Category: Traditional

January 26, 2025

Traditional – Undivided: Love + Enemy = Friend | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Matthew 5:43-48 (NRSV): “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil […]

January 19, 2025

Traditional – Undivided: Hate Cannot Drive Out Hate | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Matthew 7:1-5 (NRSV): “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. For the judgment you give will be the judgment you get, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye but do not notice the log in your own […]

January 13, 2025

Traditional – Undivided: The Essential Ingredient (Golden Rule) | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Matthew 7:12 (NRSV): “In everything do to others as you would have them do to you, for this is the Law and the Prophets.

January 6, 2025

Traditional – Undivided: One is not the Loneliest Number | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 17:6-26 (NRSV): “I have made your name known to those whom you gave me from the world. They were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. Now they know that everything you have given me is from you, for the words that you gave to me I […]

December 29, 2024

Traditional – Jesus is Here, Don’t Miss Him | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – John 1:1-5, 9-18 (NRSV): In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and the life […]

December 23, 2024

Traditional – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Brick By Brick | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Isaiah 61:1-4 (NRSV): The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me;he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted,to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who […]

December 9, 2024

Traditional – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever: Great Expectations | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference – Micah 5:2-5 (NRSV): But you, O Bethlehem of Ephrathah, who are one of the little clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to rule in Israel, whose origin is from of old, from ancient days. Therefore he shall give them up until the time when she […]

December 2, 2024

Traditional – The Best Christmas Pageant Ever : What Child Is This? | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Isaiah 7:14 (NRSV): Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Look, the young woman is with child and shall bear a son and shall name him Immanuel.

November 24, 2024

Traditional – Can I Get a Witness? | Bishop L. Jonathan Holston

Scripture Reference – Isaiah 6:1-8 (NIV): In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, high and exalted, seated on a throne; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him were seraphim, each with six wings: With two wings they covered their faces, with two they covered their feet, and with two they were flying. And they were calling to […]

November 17, 2024

Traditional – Living Sacrifice: What’s In Your Bucket? | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 4:4-15 (NRSV): But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan […]