Sermons from Christ Presbyterian Church in Burke, VA

For Resurrection Sunday, our Pastor preached from Philippians 2:1-13 on the exaltation of Christ that started on the first Easter morning and what a Risen Christ means for our day to day lives in our jobs and families.

This week, our pastoral intern preached from Luke 15 and the parables of the lost coins, lost sheep, and lost sons, which show us our Father’s great love for us His children.

 This week our pastor preached from Luke 14:25-35 where Christ uses several short parables to explain how we (Christians) can be “salty” (effective) followers of Him.

This week, our pastor finished the second part of the “Meals as Mission” series preaching from Luke 14:12-24.

This week, our Pastor began a two-week sermon series in Luke 14 titled “Meals as Mission.” Christ often uses meals to teach us that the Kingdom of God is a place of feasting and good fellowship. In Luke 14:1-11, we considered how we are recipients of God’s great blessings and grace in Christ and how […]

This week, our Pastoral Intern preached from Luke 13: 22-35, where Jesus teaches us that His kingdom is more exclusive than we realize yet more inclusive than we imagine, and the King is more compassionate than we deserve.

This Sunday, our Pastor preached from Luke 13:10-20 where Christ teaches us (1) what kind of king He is and (2) what kind of kingdom He invites us into.

This week, our Pastor preached from Luke 13:1-9 to help us examine how we should understand suffering – both ours and other people’s.

This Sunday, our Pastor preached from Luke 12:49-59 where Jesus prepares his disciples (and us) to live faithfully  amidst conflict in the world and in our families.

This Sunday, our Paster preached from Luke 12:35-48. In an information age when we are surprised by so many reports of spiritual abuse, this passage provides us an opportunity to listen to Jesus address the topic directly. He has a lot to teach us about his return to this world that should encourage us and […]

This week, our Pastor preached on how Jesus’ words in Luke 12:22-34 will build up our faith in His care and concern for us in a time when many of us are tempted to be anxious and worried about our jobs, careers, and families.

This week, our Pastor preached on Luke 12:13-21 where Jesus teaches the crowds (and us) to be on guard against covetousness and the temptation to measure our life according to money, things, and success. We examined ways we can find contentment amidst a culture of covetousness.

This Sunday, our pastor preached from Luke 12:1-12 on the goodness of God that the Pharisees refused to receive and we sometimes fail to recognize.

This week, our pastor preached from Luke 11:37-52. We examined the marks of a Pharisee that Jesus provides for us as Jesus dramatically confronts and denounces the Pharisees and all those who would load people up with guilt and shame. Our hope and prayer is that we would all be encouraged by the Grace of […]

This week, our pastor preached from Luke 11:27-36 and the glory of Christ that fills our lives with light.

Following our advent series, our pastor returned to the book of Luke and preached from chapter 11, verses 14-28. We considered the Kingship that Jesus reveals about Himself, how His first audience received this revelation, and how we should receive it today.

This week, a guest pastor, the Reverend Mark Moore, preached on the three wise men from Matthew 2.

This week, our pastoral intern preached from Isaiah 52:13-53:12 .  We learned that Jesus is not just the servant of the Lord, but that He is the suffering servant of the Lord. He is the one who was pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities.

Continuing our advent series, our pastor preached from Isaiah 10:5 – 11:13.  We considered God’s kindness and His severity and that God is constantly raising up new growth and new fruit from old trees that he chops down. We learned that God constantly brings out a faithful remnant that he delivers, preserves, and starts over […]

Continuing our advent series, our pastor preached from Isaiah 9:1-7 about the promise of the Divine Child who would grow up to be our “Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” We talked about the “zeal of the Lord” for each of us and His church.

This week, our pastoral intern preached the first of several Advent sermons from the Book of Isaiah. We considered God’s promise that Christ would be (and is now) Immanuel, God with us.

This week, we continued examining Christ’s very encouraging words on how to pray and commune with God from Luke 11:1-13. Please note that due to technical difficulties this week, the sermon audio is significantly degraded compared to our normal recordings.

This week, our pastor preached on Luke 11:1-4.  He discussed how most of us are like Christ’s Disciples. Like us, they knew they should be better at prayer and they wanted to be better at prayer, so they asked Jesus to teach them how to be better at prayer. And He did. He gave them […]

This week, our pastor preached on Luke 10:38-42  and Jesus’ visit to the home of his friends, Mary and Martha. We will considered Martha’s heart, which Jesus says is distracted, anxious, and troubled (like some of our hearts) and then saw how Jesus works to restore peace and shalom in her heart (and maybe ours).

This week, our pastor preached on the parable of the Good Samaritan from Luke 10:25-37 and what it says about the way of everlasting life in God’s Kingdom.