Christ Church NC

Psalm 2 together with Psalm 1 functions as an introduction to the Psalter. Before teaching God’s people to pray, Psalm 2 reminds us who we are. We are God’s people, walking God’s path, following behind God’s King.

Before teaching us how to pray, the book of Psalms poses a question: what path are you on and where does it lead? Psalm 1 compares God’s path to man’s and invites us to take the path that leads to life.

This sermon seeks to set Baptism and The Lord’s Supper into their broader biblical context to help us identify them as one of the ways that God delivers His Word to His people. It is an exercise in biblical theology and theological reasoning intended to deepen our experience of church life and Sunday worship. Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are God’s visible Word, re-preaching and manifesting God’s...

What is actually happening when the Church gathers for worship? In this sermon from Hebrews 12, we trace the Bible’s recurring mountain imagery from Eden to Sinai to Zion and ultimately to Christ in order to show that worship is far more than education or inspiration—it is the gathered Church ascending Mount Zion through Christ to meet with the living God.

Paul began the letter to the Ephesians with abstract theology as he spoke to us about powers, principalities, heavenly places, divine fullness, mysteries, and new creation. But he ends the letter with normal people doing normal things in order to show us that the cosmic mission of God cashes out in ordinary embodied faithfulness.

In Ephesians 6:10–17 Paul teaches us that spiritual warfare is usually not sensational, but conventional—the daily battle to maintain a heavenly perspective in the midst of earthly troubles, trials, and annoyances. God does not leave His people defenseless in this battle, but strengthens us through worship with His gathered people, and by clothing us in His own armor as He forms His character and...

In Ephesians 6:1-9 (and 5:22-33) Paul teaches us how to make our households hum the happy working song of the New Creation as authority and servanthood are reimagined and reshaped by Christ.

In Ephesians 5:22-33 Paul shows us that marriage is more than a social arrangement—even more than “the building block of society.” Marriage is a living picture of the Gospel. In these verses Paul paints a beautiful picture of Jesus’ love for church and he makes it the paradigm for understanding marriage. Paul invites us to participate in preaching the powerful Gospel of Jesus through our practical...

In this sermon we explored a biblical theology of womanhood and motherhood through the lenses of sacred architecture, life, and new creation. Eve is not merely “made,” but “built” from Adam’s “side,” using language that echoes the construction of the tabernacle and temple. Woman is presented as part of the sacred architecture of God’s world—a living pillar helping uphold a creation filled with God...

In Ephesians 5:1–21, Paul shows us that the Christian life is not just about personal transformation—it’s about the renewal of the world. As those who were once darkness but are now light in the Lord, our lives expose what is broken not by fixating on it, but by embodying something better. This kind of light doesn’t just reveal—it awakens. And as the Spirit fills God’s people, that awakened life t...

Paul shows us how to walk the road out of exile, teaching us the practices and habits that will shape us into the kind of people who belong where God is taking us. Our exile from the life of God (Eph. 4:18) conditioned us to fill ourselves up illicitly and fleetingly with carnal pleasures, but the man who has returned to the life of God—being filled up with it—no longer has to work on filling hims...

Christ leads us out of exile and forms us into a unified, mature people who are learning to live like we belong in the home he’s bringing us to.

In Ephesians 3:14–21, Paul is driven to his knees in prayer under the weight of the cosmic calling God has placed on the church (3:10). But in prayer that weight is lifted, as the love of Christ and the power of God are revealed as the guarantee of the mission’s success.

On Easter morning, the story of Scripture begins again. In John’s Gospel, Jesus rises where humanity first fell, turning the site of ruin into the birthplace of renewal.

In Ephesians 3:1–13 Paul says that the mystery that’s been hidden for ages is being revealed in the church—that mystery is the coming together of all peoples in Christ. It’s unification without coercion—conquest by compassion. The Church is made up of Jew, Gentile, slave, free, man, woman, rich, and poor, all found to be one in Christ. This is the picture of the end of the world. And it is a glori...

In Ephesians 2, Paul shows how Christ fulfills Israel’s sacrificial system—removing our sin, paying our debt, raising us into new life, and bringing us into peace with God and one another. What once happened through sacrifices in the temple is now accomplished in Christ and applied to His people, culminating in a shared meal of fellowship with God.

Paul prays that the church would see what is already true: Jesus is reigning, resurrection power is already at work, and the church is the instrument through which Christ will fill the world. Because these truths are so surprising, God must open the eyes of our hearts to believe them.

Ephesians 1:3-14, a dense, 202 word sentence in Greek, is a majestic explosion of worship as Paul announces that a rescue of even greater importance than The Exodus has taken place through Jesus and is working itself out among His people.

Ephesians 1:1-2 is a beautiful reminder of a simple, but profound truth: God loves you and He wants you with Him. This sermon explores the shape of that love and shows us how to remain rooted in it.

In this opening message on Ephesians, we explore Paul’s sweeping announcement that the New Creation has already begun. The King has been crowned. Heaven and earth are being reunited. A new humanity has been formed. And through the church, God is displaying His wisdom to the world. God is making us new so that we can renew the world.

In Haggai 2:20–23, God promises to reverse a curse His people could never undo. The Davidic “signet ring” once torn away in judgment is restored, pointing beyond Zerubbabel to Christ. In Jesus, the logic of the old world is overturned: death no longer spreads uncontested—life does. The resurrection inaugurates new creation, and the Church now lives as the King’s signet ring, bearing resurrection l...

This sermon names the limits of our obedience—clarifying what it can and cannot accomplish. Haggai 2:15–19 shows how much obedience matters in practical ways and how dramatically responding to God can change our lives. But verses 11–14 make it clear that obedience, while powerful, is not powerful enough to heal the deepest fracture we face. That problem requires something beyond our faithful actio...

In Haggai 2, God meets a discouraged people longing for the glories of the past and reorients their hope toward the future. This sermon explores how God moves His people from nostalgia to new hope and calls the Church to participate in the building of an even more glorious temple and kingdom than Solomon’s.

This sermon brings us into God’s halftime pep talk as He encourages and recommissions His people to get them back in the game after a season of failure.

Christmas doesn’t conclude the story—it starts it. This sermon from John 1 shows how Jesus’ birth launches God’s work of new creation in the world. The Spirit who overshadowed Mary now fills the Church, bringing new life wherever Christ is received. Christmas is a kickoff, not a capstone—and every conversion, baptism, and quiet act of faith becomes another nativity scene unfolding in the world.