Category: Traditional

July 14, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Luke 11:37-53 (NRSVUE): While he was speaking, a Pharisee invited him to dine with him, so he went in and took his place at the table. The Pharisee was amazed to see that he did not first wash before dinner. Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup […]

July 14, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: The Perfect Guest List | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Luke 14:1, 7-14 (NRSVUE): On one occasion when Jesus was going to the house of a leader of the Pharisees to eat a meal on the Sabbath, they were watching him closely. When he noticed how the guests chose the places of honor, he told them a parable. “When you are invited by someone […]

June 24, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: All Were Satisfied | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference – Luke 9:10-17 (NRSVUE): On their return the apostles told Jesus all they had done. Then, taking them along, he slipped quietly into a city called Bethsaida. When the crowds found out about it, they followed him, and he welcomed them and spoke to them about the kingdom of God and healed those who needed […]

June 24, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: A Table of Forgiveness | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Luke 7:36-49 (NIV): When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar […]

June 9, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: Bad Company | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Luke 5:27-39 (NRSVUE): After this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax-collection station, and he said to him, “Follow me.” And he got up, left everything, and followed him. Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house, and there was a large crowd […]

June 1, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: Real Presence | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Luke 22:7-23 (NRSVUE): Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover meal for us that we may eat it.” They asked him, “Where do you want us to make preparations for it?” “Listen,” he said to […]

May 25, 2025

Traditional – Do You Want To Be Healed | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 5:2-9a (NRSVUE): Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many ill, blind, lame, and paralyzed people. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a […]

May 18, 2025

Traditional – Easter People: Foundations | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Matthew 7:24-27 (NRSVUE): “Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on […]

May 11, 2025

Traditional – Easter People: Beacons of Hope | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Matthew 5:14-16 (NRSVUE): “You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hid.15 People do not light a lamp and put it under the bushel basket; rather, they put it on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same […]

May 5, 2025

Traditional – Easter People: Forgiveness and Second Chances | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 21:15-19 (NRSVUE): When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my lambs.” A second time he said to him, “Simon son of […]