Sermons from St. George's

Jesus reminds us today that those who keep his words, he and the Father will come and make their home in them. How will he do this? By the presence of the Holy Spirit in us. How wonderful it is for us to be the home of God. How many of us are truly experiencing our bodies as the home of God? When we allow the Holy Spirit to make our bodies the home of God by allowing Him to control our lives and direct our desires, our choices, our decisions and our actions, we will find true peace even in the midst of a world of turbulence and troubles.

From the 10:00am sermon on 5/26/19.

Dante Alighieri depicted heaven in nine spheres of planetary worlds, each hosting specific category of peoples, Saints, Angels and God. The Apostle John in Revelation described a different New Heaven(sky) and New Earth, which replaces this old (present) ones that are passing away because of sin, corruption, violence and pollution. The saints, like a glorious city indwelt by God himself, shining bright and coming down from heaven to the New Heaven(sky) and New Earth as their permanent home. A New World with no sea, sorrow, sickness, pain or death. Are we preparing for that New World? Our repentance and commitment to Christ, and contributions towards the furtherance of his gospel on earth show how well we are preparing for that New World of Christ, and determine our place in it.

Sermon from The Table on 5/19/19.

We’re not called to observe what Jesus does but to receive what he gives us. The latter requires that we actually encounter Jesus’ love for us, ourselves: a matter of the heart, not the head.

Sermon from the 11:15am service on 5/19/19.

In an age like this one with reasons abounding for deep concern about our society’s prospects, can there be any better time to make great investment in strengthening our community for the sake of others, as those who hear the voice of the Good Shepherd, and turn again to him… and into our future?

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 5/12/19.

The relationship between the shepherd and the sheep is almost symbiotic — the shepherd knows the sheep and what they need, perhaps even before they realize they need it, and the sheep respond to the shepherd. They know and trust his voice, responding to his glance or the intake of breath, perhaps even without realizing how intimately they follow. This kind of intimacy, this kind of daily mutual connection and responsiveness, this is the way God means it to be between himself and us. It is God’s design and dear desire that we will hear his voice, that we will be known by him and trust him, and that we will follow him.

Sermon from The Table on 5/12/19.

This is the work that Jesus is inviting us all into. In the midst of our confusion and doubts and wanderings, in the midst of guilt and shame that keeps us alienated from the fullness of life and all that God is calling us into — in the midst of all that — the resurrected Christ comes to us, tenderly meeting us with his knowing gaze of love. And though we sometimes fear what he might say or ask us, we can also trust that he knows what we most need, and he delights to draw us deeper into his abundant life.

Sermon from the 8:45am service on 5/5/19.

The Rev. Billy Cerveny is the founder and Executive Director of Redbird and a long-time Nashville resident. Billy preaches, teaches and offers pastoral care to individuals, couples, and groups. His sermon is from The Table on 5/5/19.

God takes what is broken and puts it back together in ways beyond our imagination.

Sermon from The Table on 4/28/19.

When we experience Good Fridays in our lives, Christ is still working behind the scenes to bring a new Easter for us – even when we know nothing about it. We are sealed and marked as one of Christ’s own forever. There is not one crown of thorns that can keep Easter from coming. Not a scar, not a nail, not a sin, not a failing that can keep Christ from being the Lord of your life.

From the 8:45am service on 4/28/19, during which we celebrated the relationship with St. George's and Church of the Resurrection, where the Rev. Canon Chad Jones is Priest-in-Charge.

What is it that we miss when we aren’t quite sure what we miss, but we nevertheless intuit a gap, a space, a hole in our lives, in the world? What we miss may actually be a lingering presence of sorts: the living God poised perhaps yet again to do a new thing.

From Easter Sunday 4/21/19.