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Follow the Water of Life – Feb 9, 2025

February 9, 2025

Romans 6: 3-4 What does it mean to baptized into Jesus’ death or walking in the newness of life? Melissa Florer-Bixler unpacks this passage in Romans by explaining some of the symbolism of baptism, the three fold nature of baptisms, and what this means for us as Christians and Anabaptists. The water used in baptism […]

Follow the Water of Life – Feb 9, 2025

Tagged With: Anabaptism, baptism, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

Stumbling Toward the Promised Land – Feb. 25, 2024

February 28, 2024

Melissa preaching in front of a colorful quilted background.

On this second Sunday in Lent, Melissa preached from Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 and Romans 4:13-25, focusing on the story of Abram. Way before Moses gives those laws on the tablets, Abram is righteous before there’s a temple to sacrifice things in. Even before circumcision. And that’s really important, especially for us, because most of us […]

Stumbling Toward the Promised Land – Feb. 25, 2024

Tagged With: Abram, Genesis, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans, Wilderness

No One Needs to Know You’re a Chicken – March 26, 2023

March 29, 2023

Melissa preaching at RMC on March 26, 2023.

On this fifth Sunday of Lent Melissa preached from Romans 8:6-11. Our bodies are not neutral. We are formed by environments, constrained or freed, or subjected to housing laws and legal decisions, physical borders, corporations. Our bodies, our racialized bodies, our aging bodies, our gendered bodies, these are formed by forces much larger than our […]

No One Needs to Know You’re a Chicken – March 26, 2023

Tagged With: Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

Seeing & Not Believing – March 19, 2023

March 19, 2023

Melissa preaching at RMC on March 19, 2023, with a quilt behind her and a plant and stalks of brown grass and wheat on a table in front of her.

On this fourth Sunday of Lent Melissa preached from John 9:1-41 and Romans 5:1-11. The story of Jesus healing the man who was born blind, and the subsequent questioning by the Pharisees illustrates the difference between being cured and being healed. After he gains his sight, he is repeatedly questioned by the people in power […]

Seeing & Not Believing – March 19, 2023

Tagged With: blind, Gospel of John, grace, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

Confession and Sin – March 12, 2023

March 14, 2023

Melissa preaching at RMC on March 12, 2023 in front of a quilted wall hanging.

On this third Sunday of Lent, Melissa spoke from Romans 5:1-11. Most of our sins aren’t interesting or dangerous. They’re mostly petty and boring and cruel. We short change both the chasm of our failings and the grace of God when we limit the scope of our sins to doing bad things. Our sins are […]

Confession and Sin – March 12, 2023

Tagged With: confession, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans, Sin

Questions of Identity – March 5, 2023

March 5, 2023

Melissa preaching at Raleigh Mennonite in front of a quilted wall hanging.

On this second Sunday of Lent Melissa preached from Romans 4:1-5, 13-17, weaving in basketball with the ongoing theme of confession, along with talking about community and identity. What if our identity isn’t a story about heroics or world-changing? What if the only way to tell each other apart is that we forgive each other?

Questions of Identity – March 5, 2023

Tagged With: community, confession, Identity, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

Making God into Something Else – Feb. 26, 2023

February 27, 2023

Melissa preaching at RMC on Feb. 26, 2023 in front of a quilted wall hanging.

On this first Sunday of Lent, Melissa preached from Genesis 2:15-17 & 3:1-7 and Romans 5:12-19. During this season we are focusing our time and attention toward “confession.” We have varied experiences with confessions. Confession is when we come clean, when we tell the truth about who we are. We are not God!

Making God into Something Else – Feb. 26, 2023

Tagged With: Genesis, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

In Hope We are Saved – June 30, 2019

July 4, 2019

Melissa preaching at RMC on June 30, 2019

Romans 8:18-30 Hope seen through Arethra Franklin, the Holy Spirit, and our own congregation.

In Hope We are Saved – June 30, 2019

Tagged With: Aretha Franklin, hope, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Romans

The Promise of Pentecost – June 9, 2019

June 23, 2019

Rachel preaching July 15, 2018

Acts 2:1-4, Romans 8:14-39 Rachel draws from Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime to recount the power of understanding many languages. Pentecost calls us to welcome others, to be changed, to be vulnerable, to learn new languages. “The promise of Pentecost is that we are being made into a people, speaking many languages, to praise […]

The Promise of Pentecost – June 9, 2019

Tagged With: Acts, languages, Pentecost, Rachel Taylor, Romans, Trevor Noah

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