In this training talk, Pastor Buck discusses the fifth membership vow: Do you submit yourselves to the government and discipline of the church, and promise to study its purity and peace?

This week Pastor Buck continues our Praying Community sermon series by preaching on Luke 11.  In this passage, the disciples ask Jesus how to pray, and He responds with a model prayer...

Pastor Buck continues launch team training on the membership vows at CTK. This week he teaches on the 4th vow, "Do you promise to support the church in its worship and work to the best of your ability?"

We continue our sermon series on prayer as Dr. Paul Kooistra preaches on Ephesians 3:14-21. He teaches us 5 ways that this prayer can shape our prayer lives. 

In this training talk, Pastor Buck teaches on the nature of sanctification (the process of becoming more and more like Jesus),  and how we participate in this process as we seek to keep the third membership vow. 

In the second sermon in the Praying Community series, Pastor Buck looks at Matthew 26. In this passage we see the disciples and Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane,  and learn how Jesus' prayers undergird and support our prayers every day.  

This week, Pastor Buck introduces our new sermon series The Praying Community by looking a the parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector.  In this parable, Jesus shows us how our justification (what makes us feel okay) impacts the way we pray. 

This week, Rev. Stephen Maginas preaches on Psalm 77. 

This week, Rev. Brian Deringer preaches on 1 Corinthians 13. In his message, he shares how love is the ultimate defense of the faith for our community.

In this training session, Pastor Buck explains the third membership vow in light of the first two. He also introduces the theological concepts of justification and sanctification, and how they work themselves out in the membership vows.