Christ Church Alexandria Sunday Sermon

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"We teach this prayer to our kids, stitch it onto pillows, and whisper it to ourselves in troubling times. But do we really appreciate what we're asking for when we pray it? This prayer is a gift of comfort as many prayers we know by heart are. but the things we hope for when we prayer the Lord's Prayer are more radical than we might realize if we switch to autopilot during its fami...

"Mary and Martha were women to be reckoned with. And the way this gospel story unfolds, we the readers seem to be forced to pit these two formidable women at odds with each other...but when we read it carefully, the text does not support this dichotomy." www.historicchristchurch.org

"Over and over in Luke, Jesus shows us that the way we live into a right relationship with God – the way we justify ourselves, as the lawyer says – is by how we live into a right relationship with, and how we treat our neighbor." www.historicchristchurch.org

"This peace that the apostles practice is a way of being. It's an attitude of hospitality that yearns for but does not expect or necessitate reciprocation." www.historicchristchurch.org

"As Christians, we are called to have concern and care for everyone who has ever felt excluded - like an outsider - because Jesus had concern and care for everyone - especially the excluded and the outsider." www.historicchristchurch.org

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"Bridging stories are about the ways in which we turn towards one another...It's a radical kind of listening. It's a listening that refuses to be a part of breaking apart."  www.historicchristchurch.org

Pentecost Sunday "The question here isn't about how languages are a punishment or a gift, the question is about how we understand our sense of being, our sense of belonging and what truly unifies us." www.historicchristchurch.org

"A more complex understanding of prayer, a more nuanced understanding of a relationship with God believes that prayer changes us, not God. Prayer is not a technique for getting things from God but for strengthening our relationship with God." www.historicchristchurch.org

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"Love in the way that Jesus intends for is not just a magical supply of kindness and benevolence, but instead it's the power to respond to the hatred of our neighbors with words and actions - the kind of words and actions that call them to be their better selves just as we are called to be our better selves." www.historicchristchurch.org

"This can be the way of faith, can't it? Our God has never been crystal clear and mystery free... and that can be uncomfortable." www.historicchristchurch.org

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"Grace. it's a short little word... it packs a big theological punch... It's almost impossible for us mere humans to understand... God gives us more of it than we could ever ask or imagine." www.historicchristchurch.org

"What Christ is asking us to do here is reorient ourselves to him, to God, to move away from the self-justification and into further relationship with him. " www.historicchristchurch.org

"We have all known anguish, grief, and the desire to lament. And no matter how strange it might feel to shout at or get angry with God, lament is good." www.historicchristchurch.org

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"Think about a time when everything just clicked, when the pieces of the puzzle suddenly fit just right and you saw things more clearly... The transfiguration is that feeling times one thousand. My friends, the transfiguration is inviting us to see Christ in the fullness of his majesty." www.historicchristchurch.org

"God remains actively involved and at work in creation... I believe that God works within events and with our choices - the good and the bad, the tidy and the messy, the glorious and the tragic."  www.historicchristchurch.org

"Simon, who has witnessed Jesus' power firsthand is prepared to trust Jesus even though he doesn't know who exactly Jesus is, but that is about to change." www.historicchristchurch.org