Christ Presbyterian Church

05/30/2026

This Sunday we celebrate Trinity Sunday as we continue our journey through Galatians and rejoice in the incredible truth of our adoption in Christ.

Because of Jesus, we are no longer slaves—but sons and daughters of God, sealed by the Spirit and welcomed into the Father’s family.

📖 Sermon Text: Galatians 3:23–4:7
🎙 Sermon: “Trinity ‘Son’ Day”

Join us for worship as we gather to praise the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and hear the good news of the gospel together.

Come as you are. Bring a friend. We’d love to worship with you!

🕘 Sunday School 9:00AM | Worship 10:30AM
📍 8450 Whispering Pines

05/29/2026

Come Holy Spirit Come,
John 14:26 — But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

This past Sunday was Pentecost Sunday, where we remember and celebrate God’s sending of His Holy Spirit into our lives to regenerate the hearts of God’s people and seal them unto the Father. We remember this major moment in redemptive history with joyful adoration of the God who came to indwell us and make us holy.

The Helper (or Paraclete — the one who comes alongside) is the third person of the Godhead, who is sent from the Father and the Son to minister here on earth and to perfect God’s Church, also known as the body of Christ. One thing that I love about this verse is the promise that Jesus gives that the Holy Spirit will teach us and bring to our memory the things that Jesus has said. This promise is directly connected to our study of the Word, and it should be an encouragement and a challenge for us to spend more time in the Word. It is a challenge as Jesus says that the Holy Spirit will bring to remembrance what He has said, which ‘remembrance’ points to the need of having once known. Yet that first promise that Spirit will teach us, should encourage us that as we read and study God’s Word, His Spirit will help us to learn what we need!

The Holy Spirit is our helper as we go through this life, and Jesus encourages his disciples that there will be times when you will be challenged, but fear not because we have the Holy Spirit “[who] will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say” (Luke 12:12).

We have grounds for confidence in this life, because we no longer stand under the law, but in Christ, where we are filled with His Spirit and guarded from the enemy.

It is also good for us to remember all that God has done in redemptive history from Genesis 1 and Creation, to Genesis 12 and the promise to Abraham, to Exodus 12 and Israel’s deliverance from Egypt, to Jeremiah 31 and the new Covenant written on our hearts, and ultimately to Matthew 27-28 and the death and resurrection of Christ.

In this time of remembrance and honor (both in memory of Pentecost on Sunday and Memorial Day on Monday), let us not forget the God who acts in history and is sovereign over history.

United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried
Pastor

05/28/2026

This past Sunday in Galatians, Pastor Josh compared the covenants and showed how God’s promise to Abraham was always greater than the law given through Moses.

The law did not replace God’s promise—it revealed humanity’s sin and pointed us to our need for a Savior. In Christ, we see the fulfillment of the better covenant of grace.

📖 Galatians 3:15–22
🎧 “The Better Covenant”

Take some time this week to listen, reflect, and be encouraged by God’s Word.

Pastor Josh compares the covenants in this week's message from Galatians. Abraham received a covenant directly from God, while Israel received the law throug...

05/23/2026

It’s Pentecost Sunday!

Join us tomorrow as we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit and the faithfulness of God to His covenant promises fulfilled in Christ.

📖 Scripture Reading: Galatians 3:15–22
🎙 Sermon: “The Greater Covenant of Promise”

Come worship with us as we gather around God’s Word, sing His praises, and rejoice in the grace given to us through Jesus Christ.

Whether you’ve been with us for years or are looking for a church home, you are warmly invited to join us. Bring a friend!

🕘 Sunday School 9:00AM | Worship 10:30AM

05/22/2026

By the water
Psalm 1:3 — He is like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither. In all that he does, he prospers. (Psalm 1:3, ESV)

I have to be honest, I'm a totally different person in the water. On our honeymoon, my wife was totally surprised at how much fun I have in the pool (probably because she knows how much I hate being wet).

But let's not over-literalize the word 'water' here. The psalmist means the Word of God when he speaks of the water. And it's also true that I'm a totally different person in that water too! The Word of God saturates the soil of our lives and seeps into every crevice of our heart.

Like a tree planted by the water, we should soak up the living water of the Word because each one of us will experience different seasons, and there will be seasons that feel like desserts with no rain and seasons of torrential downpours. Seasons of spiritual drought and spiritual abundance.

We are called to live every season in the Word. It is our life-source! It defines what real prosperity looks like and promises prosperity when we remain like a tree planted by the water.

That doesn't mean that we will experience worldly success or material prosperity. We must remind ourselves that it is a great blessing to suffer for the truth of the Gospel and even to be martyred for the cross of Christ. No, biblical prosperity looks quite different then we normally imagine, and this is why we need the Word, so that we may pull from the water in every season and rejoice is the droughts and the storms as well as in the good times.

We are truly blessed when we are living in accordance with how God created us and called us to live, and we can only learn to do so through remaining in the Word like trees planted by the water.

United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried

05/21/2026

This past Sunday in Galatians, we were reminded that salvation is not earned through works, effort, or religious performance—but comes through faith in Jesus Christ alone.

In “Saved and Sealed by the Spirit,” Paul calls believers to rest in the grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, who saves, seals, and sustains His people.

📖 Scripture Reading — Galatians 3:1–14
🎧 Sermon — “Saved and Sealed by the Spirit”

Take some time this week to listen, reflect, and be encouraged by God’s Word.

This week Pastor Josh highlights the importance of the Holy Spirit ...

05/20/2026

Midweek Connect is paused for the summer, but the fellowship continues! ☀️

Members and friends of Christ Presbyterian Church will be gathering on Wednesday nights throughout the summer for food, fellowship, and time together.

Our first Summer Suppers Fellowship Night will be:
📍 Beef O’Brady’s – Spanish Fort
📅 Wednesday, May 27
🕕 6:00 PM

We’d love for you to join us for a fun evening together!

05/19/2026

Connections - https://mailchi.mp/e2a1803db8eb/connections-9949925

05/16/2026

How does the Christian life begin—and how are we sustained in it? Not by our own effort, but by the grace of God through faith in Christ.

Join us tomorrow as we continue through Galatians and consider the wonderful truth that believers are both saved and sealed by the Spirit.

📖 Sermon Text: Galatians 3:1–14
🎙 Sermon: “Saved and Sealed by the Spirit”

Come worship with us as we sing, pray, and sit under God’s Word together. Bring a friend—we’d love to welcome you!

🕘 Sunday Worship 10:30 AM
📍8450 Whispering Pines Road

We also invite you to join us tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 PM for the installation service of Reverend Joshua Fried. It will be a special time of worship, prayer, and celebration in the life of our church family.

05/15/2026

What’s this about aliens?
Ephesians 6:12 - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

For those of you who don’t know, my professional background is military intelligence, and there was one time when I was in the SCIF (the facility that requires a security clearance to enter), and I had a 12 hour overnight shift. There wasn’t much happening that night, so I decided to log into one of our databases, and research aliens. I stumbled into a CIA webpage that I quickly exited because a big part of military intelligence is need to know, and I knew that I did not need to know anything CIA related. The next morning, I went to my supervisor and gave him a heads up that he may hear about one of his Soldiers going where he doesn’t belong. Luckily for me, no one ever inquired to why I was snooping around in classified materials.

All that being said, this past week, the U.S. government declassified a number of UFO related documents, and the week prior, a number of pastors came forward claiming that they were approached by government officials concerning these documents that were going to be released. (I looked through the released documents, there’s nothing interesting).

The warning that these pastors received was that there was going to be a coming “Great Distraction” regarding what the government was going to release, but in all honesty, the great distraction was the “government officials” who were almost definitely not related to the government (because, come on, they met in an AirBNB near a pastors conference for Pete’s sake).

First, if any of the information that was leaked to these pastors about intergalactic beings were true, and the government was involved in some kind of alien conspiracy coverup, each of those pastors would have been visited by counterintelligence agents. That is simply how the intelligence community works. You don’t talk about intelligence or you will be formally investigated. The whole thing is a hoax and a distraction.

Second, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces. These pastors went viral online warning their churches and the online community about coming information about aliens. But this is not what a pastor is called to do. They abandoned their post as shepherds and ministers to chase spooks. The great distraction was the distraction from the Gospel.

Finally, we must stand firm in Christ. Stand on the rock, the cornerstone that is Christ and take up the whole armor of God with militaristic discipline rooted in the Word of God that we may have confidence in the truth of Scripture. Paul warns that "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” The message these pastors communicated was one of deception. One that points away from who God is as our Creator and who Christ is as our Savior. Yet we ought not be distracted because if Christ is risen from the dead that this Word is true! The Gospel is true. Do not be distracted or deceived, but stand firm on the cross of Christ!

United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried
Pastor