Christ Church NC

This sermon teaches us about the righteousness of God which is given to believers and explores what it means to be born of God.

This sermon tackles a tough text in 1 John that, upon first reading, makes it sound as if Christians stop sinning after we’re reconciled to God. The message seeks to untangle the tension in these verses by paying close attention to the context in which the verses are situated.

This sermon looked at John’s prescription for protection against the deception of the antichrists. The prescription? Anointing and abiding. 

This sermon on 1 John 2:18-25 seeks to contextualize the passage and show us the meaning that it carried for the original audience. They were being warned about present day (relative to them) antichrist’s and about an antichrist who would soon come (to them). John’s language helps us to make 1st century identifications of these figures that were actually relevant to his readers, and it helps us to...

This sermon seeks to untangle the apparent contradiction between John 3:16 (For God so loved the world…) and 1 John 2:15-17 (Do not love the world…), exploring the difference between how we commonly love the world versus how God loves it.

This sermon covers a section of John’s encouragement to his readers following some rebuke. John will not leave a rebuke in the atmosphere without providing reassurance of God’s loving kindness.

This sermon explores why hating others is incompatible with loving God, and addresses the dangers of a religious environment that over emphasizes obedience.

This sermon is about how we come to know God intimately. It deconstructs the classic reading of 1 John 2 which reads the text like it’s an assessment of whether or not we have a relationship with God and shows that it is actually an assessment of the health and intimacy of that relationship.

This sermon teaches us how to embrace God’s light and walk in it. It gets practical and personal to help the principles that John lays out come to life.

This sermon insists that the light and life of the age to come should be previewed in the lives of every Christian in the present. It also identifies the barrier to that light and life making its debut in our lives.

This sermon begins our study of 1 John with the first four verses. In those verses John emphasizes the fact that Jesus offers us the life of the future, in the present. He says that eternal life can be accessed, enjoyed, and manifested here and now.

This sermons warns us against trusting in created things and seeking security under the sun. Israel bore all the marks of social stability just before their fall to Babylon because having material prosperity without the blessing of God renders that material useless.

This sermon teaches that when God is working against His people, it is for our good. It also shows that one of the primary ways that God works against us is by giving us over to our idols.

This sermon on Lamentations chapter 1 acknowledges and explores the fact that our corporate crises are hand delivered by God Himself and works to show the hope that that fact works into our lives.

This sermon explains and applies lessons from the literary structure of the book of Lamentations. It shows us that we ought to grieve doxologically (for God’s glory), that we must centralize God’s sovereignty, and that we can always bank on God’s mercy.

This sermon keys in on the normal, everyday faithfulness of average folks that God uses to bring the invisible values of heaven down to the earth. Paul closes the letter to the Colossians with a list of ordinary people whose Gospel-shaped living is used by God to make extraordinary impact on the world.

This sermon looks at Paul’s instructions about Christian maturity and mission. We are to grow from being recipients of grace to becoming reciprocators of grace. Paul tells us what that looks like and entails in Colossians 4:2-6.

In Colossians 3:18-4:1 Paul gives us a clear example of what it looks like to “heavenize” an earthly institution as he adds, “Husbands love your wives and do not treat them harshly,” to their already socially engrained norm, “wives submit to your husbands.” He teaches us to look around at the stuff of earth and bringing the compassion, humility, meekness, forgiveness, and patience of heaven to bea...

In Col. 3:1-17 Paul helps us think about how to live our lives on earth in a way that is heavenly. Heaven and earth aren’t meant to be separated, rather, the values and culture of heaven are meant to invade and permeate the earth through our everyday interactions in the world.

This sermon explores Paul’s warning to the Colossians about the teaching of the Judaizers. The Jews had taken the law of God that was intended to serve them and bless the world and turned it into something that they had to serve, which excluded the world. There is a danger for Christians to do that with our New Covenant inheritance as well, so we should learn from our forebearer’s errors.

This sermon appropriates the principles underlying Paul’s warning to the Colossians about the Judiazers to our own congregation. It is a warning to conservative churches about the reality that a community of believers can, in their desire to run away from the left side of the cliff (liberalism) end up falling off of the right side of the cliff (conservatism).

Paul’s Gospel is about reconciliation, but what does that mean and entail? This message seeks to answer that question and the rest of the book of Colossians will help to fill out the answer given here.

Paul wants the Colossians to grow up in Christ, and his prayer for them in chapter 1 tells us what they needed (and consequently, what we need) in order to achieve that growth.

This message was delivered with the intention of preparing Christ Church for an in depth study of Colossians that will serve our church not only in the way that Scripture always serves the people of God, but specifically in the process of defining Christ Church’s distinctives as a local church. This overview of Colossians sets out Mission and Maturity as key points of focus in the letter, and we s...

This sermon from Ruth chapter 4 shows us how God uses one act of redemption to set off a chain reaction of other redemptive acts that will culminate in the redemption of the whole world. Our personal redemption is one of those reactions, and it is intended to be used of God to produce others.