Christ the King Anglican Church: Recent Episodes
Christ the King Anglican Church
Calling all people into a transformative relationship with Jesus Christ for the glory of God and the salvation of the world.
This week, Deacon Zack looks at the freedom we have in Christ, and more specifically, the difference between “freedom from” and “freedom for”.
This week Father Michael discusses the process through which salvation was made available to everyone, Jew and Gentile alike.
On this Trinity Sunday, Father Michael takes on the unenviable task of preaching on the nature of the Trinity. Let us hear his words with open ears.
On this Pentecost Sunday, Father Michael looks at our relationship with the Holy Spirit, and the gifts that can come from that relationship.
This week, guest preacher Rev Mike Pasqarello expounds upon the possibly surprising statement “The glory of God is a human being fully alive.”
In this week’s sermon, Father Michael looks at the power and blessing of sacrificial love.
This week, Archbishop Foley dives into the text of Psalm 23 and looks at the hope and comfort that it gives us.
Father Michael examines God’s ability to redeem the bad things that happen to us, and how that plays into His plans for salvation.
Today, Father Daniel explains the hope that Saint John’s experiences in exile on the island of Patmos gives to us.
Father Michael explores the theme of “from resignation to resurrection” and looks at how, in dying to ourselves, we can obtain the greatest gift ever.
As is customary at CtK during the Great Vigil of Easter, Father Michael reads a homily by Saint John Chrysostom.
In this sermon, Father Michael looks at the role humility plays in our ability to carry out our Lord’s commandment to love one another.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
In this week’s sermon, Father Michael discusses perfect freedom, what it is, and how we achieve it.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
This week, Father Ben Williams digs into our lectionary readings to give us encouragement to continue our Lenten disciplines, even if they don’t seem to be going well.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
In this sermon , Father Michael explains what gardening can tell us about what our focus as Christians should be during this Lenten season.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
Readings from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
Fr Daniel reads from the entry for the First Monday in Lent from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
Fr Daniel reads from the entry for the First Friday in Lent from Lent with the Fathers, translated by E.B. Pusey, edited by W.J.E. Bennett, and published by Nashotah House Press in 2019. The work is in the public domain and can be accessed for free online.
This week, Father Michael reminds us that God is generous and merciful to us, and that we should embody that Kingdom ethic towards others.
In this week’s sermon, Father David describes how Jesus’ resurrection “frees us from the bondage of our past, forms our hope for the future, and focuses our lives in the present.”
In this sermon, Father Michael looks at the blessings we have as Christians in the form of our sacred traditions, specifically those surrounding the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But he reminds us that these traditions are not just stories, but actual events.
This week Father Michael warns us about the lies the enemy uses to make us think we’re wasting our lives.
This week, Father Daniel preaches about the centrality of God’s Word in the process of repentence and forgiveness.
In this week’s sermon, Father Michael takes a look a Jesus’ first miracle at the wedding at Cana.
This week, Father Michael takes a look at some of the empty sayings and platitudes, unbound from a Christian understanding of life, that our society offers us.
If the Christian life can be described as a pilgrimage, where is it that we are going, what is that place like, and how do we get there? Deacon Chase explains in this week’s sermon.
Today, as we are blessed to be performing a baptism, Father Daniel looks at the astounding gift that God has offered to His followers.
Glory to God in the highest! Today Father Daniel preaches on the Incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Nativity of our Lord.
As we celebrate the Nativity of our Lord, Father Michael reminds us that the Christmas story in Luke is not merely a story or a myth.
In this sermon, Father Michael preaches on the Annunciation - the Archangel Gabriel’s revelation to Mary that she would be the Mother of God. He looks at what her “yes” to that message meant to God’s plan for the redemption of mankind, and at how it can guide and inspire our own “yeses”.
Do we know how much God loves us? Can we even fathom how much He wants to do for us? Father Daniel looks into these questions in this week’s sermon.
Are you a saint? Does being a saint sound like a pie-in-the-sky thing to aspire to? I’m just a regular person, how could I be a saint? In today’s sermon, Father Michael looks at these questions and how they reflect the idea of Christians being imitators of Christ.
In this first sermon of the new liturgical year, Father Michael reminds us of the meaning of Advent as we await the coming of Christ.
On this Christ the King Sunday, Father Michael asks us whether we can truly confess that Christ is enthroned as King over all creation.
Fr Michael gives an in-depth teaching on the liturgy preserved in the Divine Service of Holy Communion. In Part I, Fr Michael discusses the first part of the liturgy, commonly called, "The Liturgy of the Table."
Fr Michael gives an in-depth teaching on the liturgy preserved in the Divine Service of Holy Communion. In Part I, Fr Michael discusses the first part of the liturgy, commonly called, "The Liturgy of the Word."
Today, we are observing All Saints Day, aka All Hallows Day, even though the secular calendar tells us it is All Hallows Eve. In this sermon, Father Daniel looks at who the saints are, why they are important to us, and what we can learn from both secular and sacred celebrations of Hallowe’en.
In this final entry in the sermon series, Father Michael discusses living the Christian life and how that plays out at Christ the King.
In this second part in his series, Father Michael discusses the importance of stewardship in our lives as Christians.
Fr Daniel teaches through questions 36-47 ("The Apostles' Creed: Article I) of the ACNA Catechism.
Works cited:
- Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, ed. Philip Schaff (1995: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc.)
- On the Incarnation of the Word, trans. Archibald Robertson from Christology of the Later Fathers, ed. Edward R. Hardy (1954: Westminster Press)
In this first part of a three-part series, Father Michael discusses the mission and values of our parish.
Fr Michael preaches on marriage and divorce from the "hard word" of the Gospel reading of Mark 10:2-16.
Fr Daniel teaches through questions 18-24 from the ACNA Catechism, To Be A Christian: An Anglican Catechism.
In this commodified world of 2nd-day and even same day delivery, Deacon Zach looks at what is being delivered and received in today’s Gospel passage.
Fr Daniel teaches through questions 1-17 from the ACNA Catechism, To Be A Christian: An Anglican Catechism.
Works cited:
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
The Venerable Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English Church
J.R.H. Moorman, A History of the Church in England,
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
The Books of Homilies: A Critical Edition, ed. Gerald Bray (Cambridge: James Clark & Co, 2015)
Fr Daniel Logan gives an introduction to the 2021-2022 catechism class at CTK.
Click here for a pdf of the handout.