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Palm Sunday

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

Palms not Guns – March 28, 2021

March 31, 2021

Melissa holding up a jar during Zoom service March 28, 2021

Scripture: Mark 11:1-11 Melissa reflected on the strange triumph and sorrow and hope mixed together that people in El Salvador might be feeling. Palm Sunday of 1980 was the funeral for Archbishop Oscar Romero. He died because he took the side of the poor during the conflict that lead up to the Salvadorans Civil War. […]

Palms not Guns – March 28, 2021

Tagged With: COVID-19, El Salvador, Gospel of Mark, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Oscar Romero, Palm Sunday, power

Pulling Back the Curtain – April 5, 2020

April 5, 2020

It’s Palm Sunday. Instead of processing around the outside of Hope School as we’ve done the past couple of years, we waved our branches from our homes, worshipping together via Zoom. (See raleighmennonite.org/2020/palm-sunday for a link to the video shared during the service of several RMCers waving branches in front of their homes.) Indeed, things […]

Pulling Back the Curtain – April 5, 2020

Tagged With: COVID-19, Gospel of Matthew, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Palm Sunday

Palm Sunday 2020

April 5, 2020

Zoom meeting gallery view with many people online from their own homes.

This Sunday was unique for RMC, just as it was for many others throughout the world during the pandemic we’re living through. But our worship service brought us together in ways we could not have otherwise been together. Each Sunday since holding our services via Zoom we’ve had the opportunity to be joined together with […]

Palm Sunday 2020

Filed Under: Events, Video, Worship Tagged With: COVID-19, Palm Sunday, video, Worship

The Questions of Holy Week – April 14, 2019

April 14, 2019

Melissa preaching

Matthew 21:1-17 It’s Palm Sunday. The day we celebrate Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem as the King of Peace. But Jerusalem is a powder keg at Passover, and Jesus tosses in a match. It’s not unlike the unrest during the Civil Rights movement, when activists carried out a series of non-violent direct actions, pushing against […]

The Questions of Holy Week – April 14, 2019

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Palm Sunday

The Whole World Has Gone After Him – March 25, 2018

March 25, 2018

John 12:9-19 and Zechariah 9:9-13 On this Palm Sunday Melissa told us about the Alexamenos graffito. Due to some technical issues, the beginning of her sermon is cut off. Jesus isn’t interested in re-imagining the structures or reinforcing nationalism. Instead, the whole world has gone after him, as it says in the Gospel of John. Jesus […]

The Whole World Has Gone After Him – March 25, 2018

Tagged With: Gospel of John, liberation, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Mennonite Central Committee, Palm Sunday

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We are worshipping in person at our downtown Raleigh location at Church of the Good Shepherd. While masks are not required, we ask everyone to be considerate of others’ COVID-related boundaries. We are continuing to provide the service via Zoom for those who are not able to join us in person. Please contact us if you'd like the Zoom connection information.

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