Christ Church Evangelical Covenant

Today, we are invited to explore grief, hope, and the coming King through 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 as we wrestle with how the resurrection reframes our losses—big and small—and how honest longing meets the promise ahead. How do we grieve with honesty while staying grounded in what’s ahead? How does our community carry us forward as we await the King? Let's find out.

Turning to Romans 8, we are invited into the “in-between”—the space between what is and what is coming. From the groanings of creation and our own ache toward a hopeful sound, we – along with every good thing around us – find ourselves anticipating all that God has promised. When God's promises feel distant, we are reminded that our God has invited us to press into faithfulness and live with coura...

Today, we take a fresh look at 1 Corinthians 15. What does it mean that the dead will be raised, and that our bodies will be transformed? Paul invites us to unpack familiar images—seeds, earthly versus heavenly, and life after life after death—as we imagine the bodies we will inhabit in a renewed creation. As we consider this passage, we are invited to rethink what physical and spiritual mean toge...

Today, we begin a new series with a sobering, yet hopeful conversation about life, death, and what lies beyond. As we explore 1 Corinthians 15 together, we get a glimpse of how exactly our faith can meet our fear, grief, and longing with care, truth, and a future hope.

When it comes to church, it's not really about showing up for a worship service. The church is a family - a holy nation, a royal priesthood! As we wrap up our Siblingship series, Pastor Cheryl invites a few leaders to share about how Christ Church is trying to live this out as a community where discipleship, compassion, and hospitality intersect in real spaces, here in East Greenwich and beyond.

In the third week of our Siblingship series, we look closer at the ways that God builds a united body from diverse generations. The church is a Spirit-formed body in which every part is placed by God and every member matters. How, then, do we move from spectatorship to participation to reorient our church to be the kind of family God calls us to be?

Pentecost invites us into a living, renovating family. This week, as we continue our Siblingship series, we are exploring Romans 12:9-18 as a blueprint for practicing family life across generations—loving without masks, honoring one another, sharing with those in need, practicing hospitality, and grieving and celebrating together. In a moment when church culture can feel pulled between old rhythms...

Join us as we start a new sermon series focusing on what it really means to be the family of God! As God's people, the idea of kinship extends across all sorts of divisions, allowing the church to embody reconciliation - inside and out. The question for us, then, is: how do we organize our lives around being part of this new family?

As we wrap up our series, Pastor Cheryl invites us to the explore what things could look like when the Spirit awakens us and leads us into bold, outward living. (Hint: a Spirit-filled community responds with courage!) How can our own wells of faith be tended this week?

"The purpose of God for you is change." Today, we are invited to consider a deeper kind of change—not a quick fix, but a life-long metamorphosis sparked by the Holy Spirit. In Romans 8 and Galatians 4, we explores what it means to live as children and heirs of God, and how God’s Spirit actually forms us from the inside out. The Spirit is not a distant force, but is instead a personal presence — he...

As we continue our series on Discovering the Power of the Holy Spirit, we look at three powerful signs that appear through scripture revealing the presence and activity of God — wind, fire, and language. God’s Spirit breathes new life, burns with purpose, and invites a multilingual witness. As we consider it means that we are the temple of the Spirit—how can our lives, speech, and love become indi...

We often expect the Holy Spirit to show up in miraculous, supernatural ways. But today, we are invited to notice the Holy Spirit’s presence in the gaps—the waiting, the ordinary moments, the nudges that remind us we’re not alone. We’ll trace the Spirit’s work from the promise in John 14 to Pentecost in Acts, and onward through Ezekiel’s renewal and Paul’s teaching, discovering that the Spirit is n...

Today, we are invited to slow down on the Emmaus road in Luke 24, where Jesus walks beside two weary travelers. As broken hearts and shattered expectations surface, the risen Christ opens the scriptures to reveal how the story points to himself. Through these travelers, we glimpse what it means to interpret the Bible through Christ, moving from “we had hoped” to recognizing the living presence of...

This week, Pastor Cheryl helps us understand that the resurrection is an invitation to see the moment that God’s kingdom breaks in. Through Jesus’ empty tomb and the two parables in, we glimpse a treasure of unimaginable value that can reshape everything! What would you do if you found such a treasure?

Join us as we kick off Holy Week with a Palm Sunday message, following Jesus from the Mount of Olives into Jerusalem. The donkey, the crowds, the cries of Hosanna—these moments point to a king whose true kingdom, power, and glory unfold in a surprising way. Foretold in Zechariah 9:9 and echoed in Psalm 118, this scene invites us to hear how Jesus quiets the hype yet moves toward the cross. What do...

Today, we're focusing on the final part of the Lord's Prayer as it's written in Matthew: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one." When we consider temptation, we often picture someone struggling between choosing what is right and wanting to do what is wrong. While this may be part of what Jesus meant, his original audience likely understood this prayer a bit differently. As...

In today’s sermon, we are invited to lean into Jesus’ teaching on forgiveness — “forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.” Borrowing from the prodigal son, he explores how God’s forgiveness is enacted, how we move from recognition to release, and how letting go can free us to invest in the Kingdom here and now.

Pastor Cheryl invites us into the idea of daily bread as more than a meal request. In part three of Becoming the Kind of People who Live the Prayer, she helps us ask: how does provision shape who we become? Drawing on Matthew 6:11 and Exodus 16:4–5, the message explores trusting God for today’s needs, how fear can creep in, and how a communal posture can redefine generosity for neighbor near and f...

Pastor Emeritus Lyle Mook shares as we continue our series on the Lord's Prayer, guiding us through the lines that long for God's kingdom to come and His will to be done. Grounded in Matthew 6:9-13 and Luke 11:1-4, with haiku-inspired reflections, we are reminded that prayer is more than words—it's a necessary breath, a pattern for formation, and a shared vocation. How might our prayers become a d...

Today, we begin a Lent-inspired journey through Matthew 6:5-13, the Lord’s Prayer. This message invites us into a rhythm of prayer that forms our identities as beloved children, kingdom apprentices, and a forgiven people—far more than a performance to impress. We’ll wrestle with the line, “Our Father in heaven, holy is Your name,” and hear how this single phrase could become a doorway to everyday...

Two gates, two trees, two houses—yet one King, one invitation. In the conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount, Steven Byler (introduced by Pastor Cheryl Lavornia) invites us to pause and listen for what Jesus asks of those who say they follow him. Through Matthew 7:13-27, the passage contrasts paths, tests of true fruit, and foundations that endure and those that crumble. How does belief differ from...

Pastor Cheryl Lavornia invites us into the heart of Jesus' teachings on judgment, discernment, and love in the Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 7:1-12, she teases apart what it means to “not judge” while still discerning wisely, warning against condemnation and the beam-in-the-eye mindset. She explores Jesus' pearls-to-pigs image, the rhythm of asking, seeking, knocking, and the invitation to live...

Ryan Lospaluto leads us through Matthew 6:19-34., where Jesus creates a contrast for the listener between two paths, two masters, two ways the world tries to secure us. As we consider the ways that we think about our hearts, our possessions, and our daily lives, we are invited to pause, reorient, and consider what truly governs our next steps.

In the next sermon from our Sermon on the Mount series, Pastor Emeritus Lyle Mook challenges us to consider the root of violence in our world, and the ways that it is always opposite the way of Jesus. Following the thread through the Jesus teachings about anger, retaliation, and loving your enemy, we are reminded that the peacemakers (as opposed to the peacekeepers) that will be called the childre...

When Jesus teaches on sex in the gospels, He is not just teaching about physical attraction or creating a set of rigorous demands. Instead, Jesus invites us to consider sexual habits as a reflection a person's beliefs about the value of others. When our desires remain disordered, the ultimate result can often be acts of evil toward them. Jesus offers an alternative to this pain, though, offering h...