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April 21 - Eastertide 2026 · Abide In Me

• 0:10
  SPEAKER_01: Jesus says, I am the vine, you are the branches.
• 0:13
  SPEAKER_01: If you abide in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Pillar's Abide in Me Podcast, a weekly opportunity to abide in Christ through weekly pillar sermon and worship reflections.
• 0:27
  SPEAKER_01: I'm Trish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm Christian.
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  SPEAKER_00: For this week's reflections, we invite you into the practice of Lectio Divina.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an invitation to slow down and simply listen with a posture towards God and Scripture.
• 0:47
  SPEAKER_00: Quiet your mind, breathe deeply, and allow yourself to receive these words from the message version of the book of Ephesians, chapter 2.
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  SPEAKER_00: Consider words or phrases that rise to the surface.
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  SPEAKER_01: It wasn't so long ago that you were mired in that old stagnant life of sin.
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  SPEAKER_01: You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.
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  SPEAKER_01: You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_01: We all did it.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of us doing what we felt like doing.
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  SPEAKER_01: When we felt like doing it, all of us in the same boat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us.
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  SPEAKER_01: He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ.
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  SPEAKER_01: He did all this on his own with no help from us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now take a few moments and reflect on the passage we just read.
• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief and then exhaled disobedience.
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  SPEAKER_00: We all did it.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it.
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  SPEAKER_00: All of us in the same boat.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Instead, immense in mercy and with incredible love, he embraced us.
• 3:18
  SPEAKER_00: He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: He did all this on his own with no help from us.
• 3:30
  SPEAKER_00: Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
• 3:39
  SPEAKER_00: Let's take another moment and listen to what the Spirit of God has to say.
• 4:16
  SPEAKER_01: You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.
• 4:21
  SPEAKER_01: You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief and then exhaled disobedience.
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: We all did it.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_01: All of us doing what we felt like doing when we felt like doing it.
• 4:33
  SPEAKER_01: All of us in the same boat.
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_01: It's a wonder God didn't lose his temper and do away with the whole lot of us.
• 4:41
  SPEAKER_01: Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us.
• 4:46
  SPEAKER_01: He took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_01: He did all this on his own with no help from us.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_01: Then he picked us up and set us down in highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is the word of the Lord.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thanks be to God.
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  SPEAKER_00: For our part as a pillar community, we'd love to be praying for you.
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  SPEAKER_00: So feel free to reach out to us at abide at pillarchurch.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: As you take these words into your day, hear this from the Apostle Paul.
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  SPEAKER_00: God can do anything, you know.
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  SPEAKER_00: Far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does it not by pushing us around, but by working within us.
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  SPEAKER_00: His spirit deeply and gently within us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glory to God in the church.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glory down all the generations.
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  SPEAKER_00: Glory through all millennia.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh yes.