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Raleigh Mennonite Church

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  • Audio from Raleigh Mennonite Church: primarily the sermons from Sunday morning worship, but some other surprises show up occasionally as well.
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Episodes
  • Redefining Triumph and Success – March 24, 2024
    Mar 24 2024

    Mark 11: 1-11

    Note: The English voice you hear in this podcast is that of the translator. You can hear Miguel in the background, preaching in Spanish

    In this sermon, RMC's Miguel Cruz preaches on the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem as related in the Gospel of Mark. While we often focus on the exhilaration of the scene with Christ surrounded by followers and having performed miraculous healings and casting out of demons in the previous verses, Miguel asks us to focus on the transition that is taking place at this moment in Jesus' life, ministry, and future which should act as a guide to order our own lives. Jesus arrives on a humble donkey, argues with the priests and vendors, curses a fig tree, and talks intimately with his followers about prayer, taxes, wealth, power, and betrayal. Miguel helps us to see in these passages that Jesus is leading us to a new understanding of triumph and success that rejects the accumulation of wealth, material possessions, and positions of power that the world teaches us to expect and respect.

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    15 mins
  • A Good Life Looks Like Wheat – Mar. 17, 2024
    Mar 17 2024

    John 12: 20-33

    Note: At 2:19, ten seconds of audio was lost due to a technical problem during the live recording.

    Melissa Florer-Bixler preaches on a time in Jesus' life where there is no time left for ministry, but only to speak to those present of his imminent demise and fulfillment of God's plan. The Jesus who has constantly upset our comfortable balance with life and often called us to the do opposite of what we instinctively think correct, again reminds us that if we choose to follow Jesus faithfully, our path will lead to the cross. But the wheat that dies bears a field of fruit, albeit of a type we may not expect to be helpful in creating what we think the Kingdom of God should look like. Herein lies a freedom that comes from our vulnerability, in giving up our attempts to control and rectify the problems of the world, history, politics, and society. We can instead leave it to a God that is always faithful in his love and work of redemption. Our sacrifices, living the life of wheat, brings more wheat, which brings more wheat - beautiful, vulnerable, and a fundamental part of our calling to follow Christ.

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    13 mins
  • The Difference Between Snakes Sent and Snakes Let Go – March 10, 2024
    Mar 10 2024

    Numbers 21: 4-9 John 3: 14-21

    Our perspective on the trials and tribulations of life can have a profound effect and how we formulate our understanding of God's character and our own place and purpose in God's creation. Melissa Florer-Bixler preaches on the long and arduous Exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt and how their focus on the harsh environment, dangers, and discomforts of the wilderness caused them to doubt the truth of God's love and divine plan for their rescue. God's response to their criticism wasn't to send snakes as a punishment but to let them go: to remove some of the many divine protections that had quietly always been in place. God's constant effort shielded God's people from sand storms, snakes, bandits, and had mapped out places to rest and drink. When the desert started biting with a vengeance and yet God also gave Moses a new means for salvation, the people suddenly realized a new perspective about how much of God's love and planning for them existed that they had never perceived. Melissa asks us to consider this shift of perspective within our own lives as we think about Easter, the crucifixion, and why God sent his son in the flesh to die for us. Did Christ come just to fix the giant wilderness we have made of this Eden, and that God is set in wroth against his rebellious creation unless they bend the knee? Or...has God, from before the beginning, cared for, loved, shielded, and planned for our existence in a harsh wilderness and the death of God's son came as a demonstration that God would rather, more than anything, be with us than without us?

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    14 mins

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