Category: Traditional

April 25, 2022

Traditional – Unexpected Acts of Courage

  Corresponding Scripture: Acts 5:27-32 (NRSV) 27 When they had brought them, they had them stand before the council. The high priest questioned them, 28 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.” […]

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April 25, 2022

Traditional – Easter 2022

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 24:1-12 (NRSV) 24 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, taking the spices that they had prepared. 2 They found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in, they did not find the body. 4 While they were perplexed about this, […]

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April 11, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves To Trust Jesus

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 19:28-40 28 After he had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. 29 When he had come near Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of the disciples, 30 saying, “Go into the village ahead of you, and as you enter it you will […]

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April 4, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves Us With Tears of Love

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 7:36-50 (NRSV) 36 One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and took his place at the table. 37 And a woman in the city, who was a sinner, having learned that he was eating in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster jar of […]

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March 28, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves Us Through Difficult Relationships

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 15:1-32 (NRSV) 15 Now all the tax collectors and sinners were coming near to listen to him. 2 And the Pharisees and the scribes were grumbling and saying, “This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them.” 3 So he told them this parable: 4 “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one […]

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March 21, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves Us Through The Unfairness Factor

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 13:1-9 (NRSV) 1At that very time there were some present who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans? 3 No, I tell you; but […]

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March 16, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves Us Through Temptation

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 13:31-35 (NRSV) 31 At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” 32 He said to them, “Go and tell that fox for me, ‘Listen, I am casting out demons and performing cures today and tomorrow, and on the third day […]

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March 7, 2022

Traditional – God Moves Us: God Moves Us Through Temptation

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 4:1-13 (NRSV) 4 Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan and was led by the Spirit in the wilderness, 2 where for forty days he was tempted by the devil. He ate nothing at all during those days, and when they were over, he was famished. 3 The devil said to […]

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March 1, 2022

Traditional – The Art of Hearing: God’s Voice Moves Us

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 9:28-36 (NRSV) 28 Now about eight days after these sayings Jesus took with him Peter and John and James, and went up on the mountain to pray. 29 And while he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became dazzling white. 30 Suddenly they saw two men, Moses and Elijah, […]

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