Category: Traditional

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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February 14, 2022

Traditional – The Art of Hearing: Hearing and Healing

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 6:17-26 (NRSV) 17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 18 They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and […]

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February 6, 2022

Traditional – The Art of Hearing: The Art of Hearing and Fishing

  Corresponding Scripture: Luke 5:1-11 (NRSV) 5 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret, and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, 2 he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake; the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. 3 He got […]

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January 30, 2022

Traditional – The Art of Hearing: Hearing God in the Pauses

  Corresponding Scripture: Psalm 46 (NRSV) 1 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea; 3 though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble with its tumult.Selah 4 There is a river whose […]

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January 23, 2022

Traditional – Choose Joy: Joy For Good

  Corresponding Scriptures: Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10 (NRSV) 1 all the people gathered together into the square before the Water Gate. They told the scribe Ezra to bring the book of the law of Moses, which the Lord had given to Israel. 2 Accordingly, the priest Ezra brought the law before the assembly, both men and women and all who […]

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January 16, 2022

Traditional – Choose Joy: Aspects of Joy

  Corresponding Scriptures: 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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January 9, 2022

Traditional – Choose Joy: Baptized in Love

  Corresponding Scriptures: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 (NRSV) 15 As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, 16 John answered all of them by saying, “I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming; I am not worthy to […]

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