The True Vine

Turkey Creek United Methodist Church and Wesley Heights United Methodist Church, April 28, 2024

John I. Carney
12 min readApr 28, 2024

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Photo of grapes growing on a grape vine.
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John 15:1–8 (CEB)

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vineyard keeper. He removes any of my branches that don’t produce fruit, and he trims any branch that produces fruit so that it will produce even more fruit. You are already trimmed because of the…

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John I. Carney

Author of “Dislike: Faith and Dialogue in the Age of Social Media,” available at http://www.lakeneuron.com/dislike