The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from selections in Proverbs on Pentecost Sunday, May 19, 2013

Biblically we understand family as the body of our extended kin, the nuclear family, and the family of Christ. We find our own family needs met in Christ’s family. This sermon looks at the relationship of parents to children and children to parents.

Bishop Guernsey speaks to The Falls Church from Proverbs 25 and Matthew 5.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson Speaks to The Falls Church from selections from Proverbs and Matthew 5 regarding anger.

Jesus talks about money more than almost anything else, Proverbs talks about it in almost every chapter. What do they say? How can we tame money and put it to God’s use and find financial freedom?

The Bible says that work is intrinsic to human health - we need to be working, and through our work serving others. Diligence in our work is essential.

We are to loop upward to Christ, inward to evaluate, and outward to serve.

On Palm Sunday, the Proverbs speak to us about pride and humility, and Jesus models what humility looks like, and a lot of others too.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson Speaks to The Falls Church from Proverbs 16 and 25 and from John 15.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Proverbs 16:1-4 and Proverbs 9.

Wisdome comes from God - fearing God and walking God's path. We develop a wise character by the daily choices we make.

Wisdom is rare nowadays, but is at the heart of Christian character. Wisdom means knowing how things really are, and how things really work, and what decisions to make in light of this. Wisdom begins with knowing Christ.

In a crazy culture, character and wisdom really matter. Proverbs helps teach us about both.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson speaks to The Falls Church on Ash Wednesday from Joel 2, Psalm 103:8-14 and Matthew 6.

When Jesus calls us, it's not just to himself, it's to the good of all.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Isaiah 49:1-6 and Matthew 5:13-16.

The Rev. John Yates shares a Christmas Meditation with The Falls Church Anglican on Christmas Eve 2012.

The Rev. Bill Haley speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Luke 2.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Isaiah 52:1-10 and Luke 2:25-38.

Sometime our disappointments are part of God's larger plan - learning to trust God in pain is one of God's biggest lessons.

A topical message about God's sovereign rule in spite of great evil in the world; a call for repentance and renewal in good works.

Jesus calls us to “go” forth into Mission for him? What Mission? What is the Mission of God? And, what does the Mission of God have to do with you?

The Rev. John Guest speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Joshua 1.

When the world as we have known it is gone: How are we to live?

God's well known words to Joshua are also his words to us, especially when we face challenging seasons in our lives.

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Numbers 20.1-13.

The Rev. Sam Ferguson speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Numbers 14.11-19

In the aftermath of Israel’s idolatry with the golden calf God refused to go with them any further. When Moses stepped in to intercede God relented, promising his presence and revealing his glory.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Leviticus 23.1-3.

The Rev. Dean Miller kicks off this year's Hungry for God series on prayer.

The Rev. Bill Haley speaks to The Falls Church Anglican from Exodus 25.1-9.

Like all wise fathers, God taught his children right and wrong. The Ten Commandments are God's grace gift: they teach us how to love God back, how to represent God to the nations, and teach us our need for Christ.

What are the Ten Commandments for? Just to obey a demanding God? No, they show us how to live in grace - the grace God gave the Israelites by bringing them to Himself out of Egypt on eagles' wings. The Law is a mirror that shows us our hearts and a path for us to walk on.

When all other options are exhausted in the wilderness, God will provide. The wilderness is where miracles happen.

How can believers find "blessed assurance" when every circumstance mocks them with trials and troubles? St. Paul's climactic message in "the Great Eighth" (Romans 8) not only affirms the assurance of faith but also reveals the Gospel paradoxical power that transforms our troubles and sanctifies our sorrows. This is truly a "theology of suffering" that everyone needs to embrace.

When we are anxious and worry about the future, it is good to fortify ourselves with a review of the Bible’s teaching on hope. In Romans 8:24-25, Paul lays out four things to know and do: 1. We were saved in hope (24a). 2. We do not hope for what we see (24b). 3. We hope for what we do not see (25a). 4. We hope with endurance (25b). And beware: the two great enemies of hope, despair and presumption, are lurking around any hope we can manage. But also be consoled: God is at work in us to get us from our first beginning to our last end.

Like Barabbas, we are all guilty of great sin. We do not deserve pardon, we deserve death. But Jesus died for us and paid the price of our sin.

Jesus never stops loving you, but unless you love him *back*, he will let *you* go.

The example of Naaman the Syrian, healed of his leprosy in the Jordan when he was expecting a more spectacular means of encountering God, leads us to expect to meet God in simple things. This expectation is confirmed by the manger and cross of Jesus Christ.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 65:17-25.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 65:17-25.

The Rev. Robert Watkin speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 1:12-20.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 1:12-20.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 42:1-9. This sermon also touched on the recent court ruling regarding ownership of church property.

God delivers his justice to the world in the person of his son, Jesus Christ. Jesus is light and liberation to the world, and so are we, his body, the Church.

As image bearers of a just God, we are to do justice. Isaiah 58 is a bracing word to God’s people, but with clear instructions and promises of blessing when we love like God does, and do justice.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 58:1-14.

Rich Dean speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 61:1-9.

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Samuel 7:3-12 on Veterans' Day.

In the world we will have tribulation and suffering, but Christ commands us to overcome tribulation and suffering in the strength that He alone can supply.

In the face of utter calamity, such as the calamity the world felt when the United States was attacked on September 11, 2001, how can we respond? When the foundations are destroyed, when not only physical things are disintegrating, but when a nation's moral, ethical and religious moorings are dissolving, what can the follower of Jesus Christ do? The Psalmist in Psalm 11 teaches us how the righteous can respond. The righteous woman or man is to 1) remain righteous; 2) trust in the Lord; and 3) preach the Gospel.

As we remember the day when the towers fell, the Pentagon burned, and a plane falling from the Pennsylvania sky cut an untimely grave, the Scripture directs us to a vision of a White Horse and its Rider.

What does God want you to do with your life?

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church from Isaiah 44:1-5.

The Rev. Wright Wall speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Samuel 17:20-24, 32-40.

Solomon’s life is a story of a man who had it, and blew it. How can we finish well?

The Rev. Rick Wright speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Samuel 17:34-37.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Kings 11:1-13.

How can all Christians live faithfully to God in an oversexed and permissive culture, particularly if they are single?

Seminarian Greg Salazar speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Samuel 16:1-13.

The Rev. Robert Watkin speaks to The Falls Church from Song of Solomon 3:1-5.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church from Proverbs 6:20-35.

The Rev. Kathleen Christopher speaks to The Falls Church from Proverbs 6:20-35.

The Falls Church regrets that, due to technical difficulty, we were unable to capture the audio recording of this message.

Faithfulness is at the heart of all good friendships and is the key to a lasting marriage.

The Rev. Rick Wright speaks to The Falls Church from John 10:11-16.

This message discusses faithfulness and fidelity in relationships, and especially in marriage.

This message discusses the importance of friendship, and most importantly our friendship with Christ.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church from Ecclesiastes 12.

The Rev. Mark Nordstrom speaks to The Falls Church from Ecclesiastes 12.

The Disciples' replacement of Judas the betrayer with Matthias demonstrates the sovereign hand of God working in history and human lives to accomplish his purposes.

Jesus died to be Living Water for us. A reflection on Jesus’ fifth word from the cross.

The God who judges us is the God who weeps over us - we see this in Jesus on Palm Sunday.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to the women's bible study of The Falls Church from Ruth 4.

The Right Rev. Martyn Minns, Bishop of CANA, speaks to The Falls Church from Matthew 5 during a service of Confirmation.

Along our Lenten way, looking ahead to the great drama of our redemption which we will shortly be celebrating at Holy Week and the Easter feast, we pause to sing a song of ascents which paradoxically begins “out of the depths.” How can that be? By waiting for the Lord. Why? Because he is God and we are not. Yes, but how? First, we wait actively, as St. Paul directs us in our capacity to set our minds on the Spirit and not on the flesh. Secondly, in our incapacity, we wait passively, like Lazarus. His contribution? It was twofold: he was dead and he stunk.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to the women's bible study of The Falls Church from Ruth 3.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to the women's bible study of The Falls Church from Ruth 2.

God loves me and has designed me to draw life from him as I remain connected to the vine which is Jesus Christ. As a loving Father, he prunes back areas of my life that may potentially become the things from which I draw my ultimate satisfaction, security and fulfillment. And he does this so that we can draw more deeply from Him and be more fruitful, reflecting the character of Jesus Christ.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to the women's bible study at The Falls Church from Ruth 1.

There is great power in a praying church. God will provide for and direct the church that commits to united and earnest prayer.

In following Christ, he surely will sometimes take us where we don't want to go.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Acts 1:1-11, sharing that God sometimes uses circumstances that seem disadvantageous to actually achieve his purposes.

The Rev. Bill Haley speaks to The Falls Church from Luke 11:5-13 and Ephesians 5:15-21, giving an introduction to the ministry of the Holy Spirit and what it means to be filled by him.

"The Kingdom of God" is The Age of the Spirit. In this age God pours out His Spirit on the elect and comes to dwell in their hearts in the Person of the Holy Spirit. No one is saved apart from the regeneration of the Holy Spirit. Similarly, the process of sanctification is all about learning to walk in the Spirit, submitting more and more of your life to the Spirit. The key question is not “how much of the Holy Spirit do you have?,” but “how much of you does the Holy Spirit have?” One implication of being filled with the Spirit is worship!

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church. God gives us his Spirit to help us do what he calls us to do.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from John 14:15-16, 25-28.

When Jesus looked at the crowd he had compassion on them because they were harassed and helpless like sheep without a shepherd. Jesus tells us that the way to address these needs is to ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers for the harvest. May we follow Jesus’ example and (1) be people who see and people who care, (2) be people who asks God to send out workers for the harvest, and (3) be the people who uses us to answer our prayer and make us disciples who make disciples!

We live in an age where God is expanding His kingdom one person at a time. Jesus chooses to use us to expand His kingdom by our actions and with our words. Three things to do to effectively tell others about the gospel of heaven: (1) Make time in your life to hang around with people that don’t know Jesus. (2) Think through your testimony and what your life was like before you met Christ, how you met Christ and what’s your life like since you met Christ. (3) Learn a simple illustration to explain the good news of the gospel of the kingdom of heaven.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Luke 2:1-14. He shares that all the greatness and glory of God was concentrated in the little child Jesus.

The Rev. John Kurcina speaks to The Falls Church from John 14:12-31. The sermon looks at the plight of orphans (& widows) in the ancient world in order to more fully understand the gospel promises for a family and home that Jesus gives to his disciples in John 14.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Peter 4:8-11. Peter gives explicit instructions on how to live in the Christian community, focusing on love and service. One way the community is to love is to be generous to each other and to be a good steward of God's gifts by using them for each other.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from 1 Peter 4:1-7. Growing up in Christ requires us to learn to think like Jesus - we are to learn to pray with a mind that is anchored in reality (not appearances) and a heart set on discovering and doing the will of God. This is particularly true in praying about how to handle our money.

Libby Cannizzaro speaks to the adult volunteers of the student ministry at The Falls Church from Nehemiah about two characteristics of leadership in ministry: vision and passion.

The Rev. John Yates speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 12:1-2. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Rev. Dean Miller speaks to The Falls Church from Jeremiah 2:11-18, 15:16-21, and 17:13. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Rev. Rick Wright speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 11:29-30. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.

The Rev. Bill Haley speaks to The Falls Church from Deuteronomy 34:1-8. This message was given at the 9 a.m. and large 11:00 a.m. informal service.

The Rev. James Swynford speaks to The Falls Church from Deuteronomy 34:1-8. This message was given at the Sunday 11 a.m. Rite II Holy Communion service held in the Historic Church.

The Rev. Bill Haley speaks to The Falls Church from Hebrews 11:23-28. This message was given at the 9 a.m. service and both 11:00 a.m. services.