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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

2024 Congregational Prayer

May 23, 2024

Purple border surrounding white background with the words, "Raleigh Mennonite 2024 Congregational Prayer"

In April members of Raleigh Mennonite contributed to a congregational prayer. The prayer, compiled from the church’s submitted words and images, was read on Sunday, May 19, when we celebrated Pentecost and the renewal of our covenant to one another. The prayer was also posted on the RMC Instagram feed. God of compassion,we build this […]

2024 Congregational Prayer

Filed Under: Worship Tagged With: 2024, covenant, prayer

Prayer: An Invitation for God to Dwell Within Us – Feb. 11, 2024

February 11, 2024

Melissa Florer-Bixler Sermon at RMC

Mark 9: 2-9 What will we do when we meet God? Will we run away? Cower? Ask questions? Or can we make a tent for God to inhabit and live among us? Melissa Florer-Bixler explores and unpacks the experience of Peter meeting God in the story of the transfiguration of Christ in the Gospel of […]

Prayer: An Invitation for God to Dwell Within Us – Feb. 11, 2024

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

Marshmallow Prayers – May 7, 2023

May 8, 2023

Susan Scott preaching at RMC on May 8, 2023

Susan provided the message this Sunday from John 14:1-14 Jesus tells his disciples to, “Ask for anything in my name and I will give it.” That offer needs to be looked at in context!

Marshmallow Prayers – May 7, 2023

Tagged With: Gospel of John, prayer, Susan Scott

Praying with the Prophets – Aug. 14, 2022

August 15, 2022

Chalice Overy preaches at RMC on Aug. 14, 2022

Scripture: Isaiah 5:1-7, Psalm 80:14-19 Pastor Chalice Overy, from Pullen Memorial Baptist Church, provided the message this morning. Prior to her preaching we heard a rendition of Lift Every Voice and Sing and Chalice begins by sharing with us some of the significance of that song for her. Prayer is a place where our will […]

Praying with the Prophets – Aug. 14, 2022

Tagged With: Chalice Overy, Isaiah, prayer, Prophet, Psalms

The Silenced and the Silentious – July 17, 2022

July 17, 2022

Greg Jarrell speaking at Raleigh Mennonite on July 17, 2022

We were privileged to have Greg Jarrell as our guest speaker this Sunday. Chrys introduces Greg, then Eric reads from Mark 9:14-29 before Greg gives the message. The silenced understand the silent spirit spoken about in the Mark passage. What it’s like to be told to go along just to get along. What it’s like […]

The Silenced and the Silentious – July 17, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Mark, Greg Jarrell, Micah, prayer, racism, Silenced, social justice, white supremacy

The Lord’s Prayer – Feb. 3, 2019

February 3, 2019

Melissa preaching on October 21, 2018

Melissa preaches from Matthew 6:7-21.

The Lord’s Prayer – Feb. 3, 2019

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, Melissa Florer-Bixler, prayer

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