Category: Modern

July 20, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: Jonah and the Whale | Rev. Asia Lerner-Gay

Scripture Reference – Jonah 1:1-17 (NRSVUE): Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying, “Go at once to Nineveh, that great city, and cry out against it, for their wickedness has come up before me.” But Jonah set out to flee to Tarshish from the presence of the Lord. He went down to Joppa and […]

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July 13, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: Facing Our Giants | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – 1 Samuel 17:31-37; 48-50 (NRSVUE): When the words that David spoke were heard, they repeated them before Saul, and he sent for him. David said to Saul, “Let no one’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “You are not able to go […]

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July 1, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: Holiness and Haircuts | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Judges 16:6-9, 15-20 (NRSVUE): So Delilah said to Samson, “Please tell me what makes your strength so great and how you could be bound, so that one could subdue you.” Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that are not dried out, then I shall become weak and be […]

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June 28, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: The God of Hope | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Exodus 14:19-31 (NRSVUE): After two whole years, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing by the Nile, and there came up out of the Nile seven sleek and fat cows, and they grazed in the reed grass. Then seven other cows, ugly and thin, came up out of the Nile after them and stood by […]

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June 9, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: Noah’s Ark | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Genesis 6:9-13; 18-22 (NRSVUE): These are the descendants of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God. And Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight, and the earth was filled with violence. And God saw that the earth was […]

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June 8, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: Cain & Abel | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Genesis 4:2-9 (NRSVUE): Next she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a tiller of the ground. In the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground, and Abel for his part brought of the firstlings of his flock, their fat portions. […]

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June 4, 2026

Modern – The Bible Tells Me So: The Creation | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Genesis 1:26-31 (NRSVUE): Then God said, “Let us make humans in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the wild animals of the earth and over every creeping thing that […]

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