Sermon, 1st Sunday of Advent, 2025
The first Sunday of Advent gives us a preview of the second coming of Christ. Christ entry into Jerusalem before Passion week shows us the entry of a king who is setting things to right. The corrupt leaders are shamed, and the people flock to their righteous ruler. Of course, we know that Christ first came as redeemer to lay His life down for His flock, but He will return again to judge the world. Are you ready for His coming? Are you spending the time you have been given in service to the kingdom? This is the most important thing. The night is far spent. The day is at…
Sermon, Sunday Next Before Advent, 2025
“Stir up the wills of thy faithful people.” So we pray in today’s collect. But to what purpose are we to be stirred-up? We see in today’s lessons that we are to turn our focus outward. We are to see the shepherdless people all around us and be stirred to compassion and then go out into the wilderness of our communities and gather in the outcasts. Let us not dwell upon what we lack, but rather let us simply obey our Lord Jesus Christ. All things are His. He will provide bread for His people in the wilderness. Propers Manuscript Sermon Archive
2025, Christmastide and Epiphanytide Worship and Events at Christ the King
This is a Wonderful season at Christ the King Anglican Church! Please join us for Joyous worship and feasting! Dec 21, After our 10:30 am Sunday morning worship (around 12:15 pm): Greening of the Church After our worship for the 4th Sunday in Advent, we break out the decorations and put up the Tree while enjoying lunch, festive music, and seasonal treats. Stop by and lend a hand decking the halls, enjoying refreshments, and hanging some ornaments! Dec 22, Monday, 8:30 am, Eucharist for the Feast of St. Thomas (transferred) Dec 24, Wednesday, Christmas Eve. 6 pm: Christmas Lessons and Carols. This is a worship service of scripture readings, carols,…
Sermon, 21st Sunday after Trinity, 2025
We can mean many things when we use the word, “believe”. It can mean an intellectual assent, which is merely an acknowledgment or agreement that has no real impact upon us. It can mean that we take action regarding a conviction, that we actually do something. It can also mean that we have experienced a particular thing or event and thus have no doubts about its truth. In this last case, there is a confidence, a peace, which accompanies belief. In our lives, we will certainly face many personal battles on all kinds of levels. The epistle lesson provides for us disciplines and “spiritual armor” for us to use in…
Sunday Morning Worship celebrating the Feast of All Saints, Nov. 2, 2025
During today’s worship, we are reminded of the great cloud of witnesses, those who have finished their lives in persevering in, and contending for, the faith. We are reminded that their being has not ended, but they are gathered round the throne of God worshiping Him with their entire souls, and in doing so, they find joy and everlasting triumph. Finally, we are reminded that in our worship, we ascend into heaven and join with them around the Throne of God and of The Lamb and the Sevenfold Spirit of God. Let this reality be with us every time we gather for worship! Propers Manuscript Sermon Archive
Sermon, 18th Sunday after Trinity, 2025
As Christians, we are not only tempted to sin through our weaknesses, but we are also tempted to doubt our faith when confronted by skeptics. This morning we look at how Jesus was able to withstand such attacks and pray for grace that, like our Lord Christ, we would be able to withstand challenges to our faith as well. Propers Manuscript Sermon Archive
Homily for the Feast of St. Luke, 2025
In Colossians 4, St. Paul refers to, “Luke the beloved physician.” From this, the church has traditionally held that St. Luke was a doctor, skilled in treating ailments of the body. But Luke was also the author of the Gospel that bears his name and of the Acts of the Apostles, and he was also a companion of St. Paul in his missionary activities. From this we understand that he sought to heal souls as well. In this feast day, we are reminded that we are created as a union of both body and soul. Our ultimate healing is in Christ who heals our souls and promises that, in the life…
Sermon, 17th Sunday after Trinity, 2025
Love Unites, Pride Isolates The idea of union is central to Christine theology and doctrine, and in today’s lesson from the beginning of the 4th chapter of St. Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians, the Apostle highlights the union of all things in God with majestic poetry. “There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Yet this is contrasted by the Pharisees in the lesson from the Gospel of St. Luke, who seek their own glory in pride. …
Sermon, 15th Sunday after Trinity, 2025
The frailty of man without God cannot but fall. This haunting clause from the collect for the 15th Sunday after Trinity permeates our lessons today. In Galatians 6, we see men striving through circumcision for their own righteousness apart from God. This endeavor is bound to fall. In Matthew 6, we see men also striving to meet their physical needs apart from God. We focus upon getting things for ourselves to protect from calamity and refuse to rest in the provision that God will supply. Our efforts apart from God are bound to fall. What do we do? Seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things shall…
Sermon, 14th Sunday after Trinity, 2025
This Sunday, we are reading the 12th and final Homily in the first book of homilies, which is entitled: A Sermon Against Contention and Brawling These sermons have been edited to shorten them and to update the language, with the intent of maintaining the content, or at least the core meaning. The original texts of the homilies can be found in the manuscripts after the edited texts that were preached. For background on these homilies, see the links below. At the time these homilies were written, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, there was great religious turmoil in England. The Reformation had brought Protestantism to the Church of England,…