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Gospel of Luke

The Resurrection Is For The Hopeless – April 20, 2025

April 21, 2025

Melissa Florer-Bixler

Luke 24: 1-12 Happy Easter everyone! This week Melissa Florer-Bixler preached from the Gospel of Luke. The women Disciples (the men having scattered) around Jesus, despite their deep grief and despair, stayed with Jesus through his arrest, death, and burial, and then returned only to find the tomb empty save for shining beings that declared […]

The Resurrection Is For The Hopeless – April 20, 2025

Tagged With: Easter, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resurrection, women in the Bible

The Gospel of All Creation – April 13, 2025

April 14, 2025

Luke 19: 28-40 What could we possibly have to learn about the Gospel message from a donkey? Luke spends as much time in his Gospel on the donkey Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday as he does on the Lord’s Supper. Melissa Florer-Bixler reminds us this Palm Sunday that our Anabaptist ancestors were keenly […]

The Gospel of All Creation – April 13, 2025

Tagged With: donkey, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Palm Sunday

Rewriting the story of justice – March 30, 2025

March 30, 2025

Scripture: Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 How many times have we heard Jesus’s parable of the Prodigal Son from Luke 15? While the focus is usually on the son who leaves with his share of the inheritance and squanders it away, Melissa brings us a fresh perspective on the father and the eldest son. Not only was […]

Rewriting the story of justice – March 30, 2025

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, penance, prodigal son

Anger Without Sin – March 16, 2025

March 16, 2025

Jordan Morehouse's first sermon at RMC

Luke 13: 31-35 Many of us are uncomfortable, especially pacifists, with anger and how we treat each other when tempers flare. The Bible is clear, however, that Jesus often became frustrated or upset with those around him, and even God gets angry too. Jesus, though angry with his own disciples and the evils of Herod […]

Anger Without Sin – March 16, 2025

Tagged With: action, anger, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, righteousness

Jesus’s Son of God SAT Test – March 9, 2025

March 9, 2025

Melissa preaching on March 9, 2025

Scripture: Luke 4:1-13 When Jesus is tempted in the desert, Satan offers Jesus power over all of the world, which Satan has been given, if Jesus will just worship Satan. (Luke 4:6) God has handed over the powers of this world to a cosmic being called Satan. We may wonder why God allows this arrangement. […]

Jesus’s Son of God SAT Test – March 9, 2025

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Satan, temptation

Prayer: Describing Our Reality – March 2, 2025

March 8, 2025

Melissa preaching, using her hands for expression, March 2, 2025.

Scripture: Luke 9:28-36 As told in this passage from Luke, through Jesus’s transfiguration we learned that prayer is getting caught up in God’s glory. To pray is to know at any minute you could be surrounded by the glory of God. Prayer invites us into a wholly different relationship with God than that of extraction […]

Prayer: Describing Our Reality – March 2, 2025

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, prayer, transfiguration

What are you waiting for? – Feb. 2, 2025

February 2, 2025

Phil speaking at Raleigh Mennonite on Feb. 2, 2025.

Scripture: Luke 2:22-40 Simeon and Anna were waiting for something big their whole lives. They were waiting for God to keep their promises. When Mary and Joseph brought Jesus to the temple to be consecrated, Simeon knew what he had been waiting for had come to pass. Looking at that little baby’s face Simeon was […]

What are you waiting for? – Feb. 2, 2025

Tagged With: Anna, Gospel of Luke, Phil Jackson, promises, Simeon, waiting

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

Guide Our Feet, Lord – Dec. 22, 2024

December 22, 2024

Emily Alexander preaches

Luke 6: 17-36 Our intern Emily Alexander preaches from the Gospel of Luke on the final week of Advent, as we ready ourselves to celebrate the good news of Christ’s kingdom arriving. In this passage, Jesus is trying to get his followers accustomed to a radically new kind of kingdom philosophy. He inverts the natural […]

Guide Our Feet, Lord – Dec. 22, 2024

Tagged With: Advent, Emily Alexander, Gospel of Luke, Kingdom living

A Leap of Faith – Dec. 15, 2024

December 16, 2024

Melissa Florer-Bixler 12-15-2024

Luke 1:46b-55 Melissa preaches in the third week of Advent on Mary’s leap of faith to obey God, immaculately conceive and eventually give birth to our savior. As an unmarried, pregnant, Jewish woman, Mary had to put her reputation, future, and life at risk given the societal and medical conditions of Israel in antiquity. Likewise, […]

A Leap of Faith – Dec. 15, 2024

Tagged With: faith, free will, Gospel of Luke, Mary, Melissa Florer-Bixler

The Power of Starting Over – Dec. 8, 2024

December 8, 2024

Melissa F-B preaches advent week 2

Luke 3: 7-18 The second week of advent Melissa preaches on John the Baptist from the Gospel of Luke, who is paving the way for the coming of Christ. His message is fiery, convicting, and demands dramatic change of those who would desire to answer God’s call. However, Melissa reminds us that John’s call is […]

The Power of Starting Over – Dec. 8, 2024

Tagged With: baptism, chaff, Gospel of Luke, John the Baptist, Melissa Florer-Bixler, repentance

What To Do With Worry – Dec. 1, 2024

December 2, 2024

Luke 21: 25-36 What do you do when the stress, cares, and bad headlines of this world weigh you down and threaten to choke out the life-giving good news of the Gospel? As Advent begins, Melissa Florer-Bixler looks to this week’s passage in the Gospel of Luke for inspiration. Jesus had just finished informing his […]

What To Do With Worry – Dec. 1, 2024

Tagged With: fig tree, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Parable, worry

I’m not sure about that… Doubt – April 14, 2024

April 14, 2024

Juliet behind the podium and Melissa behind a music stand preaching at Raleigh Mennonite.

Luke 24:36-48 In this second in a series exploring questions, wonderings, and themes that come from our congregation, Juliet joins Melissa to bring today’s message. After Jesus’ resurrection, he keeps showing up. Jesus meets their doubt with what they need and gives it to them. Jesus helps us know that we all are special. What […]

I’m not sure about that… Doubt – April 14, 2024

Tagged With: doubt, Gospel of Luke, I'm not sure about that..., Juliet, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Christ the Hidden King – Nov. 26, 2023

November 26, 2023

Susan Scott preached during Christ the King Sunday, and yet the lectionary scripture for this sermon is Luke 23: 33-43, telling of the crucifixion of Jesus where he is mocked by the guards and one of the condemned for proclaiming his lordship. Susan invited us to see the kingship of Christ not as a ruler […]

Christ the Hidden King – Nov. 26, 2023

Tagged With: Christ the King Sunday, crucified Christ, crucifixion, Gospel of Luke, Jesus, kingdom

We are Bread – April 23, 2023

April 23, 2023

Melissa preaching at RMC on April 23, 2023

Melissa preached from Luke 24:13-35 on this third Sunday of Easter. Bread weaves a thread through the pages of scripture. Bread is a character in our salvation story. Even though they had talked at length with this stranger, it wasn’t until the two traveling on the road to Emmaus sat and broke bread with Jesus […]

We are Bread – April 23, 2023

Tagged With: beloved, bread, communion, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler

Alexamenos adores his god – Nov. 20, 2022

November 20, 2022

An ancient carving on a wall depicting a man raising his arm to a man with a donkey's head and the saying "Alexamenos adores his god."

Scripture: Luke 23: 33-43 On this Sunday celebrating the reign of Jesus, Melissa shared the image of some graffiti archaeologists uncovered depicting a man with his arm raised toward a man with a donkey’s head nailed to a cross. Under it bears the inscription “Alexamenos adores his god.” There are frequently two depictions of Jesus. […]

Alexamenos adores his god – Nov. 20, 2022

Tagged With: Alexamenos, Christ the King Sunday, crucified Christ, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Reign of Jesus

Women of the Resurrection – Nov. 6, 2022

November 6, 2022

Melissa expressing herself with her hands while preaching on Nov. 6, 2022

Melissa reflects on and gives voice to the hypothetical woman who was married to seven brothers from the story in Luke 20:27-38. The Sadducees pose this question about the resurrection, but all along what Jesus wanted to tell the Sadducees, wanted to tell us, is that all women, all people, need good news. We need […]

Women of the Resurrection – Nov. 6, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resurrection, Sadducees, women in the Bible

Standing up for Justice – Oct. 16, 2022

October 17, 2022

Four photos combined with Melissa in the top left, David R in top right, RED in lower left and Elizabeth K-G in lower right

Melissa began the four-part message sharing the story of the widow who demanded justice from the judge in Luke 18:1-8. This was followed by three stories of RMCers who shared out of their calling to work for social justice in their varied roles: Rachel “RED” Davis, Elizabeth Korver-Glen and David Rohrer.

Standing up for Justice – Oct. 16, 2022

Tagged With: David Rohrer, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Rachel Davis, social justice

Seeing Out to the Margins – Oct. 2, 2022

October 7, 2022

Susan preaching on Oct. 2, 2022 in front of a multi-colored quilt hanging.

Susan brought the message from Luke 16:19-31, telling the story of the rich man and Lazarus. How often are we so caught up in our own world that we miss those at the margins? And it’s not just about being blind to those at the margins but about being so sure you know what God […]

Seeing Out to the Margins – Oct. 2, 2022

Tagged With: blind, Gospel of Luke, least of these, Rich man and Lazarus, Susan Scott

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

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

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

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

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