Christ Presbyterian Church | Preachers Joshua Burdette

Waiting for a New Home

Bible Text: Revelation 21:1-3; 9-11 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Advent: What Are We Waiting For?

The fault lines in the family become more obvious around the holidays. We anticipate the arguments around the table, the patterns that get reinforced, and the fights over which side of the family we are going to see. Others go home alone, dreading the insensitive questions from family. During the pandemic, we have experienced a loss of community and civil life that has lasted for almost 2 years and left many of us weary, isolated, and lonely. What does Advent have to do with our longings for home and community?

Waiting for New Life

Bible Text: Revelation 21:1-5; 22:1-2 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Advent: What Are We Waiting For?

We don’t like to think about death around the holidays. We bring evergreen trees into our homes to remind us of life during a dormant season. We don’t like to think about death, but it seems to have a way of getting into our thoughts anyway. We see the empty chairs around the dinner table and the extra wrinkles on our loved ones faces. We may even wonder if this Christmas will be our last one together. But what if death isn’t the end? What if there’s a world waiting beyond death where life lasts forever? Join us this week as we continue our Advent series, What Are We Waiting For?

To Him Be the Glory

Bible Text: Jude 24-25; Revelation 5:6–13 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Jude: Exhortations for Tenuous Times

We are worshippers. Everywhere you turn will see people praising things, admiring them. We have an innate need to get caught up in something bigger than ourselves. Praise gives meaning and purpose to our lives, and it puts things in perspective. This week as we look at the final verses of Jude, we are given that kind of perspective.

The One Who Can Keep You from Stumbling

Bible Text: Jude 24; Hebrews 12:1-2 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Jude: Exhortations for Tenuous Times

In our youth we hung posters of our favorite sports or music heroes on our walls to inspire us to greatness. In adulthood, we often keep our visions of grandeur to ourselves, but they are no less powerful. Who do you look to for inspiration to keep going in the day to day trenches of the so-called real world? What is your vision of the good life? Join us this Sunday as we continue our series on the Book of Jude.

Keep Yourself in Love

Bible Text: Jude 21, Romans 8:35-39 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Jude: Exhortations for Tenuous Times

“What’s love got to do with it?” Tina Turner rhetorically asks in her 1984 hit song. When it comes to a relationship with God, the New Testament writers insist: “quite a lot, actually.” In fact, when Jude speaks of preserving the Christian faith, his primary command is that we keep ourselves in the love of God. While we can’t cause God to love us (he does!), Jude knows that we can refuse God’s love and walk away from it. We can fail to live in its light. So what does it mean to keep ourselves in God’s love? Come this week as we consider the most underutilized privilege that the world has known—that we are absolutely and fundamentally loved.

Let Us Keep the Feast Pt. 2

Bible Text: Luke 14:12-24 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Let Us Keep the Feast

Join us this Sunday as we complete a two-part series on food and feasting.

Let Us Keep the Feast Pt. 1

Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: Let Us Keep the Feast

We all enter life hungry, crying out for someone to feed us. It’s one of the basic needs that every human shares. Does God care about our daily bread or how we eat it? What place does food have in spirituality? Join us this Sunday as we begin a two-part series on food and feasting.

Mephibosheth’s Story

Bible Text: 2 Samuel 9 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: The Stories We Live By

We are all longing for home—some place we can looked to and belong, some place where everything just seems right. The Bible tells us that this deep longing is good, and is ultimately met through a relationship with God, who brings us into his family, and serves us at his table.

Abigail’s Story: peacemaking in a violent world

Bible Text: 1 Samuel 25 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: The Stories We Live By

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It’s the Golden Rule, but it’s much easier to follow when you’re starting with a blank slate. What do we do when we’ve already been mistreated? Do we repay evil with evil; violence with violence? How do we de-escalate a situation when tensions are high and it seems like everyone is armed to the teeth? This Sunday we look at the story of a peacemaker named Abigail.

The Story of David’s Anointing

Bible Text: 1 Samuel 16:1-13 | Preacher: Joshua Burdette | Series: The Stories We Live By

We know we’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but we do it all the time. At times, our first impressions are accurate, but often, they mislead us. God seems to like surprises. He often binds the best stories in dusty old books with tattered covers. Join us this Sunday as we look at the story of a surprise new king and his anointing.