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Ruth

Imagining a different future – Nov. 24, 2024

November 24, 2024

Scripture: John 18:33-37 and Ruth 3 Ruth forged a future where there wasn’t one. Her mother-in-law Naomi only sees a life of constriction, defined and closed. She sees no options, no future. Ruth, on the other hand, is a future-oriented person. She consistently speaks in the future tense. While she might have told Naomi, “I […]

Imagining a different future – Nov. 24, 2024

Tagged With: Gospel of John, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth

What we need is here – Nov. 17, 2024

November 18, 2024

Melissa preaching on Nov. 17, 2024, holding her hands out a bit, looking to her right, while standing in front of a purple and yellow star-shaped quilted wall hanging.

Scripture: Ruth 2 In the book of Ruth two of the thousands of nameless poor people of those times take center stage. The story is not about powerful men carrying out great works. Ruth and Naomi live in the time of political chaos. Sound a little familiar? This short story–just four chapters–traces God’s intricate work […]

What we need is here – Nov. 17, 2024

Tagged With: faithfulness, love, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth, Wendell Berry

What do we do now? – Nov. 10, 2024

November 10, 2024

Melissa preaching in front of a ribbon banner.

Scripture: Ruth 1:15-18 What do we do when we are shocked, overwhelmed and devastated? When our hands feel empty and the troubles to come feel so massive? What do we do now? The petty dictators of this world, however severe their terrors, they do not change who God is and how God’s word in Jesus […]

What do we do now? – Nov. 10, 2024

Tagged With: anxiety, fear, frustration, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth

Lineage – Aug. 26, 2018

August 26, 2018

Melissa preaching at RMC June 10, 2018

Melissa finishes up her series on the book of, and the person, Ruth. But Ruth shows up another time, at the beginning of the New Testament. The genealogy listed in Matthew 1 mentions three very unique women, including Ruth. Remnants of Ruth show up in Jesus generations later. Ruth 4, Matthew 1, Matthew 9:20-38

Lineage – Aug. 26, 2018

Tagged With: Gospel of Matthew, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Rahab, Ruth, Tamar

Remade by Courage – Aug. 19, 2018

August 26, 2018

Melissa preaching at RMC June 10, 2018

Melissa continues her series on Ruth, focusing this Sunday on Ruth 3:1-18. We join the message a few minutes in.

Remade by Courage – Aug. 19, 2018

Tagged With: courage, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth

As It Happened – August 12, 2018

August 12, 2018

Melissa preaching at RMC June 10, 2018

Melissa continues her series on Ruth, focusing on Ruth 2. Transcript

As It Happened – August 12, 2018

Tagged With: Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth

Ruth – July 29, 2018

July 31, 2018

Melissa preaching at RMC June 10, 2018

Ruth leaves what she knows and follows Naomi back to Bethlehem. Ruth arrives in Bethlehem, a land she doesn’t know where they worship a God she doesn’t know. Ruth 1 Transcript

Ruth – July 29, 2018

Tagged With: faith, gleaning, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Ruth

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These photos are from last Sunday, but today was P These photos are from last Sunday, but today was Pastor Melissa's last day as pastor of Raleigh Mennonite. We will miss her but wish her all the best as she pursues doctoral studies at Duke Divinity. 

She shared this Jan Richardson blessing with us:

This Day We Say Grateful
A Sending Blessing

It is a strange thing
to be so bound
and so released
all in the same moment,
to feel the heart
open wide
and wider still
even as it turns
to take its leave.

On this day,
let us say
this is simply the way
love moves
in its ceaseless spiraling,
turning us toward
one another,
then sending us
into what waits for us
with arms open wide to us
in welcome
and in hope.

@melissa.florerbixler
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