Christ Church Alexandria Sunday Sermon

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"I once heard someone say 'God always goes to where the people are.' And we see in both of these stories, God doing just that - on the move, out and about, not collecting materials to build a structure but collecting people to build a household. To build a community of people who respond to the clamoring of the world, to meet them where they are, with compassion, with healing, with...

My friends: If it's not about love it's not about God. www.historicchristchurch.org

"We are held, always and forever, in the heart of the God who loves us beyond measure." www.historicchristchurch.org

"Even when it feels like your body is connected to Jesus only by the thinnest, flimsiest thread, he is always there at the other end." www.historicchristchurch.org

"We, like the disciples, run the risk of thinking we've got Jesus all figured out." www.historicchristchurch.org

"Whenever truth is spoken to power, power gets nervous. Power teaches us over and over that change should be resisted, that anything new is to be feared. But more often than not what we are told to resist and fear is not new, but rather, things that we have never encountered before. Things that have always been there. Things that have always been true." www.historicchristchurch.org

"There is a holiness in asking questions that seek the truth." www.historicchristchurch.org

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Guest preacher The Rev. Canon Titus Presler, Th. D., D.D. Executive Director of the Global Episcopal Mission Network www.historicchristchurch.org

"And just to make this abundantly clear... the Holy Spirit shows up again, demonstrating to anyone who had previously thought to call the Holy Spirit theirs and theirs alone, the spirit of God cannot and will not be contained. The spirit will do what the spirit will do." www.historicchristchurch.org

The Rt. Rev’d James Joseph “Bud” Shand was appointed as a Visiting Bishop in the Diocese of Virginia by Bishop E Mark Stevenson in January, 2024. He will serve in the Diocese from January through May of 2024. He is based in Northern Virginia. Bishop Shand is the retired Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese of Easton (Maryland), where he served from 2003 to 2014. www.historicchristchurch.org

"Isn't it just like Jesus, who... seeks those who've been told they don't belong and brings them into the baptismal waters of belonging." www.historicchristchurch.org

"What if, instead of seeing this as Jesus' act of proof of bodily resurrection we see it instead as Jesus' permission to find joy rather than pain or frustration at the table?" www.historicchristchurch.org

"Christ's love transforms us all and through that love, if we let it, the world is transformed." www.historicchristchurch.org

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The Passion Narrative According to Mark www.historicchristchurch.org

“Hope” is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words - And never stops - at all - www.historicchristchurch.org

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"Love is a promise - a promise for a future we may never see ourselves." www.historicchristchurch.org

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"When we allow ourselves to be afraid, we allow ourselves to be vulnerable... and such a vulnerable heart is a heart that will not fail to be touched by God's love." www.historicchristchurch.org

What does diakonia mean? www.historicchristchurch.org