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Posts Tagged missional


Fifteen Minutes of Fame (video sermon)

This post contains the video for the sermon from May 17, 2015, preached at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church, Richmond, VA.   You can also find an audio of this sermon by visiting the church website and subscribing to our podcast.  The sermon is titled:  “Fifteen Minutes of Fame” based on Acts 1:15-17, 21-26 Whenever you visit […]

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Lessons From A Busted Water Pipe

Alice turned 100 years old this past November.  She is actively involved in the life of our congregation.  She’s been an active participant in this congregation (and Calvary Baptist before us) for ALL of her life.  So she’s her lots of sermons over here lifetime. So, when Ms. Alice requested a copy of this sermon to […]

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The Virginia Home, Richmond, VA – Rev. Michael Hamilton

The Patterson Avenue Baptist Church has had a several decade long partnership with The Virginia Home The home provides compassionate and professional residential care to adult Virginians with irreversible physical disabilities, ensuring that their lifelong comfort and security will never be compromised regardless of ability to pay. On Sunday, July 13, 2014, the Rev. Mike […]

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A Gospel For The Wacky

I will be adding the video for this sermon in a separate post.  Below you will find the manuscript for a sermon titled:  “A Gospel for the Wacky” based on Luke 19:1-10, preached on 11/3/2013 at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church. “A Gospel for the Wacky” Luke 19:1-10 Art Graham, former Associate Pastor of this […]

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Moving from Missional to Incarnational

I have a friend who started a church in one of the most secularized regions of Virginia Beach.  He worked for a year to build relationships and friendships with people in his community.  Many of them were really wacky to the typical Sunday morning church people ways of thinking.  Some were Wiccans, some were addicted to […]

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Recent Sermons at Patterson Avenue Baptist

This page contaings links to watch the three recent sermons preached at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church. Sermon # 1 was preached on November 11, 2012 by myself (Bill Nieporte).  The titled for the sermons is “How Much More.” Jesus refers the love human parents have for their children. We know not to give a scorpion […]

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Missional Grace

God’s mission is that every human being in the world discover the joyful truth that in Christ they are reconciled – liked, loved, accepted, included, and adopted into the fellowship of God.  Along with that discovery comes an invitation to faith.  We declare the Gospel of grace.  We say, “You are eternally and wonderfully loved […]

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Becoming a Missional Person

As Patterson Avenue Baptist Church moves forward toward becoming a missional church – it’s people will increasingly see themselves as “God’s People on God’s Mission With God.” The congregation will become a “permission giving” church.  There will be no cookie cutter or template into which a person must be force-fitted to be a faithful member and […]

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Total Dependence

Sunday’s sermon (September 23, 2012) at Patterson Avenue Baptist Church Based on Mark 9:30-37, this sermon begins with the question of Jesus to his disciples:  “What were you talking about along the way?” The disciple’s of Jesus were ashamed to answer, because they had been very self-centered in their conversations.  They had been debating who […]

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Sunday Sanctuary

  Mark Rodel is City Centre Pioneer Minister for the Diocese of Portsmouth and Associate Priest in the parish of St Luke, Southsea. He looks at what has been happening at Sunday Sanctuary. Looking at the terms with which we started out, Sunday Sanctuary has failed. Those terms were that if we created something on […]

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