CTK Lord's Day Worship

James 3 reminds us that the tongue may be small, but it can steer a life, set a fire, and reveal the condition of the heart. Christ alone is the perfect Man whose words were always true and holy, and by His grace He forgives our sinful speech and renews our mouths to bless God and build up our neighbor.

Title: The Tongue Boasts Great Things

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The First Commandment does not merely forbid bowing before obvious idols; it also confronts our proud desire to pry into God’s hidden counsel. The Lord has given us what we need for faith and obedience, and He calls us to receive what He has revealed and rest where He has been silent. Let God be God, and let us be His worshippers.

Title: The Secret Things Belong to God

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James teaches that saving faith is never a lifeless profession. Rahab heard what the Lord had done, believed His Word, cast her lot with His people, and acted when obedience was costly. We are not saved by our works, but the faith that receives Christ is made alive by Him and begins to love the neighbor God has placed in front of us.

Title: Living Faith is a Friend of Man

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The Tenth Commandment exposes more than outward sin—it reveals the heart’s disordered hunger for what God has not given. But the aim of God’s law is love: charity from a pure heart, a good conscience, and faith unfeigned anchored in the sufficiency of Christ.

Title: Coveting and the Aim of Love

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James does not present Abraham as a museum exhibit to admire from a distance, but as a living example of faith that obeys when obedience is costly. True faith is not mere talk, private opinion, or theological vocabulary—it moves, sacrifices, reconciles, gives mercy, and trusts that the God who provided the ram will keep every promise.

Title: Living Faith is a Friend of God

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The Ninth Commandment calls us not only to refuse lies, slander, and gossip, but to become people who gladly tell the truth about God’s grace in others. When we withhold honest encouragement out of envy, competition, or pride, we bear false witness against both our neighbor and the Giver of every good gift.

Title: Acknowledging Freely

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James warns us that true faith is more than orthodox confession and emotional fear: even the demons believe true things about God and tremble. Saving faith receives and rests upon Christ, and because it is alive, it bears the fruit of repentance, obedience, mercy, and love.

Title: Demonic Faith: Truth Without Surrender

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In this Law Homily, we explore how "Thou shalt not steal" extends far beyond taking another's property—to how we steward the resources, time, wealth, and even the lives God has entrusted to our care. From our households to our national inheritance, we are "life tenants" accountable to God for managing His gifts faithfully. Whether as children, spouses, young adults, or grandparents, each season of life calls us to invest wisely rather than waste negligently. Drawing on the parable of the talents, this message challenges us to examine our hearts and our habits, reminding us that wasteful neglect is itself a violation of God's Law—and that through Christ's atoning sacrifice, repentant sinners find forgiveness and grace.

Title: Stewarding What God Has Entrusted

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Baptism is not a thin religious symbol or a sentimental ceremony. It is the covenant sign appointed by the risen Christ — God’s visible word of cleansing, union, burial, resurrection, and new creation life.

Circumcision pointed forward to the promised Seed. Baptism announces that the promised Seed has come, has died, has risen, and now claims His people in the Triune name.

Because Christ rose on the first day of the week — the eighth day — baptism belongs to the life of resurrection. It tells us that the old creation is passing away, the new creation has dawned, and all who are in Christ must walk by faith in newness of life.

The eighth day has dawned. Behold, He makes all things new.

Title: Baptism & the Eighth Day

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The Seventh Commandment is not God stealing joy from His people. It is God fencing in something precious.

Marriage is honorable. The marriage bed is undefiled. And Christian holiness means guarding not only the body, but the heart, the imagination, the eyes, the speech, and the whole pattern of life.

Title: Guarding Sexuality

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