Sermons from St. George's

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, but vessels of God’s divine providence, whom we have nourished and loved and discipled, to be sure, but for whom we have also modeled an ultimate allegiance to Jesus Christ, and the requisite humility and repentance when we fall short, which is inevitable (at least, for me). Sermon from 9/8/19 at 8:45am.

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 from The Table on 8/25/19.

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 world, for the sake of the world. And I cannot think of anything more inspiring or more exciting than that.

From 10:00am service on 8/18/19.

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 8/18/19.