Sermons from Christ Presbyterian Church in Burke, VA

Christ gave his church 2 sacraments, Baptism and the Lord’s Supper. Both serve as pictures of how Christ saves us. During this worship service, we got to participate in both. We rejoiced in seeing parents bring their daughter to the waters of baptism as the sign of their faith in God’s Covenant promise to be their God and the God of their offspring (Gen 17:7). Then our pastor preached from Luke 6:12-16 on Christ choosing 12 Apostles from among His disciples. We considered how the preaching and writings of this small band of men turned the ancient world upside. We sang about how their teaching became the foundation upon which Christ built his church using the great hymn, The Church’s One Foundation. We also sing the beautiful Psalm 103, Come My Soul and Bless the Lord, among other selections.

Our pastoral intern, Robert, preached from Luke 6:1-11 on the Lord’s blessings that flow from resting and worshiping the Sabbath Day.

On Easter Sunday, we rejoiced to receive 18 new members, 6 of whom professed faith for the first time and received their first Lord’s Supper. Our pastor preached on the resurrection of Jesus Christ using John 20, and we considered how Jesus moved his Disciple, Thomas, from disbelief to belief in verses 19-29.

On Palm Sunday, the children processed into the service waiving palm fronds as the congregation sang the 9th Century hymn, All Glory, Laud, and Honor. Our pastor preached from Luke 5:33-39 in which Jesus uses the Pharisees to show how hard it is for us to give up control and surrender to God the things (and people) that we cannot change. We also sang other Palm Sunday anthems to include: Rejoice the Lord is King!, and Great is the Lord Our God, which is the words of Psalm 48 set to the familiar tune as Crown Him With Many Crowns.