Christ Church Alexandria Sunday Sermon

"How do we continue to do God's will in the world when the bar for authenticity set by Moses and Jesus is impossibly high?" www.historicchristchurch.org

"These are the people God calls on to be God's hands in the world. These are the people who make up our scripture, our church, our families." www.historicchristchurch.org

"The calling of Nathaniel invites you to ponder how this vision resonates with your heart and emboldens you to ministry." www.historicchristchurch.org

Guest preacher the Rev. Dr. Ayla Lepine from St James’s Piccadilly www.historicchristchurch.org

Advent IV www.historicchristchurch.org

Christmas Eve www.historicchristchurch.org

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Advent III "There's nothing wrong with using our time wisely. There's nothing wrong with doing the work of self improvement or wanting to look and be our very best... unless that's become a distraction from looking toward the coming Christ." www.historicchristchurch.org

Rev. David Beckmann has been part of Christ Church for more than 30 years. During most of that time, he was president of Bread for the World, a nationwide ecumenical Christian advocacy movement that urges our nation's elected leaders to do their part to end hunger in our country and around the world. He was awarded the World Food Prize for Bread for the World's role in the dramatic reduc...

Advent I "There's so many people," he sings, "Everybody is here. I saw the girls from the office, I saw those guys from the street. You might think you are lost, but then you find that God draws straight, but with crooked lines."  www.historicchristchurch.org

"The approach of Advent, paired with Thanksgiving in the rearview mirror, means that another Episcopal tradition begins - a series of great debates on how the season of Advent should be celebrated." www.historicchristchurch.org

"We've all been given grace and we have the gift of faith. How then, do we put it to work?" www.historicchristchurch.org

"Remember that God loves you, and God will never lose you." www.historicchristchurch.org

"The beatitudes are not just platitudes, but principles to govern our lives and to show us a new way of living." www.historicchristchurch.org

" 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' By lifting up this commandment as second, Jesus shows us just how necessary loving others is to fulfill God's will... But who is my neighbor?" www.historicchristchurch.org

Prayer is both a first response and a last resort … Even when we don’t know how or what to pray, the Spirit helps us. www.historicchristchurch.org

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250th Anniversary Guest Preacher The Rev. A. Katherine Grieb, Ph. D., is an affiliated faculty member and director of the Center for Anglican Communion Studies. She joined the VTS faculty in 1994. Her expertise includes Greek language, New Testament Interpretation, Romans, Hebrews, social justice, Biblical storytelling, and theatre. Before coming to VTS, she taught at Bangor Theological Seminary....

Part of our 250th anniversary guest preacher series.  Professor McGowan was appointed Dean and President of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University in 2014. An Anglican priest and historian, his scholarly work focuses on the life of early Christian communities, and on aspects of contemporary Anglicanism. www.historicchristchurch.org

"Forgiveness is complicated. We could have a sermon every single week of the year on forgiveness and still not be able to grasp the complexities and the relational power dynamics of forgiveness." www.historicchristchurch.org

Today we hear the institution of the Passover meal. It is deeply important, not just because it helps us understand the traditions of our Jewish brothers and sisters, but also because it reminds us of the nature of God and what God wants for us.  www.historicchristchurch.org

"In response to Moses' disbelief, God promises one thing - I will be with you. This is no empty promise. God's promise is baked into the very essence of who God is." www.historicchristchurch.org

September 250th Anniversary preacher www.historicchristchurch.org

"While Jacob is indeed the patriarch of our spiritual lineage, he's not necessarily always a role model. kind of your Uncle Billy, who is mostly a really good guy, except for when he used to run moonshine in the hills. But these are our people." www.historicchristchurch.org

"This is why we read these stories - it's like your grandmother telling you how your parents met, or about your aunt's first marriage that maybe you didn't know about... they are the stories of our very long ago ancestors. Welcome to the table."  www.historicchristchurch.org