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Text: Acts 9:36-43 “How did you do it? Week after week, how did you do it?” That was the question I asked Mahan Siler as he was preparing to write his last sermon as pastor of Pullen. I wanted to know how week after week he came up with something new and different to say […]

Text: Acts 5:27-32 Strange and unusual and interesting things happen at Pullen Church on a day-to-day basis. It is, in part, what makes my job exciting and why I look forward to coming to work. No two days are alike; and I never know from moment to moment what the new day will bring. I could […]

Text: John 20:1-18 Rolling Stones: An Easter message for 2016! In case you are wondering, based on the title, if this Easter sermon is about the famous rock group Rolling Stones, let me either put you at ease or go ahead and greatly disappoint you. It’s not! Although there are those who might consider the […]

Text: Luke 22:14-23:59 Weddings. Funerals. Marital counseling. Protests. Engaging in civil disobedience. Congregational meetings. My profession offers me almost daily a wide-range of experiences to live in the tension that life presents. Take for instance the day the groom dashed out of the church 20 minutes before the wedding was to start, telling no one where […]

Text: John 12:1-8 Have you ever had one of those “What was I thinking?” experiences? Like when you go to the local SPCA to just look at dogs and you come home with two? Or you are at your favorite nonprofit fundraiser which is having a live auction and you start bidding on an item […]

Text: Joshua 5:1-9, Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 When Nora, my daughter, was in preschool she had two favorite movies: Disney’s classics The Fox and the Hound and The Little Mermaid. The former featured the tale of an unorthodox friendship between a baby fox and young hound dog. As the story goes, after his mother is killed, Tod […]

Text: Isaiah 55:1-9 We live in an age of enormous knowledge, discovery and information. Today, we know more about the human body and brain than we have ever known. Youth, listen to this. As of 15 years ago, scientists believed that the vast majority of brain development occurred during the first few years of life. […]

Text: Luke 13: 31-35 Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic? Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. Humans invented language to satisfy our deep need […]

Welcome to the episode 1 of the Voices of Pullen podcast, brought to you by Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. On this show we will get to know each other by sharing personal stories and defining life moments.  Meet Megan Joyner, who is up for ordination this March. Click below to listen to her story about […]