beatitudes) Barrett’s sermon Baptized and in the pulpit in one service! That’s gotta be a record. As I read the beatitudes I came to the realization that it is...
Genesis 2: 18-23 and Romans 12: 3- 8
Meg Peery McLaughlin Realm February 4, 2024 Genesis 2: 18-23 and Romans 12: 3- 8 18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the...
Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Perfect Pastors?
Jarrett McLaughlin Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Perfect Pastors? January 28, 2024 1 John 1: 5-9 Cold Open: My character is spit spot spic and span, I'm practically perfect in every way, “Practically Perfect?” So people say, Each virtue virtually knows no bound, Each...
Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Heaven by your Bootstraps?
Meg Peery McLaughlin Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Heaven by your Bootstraps? January 21, 2024 Romans 3: 9-12; 5 -1-2, 8-10 Prayer of Illumination: Prepare our hearts to accept your word. Silence in us any voice but your own, that, hearing, we may obey your will and...
Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Old Testament Mean God vs. New Testament Loving God
Jarrett McLaughlin Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Old Testament Mean God vs. New Testament Loving God January 14, 2024 Exodus 20:18-21 and Matthew 5:17-20 Cold Open: In the summer of 1987, I moved from New Jersey to Raleigh - just in time to enter the 4th grade. For my...
Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Was Jesus Really Human?
Meg Peery McLaughlin Everyone’s Favorite Heresies: Was Jesus Really Human? January 7, 2024 Psalm 139: 1-14 and Philippians 2: 5-11 Psalm 139: 1-14 O Lord, you have searched me and known me. 2 You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from...
Recalculating
Meg Peery McLaughlin Recalculating December 31, 2023 Isaiah 60:1-6 // Matthew 2:1-12 +++ In the time of King Herod, after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem, asking, ‘Where is the child who has been born king of the Jews?...