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A Holy Week Survival Guide
RezBlog editor, Eucharistic team leader, and veteran of 8 Holy Weeks at Resurrection, Meghan Robins takes a humorous, service-by-service look at how to plan ahead for Holy Week. A contract for a full-length book is pending. RezBlog editor, Eucharistic team leader, and veteran of 8 Holy Weeks at Resurrection, Meghan Robins takes a humorous, service-by-service look at how to plan ahead for Holy Week. A contract for a full-length book is ...Continue Reading
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Grand Opening
Church of the Resurrection hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony this Sunday, December 16th at their new home, a reclaimed plastics factory originally designed by Chicago Modernist architect David Haid. After two years of planning and construction, the church celebrated its Grand Opening weekend with tours of the newly finished building, a Christmas concert, and an intimate ribbon-cutting ceremony presided over by Wheaton Mayor Michael Gresk.
Church of the Resurrection hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony this Sunday, December 16th at their new home, a reclaimed plastics factory originally designed by Chicago Modernist architect David Haid. After two years of planning and construction, the church celebrated its Grand Opening weekend with tours of the newly finished building, a Christmas concert, and an intimate ribbon-cutting ...Continue Reading
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Clergy Corner
"Clergy Corner” is a new blog series featuring our beloved priests and deacons. It will focus on a different person each month and be full of tidbits of information you simply do not want to miss. This month we are talking with Father Kevin Middlesworth. "Clergy Corner” is a new blog series featuring our beloved priests and deacons. It will focus on a different person each month and be full of tidbits of information you simply do not want to miss. This month we are talking with Father Kevin ...Continue Reading
God's Work Through Resurrection's First Healing Conference
This past fall, Church of the Resurrection hosted our first ever Healing Conference. Over the course of three days, the theme “Hope for Wholeness” was played out through a dynamic combination of preaching, teaching, worship, and healing. Each session began and ended with worship, and many were followed by a powerful ministry time of healing prayer. The weekend acted as a culmination of Resurrection’s commitment to healing ministries, and by the closing communion service it was clear that many at the conference had encountered God.
This past fall, Church of the Resurrection hosted our first ever Healing Conference. Over the course of three days, the theme “Hope for Wholeness” was played out through a dynamic combination of preaching, teaching, worship, and healing. Each session began and ended with worship, and many were followed by a powerful ministry time of healing prayer. The weekend acted as a culmination of ...Continue Reading
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Creative Conversations with Jesus: The Artists Group and the Man Born Blind
This Lent, we asked some of our Resurrection artists and writers to engage with the Bible passages that are the focus of our Lenten sermon series, “Conversations with Jesus.” Today’s pieces are the result of reflections by Resurrection artists on John 9:1-38. This Lent, we asked some of our Resurrection artists and writers to engage with the Bible passages that are the focus of our Lenten sermon series, “Conversations with Jesus.” Today’s pieces are the result of reflections by Resurrection artists on John ...Continue Reading
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Ash Wednesday- A Gathering of Notorious Sinners
“[Lent] was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church.”-BCP
I don’t know about you, but I don’t think of myself as a “notorious” sinner. If anything, I pride myself on keeping my sins cloaked in a discreet cloud of humility, penetrable only by those close enough to me that they see through my politeness. Yet every year I look forward to Ash Wednesday, the day that I can literally wear the awareness of my sinfulness on my forehead.
“[Lent] was also a time when those who, because of notorious sins, had been separated from the body of the faithful were reconciled by penitence and forgiveness, and restored to the fellowship of the Church.”-BCPI don’t know about you, but I don’t think of myself as a “notorious” sinner. If anything, I pride myself on keeping my sins cloaked in a discreet ...Continue Reading
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Wait in Hope
Merry Chri… I mean, Blessed Advent! Despite the fact that I have been attending Church of the Resurrection for almost eight years, it was not until this Advent that I noticed that Anglican banter that surrounds Christmas. First it was “Happy New Year!” on the first Sunday of Advent, followed by an only half-joking insistence on replacing the deeply engrained “Merry Christmas” with a ...Continue Reading
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Why We Celebrate All Saint’s Day
I grew up in France, where All Saint’s day (“Toussaint”) is a national holiday celebrated mainly by a two-week vacation for schoolchildren. At the time I did not bother to wonder what the weeks of freedom commemorated, and it was only recently that I stopped to think about those early holidays in conjunction with the Church celebration I have come to love.
I grew up in France, where All Saint’s day (“Toussaint”) is a national holiday celebrated mainly by a two-week vacation for schoolchildren. At the time I did not bother to wonder what the weeks of freedom commemorated, and it was only recently that I stopped to think about those early holidays in conjunction with the Church celebration I have come to ...Continue Reading
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I do... But Just Not Anymore
It is surprisingly radical amongst evangelical Christians to believe in marriage as a sacrament, but in a world where the process of divorce is almost as common as the institution it denies, such a view can be our saving grace. Marriage cannot merely be a legal binding of two entities. It is not a secular celebration of love and expensive parties in which you get to show off your good taste. Marriage is no mere human union, but a sacrament that God uses for the sanctification and multiplication of his people.
It is surprisingly radical amongst evangelical Christians to believe in marriage as a sacrament, but in a world where the process of divorce is almost as common as the institution it denies, such a view can be our saving grace. Marriage cannot merely be a legal binding of two entities. It is not a secular celebration of love and expensive parties in which you get to show off your good taste. ...Continue Reading
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Pentecost: Happy Birthday Church!
Every family has its own birthday traditions. In my husband’s family, you were allowed to eat sugary cereal and stay in your pajamas and play video games all day. In mine, we picked our favorite meal and cake and helped my mom cook them. Interestingly enough, the Church has her own birthday tradition. In it, her people wear red and eat bread and drink wine and celebrate baptisms. This tradition is called Pentecost, and it is our spiritual birthday.Every family has its own birthday traditions. In my husband’s family, you were allowed to eat sugary cereal and stay in your pajamas and play video games all day. In mine, we picked our favorite meal and cake and helped my mom cook them. Interestingly enough, the Church has her own birthday tradition. In it, her people wear red and eat bread and drink wine and celebrate baptisms. This ...Continue Reading
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