Sermons from Christ Presbyterian Church in Burke, VA

This week, our pastor preached on Luke 10:21-23 and Christ’s description of Himself as the only mediator between God and man and how He rejoices in His Father’s “gracious will” that sinners be saved.

This week, our pastor preached on Luke 10:1-23, explaining that in a world where people are seeking joy, Christ tells his Disciples (and us) where we may find it.

This week, our pastor preached on Jesus’ turn towards Jerusalem and the cross from Luke 9:37-50.

This week, our pastor preached on the Christian Life that Jesus teaches about in Luke 9:18-36.

This week, a guest preacher, Nathan Newman, a Minister to Members of Congress serving in the Presbyterian Church in America’s “Ministry to State” preached on Mark 7:24-37.

During our worship service, our pastor preached on Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 from Luke 9:10-17. This passage builds our faith in Christ and His promise to satisfy the needs (both spiritual & material) of His people.  

This week, our Pastor preached from Luke 9:1-9 when Jesus gives his disciples power over all demons and to cure disease and sends them out to build His Church.  We examined the transition from the ministry of Jesus alone to the ministry of the Church.

This week, our Pastoral Intern preached on Luke 8:40-56, where Jesus brings a synagogue ruler named Jairus’ daughter back to life and then heals a woman from chronic bleeding.  In addition to presenting Jesus’ miraculous power to heal the sick and the broken, he discussed why God, through the Holy Spirit, gives us multiple testimonies […]

This Sunday, our pastor preached from Luke 8:26-3 on Jesus’ confrontation with a man possessed by a legion of demons. We continued examining Jesus as took his disciples through a series of miracles that confronted their greatest fears: (1) storms & natural disasters (last week), (2) evil at work in the world (this week), and […]

This Sunday, out pastor preached from Luke 8:22-25 where Jesus calms the raging storm on the Sea of Galilee. In this passage, we see both Jesus’ humanity and divinity on full display. We also sang the historical hymn, This is My Father’s World; a psalm Preserve Me O God (Psalm 6); and a recent hymn Christ […]

This Sunday, our pastor preached from Luke 8:19-21 on the Love of God our Father who not only adopts us as his children but also puts us in a new family – a spiritual family – with new brothers and sisters in the church. We sang the historical hymn Be Thou My Vision;  one psalm, […]

During this service, our pastor preached the second of three sermons on hearing, heeding, and doing God’s Word from Luke 8: 1-18. We examined the “good soil” in Jesus’ Parable of the Sower, and how hearing and holding fast to God’s word in a heart of integrity and honesty produces faith and good works. We […]

During this service, our pastor preached on the parable of the seed and the soils in Luke 8:1-15. He talked about faith, the necessity of being born again, and we prayed for revival in our hearts, our families, our church, our city, and our nation. We sang Psalm 23 (a more traditional version set the […]

During this service, our pastor preached on one of the two most beloved parables in the Gospel of Luke: the parable of the two debtors in Luke 7:36-50. Like the parable of the prodigal son, we saw the extravagant grace of God for sinners; and, in this one we saw the extravagant response of love […]

Our sermon passage was a reminder that, in the Christian’s Life, “waiting” is often the rule and not the exception. In Luke 7:18-35, we found John the Baptist in prison, waiting to see if Jesus will open his prison as the prophet Isaiah indicated the Messiah would (Isaiah 61:1). We saw that John had doubts […]

A guest preacher, PCA Chaplain Mark Moore, preached from Psalm 56 on what we should do when we are afraid. We considered the causes of our fears and the reasons that we should turn to the Lord who can relieve our fears. During the service, we sang Psalm 98 “Sing a New Song to Jehovah,” […]

Our pastor preached on Jesus’ greatest miracle–a work He did only 3 times–raising a person from the dead. In this miracle we see Jesus display the Divine power to give life. We considered Jesus’ compassion for the person’s widowed mother who had been left alone with no one. We also considered Jesus’ compassion for us […]

During this service, our pastor preached on the faith of the Roman Centurion from Luke 7:1-10 and how he surprisingly illustrates the ethics and values of God’s Kingdom that Christ preached about in the ‘Sermon on the Plain.’ We also sang The LORD is My Light (Psalm 27 set to the Christmas tune by George […]

Our pastor preached on the conclusion of Jesus’ ‘Sermon on the Plain’ from Luke 6:42-49. We considered the power of God to change us so that we can love people the way He is calling us to love them. We also sang Psalm 40 and the traditional hymns: Breathe on Me Breath of God and […]

This is the livestream of the worship service of thanksgiving we had on the 5th Anniversary of our launching worship. Dr. Peter Lee, Professor of Old Testament and Dean of Students at Reformed Theological Seminary Washington, D.C., was our special guest preacher. He preached from Matthew 16:18 and reminded us that Christ is the one […]

During this worship service, we confessed our Faith in the Trinitarian God using the Athanasian Creed. In this sermon, our pastor preached on perhaps Jesus’ hardest and most counter-cultural law in His Kingdom: that we love our enemies. What does He mean? What does that look like? We considered these questions and praised Him for […]

Pentecost Sunday is that 50th day after Easter when we remember God the Father and God the Son pouring out the Holy Spirit on God’s people (Acts 2:17-18, 33) as He promised to in Joel 2:28-29. During the service we remembered how the Spirit gave Peter’s preaching the power to convert 3,000 souls in one […]

On Ascension Sunday, we remember that our Savior physically ascended into the heavens and returned to his Father. We sang the 8th Century hymn, A Hymn of Glory Let us Sing, written by the Venerable Saint Bede as a retelling of the ascension from Acts 1:6-11. We also confessed Heidelberg Catechism 46, 47, and 49, […]