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Parable

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

The Terrible Parable – Nov. 19, 2023

November 19, 2023

Mellissa F-B November 19 2023

Melissa’s sermon focused on Matthew 25: 14-30, the Parable of the Talents. This passage has often been used to justify a variety of teaching praising rampant capitalism or aggressive evangelization and placing God in the role of the master who casts out the lazy slave into darkness for burying the talent he should have invested. […]

The Terrible Parable – Nov. 19, 2023

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, Justice, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Parable

Staying Awake, Pouring Out Hope – Nov. 12, 2023

November 12, 2023

Melissa’s sermon this Sunday focused on the parable from Matthew 25:1-13 about the bridesmaids waiting for the long-delayed bridal party, with all of them falling asleep and half of them running out of lamp oil. Jackie and Trixie provided a reenactment of how things maybe could have gone better had they stayed awake. What might […]

Staying Awake, Pouring Out Hope – Nov. 12, 2023

Tagged With: darkness, Gospel of Matthew, hope, light, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Parable

Understanding God, Ourselves, and Cycles of Violence Through the Parable of the Wedding Banquet – Oct. 15, 2023

October 15, 2023

Melissa preaching in front of a quilt at our sanctuary on Oct 15 2023.

Matthew 22: 1-14 The Parable of the Wedding Banquet We often try to interpret parables to find easy lessons and clear allegories, but Melissa Florer-Bixler invites us to ask how the “Parable of the Wedding Banquet” interprets ourselves, the recent violence in Israel and Gaza, and where we can find the character of God and […]

Understanding God, Ourselves, and Cycles of Violence Through the Parable of the Wedding Banquet – Oct. 15, 2023

Tagged With: Gaza, Gospel of Matthew, grief, Israel, Parable, Wedding Banquet

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