• Sermons

    Sermon, 23rd Sunday after Trinity, 2024

    This Sunday, we wrapped up the Unification cycle of our Trinity series on the Seven Deadly Sins by revisiting one final time, the sin of covetousness.  Covetousness desires what belongs to another person.  Christ said to the Pharisees, render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, and render unto God, the things that are God’s.  As ancient coins bore the image of the sovereign that minted them, we bear the image of the sovereign that created us.  We belong to God.  Will we render ourselves unto Him?  Or do we withhold ourselves from Him in our self-covetousness?  This is the challenge for us today and every day. Propers      Manuscript     …

  • Events

    Anglican Hymn Singing Workshop, Nov. 15-17, 2024

    Do you like to sing, but feel timid about singing along with everyone in Church?  Do you wish that you could sing better, but don’t know where to begin to improve?  Then please join us at Christ the King Anglican Church on the weekend of November 15-17 when we welcome Andrew Dittman, Choirmaster at Chapel of the Cross in Dallas, Texas, to help us to better understand why we sing and to help us to sing better!  Besides being choirmaster at the Chapel, Mr. Dittman also leads the music department at St. Timothy’s School in Dallas, and is also Artistic Director of the Denton Bach Society. Here is the weekend’s…

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    Page Turners, Women’s book club for November

    If you are a woman who likes to read or simply enjoys being social, then please join us on November 12, 2024, at 6:45 pm for the next “Page Turners” bookclub meeting.  This month’s book is Sheldon Vanauken’s, A Servere Mercy.  This poignant memoir tells the story of Vanauken’s love and marriage, of studying under C.S. Lewis at Oxford, of him and his wife’s conversion to Christianity, and of the severe mercy God shows to him through his wife’s illness and death. Book can be purchased via Amazon or Abebooks Audiobook can be purchased at Audiobooks.com

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    Sermon, 21st Sunday After Trinity, 2024

    Do you believe in the gospel or do you BE-LIEVE in the Gospel?  The difference between a superficial belief and a more deeply rooted faith is closely connected with how much effort we put into our spiritual life in Christ.  Unfortunately, many professing believers are stifled in their Christian maturity because of spiritual sloth.  We might show up to church on Sunday, but then we ignore Christ for the rest of the week.  St. Paul reminds us this morning that we are in a spiritual battle, and if we do not actively prepare for the daily battle, then we risk, at the least, being ineffective for the Kingdom of God,…

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    Page Turners, Women’s book club for October

    If you are a woman who like to read or simply likes to be social, then please join us on October 8 at 6:45 pm for the next “Page Turners” bookclub meeting.  This month’s book is George MacDonald’s, Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women (1858).  Of reading this book at the age of sixteen, C.S. Lewis reportedly wrote in his diary, “That night my imagination was, in a certain sense, baptized; the rest of me[,] not unnaturally, took longer. I had not the faintest notion what I had let myself in for by buying Phantastes.” (quote from wikipedia) Book can be purchased via Amazon or Abebooks Audiobook can…

  • Sermons

    Sermon, 15th Sunday after Trinity, 2024

    Covetousness is, at its core, a distrust of God through an attempt to provide for ourselves.  Yet we cannot make the sun rise or set, we cannot make it rain or shine, we cannot control the vast majority of what happens to us.  So how exactly are we going to provide what we need for life?  The virtue we need which opposes our greediness is justice – giving to all his due.  The just person understands the relative value of things and does not clamor for that which cannot satisfy and which cannot save.  God is our hope and strength, a very present help in trouble.  God takes care of…

  • Sermons

    Sermon, 14th after Trinity, 2024

    Will we live in the flesh or in the Spirit?  This question is posed to us by St. Paul in the epistle lesson this morning.  The sins of the flesh may seem attractive to us, but then the gospel lesson illustrates for us that such a life is like having leprosy.  How then, are we to live in the Spirit?  The virtue we need is Temperance.  As followers of Jesus, this isn’t simply a strength of will to avoid sin, but it is a longing for something greater to be found in our relationship with Christ. Propers      Manuscript

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    Sermon, 13th after Trinity, 2024

    Too often, we use the Law, those biblical principles of what things are right and wrong, to attempt to justify ourselves.  Such is the case of the student of the Mosaic Law that we read about in Luke 10:23-37.  Then having incorrectly justified ourselves, we become angry with those who disagree with us or thwart our purposes.  Yet St. Paul makes the case in Galatians 3, that our relationship with God, established first in the Abrahamic covenant in Genesis, is entirely on the basis of God’s promise.  Our obedience is built upon God’s gift, not upon our keeping of the Law.  We do not justify ourselves.  God, in Christ Jesus,…

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