Christ Church NC

This sermon on Acts 6:1-7 is about preserving the unity of the Church in the face of conflict and division.

The honeymoon phase of the early church has come to an end and internal conflict begins to arise in the church threatening their unity, thereby threatening their mission as God’s Temple.

This sermon sketches the issue behind the tension that existed between early followers of Jesus and first century Jews, the Jews were trying to determine whether or not the Apostles and their message was truly from God. That’s a relevant question for own time- how do we know if something, someone, or some message is truly from God? This message gets into that question.

Every miraculous event in Scripture is actually a sign post pointing to something more substantial than the temporal occurrence. This sermon shows the message behind the miracle of Acts chapter 3.

This message mines Peter’s Pentecost sermon and uncovers its Old Testament backstory.

This Easter message considers the revolution that Jesus’ resurrection began, and that we are still participating in as His Church today.

This sermon uncovers the meaning of Jesus' ascension, but looking at its Old Testament backdrop.

This is the first in a series of sermons on the book of Acts. This message provides a framework for understanding the book as a whole and gives some guidance regarding biblical interpretation.

Summary: this sermon is a reflection on Jonah’s readiness to receive God‘s salvation and his slowness to extend it to others.

This sermon considers the socio-political impact of repentance and the intersection of wisdom and joy.

This sermon on Jonah chapter 3 shows that God will not settle for a small salvation. He pursues wicked insiders (Jonah) and he pursues wicked outsiders (Nineveh).

This sermon analyzes the content and structure of Jonah’s prayer from the belly of the fish and shows it’s enduring insights for our own prayer lives.

This sermon considers God’s determination to impose life upon his creation, even when we resist it.

This sermon sets the stage for a study of the book of Jonah by seeking to establish the reason for Jonah’s rebellious rejection of his assignment to Nineveh. Jonah isn’t a coward who’s afraid of the Ninevites, nor is he a racist who hates them, so why didn’t he take the assignment?

This sermon on 3 John talks about the power of personal engagement and the fact that, in Scripture, if you’ve received one of Christ’s messengers, you’ve received the message as well.

This sermon shows us Jesus as the Second Adam and the Church as the New Eve. The first Eve was not properly guarded by Adam, the second Eve has a more attentive husband, the Lord Jesus Himself.

This sermon on 1 John 5:16-21 underscores the power of our prayers and helps us to understand that, according to John, we're life-givers in Christ, anointed with the Spirit. One of the primary ways that we give the Life that's been given to us is through prayer.

In this section of 1 John the confidence, assurance, and hope that John has tried to work into his readers since the beginning of the letter is applied specifically to prayer. The sermon seeks to explain how and why we can pray with confidence.

This sermon, provocatively entitled, is designed to underscore the basic truth of 1 John 5:6-12, that truth being that life and truth are found in Jesus and the Spirit. Sometimes conservative Christians act as if, or outright believe, that life and truth are bound up in the Scriptures. In fact, life and truth are found in the One to whom the Scriptures bear witness, not in the Scriptures themselve...

This sermon seeks to explain what John means when he says that God’s commands aren’t burdensome and that our faith overcomes the world. The commands to love our enemies, engage in self-denial, and overcome evil with good are actually incredibly burdensome to our natural inclination toward self-preservation, so what does John mean, and in what sense does our obedience overcome the world?

This sermon explains Judgment Day as, perhaps, the supreme revelation of God’s love for us in Christ as his perfect love casts out our fear of future judgment.

This sermon shows that we are the solution to God’s invisibility. His plans and purposes for the world are to be accomplished through our hands as we walk in love.

This sermon looks at the deceptive way(s) that love can be mishandled, misinterpreted, and misapplied when it is not governed and defined by the Spirit of Truth.

This sermon looks at the upside down ethic of the Christian movement in the first century and compares it to the world around them. John was teaching the early Christians how to live in a world that hated them. From the looks of it, we need to learn how to live in a world that loves us.

This sermon examines John’s call to love the brothers and considers whether John is defining brother the same way that we would. Hint- we don’t think that he is.