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#140. Page-Turner Episode 38 - February 24 Feb 26, 2021

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Shane explains the reason for his unique piece of artwork in his house. Kevin and Shane answer two questions from viewers; one about praying and the other about judgement, heaven, and hell. Shane share's some parting words and Karen discusses what is next after Page - Turner.

#139. Rev. Shane Page - February 21 Feb 21, 2021

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This Sunday, having concluded our sermon series on apprenticing with Jesus, we return to the liturgical calendar of the church and will observe the first Sunday of Lent. Each year the appointed reading for this particular Sunday concerns Jesus’s flight into the desert where for forty days he underwent intense temptations orchestrated by the devil. This week we may spend some time considering just who is the Devil in biblical theology and of what role temptations consist in the interior life. This week’s reading will come from Mark 1:9-15.

#138. Page-Turner Episode 37 - February 17 Feb 21, 2021

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It's Ash Wednesday and Shane, Kevin, and Karen talk about the importance of this holy day and how to experience this time of sacrifice for Lent. They also discuss Shane's last sermon for the church wide book study, Apprenticeship With Jesus and how to live every day as an apprentice.

#137. Rev. Shane Page - February 14 Feb 14, 2021

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This Sunday we end our series on Gary Moon’s Apprenticeship with Jesus with a word of exhortation. Our text for this Sunday will come from Luke 5 as the master Jesus calls his apprentices to follow him (Luke 5:1-11). Luke’s narrative presents an outline of what it means truly to become the Lord’s apprentice. Let’s spend time reflecting for one last Sunday on the meaning of imitating our Lord, so that the lessons we have learned these last five weeks, instead of ending, will constitute for each of us a new beginning.

#136. Page-Turner Episode 36/February 10 Feb 10, 2021

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Shane, Kevin, and Karen discuss another upcoming church holiday that has turned into commercialism, Valentine's Day. Then they dig deeper into Shane's sermon from Sunday regarding imitating Jesus on his cross and how apprenticing with Jesus also includes suffering. They answer a confirmand's question, "If God created us perfectly, why is there sin?" and give an update on events at DUMC for Ash Wednesday.

#133. Rev. Shane Page - February 7 Feb 07, 2021

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This Sunday we come to the fourth of our five sermons on Gary Moon’s Apprenticeship With Jesus. To apprentice with Jesus is to imitate the Lord’s life, to let him, by the grace of the Holy Spirit, live the fullness of his life in us. There is, then, another central component to the imitation of the Lord’s life, a component the Lord enjoins on all his followers, a component about which the apostle themselves testified in their New Testament letters. That component is the cross, sharing in the Lord’s sufferings. There is no true imitation of Jesus apart from imitating him on his cross. This Sunday let’s go all in, knowing that the crosses the Lord calls us to bear always redound to our resurrection and the experience of new life.

#132. Page-Turner Episode 35/February 3, 2021 Feb 04, 2021

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Did you know that there is another holiday on February 2 besides Groundhog day? Super Bowl Sunday is this week and the three briefly discuss the upcoming game. The main topic of this episode is continuing to dig deeper into the churchwide book study of Gary Moon's Apprenticeship with Jesus and Shane's sermon about the counter culture nature of Christianity. Shane and Kevin answer a Confirmand's question, Why do some people give up on God and become Atheists after having once believed?

#131. Rev. Shane Page - January 31 Jan 31, 2021

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This Sunday we continue our reflections on Gary Moon’s Apprenticeship with Jesus. We will re-emphasize another key component of apprenticing with Jesus, an implication we must embrace with all enthusiasm if we wish to assimilate our Lord’s manner of life: non-conformity to the predominant culture or what the New Testament refers to as “the world” (See Romans 12 for a glimpse at this week’s theme). Non-conformity is what sets admirers of Jesus apart from apprentices of Jesus. On Sunday let’s encourage one another on our quest to live with Jesus against the worldly grain.

#130. Page-Turner Episode 34/January 27 Jan 27, 2021

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Shane addresses the recent announcement about his leaving DUMC, and then Kevin, Karen, and Shane have a discussion about the current churchwide book study, Apprenticeship with Jesus, by Gary Moon. Confirmation classes have started and they answer a student's question, "is sin forgiven if the sinner did not really believe in Jesus?"

#129. January 24 - Rev. Shane Page Jan 24, 2021

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This Sunday we continue our sermon series and churchwide book study on Gary Moon’s Apprenticeship with Jesus. This week we will reflect on a fundamental principle of the Bible, a principle sprinkled throughout the book, the subject of our current study: the Imago Dei. The image of God. The Old Testament begins by affirming how God made human beings in God’s own image. Then in the New Testament Jesus bears the designation of being the true image of God (See Colossians chapter 1, one of our two readings for Sunday). What does this biblical principle regarding the Imago Dei have to do with our apprenticeship with Jesus? In a word, everything.

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