Category: Traditional

April 15, 2024

Traditional – The Good Fight: Honey or Vinegar | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – 2 Timothy 2:23-26 (NRSV): Have nothing to do with stupid and senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels. And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kindly to everyone, an apt teacher, patient, correcting opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant that they will repent and come to know the truth and that […]

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April 7, 2024

Traditional – The Good Fight: What We’re Fighting For | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Proverbs 29:22-23 (NRSV): One given to anger stirs up strife, and the hothead causes much transgression. A person’s pride will bring humiliation, but one who is lowly in spirit will obtain honor. There was a mini series years ago from HBO about the easy company that was fighting in the European theater […]

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March 31, 2024

Traditional – Easter Sunday | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference: John 20:1-18 (NRSV) Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the tomb. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, […]

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March 24, 2024

Traditional – Signs: If You Had Been Here | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference: John 11:7-48 (NRSV) 7 Then after this he said to the disciples, “Let us go to Judea again.” 8 The disciples said to him, “Rabbi, the Jews were just now trying to stone you, and are you going there again?” 9 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? Those who walk during the day do not […]

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March 18, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Healing The Man Born Blind | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference: John 9:1-12, 35-41 (NRSV) 9 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work […]

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March 17, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Healing The Man Born Blind | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference: John 9:1-12, 35-41 (NRSV) 9 As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. 4 We must work […]

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March 10, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Walking on Water | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference: John 6:16-21 (NRSV) 16 When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. 18 The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. 19 When they had rowed about three or four miles, they […]

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March 10, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Feeding The Hungry | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference: John 6:1-15 (NRSV) 6 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A large crowd kept following him because they saw the signs that he was doing for the sick. 3 Jesus went up the mountain and sat down there with his disciples. 4 Now the Passover, the […]

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February 26, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Do You Want To Be Made Well? | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference: John 4:46-50; John 5:2-9 (NRSV) 46 Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal […]

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February 19, 2024

Traditional – Signs: Wedding at Cana | Rev. Michael Bowan

Scripture Reference: John 2:1-11 (NRSV) 2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. 3 When the wine gave out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” 4 And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what […]

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