Christ Church Vienna

What does it mean to be human? Like using a paper map without a compass and reference point, apart from God we are lost. But our starting reference point is the God who made us in his image and endowed us with dignity and worth. But all of humanity got lost, questioning God’s authority (Gen.3:1) […]

In our modern culture, we determine what is best, right and wrong, who we are and how to live on our own. Shaped by many influences and assumptions, we lean on ourselves to decide. We have become our own authorities. But the Christian view is that God the Creator, designed the universe and called us […]

In the vastness of the universe, earth is so small, and we are even smaller. Do we matter? Does life have meaning? From reason and empirical evidence alone, no, we do not. But Christianity and Genesis 1 claim there is a creator, and there is intention and meaning. And the meaning is found in knowing […]

To know who we are and what to do (how to live), we need to know what story we are in. Genesis 1:1-2:3 is the account of the creation of the world in poetic verse as the author, God, reveals himself. The story begins as God calls the world into being (Genesis 1-11) and then […]

High School Senior Ben Shults shares about his diagnosis with a brain tumor in 7th grade, the surgery and recovery process and how he struggled with anger at God for his health and eventually reconciled with the Lord–trusting God in the face of suffering and loss.

Bp. John Guernsey shares about the remarkable diversity of the early church in Philippi. Through Paul in Acts 16, the gospel reaches rich and poor, slave and free, Jew and Gentile.

Jesus meets the disciples on the shore of the Sea of Galilee after the Resurrection. He confronts Peter, asking him if he loves him, and restoring him to fellowship in an act of three fold calling and grace.

On Missions Sunday, Dean Miller shares about the wide love of Jesus. Able to open his arms to welcome in the despised outcast Zacchaeus–who responded in faith and repentant transformation. This Jesus invites all of us in, regardless of how we think we fit in. And it calls all of us to go out in […]

The view of God as one who is wholly other and holy righteous judge are true–but God is also the one primarily revealed to us in Jesus. In his post-resurrection appearance to the disciples on the beach in Galilee, we see Jesus as the risen Lord who is playful, joyful, fun. When we don’t see […]

On the evening of that first Easter Sunday, the disciples are locked in the upper room. Jesus, the risen Lord, shows up physically. He commissions them to live out God’s post-Resurrection purpose for them and he breathes on them to bestow the gift of the Holy Spirit. In a scene that recalls Genesis 1-2, Jesus […]

Mary Magdalene blinded by grief and fear cannot see the risen Jesus right before her eyes. But when Jesus calls her by name, “Mary” – she believes. Jesus is calling her into her true identity – Mary, the courageous and faithful, the first Christian and witness to the Resurrection.

Early in the morning three days after Jesus’ crucifixion, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb–but the stone was rolled away and the tomb was empty! The physical resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone of the Christian gospel. When all the evidence is examined and the impact that first Easter had on the world, we find […]

Jesus is betrayed and handed over to the authorities. Pontius Pilate the Roman governer of Judea puts Jesus on trial. Who is Jesus? Is he the Christ? What is Truth? Pilate surrenders to the mobs and has Jesus flogged and crucified.

On the night before his crucifixion, Jesus prays for his disciples and us. In the prayer he gives insight into the nature of the love of God in the Trinity. He prays that his disciples would experience and share this love to accomplish God’s purposes in creation.

Jesus encourages his disciples on the night before his crucifixion. He promises them his peace, as the one who has overcome the world.

Jesus told his disciples you will be hated and persecuted on account of my name. But he also encouraged them to take heart and not lose faith, because He had overcome the world.

What does every orphan need to hear? In Jesus final words with his disciples he assures them that though he is leaving, they will never be alone.