Sermons at Christ the King Anglican

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Here are all the sermons preached at Christ the King Anglican Church in Marietta, GA.

  1. 6d ago

    Opening Sermon for Synod

    Sermons at Christ the King Anglican

  2. Sep 27

    The Table Without Rivals

    What if the greatest threat to our spiritual lives is not some dramatic moral failure, but something far more ordinary -- the quiet, almost invisible habit of placing ourselves above others? This sermon draws us into a scene from the Gospel of Luke where Jesus attends a dinner party and, in two swift moves, heals a suffering man and then challenges the guests about their obsession with seats of honor. On the surface these seem like separate concerns, but woven together they expose a single root problem: the rivalrous game of self-advancement that pits us against the very people we are called to love. We are invited to see how the logic of the world -- where one person's rise often means another's diminishment -- has crept into our hearts and shaped the way we treat those around us. The antidote offered here is not a self-help strategy but a profound theological truth drawn from Paul's letter to the Ephesians: because the same God dwells in each of us, we are not truly separate individuals competing for a limited supply of honor. We are one body. And that changes everything about how we are meant to live with one another.

  3. Sep 20

    The Meaning of a Miracle

    What does a miracle actually mean? It is easy to either reduce a miracle to a historical curiosity or dismiss it as a moral fable, but this sermon challenges us to hold both the reality of the event and the depth of its meaning together. Drawing on the wisdom of St. Augustine, we are invited to see the raising of the widow's son in Luke 7 not merely as a remarkable moment in history, but as a living picture of what Christ does for souls trapped in sin and death. The widow and her son represent helplessness at its most complete, and yet Jesus meets them right there, moved in His body by compassion, and speaks life where there was only death. The miracle is not just something that happened long ago in a village called Nain. It is a portrait of what repentance looks like for those of us whose sins have become visible to the people around us. When death is public, restoration must be public too. That means naming what we have done, going to the people we have hurt, and allowing others into the places where we need healing. This is not a message of shame but of extraordinary hope. Christ came to us. He always comes to us.

  4. Sep 13

    Let Frailty be your Guard and Guide

    What if the things we spend our lives chasing are actually the very things pulling us away from the life we were made for? This sermon confronts us with one of the most countercultural ideas in the Christian faith: that frailty, not strength, is the path to freedom. Drawing on the image of a centuries-old crypt in Rome where Franciscan monks arranged their own bones into a work of art inscribed with the words 'what you are now, we once were, and what we are now, you shall be,' we are invited into the ancient practice of memento mori, remembering our death. Far from being morbid, this practice is liberating. It cuts through the noise of a world obsessed with appearance, status, and survival, and asks us the only question that truly matters: how should we live now, knowing that we will die? The spiritual lesson here is profound and unsettling in the best way. Our frailties, our exhaustion, our illness, our financial stress, our loneliness, are not obstacles to the life of faith. They are the very guideposts pointing us toward it.

  5. Sep 6

    The Kingdom Among Us

    What if the Kingdom of God is not a distant destination we arrive at after death, but something that is meant to emerge through us right now, in the ordinary moments of our daily lives? That is the provocative and deeply personal question at the heart of this message. Drawing from Galatians chapter 5 and a handful of striking verses from Luke and Romans, we are invited to reconsider everything we thought we knew about inheriting the Kingdom. Paul's warning that those who practice the works of the flesh will not inherit the Kingdom turns out to be less about a final judgment and more about a present reality: the world we create through our actions is the world we are left to live in. Every act of anger, bitterness, or selfishness incarnates a distorted vision of the world with ourselves at the center. Every act of gentleness, patience, and love brings the Kingdom of God into tangible existence for the people around us. The fruit of the Spirit is not merely a checklist of virtues to aspire to. It is a portrait of what the Kingdom looks like when it takes root in a human soul and begins to grow outward into the world.

  6. Aug 30

    The Shape of Eternal Life

    What if the small, quiet acts of love we offer to others are not just kind gestures but are actually the very substance of eternal life? This sermon takes us on a theological journey back before the universe existed, to a time when the only reality was the loving communion of the triune God. From that foundation, we are invited to see salvation not as an escape from pain or a reward for good behavior, but as something far more profound: becoming capable members of an eternal, perfect, loving communion of persons. The parable of the Good Samaritan, offered by Jesus in response to the question of how to inherit eternal life, is not just a story about being nice to strangers. It is a window into the very nature of God and what it means to be transformed into his likeness. We are challenged to rethink everything we assumed about what salvation is and why love is at its center.

  7. Aug 23

    Happily Ever After: The End for Which We Were Made

    As we reach the conclusion of our journey through the Song of Solomon, we find ourselves standing at the intersection of the oldest love story ever told and our own spiritual lives. This final chapter draws a stunning arc from the very beginning of creation, where God breathed life into Adam in an act of breathtaking intimacy, all the way to the closing pages of Revelation, where the Spirit and the Bride cry out together, 'Come.' The Song is not merely ancient poetry. It is the story of the world, and it is our story. We see in its pages the painful distance that opened between God and His beloved after the fall, the long pursuit that followed, and the promise of a reunion so glorious it puts every fairy tale ending to shame. The beloved's journey from shame and self-consciousness to open-handed peace in her Lover's eyes mirrors the journey God invites each of us to take. What does He declare over us? How does He see us? When we allow that question to settle in our hearts, healing begins. This is a message that meets us exactly where we are and points us toward something far greater than we have dared to hope for.

  8. Aug 16

    Love As Strong As Death

    What does it mean that love is as strong as death? That is the question at the heart of this profound exploration of Song of Solomon 8:6. We live in a world where death seems to cast a shadow over everything we cherish, where the philosopher's grim observation that we are simply beings on the way to death feels uncomfortably accurate. And yet, the ancient poetry of Scripture dares to place love alongside death as an equal force. This sermon unpacks that bold claim by drawing us into the deeper story hidden within the Song of Solomon, the story of God's relentless love for the human soul. We discover that the journey of the Shulamite bride, transformed from a sun-scorched laborer into a queen worthy of a king, is actually our own story. God descends into the poverty of our broken condition and raises us toward something far greater than we could achieve on our own. The spiritual insight here is stunning: every act of genuine love between human beings is meant to cooperate with what God is already doing, glorifying and beautifying the beloved. True love, we learn, does not control or diminish. It raises the other person up. As we reflect on this, we are invited to ask ourselves whether the love we offer those closest to us is doing exactly that.

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