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Posts Tagged missional grace


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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Grace to ALL

Below you will find the video of the October 13, 2013 sermon preached at “The Patterson Avenue Baptist Church.”  The text for the sermon is located in Luke 17:11-19 and is the story popularly called:  “The Healing of the Ten Lepers.”  This sermon is titled:  Grace to All!  You’re whole community can get in on […]

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I never knew God LIKES Me!

I preached a sermon in which I said something to the effect: “God is your best friend. God is a wonderful Father who is so proud of you.  If God has a pocketbook, your picture is in there.  If God has a refrigerator God has put your works of art all over it.  When the angel gather […]

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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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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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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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Opportunity

Moments of “crisis” are dangerous times – but they are also times of great opportunity.  This fourth sermon in the “Rooftop” series (based on Acts 10:1-11-18) explores the mindset necessary for a believer and congregation to be opportunity focused. In this sermon you will hear things like… Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff It’s Not About […]

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Traveling First Class

I read an interesting bit of information recently that reminded me of certain attitudes and habits among us that need to be challenged by the vision of reality that Jesus came into the world to embody. The information comes by way of famed preacher John Claypool and harkens back to a time when the stagecoach […]

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Intellectually Bankrupt

Read 1 John 5:1 – 12  It has always fascinated me that so many in the church spend a great deal of their time attempting to find scientific and historical proof to support the assertions of the Christian religion.           For example, there are dozens of religious books in the marketplace that were written with claims […]

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