Christ Church NC

This sermon considers the might that God has placed in the feminine nature and the honor that that might should elicit from men who are around worthy women.

This sermon on Ruth chapter 2 verses 15-23 teaches us that God gives His gifts to His people, through His people. We are truly the hands and feet of Jesus and our words and deeds are God’s delivery system for blessing the world.

This sermon zooms in on Boaz and Ruth as the inspired author presents them as foretastes of the glory that would be revealed in Christ and His Church. Boaz, the strong and caring protector and Ruth the grateful recipient of his kindness, all culminating in their mission together to bring new life into the world, even as they bring forth children whose births lead to the birth of our Lord and Savio...

This sermon teaches us to expect God’s blessing without attempting to dictate the forms that those blessings will take in our lives. If we belong to Him, we should expect God to bless us; and we should expect those blessings to come in unexpected forms.

This sermon introduces the book of Ruth as a mirco narrative of the meta narrative of Scripture because within the book of Ruth we have creation, fall, and redemption all packed into one story. The first five verses present the fall movement of the book, but we know that God delights in turning the fall of His people into an opportunity to demonstrate His faithful, loving kindness. When we see a f...

This sermon seeks to reshape our expectations for the direction of history and the trajectory of the nations (ours included). Jesus sent His disciples out in history to see to the baptism and obedience of the nations through the salvation of large numbers of individuals within those nations.

This sermon shows the meaning of Jesus’ resurrection as defined, not by theologians, but by Jesus Himself.

This sermon analyzes the miracles that took place just after Jesus’ death on the cross and considers the message that God intends for us through them.

This sermon looks at the covenantal background of the cross in order to answer three questions: Why was Jesus on the cross experiencing a curse? What made Him cry out from the cross? What motivated Him to go to the cross in the first place? 

This sermon shows the abdication of both the Jews and the Romans as it related to both of their God-given roles and responsibilities. It also showed the collusion of those two parties as their abdication grew into outright rebellion. Despite the breakdown in and misuse of human authority, God was still working out His plan of salvation; drawing straight lines with crooked sticks. Our hope is in th...

Through a series of Old Testament allusions, Matthew shows us the sad and comprised state of Israel as she rejects her Messiah, favoring Rome rule to Christ’s rule.

This sermon on Jesus’ arrest seeks to explain why Jesus, though exerting no physical force, is met by His opposition with physical force. Jesus was and is dangerous. He posed and poses a serious threat to every nation, tribe, and tongue. He is a conquering King. But His conquest does not go forth as we’ve come to expect from earthly rulers. Jesus is a different kind of conqueror because He conquer...

This sermon on Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane suggests that we read the passage as a dark parallel to the transfiguration account of Matthew 17.  It notes that God is always doing a work of transfiguration or glorification in the lives of His children, but that glorification is a process that never bypasses wilderness trecks, Gardens of Gethsemane, or crosses. In fact, the wilderness becomes a...

This sermon looks at the falling away of Jesus’ disciples in the wake of His arrest. We see our own frailty and infidelity in the disciples’ falling away, which underscores our need for Christ‘s fortitude and fidelity. Once aware of our own propensity to fall, we can think more clearly about how to respond when those around us fall away.

Matthew 26:17 begins at the start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread (also known as Passover); a feast that centralized and symbolized purity and the removal of sins, but this Passover would be far more than a symbol for Jesus’ disciples as He has orchestrated hardships for them that are designed to produce the purge that the Passover always symbolized.

This sermon zooms in on Jesus and Mary as Mary anoints Jesus with oil before His death. What does anointing mean in the Bible and why is it significant? Why do the disciples rebuke Mary for her action? Why does Jesus then rebuke the disciples? This message answers those questions and mines the lessons of this text for our service to Jesus here and now.

In this sermon we show how the first century fulfillment of Matthew 24 and 25 points beyond those events to an end that is greater than the end of the Old Covenant.

This sermon looks at the specifics of Matthew 24. It seeks to make sense of the seemingly global and local language used in the passage and demonstrates how, and in what sense, the events of Matthew 24 truly did come to pass within Jesus’ predicted timeline; within His own generation.

Jesus gives some fantastic prophecies in Matthew 24 about a tribulation worse than any in history, about the stars falling and the moon darkening, and about the love of many believers growing cold in the face of overwhelming persecution. He also provides a timeline for the fulfillment of those fantastic prophecies when He says, “…this generation will not pass away until all these things take place...

Our society tends to personalize and individualize everything, but this message zooms out to show how what Jesus is doing in us personally is aimed at something far more glorious than the personal. We are caught up in something global and universal that gives real depth and meaning to our lives on the personal and individual level.

This sermon is a lesson in biblical interpretation that seeks to demonstrate the integration of the Old and New Testament Scriptures. This message will show you that Leviticus 14, the whole books of Acts, many references in the epistles, and much of the book of Revelation are actually about what Jesus predicts in Matthew 23:29-39.

On top of an exposition of Jesus’ Woes to the Pharisees, this sermon considers the question of whether or not it is lawful and wise to imitate Jesus’ toughness and aggression, or whether it is best to stick to imitating His tenderness.

According to Jesus, the Pharisees, whom we love to hate, sat in the seat of Moses and His disciples were commanded to, “observe whatever they tell you.” If their authority was real and their doctrine accurate, where did they go wrong? That’s what this message seeks to unfold.

The message looks at the Sadducees and Pharisees’ attacks on Jesus, both digging into their particular arguments with Him about marriage in the resurrection and which is the greatest commandment, and noting Matthew’s theological point in documenting the conflict in the first place.

While this sermon doesn’t engage the question of political engagement squarely, it does establish the fact that Jesus’ rule, reign, and Kingship touches down to earth in the here and now, not just in the “there and later,” as is often assumed. The fact that Jesus’ Gospel is the Gospel of the Kingdom of God means that it is inescapably political, and Christians ought to stop hiding from that realit...