Sermons from St. George's

How you think of God will directly impact how and if you pray. From The Table on 10/20/19.

So we don’t read the Bible primarily to gain knowledge, or wisdom, or life-coaching, or trivia and answers for life’s questions...we read the Bible to know Christ. The sacred words point us to the Word, and so it makes sense that we will feel disconnected from God in Christ, if we are never connected to the story of Scripture. If we do not know the Script, we will not know the script-writer. Sermo...

To be saved means sensitivity to our diseases that only Jesus can heal. Sermon from The Table on 10/13/19.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 10/13/19.

Overview Of Prophecy 4 (Dana Sherrard 10.8.19) by St. George's Nashville

It is one thing – and a very good thing – to want more faith. But I think the worst thing we can do is merely to despair that our faith is too small and will never change. From the 8:45am service on 10/6/19.

From The Table on 10/6/19.

How do we fail to notice the needs of our neighbors? Sermon from the 8:45am service on 9/29/19.

Sermon from 9/29/19 at The Table.

What is it to deliver a hard message of inevitable judgment when your heart aches with supreme compassion? Ask anyone who has ever truly loved an addict. From the 8:45am service on 9/22/19.

Sermon from The Table on 9/22/19.

Sermon from the Rev. Chris Royer, Executive Director for Anglican Frontier Missions. He was the guest preacher at The Table on 9/15/19.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 9/15/19.

Sermon from The Table on 9/8/19.

It might be that for many of us, in order to take up our cross, we need to put down our phone. In order to take up our cross, we need to put down the cocktail glass. And yes, in order to take up our cross, we need to let go of our children, family or our friends. But if we do this in the way that God envisions, we will gain them back again, and more. They will not then be products of our making, b...

We are never closer to Christ than when we come before him stripped of pretense, confessing that our lives are filled with all kinds of waywardness, and trusting that this is precisely when we stand closest to the cross. Sermon from the 8:45am service on 9/1/19.

The call of the Church is rooted in the gracious hospitality of God the Father, who has invited us into his household of Faith, which has Christ as the chief cornerstone. This call especially takes on substance in our midst when we practice the theological virtue of hospitality — of welcoming the stranger. Sermon from The Table on 9/1/19.

We will be rightly excited and proud of what’s going on at St. George’s. Yet that does not give us a pass from humble obedience, persistent prayer, committed discipleship, and listening to what God wants us to do with this facility that God has given to us. Sermon from the 8:45am service on 8/25/19.

A worship service or liturgy is meant to connect worshipers to the spiritual dimension of the real presence of God. This is where communion takes place between mortals and the Immortal. Through communion with the Holy Spirit, miracles occur, the sick receive healing, the depressed and oppressed receive relief and freedom, and the demon-possessed receive liberation of their body and soul. Sermon fr...

The ultimate measure of success will be this: a faithful local community that feels like family willingly, courageously, generously, lovingly, trustingly joining together with each other and with those who have gone before us, knowing there are those who must come after us; committing to this ministry for the sake of Christ, for the future of his church, for the future of God’s mission for the wor...

In light of a suicide epidemic, and a mental health crisis, and off the charts loneliness, we must recognize that we need each other! There is much to celebrate as we break ground today, but let’s commit also to breaking open the ground of our hearts. Let’s build a church that gives up on performance, and looks instead to Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. Sermon from The Table on 8/18...

Sermon from The Table on 8/11/19.

It pleases God to give us the infinite gift of the kingdom. But it does not always please us to accept this gift. To accept it, we know we must make room in our hearts. W.H. Auden once wrote that “The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews.” As we push deeper into our hearts, we discover that what we desire spirals back and forth between God and the things that keep us from God. Sermon...

The real failure of the Rich Foolish Farmer in all of us is that despite the big barns we have built for ourselves, despite the countless days devoted only to storing up figurative crops to secure our futures, we fail in thinking to take off our shoes, having forgotten we are always walking on holy ground, to trust the presence and provision and purposes of God in all of life. Sermon from the 10:0...

The only way to be free in the present is to trust God, because God is our loving parent, from whom we came and to whom we will return. Sermon from The Table on 8/4/19 on Hosea 11:1-11.