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A new heart for life – Sept. 11, 2022

September 16, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC with one hand outstretched.

Scripture: Ezekiel 18:1-4, 19-32 Melissa continued sharing about some of the experiences from her sabbatical, this time about Belfast and the historical divisions between Catholics and Protestants. Each of us is more than our past, more than our histories. More than the actions and illnesses of our parents in our nations and our communities. Your […]

A new heart for life – Sept. 11, 2022

Tagged With: Belfast, death, Ezekiel, life, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Northern Ireland

God as Metalworker – Sept. 4, 2022

September 4, 2022

Scripture: Jeremiah 18:1-11, Luke 14:25-33 Melissa is back from her sabbatical and will use this month’s sermons to report on several aspects of her family’s travels and some of the learnings along the way. This Sunday she contrasted the work of Akram, a Palestinian craftsperson who recycles tear gas canisters into works of art, with […]

God as Metalworker – Sept. 4, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Jeremiah, Melissa Florer-Bixler, metalworker, Palestine, potter

A Spirit of Hospitality – Aug. 28, 2022

September 2, 2022

Rachel preaching at RMC on Aug 28, 2022

Rachel provided the message this Sunday based on Hebrews 13:1-2. There are many examples of folks at Raleigh Mennonite carrying out acts of hospitality. When we practice radical Christian hospitality, we are opening ourselves up to the gift of an unexpected messenger or bearer of God’s good news. May we as a community continue to […]

A Spirit of Hospitality – Aug. 28, 2022

Tagged With: Hebrews, hospitality, Rachel Taylor

Internalizing God’s Love – Aug. 21, 2022

August 21, 2022

Susan Scott preaching at RMC on Aug. 21, 2022

Susan Scott brought this Sunday’s message based on Luke 13:10-17, the story of Jesus healing the crippled woman at the synagogue on the Sabbath. Susan asked us to contemplate, “How does God feel about you at this moment?” Jesus was chastised for breaking strict Sabbath rules by the leader of the synagogue. This leader was […]

Internalizing God’s Love – Aug. 21, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, healing, love, Sabbath, Susan Scott

Praying with the Prophets – Aug. 14, 2022

August 15, 2022

Chalice Overy preaches at RMC on Aug. 14, 2022

Scripture: Isaiah 5:1-7, Psalm 80:14-19 Pastor Chalice Overy, from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, provided the message this morning. Prior to her preaching we heard a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing and Chalice begins by sharing with us some of the significance of that song for her. Prayer is a place where our will […]

Praying with the Prophets – Aug. 14, 2022

Tagged With: Chalice Overy, Isaiah, prayer, Prophet, Psalms

Enoughness – July 31, 2022

July 31, 2022

Scripture: Luke 12:13-21 Liddy Grantland brought our message this morning. She serves as the service team leader for two L’Arche homes outside Washington D.C. Liddy shared with us stories of L’Arche community life, particularly during COVID, including some of the joys and the frustrations. God wants us to live in the world as our home, […]

Enoughness – July 31, 2022

Tagged With: belonging, community, enough, Gospel of Luke, Liddy Grantland, treasures

Body, Bread, Breath & Baptism – July 24, 2022

July 30, 2022

Scripture: Colossians 2:6-19 and Luke 11:1-13 Elizabeth Korver-Glenn provided the message this Sunday, drawing on four themes from the Gospel of Luke passage. May our bodies, the bread and the breaths we ask for and receive, and the baptism in which we participate through breaking, recreating, crush the empires of this world, and usher in […]

Body, Bread, Breath & Baptism – July 24, 2022

Tagged With: baptism, body, bread, breath, Colossians, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Gospel of Luke

The Silenced and the Silentious – July 17, 2022

July 17, 2022

Greg Jarrell speaking at Raleigh Mennonite on July 17, 2022

We were privileged to have Greg Jarrell as our guest speaker this Sunday. Chrys introduces Greg, then Eric reads from Mark 9:14-29 before Greg gives the message. The silenced understand the silent spirit spoken about in the Mark passage. What it’s like to be told to go along just to get along. What it’s like […]

The Silenced and the Silentious – July 17, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Mark, Greg Jarrell, Micah, prayer, racism, Silenced, social justice, white supremacy

Where is Wisdom? – July 10, 2022

July 13, 2022

Teresa Kim Pecinovsky preaching at RMC on July 10, 2022 in front of a multi-colored star-shaped quilt.

Rev. Teresa Kim Pecinovsky was our guest preacher this Sunday. In this recording, Susan introduces her and Hans reads the scripture passage from Proverbs 8: 1-4, 22-31 before Teresa brings the message. “Today’s text comes from a rich passage in Proverbs, where the writer chronicles the personification of wisdom. “She is indeed more splendid than […]

Where is Wisdom? – July 10, 2022

Tagged With: liberation, Proverbs, Teresa Kim Pecinovsky, wisdom

Learning from Elijah – June 26, 2022

June 27, 2022

Rachel preaching at RMC on June 26, 2022

Rachel provided the message this Sunday drawn from the story of Elijah in 2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14. It is a strange irony that Elijah, who lived in the shadow of the forces of death for the entirety of his ministry, narrowly avoiding dying of starvation, thirst, violence, depression, should meet the end of his own […]

Learning from Elijah – June 26, 2022

Tagged With: 2 Kings, death, Elijah, Mountain Goats, Rachel Taylor

Advancing the kingdom of heaven – June 12, 2022

June 12, 2022

Yuri preaching at Raleigh Mennonite on June 12, 2022

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-42 While Melissa is on sabbatical we are privileged to have a number of guest speakers. Yuri Yamamoto recently graduated from Shaw University with her Master of Divinity and is commissioned and endorsed by the Federation of Christian Ministries as a Christian minister and chaplain. Yuri is very active in the community and […]

Advancing the kingdom of heaven – June 12, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, kingdom, Sermon on the Mount, Yuri Yamamoto

We are a body – May 29, 2022

May 30, 2022

I Corinthians 12:12-26, Luke 24:44-53 On this last Sunday before Melissa and her family leave for a three-month sabbatical, it was also Ascension Sunday. It was also the Sunday following another deadly mass killing in a Texas school, and just a week after a mass shooting in a Taiwanese church in LA, and a day […]

We are a body – May 29, 2022

Tagged With: Body of Christ, Gospel of Luke, I Corinthians, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Team Jesus? – May 22, 2022

May 24, 2022

Quilt with RMC printed on the bottom and Community, Worship, Peace and Service in squares.

Colossians 2:6-18 It was our annual covenant renewal Sunday, plus the opportunity to welcome new members, plus baby dedication for two of our newest beloveds, along with communion. A full Sunday! In covenanting with others at Raleigh Mennonite, we’re deciding together to trust that a certain story is true, that we can trust that story […]

Team Jesus? – May 22, 2022

Tagged With: Colossians, community, covenant, good trouble, Melissa Florer-Bixler, pacifism

Stitching Stories from Prison – May 8, 2022

May 12, 2022

Cindy Locklear shares at RMC with crocheted prison awareness quilt in the background.

Scripture: Matthew 25:31-45 We were honored to have Sarah Jobe and Cindy Locklear share in today’s service. Melissa introduced chaplain Sarah Jobe from the Interfaith Prison Ministry for Women who shared about the prison awareness quilt crocheted by women incarcerated at North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women as they survived COVID in prison. Cindy shared […]

Stitching Stories from Prison – May 8, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, prison, testimonies, women's prison

Come and have breakfast – May 1, 2022

May 2, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on May 1, 2022

Scripture: John 21:1-19 Jesus visits the disciples a third time after his resurrection, this time as some of them have been fishing. “Where is Melissa going with this sermon?” That’s what many were thinking as she started her sermon, telling us that our bodies are “an island of creatures.” The real body of Jesus joins […]

Come and have breakfast – May 1, 2022

Tagged With: communion, community, Gospel of John, Melissa Florer-Bixler, microbiomes, resurrection

Being Tricksters – April 24, 2022

April 25, 2022

Melissa sitting on the floor telling a story to children who have their hands raised.

Melissa starts out with a story of Brer Rabbit for the children on this Holy Humor Sunday. She then recounts how those who had been enslaved in our country knew how to quietly and secretly assert their resistance, trickery, and humor. They would use ordinary means to confront power they could not fight openly. When […]

Being Tricksters – April 24, 2022

Tagged With: enslaved, holy humor, Jesus, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Psalms, trickery

Creation is reborn – April 17, 2022

April 17, 2022

Congregation facing forward, while Melissa preaches, Zoom screen in the background. Easter Sunday, 2022

On this Easter Sunday we celebrate that creation is reborn, and we with it. The tomb opens and life is born from it. You can’t thwart it or destroy it. You can’t even unbelieve it, or overpower it. Because all that’s left to do here is to bear witness.

Creation is reborn – April 17, 2022

Tagged With: Creation, Easter, Gospel of John, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Creation cries out – April 10, 2022

April 10, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on April 10, 2022

We’re brought up in a system that divides people from commodities. All that other stuff–oceans, animals, trees–all of it is neutral material used to benefit people to make us happier or richer, or to give us more space or more stuff. But we can’t separate ourselves from other creatures because over and over in the […]

Creation cries out – April 10, 2022

Tagged With: colt, Creation, donkey, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Palm Sunday, stones

Pouring out Scarcity – April 3, 2022

April 3, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on April 3, 2022

In this continuing series during Lent, today’s story is about Mary pouring out expensive perfume, washing Jesus’ feet with it and drying his feet with her hair. Rather than agreeing with Judas’ chastisement for wasting money on such extravagance, Jesus says, “She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my […]

Pouring out Scarcity – April 3, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of John, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Pouring out, scarcity, trust

The Angry son – March 26, 2022

March 28, 2022

The parable is The Prodigal Son but Melissa’s sermon focused on the older brother. The brother that stayed behind, served his father, tended the fields and flock and waited for his inheritance. He’s working in the field when his brother returns having squandered the inheritance he demanded while his father was still alive. Facing starvation […]

The Angry son – March 26, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Pouring out, prodigal son, sermon

Pouring out Despair – March 20, 2022

March 21, 2022

Continuing the series during Lent, Melissa preached from Luke 13:1-9. Despair is that intractable boulder that won’t move. Despair is the feeling of weariness after prying and pushing and pulling with all your might. From the passage, Jesus doesn’t provide pat answers when folks come to him in despair. “No, I tell you, but unless […]

Pouring out Despair – March 20, 2022

Tagged With: compost, despair, Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, new life, Pouring out, resurrection

Pouring out Expectations – March 13, 2022

March 13, 2022

Brian Recker preaching at Raleigh Mennonite on March 13, 2022

On this second Sunday of Lent, Brian Recker provided our sermon based on the passage from Luke 9:28-36. The last two years have been tough. During that time we’ve had lots of expectations that have been thwarted. Whether they were expectations in our personal lives or in the world around us, the last few years […]

Pouring out Expectations – March 13, 2022

Tagged With: Brian Recker, Expectations, Gospel of Luke, hope, Lent, Pouring out, transfiguration

Pouring out Control – March 6, 2022

March 6, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on March 6, 2022

On this first Sunday of Lent, Melissa preached from Luke 4:1-13, the story of Jesus’ temptation. The last two years of the pandemic have held untold losses. We are entering Lent brimming with trauma and fear of these past two years. We each have been holding in so much. It’s hard to know what the […]

Pouring out Control – March 6, 2022

Tagged With: Control, Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, pandeminc, Pouring out

It may seem impossible to you – Feb. 27, 2022

February 27, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on Feb. 27, 2022.

Melissa preached from Zechariah 8:1-8. The passage begins with Zechariah prophesying of God’s jealousy. We tend to use the words jealousy, envy and coveting all interchangeably, but in the Bible there are important subtleties. Envy comes from emptiness. Jealousy comes from being full. God doesn’t want other things. God wants you. God’s jealous love is […]

It may seem impossible to you – Feb. 27, 2022

Tagged With: envy, jealousy, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Zechariah

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