Christ the Redeemer College Ministry

Christ the Redeemer College Ministry An Anglican parish dedicated to serving college students in Fort Worth.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your hea...
05/04/2023

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength”.

The Hebrew word for love is the word “Ahava”. The interesting thing about loving God is that He already loves us. This relationship that God called the Israelites to is one where you don’t have to work for the love of God. He simply loves because He is love (1 John 4:8). Moses said to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 7:7-8 that “God showed affection for you. He choose you because of His ahava (love) for you”. The crazy thing is that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son to die for the sins of the world (John 3:16). Love always calls people to sacrifice. It is by its very nature a self giving state. To love is to give.

But what are we giving? When the prayer calls people to love God, it means that we give our very selves to the worship and service of God, leaving no room for reservations, because God Himself didn’t withhold His very best for us when He loved us. Our love ought to mirror God’s love.

Almighty God, who through your only begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting li...
04/10/2023

Almighty God, who through your only begotten Son Jesus Christ overcame death and opened to us the gate of everlasting life: Grant that we, who celebrate with joy the day of the Lord's resurrection, may, by your life-giving Spirit, be delivered from sin and raised from death; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and for ever. Amen

Book of Common Prayer, Collect for Easter Day

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. Psalm 74:16
03/16/2023

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun. Psalm 74:16

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent: a time of penitence, fasting, and prayer, in preparation for th...
02/22/2023

Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the season of Lent: a time of penitence, fasting, and prayer, in preparation for the great feast of the resurrection.

The season of Lent began in the early days of the Church as a time of preparation for those seeking to be baptized at the Easter Vigil. The forty days refer to our Lord’s time of fasting in the wilderness; and since Sundays are never fast days, Ash Wednesday is the beginning of the Lenten Fast.

Throughout the Old Testament, ashes are used as a sign of sorrow and repentance, and Christians have traditionally used ashes to indicate sorrow for our own sin, and as a reminder that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23). Like Adam and Eve, we have disobeyed and rebelled against God, and are under the same judgment, “you are dust, and to dust you shall return” (Genesis 3:19).

But as we are marked with ashes in the same manner that we were signed with the Cross in Baptism, we are also reminded of the life we share in Jesus Christ, the second Adam (Romans 5:17, 6:4). It is in this sure hope that we begin the journey of these forty days, that by hearing and answering our Savior’s call to repent, we may enter fully into the joyful celebration of his resurrection.

Book of Common Prayer, 2019, pg. 542

A 2006 study published in Behavior Research and Therapy found that Vietnam War veterans with higher levels of gratitude ...
12/13/2022

A 2006 study published in Behavior Research and Therapy found that Vietnam War veterans with higher levels of gratitude experienced lower rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. Practicing thankfulness even during the toughest of times contributed to the overall health of people who suffered greatly.

In the book of Philippians by St. Paul, the words "rejoice" and "joy" are used 16 times in just 4 chapters. It has earned the title "the book of joy" rightly so and what's all the more interesting is that St. Paul wrote this letter while in prison. How can St. Paul write so much about joy from a place where joy is naturally absent?

The answer is that although this world is full of troubles and sorrows, we as Christians have all the more reason to rejoice than we do to despair. This is because of the good news that Jesus Christ has overcome the things that make life miserable, namely sin and death. Therefore, as Christmas approaches, let us join with the wider Church to obey St. Paul's charge: "Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!" (Philippians 4:4)

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