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Creation

Lean not on your own understanding – May 4, 2025

May 4, 2025

Melissa preaching at RMC in front of a quilted banner on May 4, 2025.

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-8 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart,   and do not rely on your own insight.In all your ways acknowledge him,   and he will make straight your paths.” It’s easy to “weaponize” this teaching in Proverbs, to make us believe that the rational or scientific reasoning may be suspect. That can open us up to a […]

Lean not on your own understanding – May 4, 2025

Tagged With: Creation, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Proverbs, trust, wisdom

I’m not sure about that… What Gender Is God? – May 5, 2024

May 5, 2024

Genesis 1: 26-31 Our recent societal and political experiences with the concept of gender are highly charged, to say the least, and often the insistence of a black and white interpretation of God’s word is used as a club to injure others who do not share our viewpoint. Sarah Neff, a student at Duke’s Divinity […]

I’m not sure about that… What Gender Is God? – May 5, 2024

Tagged With: Creation, gender, gender binary, Genesis, God's gender, God's image, I'm not sure about that..., Sarah Neff

Creating from Darkness and Deep Waters – Aug. 13, 2023

August 13, 2023

Elizabeth Korver-Glenn speaking at Raleigh Mennonite in front of a colorful quilted wall hanging on Aug. 16, 2023

RMC’s summer series on the Genesis account of creation continues with this Sunday’s sermon by Elizabeth Korver-Glenn. Dr. Korver-Glenn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis, and a member of Raleigh Mennonite. Elizabeth began by sharing from a booklet she and Randall received at their wedding. God creates out of […]

Creating from Darkness and Deep Waters – Aug. 13, 2023

Tagged With: Creation, darkness, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Genesis

Imagining a World Amidst Creation – July 30, 2023

July 30, 2023

Dr Derek Hicks preaching at Raleigh Mennonite in front of a colorful quilted wall hanging, July 30, 2023.

Continuing the summer’s theme on creation, this Sunday Dr. Derek Hicks brought the sermon. Dr. Hicks is associate professor of Religion and Culture at Wake Forest University. What is creation for ALL if some are pushed to the margins? Or left out altogether? How does that square with the radical nature of Jesus’s declarations about […]

Imagining a World Amidst Creation – July 30, 2023

Tagged With: Creation, Derek Hicks, food, Genesis, marginalized

God Wars & Global Theology – July 23, 2023

July 23, 2023

Carving of the Chaos God and a Sun God as told in the "Enuma Elish" which is the Babylonian creation myth.

Our summer series focusing on the creation story from the beginning of Genesis continued. Dr. Christopher Hays, president of Scholar Leaders, joined us this Sunday. He shared the Babylonian creation story, the “Enuma Elish,” comparing and contrasting it with the biblical creation story. The Enuma Elish provides insight into how the contemporaries of the ancient […]

God Wars & Global Theology – July 23, 2023

Tagged With: Christopher Hays, Creation, Genesis, stories

Naming and Caring – July 9, 2023

July 9, 2023

Chas Edens, a man with dark hair and a beard preaches at Raleigh Mennonite in front of a colorful banner.

As our summer series focused on creation from Genesis 1 continues, Chas Edens brought the message this morning. Melissa introduces him at the outset. Do we name and care for creation, for the environment, as an asset or part of our livelihood, an extension of ourselves? How we look at it may depend upon our […]

Naming and Caring – July 9, 2023

Tagged With: caring, Chas Edens, Creation, Creation care, Genesis

Creation Faithfulness Practices

June 6, 2023

Listing of those, with their images, who will be speaking during the summer creation series at Raleigh Mennonite.

As part of our summer of creation, we’re encouraging everyone at Raleigh Mennonite to pick up one (or more!) new practice(s) to try for the summer. You might want to try one practice for a few weeks to try it out. Or you might try one practice for a month at a time.  Whatever you […]

Creation Faithfulness Practices

Filed Under: Events, Service Tagged With: climate change, Creation, practices, summer

Pay Attention! – Sept. 18, 2022

September 18, 2022

A dark ocean scape with craggy rocks in the foreground, clouds in the sky with the sun's rays shining out from behind a dark cloud.

In the midst of our busyness it’s easy to miss the beauty of God’s extravagant creation all around us. Through the poetry of Psalm 65 and several more modern authors, Melissa recounts more of her sabbatical journey and encourages us to stop and notice that we too are a part of the joyful abundance of […]

Pay Attention! – Sept. 18, 2022

Tagged With: beauty, Creation, Melissa Florer-Bixler, mindfulness, poetry, Psalms

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

Creation’s Gift – Sept. 5, 2021

September 6, 2021

Melissa preaching on Sept. 5, 2021

Scripture: Genesis 1 & 2 Melissa began her message by sharing the video “Manoomin: Food That Grows on the Water” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eOz8CPW0m0]. The audio is included in this recording. For the Anishinaabe creation is a gift. But it’s also a gift that forms a bond not just between giver and receiver, but between creatures. The concept of […]

Creation’s Gift – Sept. 5, 2021

Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, gifts, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Made in God’s image or like God? – Sept. 1, 2019

September 3, 2019

Melissa preaching

Made in God’s image or like God? – Sept. 1, 2019

Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, Melissa Florer-Bixler

God shows up at the Table – Aug. 25, 2019

August 25, 2019

Place setting with A Year at the Table in text over the plate

Genesis 1 Melissa’s sermon was preceded by viewing a video featuring James Weldon Johnson reciting the poem The Creation. The poetry of Genesis is where we’re starting our “Year at the Table.” Our lives are dependent upon creation, just as they’re dependent upon a loving, creative God. Every time we eat, we are reminded that […]

God shows up at the Table – Aug. 25, 2019

Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, Melissa Florer-Bixler, poetry, table

God’s Gift of Grandeur – Sept. 2, 2018

September 2, 2018

Melissa preaching May 6, 2018

This Sunday marks the beginning of a new study of Genesis. Prior to Melissa’s message from Genesis 1, Pam read a poem, “God’s Grandeur” by Gerald Manly Hopkins. There is mystery in the creation story. Everything in the world is a pure gift, an unmerited pure act of God’s love that somehow has intersected with […]

God’s Gift of Grandeur – Sept. 2, 2018

Tagged With: Creation, Genesis, love, Melissa Florer-Bixler

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