Christ City Church, Washington D‪C‬ Christ City Church

Guest preacher Teesha Hadra preaches on the Parable of the Prodigal Son and how God’s forgiveness is the foundation and the model for becoming forgiveness people. [Luke 15:11-24]

 

Teesha Hadra earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Florida. She practiced law for nearly seven years before leaving to begin full time ministry in 2013 at Buckhead Church, a campus of North Point Community Church in Atlanta. Teesha received an MDiv from Fuller Theological Seminary and is ordained to the transitional diaconate in the Anglican Church in North America. She previously served as the Executive Pastor at Church of the Resurrection, an Anglican parish in Los Angeles. Teesha and her husband live in New Orleans where she serves as a Chaplain at University Medical Center. She recently co-authored Black & White: Disrupting Racism One Friendship at a Time with her friend, John Hambrick. 

In a year with so much news, Pastor Justin Fung preaches about the good news of the resurrection, and the hope we have in Jesus. [John 20:1-18]

Pastor Matthew Watson’s Palm Sunday message explores how Jesus entered Jerusalem in protest, reacted in anger to exploitation in the Temple, and then rested. [Matthew 21:1-17]

Guest preacher Aaron Dorsey looks at the story of Moses and the Israelites wandering in the desert in Exodus, reminding us that it is not selfish to pray for our own needs. “Part of God’s nature is to notice, to attend to people and their suffering. It is not something we need to coerce God into. God already attends to us.” [Exodus 15:22-16:8]

 

Aaron Dorsey is studying as a PhD student in Hebrew Bible at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary. His areas of interest include post/decolonial theory, hybridity, and trauma. He is also a musician and avid hobbyist. 

Pastor Matthew Watson preaches about the “already and not yet” of God’s Kingdom, and how we can continue to pray for God’s Kingdom to come and God’s will to be done in the midst of this reality. [Matthew 6:9-13, 13:31-35]

Pastor Andrea Ackermann unpacks the second phrase of the Lord’s prayer. [Exodus 3:13-15, Ezekiel 36:22-23]