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The Resurrection Is For The Hopeless – April 20, 2025

April 21, 2025

Melissa Florer-Bixler

Luke 24: 1-12 Happy Easter everyone! This week Melissa Florer-Bixler preached from the Gospel of Luke. The women Disciples (the men having scattered) around Jesus, despite their deep grief and despair, stayed with Jesus through his arrest, death, and burial, and then returned only to find the tomb empty save for shining beings that declared […]

The Resurrection Is For The Hopeless – April 20, 2025

Tagged With: Easter, Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resurrection, women in the Bible

Women of the Resurrection – Nov. 6, 2022

November 6, 2022

Melissa expressing herself with her hands while preaching on Nov. 6, 2022

Melissa reflects on and gives voice to the hypothetical woman who was married to seven brothers from the story in Luke 20:27-38. The Sadducees pose this question about the resurrection, but all along what Jesus wanted to tell the Sadducees, wanted to tell us, is that all women, all people, need good news. We need […]

Women of the Resurrection – Nov. 6, 2022

Tagged With: Gospel of Luke, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resurrection, Sadducees, women in the Bible

Giving Voice to the Voiceless – Dec. 12, 2021

December 12, 2021

Brian Recker speaking at RMC on Dec. 12, 2021

Brian Recker provided the sermon on this third Sunday of Advent based on the scripture passages in Judges 13:2-7 and Luke 1:46-56. The writer of Luke doesn’t keep Mary in the margins. Not only do we hear her voice in this passage, this is actually the longest set of words spoken by a woman in […]

Giving Voice to the Voiceless – Dec. 12, 2021

Tagged With: Brian Recker, Gospel of Luke, Judges, marginalized, Mary, women in the Bible

Joyful Resistance – Dec. 5, 2021

December 5, 2021

Melissa exclaiming with a broad smile when preaching at Raleigh Mennonite on Dec. 5, 2021

Elizabeth, herself pregnant, welcomes Mary and offers Mary a blessing. A blessing of resistance to the powers that be. … Read More →

Joyful Resistance – Dec. 5, 2021

Tagged With: Genesis, Gospel of Luke, Holy Spirit, Joy, Melissa Florer-Bixler, resistance, women in the Bible, women's prison

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