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Bound together by water – Jan. 12, 2025

January 12, 2025

Melissa preaching on Jan. 12, 2025 in front of a purple and yellow quilted banner.

Scripture: Luke 3:15-17, 21-22 Jesus’s baptism is what shows that he was not just the Son of God, but also human. His baptism is what shows his solidarity with humans. On this Sunday, Melissa encouraged us to take time to remember our own baptisms, or to consider becoming baptized if we weren’t already. Baptism in […]

Bound together by water – Jan. 12, 2025

Tagged With: baptism, community, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Melissa Florer-Bixler, water

Two Things Can Be True : It’s Complicated – Jan. 28 2024

January 28, 2024

Melissa Florer-Bixler Sermon 1-28-2024

Scripture 1 Corinthians 8: 1-13 How do we conduct our lives as believers when our decisions affect not only ourselves, but can cause harm or distress to other Christians or those in other communities around us? What do we do when our choices are technically righteous, but still harm other believers with a different interpretation? […]

Two Things Can Be True : It’s Complicated – Jan. 28 2024

Tagged With: community, Corinthians, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Paul

Spirit Empowered Community – May 28, 2023

May 28, 2023

Scripture: John 20:19-23; Acts 2:1-21 On this Pentecost Sunday we also celebrated the birthday of Raleigh Mennonite and the annual renewal of our covenant together. We take time to remember that we’ve said “yes” to showing up for one another. There’s no rule book for how to do this. The only tools we’re given to […]

Spirit Empowered Community – May 28, 2023

Tagged With: Acts, community, Gospel of John, Holy Spirit, Melissa Florer-Bixler, peace, Pentecost

Questions of Identity – March 5, 2023

March 5, 2023

Melissa preaching at Raleigh Mennonite in front of a quilted wall hanging.

On this second Sunday of Lent Melissa preached from Romans 4:1-5, 13-17, weaving in basketball with the ongoing theme of confession, along with talking about community and identity. What if our identity isn’t a story about heroics or world-changing? What if the only way to tell each other apart is that we forgive each other?

Questions of Identity – March 5, 2023

Tagged With: community, confession, Identity, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

What’s it mean to be a Mennonite at RMC? – Jan. 23, 2023

January 23, 2023

Collage of four images: in the upper left a globe with cross in it, Karina in upper right, John in lower right and Christina in the lower left, each speaking at Raleigh Mennonite on Jan. 23, 2023

Scripture: Luke 18:35-43, I Peter 1:3-6 On this Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday Karina Gonzalez, John Frye and Christina Hershey each shared a bit of their journeys and what it means to them to be Mennonite and part of this community. John’s sharing included several slides.

What’s it mean to be a Mennonite at RMC? – Jan. 23, 2023

Tagged With: Anabaptism, Anabaptist World Fellowship Sunday, Christina Hershey, community, John Frye, Karina Gonzalez, Mennonite

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

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

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

Bee’s Knees – Sept. 20, 2020

September 24, 2020

Rachel shares her joys, pains and insights of keeping Bees. Bees only survive by working together in community. In Philippians 1:21-30 Paul doesn’t offer Jesus as a path to prosperity nor does he advocate seeking suffering. Instead he is honest that following Jesus is filled with beauty, joy and community but comes at a cost.

Bee’s Knees – Sept. 20, 2020

Tagged With: Bees, community, COVID-19, Philippians, Rachel Taylor, sermon

Pie-it-Forward

June 9, 2020

An apple cranberry pie with a star-shaped crust.

by Jackie ParkerA blog entry in response to our “A Year at the Table” series. One Sunday, during the sharing portion of our worship, I revealed I was having a hard time—that the pandemic, fear for people’s health, and physical distancing were taking a toll—and with no end in sight, I was starting to feel […]

Pie-it-Forward

Filed Under: Table Tagged With: A Year at the Table, communion, community, COVID-19, fellowship, food, pie-it-forward, table

Communion during the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 2, 2020

Communion elements, an Easter wreath with flowers and candles, and a laptop in the background.

By David and Rosene Rohrer, with photo by Karin Shank Having learned from each other about the variety of ways communion is celebrated around the world, we easily adjusted to observing this important practice from our homes during the novel coronavirus pandemic in 2020.  One Sunday for our virtual service (via Zoom) we each chose […]

Communion during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Filed Under: Table, Worship Tagged With: A Year at the Table, communion, community, COVID-19, table

Here in this Place – Jan. 26, 2020

February 3, 2020

Melissa preaching, holding up hands, Jan. 26, 2020

Matthew 5:21-24 and 1 Corinthians 11:17-26 Melissa reflects on the place where we have worshiped since 1994 and how that has affected us as a community.

Here in this Place – Jan. 26, 2020

Tagged With: building, community, hope, Melissa Florer-Bixler

What happens after communion?

February 1, 2020

Two people sharing unique communion elements in El Salvador.

by David Rohrer Throughout history communion has been wrought with conflict. Heated debate focused on: Who can participate? Who can officiate? What’s required to prepare for communion? What elements are used? What process occurs in those who partake? Is Christ in the host (bread) or only there with his “real presence?” Is communion necessary for […]

What happens after communion?

Filed Under: Table Tagged With: A Year at the Table, Christian base communities, communion, community, El Salvador, history, Luther, peace, sara-wenger-shenk, social justice, table, Zwingli

De-mummification of Rigid Communion Ritual

February 1, 2020

Delegation around dinner table planning El Salvador itinerary

by David Rohrer Below are highlights from my reading of Laurel Marshall’s masters thesis regarding the practice of communion and baptism in Christian base communities in El Salvador: The role of liberation theology in informing communion and baptism. The emphasis on sharing and inclusiveness in practicing the communion.  Caring for one another as being a way […]

De-mummification of Rigid Communion Ritual

Filed Under: Table Tagged With: A Year at the Table, baptism, Christian base communities, communion, community, El Salvador, hospitality, Laurel Marshall, liberation-theology, table

Communion and Hospitality

February 1, 2020

by Shannon Hess Our short time in El Salvador left me with a lot to process and a lot to reflect on, much of which I haven’t even tried to begin to put into words. I can’t honestly say that I really put much thought into Communion before our congregation started asking questions and making […]

Communion and Hospitality

Filed Under: Table Tagged With: A Year at the Table, Christian base communities, communion, community, El Salvador, hospitality, table

Radical Hospitality

January 31, 2020

The El Salvador delegation with hosts from the El Rodeo community.

by Belissa Acosta My main takeaway from going to El Salvador is the radical hospitality that the members of the base communities showed us. The way they opened up their homes to us and shared what they had made me realize a few things about my own goals in life. For the past couple months, […]

Radical Hospitality

Filed Under: Table Tagged With: Christian base communities, communion, community, El Salvador

Remembrance of baptism – Jan. 12, 2020

January 12, 2020

Melissa preaching at RMC on Oct. 27, 2019

Matthew 3:3-17 NOTE: There were electronic issues during the recording which caused interference in the audio. It gets progressively worse toward the end of the recording, but it’s a good sermon, so if you can persevere, it’s worth it! Baptism is a little death. At the same time, all of life is baptism. There is […]

Remembrance of baptism – Jan. 12, 2020

Tagged With: baptism, church, community, Gospel of Matthew, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Fall Intergenerational Retreat

September 23, 2019

This was the official kick-off retreat for our year’s study of table fellowship and communion practices at RMC. We looked at some ways God called God’s people to table fellowship and reflected on the ways we’ve experienced table fellowship and communion in the past and the present.

Fall Intergenerational Retreat

Filed Under: Events, Table Tagged With: communion, community, Retreat, table

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