Category: Traditional

July 9, 2024

Traditional – When Do We Go Our Own Way? | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Acts 15:36-41 (NRSV): After some days Paul said to Barnabas, “Come, let us return and visit the brothers and sisters in every city where we proclaimed the word of the Lord and see how they are doing.” Barnabas wanted to take with them John called Mark. But Paul decided not to take with them […]

July 2, 2024

Traditional – Surprise Party | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Acts 10:44-48, 11:15-18 (NRSV): While Peter was still speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all who heard the word. The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the gentiles, for they heard them speaking in tongues and extolling God. […]

July 2, 2024

Traditional – What Could Prevent Me…? | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Acts 8:26-40 (NRSV): Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, the queen […]

June 17, 2024

Traditional – Lessons in Grace | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference – Acts 9:1-22 (NRSV): Meanwhile Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he […]

June 12, 2024

Traditional – Early Pitfalls and Hardships | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Acts 5:27-42 (NRSV): When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, saying, “We gave you strict orders not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and you are determined to bring this man’s blood on us.” But Peter and […]

June 3, 2024

Traditional – The Right Spirit | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Acts 2:1-12 (NRSV): When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested […]

May 28, 2024

Traditional – The Right Spirit | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Romans 8:12-17 (NRSV): So then, brothers and sisters, we are obligated, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are led […]

May 21, 2024

Traditional – Pentecost & Confirmation Sunday | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Ephesians 2:8-10 (CEB): You are saved by God’s grace because of your faith. This salvation is God’s gift. It’s not something you possessed. It’s not something you did that you can be proud of. Instead, we are God’s accomplishment, created in Christ Jesus to do good things. God planned for these good things to be […]

May 14, 2024

Traditional – Pay it Forward | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference – Acts 16:6-15 (NRSV): They went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When they had come opposite Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them; so, passing by Mysia, they went down to […]

May 6, 2024

Traditional – Final Instructions | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 15:9-17 (NRSV): As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. I have said these things to you so that my joy may […]