Category: Modern

April 28, 2025

Modern – Easter People: The Significance of Scars | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference –John 20:24-31 (CEB): Thomas, the one called Didymus, one of the Twelve, wasn’t with the disciples when Jesus came. The other disciples told him, “We’ve seen the Lord!” But he replied, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands, put my finger in the wounds left by the nails, and put my hand into […]

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April 28, 2025

Modern – Easter Sunday | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference –Luke 24:1-12 (NRSV): But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body. While they were perplexed about this, suddenly two men in […]

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April 14, 2025

Modern – More Like Jesus: Eat and Drink | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Luke 7:31-35 (NRSV): “To what, then, will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;    we wailed, and you did not weep.’ “For John the Baptist […]

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April 6, 2025

Modern – More Like Jesus: Do What Jesus Did | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Luke 7:18-27 (CEB): John’s disciples informed him about all these things. John called two of his disciples and sent them to the Lord. They were to ask him, “Are you the one who is coming, or should we look for someone else?” When they reached Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us […]

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March 23, 2025

Modern – More Like Jesus: Silence and Solitude | Margaret Grubic

Scripture Reference – Luke 4:38-44 (NRSV): After leaving the synagogue he entered Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and they asked him about her. Then he stood over her and rebuked the fever, and it left her. Immediately she got up and began to serve them. As the sun was setting, […]

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March 16, 2025

Modern – More Like Jesus: Seek First The Kingdom | Brett Toole

Scripture Reference – Luke 12:22-31 (NASB): And He said to His disciples, “For this reason I tell you, do not worry about your life, as to what you are to eat; nor for your body, as to what you are to wear. For life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens, that they neither sow nor reap; they have no storeroom […]

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March 9, 2025

Modern – More Like Jesus: Give Up | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Luke 14:25-35 (NRSV): Now large crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and said to them, “Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be […]

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February 23, 2025

Modern – Discovery Sunday | John Will Peterson

Scripture Reference – Jeremiah 29:10-14 (CEB): The Lord proclaims: When Babylon’s seventy years are up, I will come and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope. When you […]

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