Dear Christ Church, How do you look at art? Are you looking for something, or at something, or through something? Does the art ever “look” at you, provoking an insight about yourself or the world? Katie Fox will help us with these questions. This afternoon at 5:30 we have a special event, exclusively for Christ Churchers, […]
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Today’s CliffNotes is written by Care Pastor Claire Ratliff and parishioner Katherine Ryan. Dear Christ Church, This spring we will begin the 13th year offering Living Waters, a relational healing ministry. Through weekly worship, teaching, and confidential small group prayer over the course of a semester, Living Waters explores the roots of sexual and
Dear Christ Church, Our church property is drenched from the lovely rainfall we have received in the past 24 hours. Our beautiful plants are alive with color! Come and see the glorious display of God’s creation. We are excited to host our Parish Retreat on our property tonight through Saturday evening. Parish Retreat
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This week’s guest post is by Christ Church parishioner Melissa Crawford, member of the Mission Team. Dear Christ Church, I had the privilege to travel to El Paso, Texas/Juarez, Mexico last week with a small team from our church to participate in Abara’s Border Encounter. I was excited to learn more about immigration and the
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Dear Christ Church, Most Friday mornings I have a habit of pausing to read this quote about friendship. This comes from the book of Sirach, an ancient Hebrew collection of wise sayings: Faithful friends are a sturdy shelter: whoever finds one has found a treasure. Faithful friends are beyond price; no amount can balance their
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Dear Christ Church, “Confession is discipleship.” This little sentence appears in one of my top ten books on the Christian life, Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Every single one of us knows the weight of guilt, the heavy heart, or the dull sense of frustration with our failure to live up to our own ideals, the beauty, truth,
Dear Christ Church, I’ve got a lot to tell you about this week, beginning with a reminder to arrive early this Sunday (if you normally attend the 11am service) for our Annual Parish Meeting at 10:30 am. And all you early birds who come to the 9am service, stick around afterwards as we share with you
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Dear Christ Church, Yesterday was the feast day of St. Matthew. As we move deeper into our year-long sermon series through his gospel, I wanted to share a few details about this beloved apostle: Prior to following Jesus, Matthew was a tax collector who would have been a social outcast both to his employers (Romans)
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Dear Christ Church, Each of the four gospels, since the 2nd century, has been associated with a different winged creature: a lion (Mark), a calf (Luke), an eagle (John), and a human (Matthew). The wings allude to angelic qualities (angels are “messengers,” an apt description of a gospel writer) and the type of creature hints
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Brian Wallace will be consecrated as Suffragan Bishop this Saturday, at 9am Central. You can watch the Consecration service livestream here. This week’s guest post is by Christ Church parishioner Ann Cushman, one of the members of our Missions Team. Dear Christ Church, When I attended my first Abara Border Encounter, a dormant seed deep down
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