Category Archives: Spiritual Formation

The Church as Epiphany

By Alex Grudem on February 9, 2024 in Church Life, From Our Pastors, Spiritual Formation

If you have been worshipping at Christ Church (or another Anglican church) for any length of time, you have noticed our repeated use of the word “collect” (pronounced KOL-ekt). At…

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Keeping a Holy Lent

By Fr. Chase Campbell on February 1, 2024 in From Our Pastors, Lent, Spiritual Formation

Lent begins in a little under two weeks with Ash Wednesday on February 14th. The Season of Lent is a time of fasting, penance, prayer, and worship. Lent is all…

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A Review of Fleming Rutledge’s Epiphany

By Alex Grudem on January 25, 2024 in From Our Pastors, Spiritual Formation, Worship

In 2022, InterVarsity Press released Lent by Esau McCaulley, the first volume in a series of short books on the liturgical calendar. Since then, The Fullness of Time series has…

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Yet I Will Rejoice in the Lord

By Fr. John Laffoon on January 11, 2024 in From Our Pastors, Spiritual Formation, Worship

Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, through there are no…

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Becket, Wyclif, and Salvation by Wisdom

By Fr. John Laffoon on December 28, 2023 in From Our Pastors, Spiritual Formation

Who has learned your counsel, unless you have given wisdom and sent your holy spirit from on high? And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and…

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