Al Zadig's Easter Sermon from Saint Michael's, Charleston

This is what my father as a Jew discovered.
During Rabbinical school studies he was assigned to visit a Christian Church.
But over the course of a year found himself drawn back to that church over and over and didn’t
know why”¦
One day he finds himself going to the altar rail, not to get communion, but to simply receive a blessing,
when all of a sudden, as a Jew, the Living and resurrected Jesus Fills his body-
And in his mind just one sentence,
What if this is all true”¦
What if this is all true?
A year later he’s baptized and receives the Living Lord Jesus through the power of the Holy
Spirit.

Ӣ Are you looking for the dead, among the living?
Ӣ Or the Living among the living?

Read it all and listen if you wish.

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4 comments on “Al Zadig's Easter Sermon from Saint Michael's, Charleston

  1. D a v i d + says:

    Wonderful! Thanks.

  2. Kendall Harmon says:

    I just adore the story this sermon opens with–you could not make that up if you tried.

  3. Pageantmaster Ù† says:

    A very encouraging message, and rather wonderful as David+ says.

  4. Richard A. Menees says:

    A great message that made an impact here as Al’s father did on me when he was my rector in Brookline, Mass. A model handoff of leadership.