Sermons from St. George's

The deep irony is that when we become free in God, we become free for others. Our job is no longer our salvation. Our kids are not our messiah. Our body is not our greatest hope. Our prestige is not where our identity is found.

Sermon from The Table on 6/30/19.

“Ultimately the call of the Christian is not merely to sit all day at the feet of Jesus, but to be sent out—like the healed demoniac—to bear witness to what we have seen and heard, to speak unambiguously about how God is making us new.”

From Clint's sermon at the 10:00am service 6/23/19

"The place to live out your relationship with Christ is not “out there” in some idealized new life. . . The best place to look for the power of God at work in your life is to your right and to your left, across the table from you, in the bed with you, under your roof with you, next door to you, in your office with you, and here in the church. Jesus says, 'Go home, and tell what God has done for you.'"

From Leigh's sermon at The Table service on 6/23/19

"I wonder if the opposite of joy is not sorrow as we may assume. I wonder if the opposite of joy is a failure to join life where it is really happening; to sit out the dynamic life of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit."

Sermon from the 10:00am service on 6/16/19

"Who God is, is a relationship. And it’s a relationship that God wants us to be a part of – this relationship marked by the love the Father, and Son, and Holy Spirit have for one another and live-out together in a joyful dance. And through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit, it is this life, this joy, this love into which God is drawing us ever deeper. The joyful life of love that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit share – this is the life that truly is life. "

Sermon from The Table on 6/16/19

The witness of Scripture is that the Holy Spirit is power given to us so we can respond to God’s response to us - God’s response in Christ to our voids and darkness and scattered souls, to our sin and death. To respond to that is the work of the Holy Spirit.

Sermon from the 10:00am service on 6/9/19.

The gravity of the grace of the Gospel pulls us towards unity—not a false uniformity, but a spirit empowered community where God’s Spirit unites what the world never can.

Sermon from The Table on 6/9/19.

"We are called to witness to the world by the quality of our life together, so that the world may know that God loves the world even as much as he loves his Son, Jesus Christ."

Sermon from The Table service on 6/2/19

“Christianity has always created upheaval by declaring that Jesus incarnated himself into our world of space and time; he entered the story he was writing as a character and lived, died and rose again, and has ascended in that same body. This is a rock of truth that cannot be mythologized away; like blood it is not a metaphor. One can either build upon it or break against it, but it will not go away.”

Sermon from the 10:00am service on 6/2/19

Are you willing to die to anything that prevents you from real, genuine, loving relationships? Are you willing to die to any or all of that? Get up. The path may seem hard or daunting, but Jesus shows us the way. And is there anyone’s promise that is more trustworthy than his?

After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralyzed. One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be made well?” The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me.” Jesus said to him, “Stand up, take your mat and walk.” At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. (John 5:1-9)

From The Table on 5/26/19.