Dear Christ Church, Everyday, within us and around us, we hear echoes. Those echoes are things like our yearning for relational connection, beauty, wrongs to be made right, and a sense of transcendent wonder and awe. These are echoes of a Voice; they indicate a source. The Christian story makes sense of these echoes, revealing […]
This week’s guest post is by Christ Church parishioner Katie Fox, leader of the Faith+Arts Ministry. Dear Christ Church, Over the past three weeks we’ve been learning about the “echoes” of God’s presence and work in our world – those divine signposts that point us toward a bigger and truer reality: the longing for
This week’s guest post is by Rev. Herb Bailey, a Captain with Church Army USA or CAUSA – an organization of evangelists expressing the Gospel of Jesus Christ in tangible ways to bring transformation. He serves at Christ Church as Evangelist in Residence. Dear Christ Church, We have a great opportunity to love the
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This week’s guest post is by Wes Crawford, Worship Pastor Dear Christ Church, Join us this Sunday evening from 6:30–8pm for Evensong. From 6:30–7 we will read, pray, and sing the office of Evening Prayer from the Book of Common Prayer, with much of the office set to music (Here is a playlist of some of
This week’s guest post is by Kester Smith, Small Groups Pastor Dear Christ Church, What is the church’s purpose? What is the church here for? What is the point of being a Christian? These may seem like strange questions for a pastor to raise, but asking them can help to reorient us to what is
Dear Christ Church, The church calendar helps us to live each year through the cycle of the story of Jesus and the Church. Today we are still in the season of Eastertide, but this Sunday that changes as we celebrate Pentecost Sunday. The season of Pentecost is also known as “Ordinary Time,”and is the longest
Today’s Guest Post is from Bill Walker, Director of Vocation. Dear Christ Church, It has been four years since I joined the Christ Church staff as the Director of Vocation. The purpose of the Vocation Initiative at Christ Church was to help every unique image-bearer at Christ Church come to a better understanding of Christian
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Dear Christ Church, This week you received an invitation from Fr. Cliff and the Vestry to participate in our church Pledge Drive. (You can catch up and read that note hereif you missed it). Generosity is one of our core values at Christ Church, a heart posture that’s central to what it means to be
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Dear Christ Church Family, We are a generative and generous people. What exactly does “generative” mean? It’s not a word we use in everyday conversation. It means “having the power or function of bringing into existence, originating, producing, or reproducing.” Just as Christ gave everything to generate new life, our sacrificial generosity also produces new
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Today’s guest post from Wes Crawford, Worship Pastor Happy Friday, Christ Church! For many years we have sent teams of Christ Church parishioners to Guatemala to participate in the ministry of a local mission called Potter’s House. This year’s team has been preparing to go the first week of June. In order to help our Guatemala
