Christ Church Evangelical Covenant

Today, we begin a new series with a sobering, yet hopeful conversation about life, death, and what lies beyond. As we explore 1 Corinthians 15 together, we get a glimpse of how exactly our faith can meet our fear, grief, and longing with care, truth, and a future hope.

When it comes to church, it's not really about showing up for a worship service. The church is a family - a holy nation, a royal priesthood! As we wrap up our Siblingship series, Pastor Cheryl invites a few leaders to share about how Christ Church is trying to live this out as a community where discipleship, compassion, and hospitality intersect in real spaces, here in East Greenwich and beyond.

In the third week of our Siblingship series, we look closer at the ways that God builds a united body from diverse generations. The church is a Spirit-formed body in which every part is placed by God and every member matters. How, then, do we move from spectatorship to participation to reorient our church to be the kind of family God calls us to be?

Pentecost invites us into a living, renovating family. This week, as we continue our Siblingship series, we are exploring Romans 12:9-18 as a blueprint for practicing family life across generations—loving without masks, honoring one another, sharing with those in need, practicing hospitality, and grieving and celebrating together. In a moment when church culture can feel pulled between old rhythms and new, how does the church community become a home that fits everyone? What does it mean to bridge differences when style, tradition, and tempo pull us in different directions?

Join us as we start a new sermon series focusing on what it really means to be the family of God! As God's people, the idea of kinship extends across all sorts of divisions, allowing the church to embody reconciliation - inside and out. The question for us, then, is: how do we organize our lives around being part of this new family?

As we wrap up our series, Pastor Cheryl invites us to the explore what things could look like when the Spirit awakens us and leads us into bold, outward living. (Hint: a Spirit-filled community responds with courage!) How can our own wells of faith be tended this week?

"The purpose of God for you is change." Today, we are invited to consider a deeper kind of change—not a quick fix, but a life-long metamorphosis sparked by the Holy Spirit. In Romans 8 and Galatians 4, we explores what it means to live as children and heirs of God, and how God’s Spirit actually forms us from the inside out. The Spirit is not a distant force, but is instead a personal presence — helper, counselor, advocate — who walks with us, prays with us, and leads us in daily steps.

As we continue our series on Discovering the Power of the Holy Spirit, we look at three powerful signs that appear through scripture revealing the presence and activity of God — wind, fire, and language. God’s Spirit breathes new life, burns with purpose, and invites a multilingual witness. As we consider it means that we are the temple of the Spirit—how can our lives, speech, and love become indicators of God's presence?

We often expect the Holy Spirit to show up in miraculous, supernatural ways. But today, we are invited to notice the Holy Spirit’s presence in the gaps—the waiting, the ordinary moments, the nudges that remind us we’re not alone. We’ll trace the Spirit’s work from the promise in John 14 to Pentecost in Acts, and onward through Ezekiel’s renewal and Paul’s teaching, discovering that the Spirit is not distant but near, shaping us for love, courage, and mission.

Today, we are invited to slow down on the Emmaus road in Luke 24, where Jesus walks beside two weary travelers. As broken hearts and shattered expectations surface, the risen Christ opens the scriptures to reveal how the story points to himself. Through these travelers, we glimpse what it means to interpret the Bible through Christ, moving from “we had hoped” to recognizing the living presence of Jesus, and to a heart awakened by the moment of shared faith at the table.