by Kyle | Nov 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
by Paul GutackernDirector, Brazos FellowsnCampus Minister, Anglican Student Ministriesn____nFrom its beginnings, Christ Church has welcomed and cared for students. Whether to undergrads, graduate students, seminarians, or Brazos Fellows, ministry to students has been...
by Kyle | Mar 30, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Palm Sunday, April 2, 2023, we welcomed Bishop Ryan Reed to Christ Church for the liturgy of Confirmation. I want to offer some brief reflections on what Confirmation means for Anglican Christians. There are two basic aspects to what’s happening here.nnFirst, in...
by Kyle | Mar 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
For most of the Sundays of Lent we recite the Great Litany in the place of an opening hymn and the Prayers of the People. This makes it appropriate to consider the Litany’s major emphases. I believe that, along with more general petitions, the Great Litany has three...
by Kyle | Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
One of the gifts of our spiritual life at Christ Church is a robust practice of making confession to God in the presence of a priest. While this can be strange and uncomfortable, especially at first, many people have reported finding wonderful grace through this...
by Kyle | Dec 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
Today, the fourth day of Christmas, is also the Feast of the Holy Innocents. This day casts a shadow of sorrow in the midst of a great festival of joy. It provides a dark chiaroscuro to the portrait of the young Messiah. Before Jesus is more than a toddler, his family...
by Kyle | Dec 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
nThom Gardner’s Strongholds of Untruth and Scriptural Responses to ThemnnI have been asked to summarize the 7 lies that the world tells us and the Christian response I enunciated in my Advent II sermon. nn1. Fear – the lie that I am alone in the dangerous waters of...
