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Gospel of Luke

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

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

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

Bringing relevance to Leviticus – Jan. 30, 2022

January 31, 2022

Rachel preaching at RMC on Jan. 30, 2022

Rachel preached from a passage not often preached about, Leviticus 12:1-8. Leviticus is sometimes a book of the Bible that we need to read multiple times and keep wrestling with. The book spells out in a very nuts and bolts sort of way what it meant for the ancient Israelites to love your neighbor as […]

Bringing relevance to Leviticus – Jan. 30, 2022

Tagged With: gender equity, Gospel of Luke, Leviticus, parental support, Rachel Taylor

Giving Voice to the Voiceless – Dec. 12, 2021

December 12, 2021

Brian Recker speaking at RMC on Dec. 12, 2021

Brian Recker provided the sermon on this third Sunday of Advent based on the scripture passages in Judges 13:2-7 and Luke 1:46-56. The writer of Luke doesn’t keep Mary in the margins. Not only do we hear her voice in this passage, this is actually the longest set of words spoken by a woman in […]

Giving Voice to the Voiceless – Dec. 12, 2021

Tagged With: Brian Recker, Gospel of Luke, Judges, marginalized, Mary, women in the Bible

Joyful Resistance – Dec. 5, 2021

December 5, 2021

Melissa exclaiming with a broad smile when preaching at Raleigh Mennonite on Dec. 5, 2021

Elizabeth, herself pregnant, welcomes Mary and offers Mary a blessing. A blessing of resistance to the powers that be. … Read More →

Joyful Resistance – Dec. 5, 2021

Tagged With: Genesis, Gospel of Luke, Holy Spirit, Joy, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resistance, women in the Bible, women's prison

Acts of Love for Our Neighbors? – Oct. 24, 2021

October 24, 2021

Melissa preaching at Raleigh Mennonite, Oct. 24, 2021

Scripture – Luke 10:30-37 Those of us who grew up in the church have heard the story of the Good Samaritan many times. In this continuing series on gifts, Melissa draws fresh insights from the story.

Acts of Love for Our Neighbors? – Oct. 24, 2021

Tagged With: gifts, Good Samaritan, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, neighbors

The Gift of Three Stories – Oct. 17, 2021

October 18, 2021

Scripture: Luke 6:20-36 This Sunday we were privileged to hear unique and powerful stories of three different gifts received by individuals in our congregation. Elizabeth K. shared about the gift of a piano she received as a 17-year-old. Nina shared about the gift a foster family provided her when she was growing up–and the colander […]

The Gift of Three Stories – Oct. 17, 2021

Tagged With: Brenda NM, Chrys, Elizabeth K., gifts, Gospel of Luke, Nina, SJ

Grief & Hope – Dec. 27, 2020

December 29, 2020

Ann doing a monologue as Anna in the temple

Scripture: Luke 2:22-40 – On the Road to Rejoicing The prophet Anna–portrayed this morning by Ann–witnessed Jesus’ arrival at the temple and foretold about the hope that Jesus would bring. What a strange Advent season it has been. Mourning the loss of life through COVID-19 and the racial injustice we continue to see. What have […]

Grief & Hope – Dec. 27, 2020

Tagged With: Ann Roberston, Anna, COVID-19, Gospel of Luke, grief, hope, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Zoom

Do Not be afraid – Dec 20, 2020

December 20, 2020

I Samuel 7:1-11, 16 & Luke 1:26-38 – On the Road to Revelation God selected Mary, a young woman to deliver the Lord Jesus in to the world. She was afraid and then heard a an angel’s voice “Greetings you who highly favored, the Lord is with you”. She heard the voice again “Don’t be […]

Do Not be afraid – Dec 20, 2020

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gospel of Luke, I Samuel, Jackie Parker, Mary, Melissa Florer-Bixler, sermon

One Mennonite’s Perspective on Living into Communion – Feb. 16, 2020

February 16, 2020

Dr. Malinda Berry preaching at RMC on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2020

Luke 22:14-23 Our guest preacher this Sunday was Dr. Malinda Berry. This was part of the weekend she spent with us teaching on our Mennonite theology of Communion and how we might create a robust and living theology of table as a local community. Communion helps us connect with each other. Malinda drew in part […]

One Mennonite’s Perspective on Living into Communion – Feb. 16, 2020

Tagged With: A Year at the Table, communion, Gospel of Luke, Living More with Less, Malinda Berry, Mennonite, table, theology

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