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Swimming Toward Sharks – May 25, 2025

May 25, 2025

Melissa preaching at RMC on May 25, 2025, with one hand extended.

Scripture: Isaiah 12:1-6 Melissa opened her sermon sharing about a man who helped rescue a friend who was attacked by a shark. He swam directly toward the injured swimmer, putting himself in direct vicinity with the shark. The backstory behind most people who show real bravery in the midst of danger is that they have […]

Swimming Toward Sharks – May 25, 2025

Tagged With: courage, Grant Bowser, hope, Isaiah, Melissa Florer-Bixler, sharks, testimony, trust

Lean not on your own understanding – May 4, 2025

May 4, 2025

Melissa preaching at RMC in front of a quilted banner on May 4, 2025.

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-8 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart,   and do not rely on your own insight.In all your ways acknowledge him,   and he will make straight your paths.” It’s easy to “weaponize” this teaching in Proverbs, to make us believe that the rational or scientific reasoning may be suspect. That can open us up to a […]

Lean not on your own understanding – May 4, 2025

Tagged With: Creation, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Proverbs, trust, wisdom

Abiding – May 14, 2023

May 16, 2023

Father Jemonde Taylor and Pastor Melissa prepare communion at St. Ambrose Church

This was a unique Sunday when Raleigh Mennonite joined St. Ambrose Episcopal for a joint worship service in St. Ambrose’s sanctuary. Father Jemonde Taylor and Pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler brought a dialogical sermon from the gospel reading in John 14:15-21. During Lent the choirs from both churches joined together to learn about and sing songs from […]

Abiding – May 14, 2023

Tagged With: abide, blackness, Gospel of John, Jemonde Taylor, Melissa Florer-Bixler, racism, trust, white supremacy

Pouring out Scarcity – April 3, 2022

April 3, 2022

Melissa preaching at RMC on April 3, 2022

In this continuing series during Lent, today’s story is about Mary pouring out expensive perfume, washing Jesus’ feet with it and drying his feet with her hair. Rather than agreeing with Judas’ chastisement for wasting money on such extravagance, Jesus says, “She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my […]

Pouring out Scarcity – April 3, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of John, Lent, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Pouring out, scarcity, trust

Encounters with Jesus – May 5, 2019

May 8, 2019

Melissa speaking at the Dec. 24, 2018 Christmas Eve service.

Acts 9:1-19 Melissa’s retelling of the story of Saul on the road to Damascus brings a fresh perspective. Experiencing Jesus changes us. God is no longer a set of propositions, no longer a belief system that needs to be defended by logic. Instead, faith is seen in how our life is lived.

Encounters with Jesus – May 5, 2019

Tagged With: Acts, Damascus, faith, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Saul, trust

Born of Water & Spirit – Jan. 28, 2018

January 28, 2018

Melissa Florer-Bixler preaching at RMC on Jan. 21, 2018

Today’s message came out of John 3:1-21. Nicodemus wasn’t quite ready to trust Jesus yet, approaching him at night.  He asks what he must do to enter the kingdom. Jesus’ initial responses are rather nebulous. Then we hear what is maybe the best known verse in the Bible. Melissa helps unpack it all. In John’s gospel, […]

Born of Water & Spirit – Jan. 28, 2018

Tagged With: baptism, Gospel of John, kingdom, Melissa Florer-Bixler, Nicodemus, trust

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