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Posts Tagged missional church


Bridges (sermon video and manuscript)

The sermon from September 28, 2015, at The Patterson Avenue Baptist Church is included in this blog post (both the video and the manuscript).   The sermon is titled:  “Bridges” and is based on Jesus words recorded in Mark 938-41. There are several links on this page to make such SHARING much easier. If the […]

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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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Getting Off The Roundabout

Have you ever been stuck on a roundabout? I only know of one roundabout in the metro Richmond area, over near the White Oak Shopping Center, but there may be others. If you are unfamiliar with the term, a roundabout is a type of circular junction in which road traffic must travel in one direction […]

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Grow Where You Are Planted!

  Grow Where You’re Planted: Collected Stories on the Hallmarks of Maturing Church publisher: Christian Associates Press, published: 2013-03-21 ASIN: B00C5LFZCK sales rank: 627037 Missional communities, whatever form they take, face the challenge of growing up. But too often leaders either invest too little in ecclesial development, or they try to copy the growth metrics […]

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Video Sermon: Soup That Tastes Like Bread And Wine

Reggie McNeal, author of The Present Future, writes in that book: “Church culture in North America is a [mere] vestige of the original Christian movement, an institutional expression of religion that is in part a civil religion and in part a club where religious people can hang out with other people whose politics, world-view, and […]

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Traveling Light (Video Sermon, July 7, 2013)

This is the video sermon preached on July 7, 2013, titled:  “Traveling Light” based on Luke 10:1-11, 16-20 at the Patterson Avenue Baptist Church, in Richmond Virginia.       The People’s New Testament Commentary by: M. Eugene Boring publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, published: 2010-01-25 ASIN: 0664235921 EAN: 9780664235925 sales rank: 229893 price: $9.48 […]

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The Implications of the Ascension on the Christian Life and Mission of the Church – Video Sermon

This sermon was preached on May 12, 2013 at The Patterson Avenue Baptist Church What does Jesus Ascension mean” What are the implications of Jesus Ascension for the Christian’s life? What are the implications of the Ascension of Christ for the mission and witness of the church? That’s what this sermons aims to address! Jesus […]

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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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