Category: Traditional

October 5, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: Goodness is Who You Are | Rev. Michael Bowman

Scripture Reference – Galatians 6:7-10 (NIV): Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap […]

September 28, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: Kindness | Rev. Robert Mercer

Scripture Reference – Ephesians 4:31-32 (NRSVUE): Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you.

September 21, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: Stop Being Impatient, Try a Little Patience | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Proverbs 15:18 (NRSVUE): Those who are hot-tempered stir up strife, but those who are slow to anger calm contention.

September 14, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: God is Awake | Rev. Maggie Dunaway

Scripture Reference – Philippians 4:6-7 (NRSVUE): Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

September 4, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: Stop Being Miserable, Start Living with Joy | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – Ecclesiastes 2:24-26 (NRSVUE): There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God, for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and […]

August 31, 2025

Traditional – Jesus Said Stop it: Stop Hating, Start Loving | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NRSVUE): Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all […]

August 24, 2025

Traditional – Abide: Bear Fruit | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 15:8-17 (NRSVUE): My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. 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 […]

August 17, 2025

Traditional – Abide: Words to Live By | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 15:5-8 (NRSVUE): I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, […]

August 10, 2025

Traditional – Abide: Say Yes | Rev. Mike Holly

Scripture Reference – John 15:1-5 (NRSVUE): “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. Abide in me as I abide […]

August 3, 2025

Traditional – Dining With Jesus: Invitation to Curiosity | Margaret Grubic

Scripture Reference – Luke 24:13-35 (NRSVUE): Now on that same day two of them were going to a village called Emmaus, about seven miles from Jerusalem, and talking with each other about all these things that had happened. While they were talking and discussing, Jesus himself came near and went with them, but their eyes were kept from recognizing […]