Christ Church NC

Before Bethlehem is a manger, it is a grave. This sermon traces Rachel’s sorrow from Genesis through Jeremiah and into Matthew, showing how God brings redemption through loss rather than around it. The good news of Christmas is not that God spares us from darkness, but that He meets us there and brings forth light.

In Genesis 15–21, Abraham and Sarah show us what happens when God’s promise meets a long season of waiting. God delays not because He has deviated from the plan, but because He is teaching His people that His promises are received, not produced—and that salvation will come not by the power of the flesh, but by the power of the Spirit.

In Acts 28, Luke shows that the story of Jesus continues—unhindered—through His Spirit-filled people. Paul’s protection from the serpent, his healing ministry on Malta, and his bold proclamation in chains all declare that the risen Christ still rules, still restores, and still advances His kingdom through ordinary believers. Acts ends abruptly because the mission it describes has not ended; it con...

In Acts 27, Paul’s ship is overtaken by a violent storm. While everyone else panics, Paul becomes an anchor of calm—steady, faithful, and full of hope. Luke isn’t just telling a sea story; he’s showing us what it looks like when the living temple of God meets the storms of the world. The God who “founded the earth upon the floods” (Psalm 24) is still turning chaos into creation—and He does it now...

In Acts 23 Paul declares that he is on trial for the hope of the resurrection. What was so offensive and explosive about Paul’s resurrection doctrine and what does it mean for us today? Answering those questions is the goal of this sermon.

Paul finally makes it to Jerusalem—the narrative has been building to this moment—only to leave us with a massive anticlimax. Paul isn’t killed and no one gets converted—there’s no triumph and no tragedy—just tension. Often our lives look the same, and Paul provides a model of faithfulness in such circumstances.

God isn’t nearly as averse to errors as we are. Our modern obsession with precision and accuracy has made us spiritually risk-averse, hesitant to act when we sense the Spirit’s leading. This sermon on Acts 21:1–6 confronts that tendency and calls us back to the faithful courage of those who got it wrong the right way.

Paul’s farewell to the Ephesian elders (Acts 20:17–38) is more than a set of instructions; it is the heart of a pastor laid bare. His trials and tears illustrate God’s own suffering love for the world, and his words remind us that weakness and struggle in our own lives don’t discredit the gospel—they make it believable. Paul shows us that true life is found not in self-preservation but in giving o...

Our culture prizes free thought, open inquiry, and debate. We imagine ourselves as autonomous agents making independent choices. The truth is, we are helplessly and hopelessly directed—shaped by others in our thinking, our values, and our convictions. Scripture says we are sheep, always being shepherded, always imitating someone. This sermon calls us to aim that imitative impulse toward Christ.

This sermon exposes our tendency to “technique” our way into getting what we want. For many, even our Christian faith can become a tool we employ in an attempt to gain something we feel is missing. Acts 19 corrects this way of thinking and presses us toward the truth that it will never be a tool, technique, or program that settles things in our lives or in our world, but a Person.

Acts 18 highlights God’s extraordinary work through ordinary means and encourages us to look for His glory--making appearances in the mundane.

In Acts 17:16–34 Paul entered a high-stakes situation before the Areopagus in Athens.  Areopagus  means “Hill of Ares” (Mars Hill to the Romans). Originally it referred to the rocky hill near the Acropolis, but by Paul’s day it often referred less to the location and more to the prestigious council of Athenian elders who traditionally met there. The Areopagus wasn’t a hipster coffee house or an ed...

Paul and Silas’ ministry in Thessalonica provoked outrage because they proclaimed “another king—Jesus” (Acts 17:6). For the Jews, this was a theological threat: Jesus as Messiah challenged their power and interpretation of Scripture. For the Romans, it was a political threat: Caesar demanded ultimate allegiance, but Christians confessed Christ alone as Lord. The gospel was disruptive then and rema...

Sundays sermon traced out the common thread in the episodes of Acts 16: the cost of the call to follow Jesus. The book of Acts is kind of like a docuseries on the  continued  life of Christ in the life of the Church, His body. Jesus continues pouring His life out for the life of the world through His people as we surrender our lives to God’s saving purposes for our children, our neighbors, our com...

Acts 15 took us into one of the most pivotal moments in church history; when God’s people had to wrestle with what to do when His work seemed to challenge their understanding of His word. For centuries, Scripture was clear: God’s covenant people bore the sign of circumcision, and His law marked them off from the nations. Yet now, the Spirit was being poured out on uncircumcised Gentiles, and witho...

This sermon on Acts 13–14, explored how the gospel didn’t just challenge religious assumptions, it disrupted the political and social order of the ancient world. As Paul and Barnabas proclaim salvation to the Gentiles, their message threatens the fragile arrangement between Rome and the Jews, provoking hostility from every side. But behind the upheaval is a deeper truth: God was dismantling the ol...

Acts 12 is a tension-ridden text. If God is a God of light and life then what’s up with all the darkness and death? This sermon doesn’t give trite and tidy answer, but it does seek to honestly present the Bible’s answer to the question without flinching from the discomfort or loosing sight of the hope that holds us together in the darkness.

This sermon explores how the early church learned to follow the Spirit’s lead in a time of change, knowing when to stand firm in gospel truth and when to bend in love for others. It challenges us to resist the temptation to elevate secondary issues, to remain humble and open to God’s new work, and to cultivate a church marked by unity, generosity, and Spirit-led discernment.

In Acts 10, two men, Cornelius and Peter, receive visions that will redefine their world. God prepares both of them through prayer to embrace a seismic shift: the ceremonial distinctions that once separated Jew from Gentile have fulfilled their purpose and one new man has ben forged in Christ. Peter’s vision of unclean animals reveals that the old symbolic world of Leviticus was never the final go...

This sermon on Acts 9:17–43 was interpreted through the lens of Ezekiel 47, where a river flows from the restored temple bringing life to everything in its path—even the Dead Sea. In Acts 9 Luke shows that this river is now flowing through the Spirit-filled church, bringing healing, resurrection, and transformation wherever it goes. The stories of Saul’s conversion, Aeneas’ healing, and Tabitha’s...

This sermon looked at Saul’s persecution of Christians in Acts 9 as a tragic case of   friendly fire; a zealous but misguided attempt to protect God’s people by attacking the very movement that God was using to fulfill His promises. Drawing on Saul’s own background, Old Testament examples like Phinehas, and Paul’s later reflection in Philippians 3, we learn how zeal without Christ leads to the con...

This is a sermon highlight reel that recaps the sermon from Acts 8. In it, the logic of baptism, and the power of our personal ministry work is explored.

This sermon on Acts 7:54–60 completes the story of Stephen and highlights what it means to be a Gospel witness—not just in word, but through cross-shaped living, especially under pressure.

This sermon analyzes and applies Stephen’s speech before his martyrdom. It exposes our proclivity to cling to God’s means instead of pursuing His ends.

This sermon traces the biblical theme of “the witness” from Old to New Testament and shows its culmination in the church finally functioning as the God’s witness on earth, an ancient calling into which we too have been commissioned.