CTK Lord's Day Worship

Trinity Sunday invites us to pause and consider not only what God has done in redemption, but who God is: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—eternal love and communion, never solitary, never in need. In Christ, by the Spirit, we are not merely forgiven at a distance but brought in—adopted, welcomed, and taught to cry, “Abba, Father.”

Title: The Necessity of the Trinity

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“Thou shalt not kill” teaches more than avoiding murder—it calls us to love life as a gift from God. We are stewards of our bodies and neighbors, bound to preserve life, pursue purity, and refuse the fear of man. Yet where we have failed the Law, Christ has not: the Just has died for the unjust, and in Him we receive pardon and strength to walk in new obedience.⁠

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Pentecost isn’t an isolated “Acts 2 moment”—it’s been in the Bible’s bloodstream all along.

In Numbers 11, Moses is crushed under the burden of the people, and God answers by distributing the Spirit—not to exalt a structure, but to share the work and spread God’s presence. Even Eldad and Medad prophesy “in the camp,” reminding us the Spirit is not confined to official channels.

A warning remains: to crave “Egypt” over the bread from heaven is a road to graves. But the comfort is greater—Christ has given His Spirit, and the life of the Kingdom is meant to be carried into ordinary places, with reverence, faith, and confidence in God’s provision.

Title: Would That All the LORD's People Were Prophets

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“Honor thy father and thy mother” reaches further than the home: it speaks to every place of authority God appoints. This Lord’s Day we considered the weight of leadership—how superiors can sin by neglecting their duties, using authority for themselves, provoking others unjustly, or modeling evil. The comfort is this: Jesus Christ is the perfectly faithful Superior, who leads with truth and gentleness and calls us to steward authority for the good of those entrusted to us.⁠

Title: The Calling of Superiors

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Purim is more than a Jewish holiday—it’s covenant memory: God overturning the lot, turning sorrow into joy, and teaching His people to remember His deliverance with thanksgiving, generosity, and care for the poor (Esther 9:20–10:3).

Title: Purim as Culmination

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Honoring the Lord’s Day is a gift and a freedom for the people of God, given for us. Let us rejoice and be glad in it.

In this homily, we consider where we may have omitted the duties required in the fourth commandment, where we’ve been “careless, negligent, or unprofitable in the performing of them, or grown weary of them.” And in our confession, we look to Christ to strengthen us in faith to joyfully trust Him and His good gifts to us.

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. ⁹ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ¹⁰ But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: ¹¹ For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." — Exodus 20:8-11

Title: Filling the Lord's Day

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This sermon on Exodus 2 unfolds the story of Moses’ birth and early years as a vivid display of the providence of God, who quietly orders every detail—even a desperate mother’s plan, a baby’s basket on the Nile, and the compassion of a pagan princess—to accomplish his saving purposes. Rather than focusing on human heroism, the message presses us to see how the Lord is at work precisely when his people feel most helpless and hidden, inviting us to trust that his timing is never late and his hand is never absent. As Moses is preserved, protected, and prepared in ways no one could have scripted, we are called to rest in the same covenant God, learning to entrust our fears, delays, and unmet expectations to the wise and fatherly providence that governs all things for the good of those who belong to Christ.

Guest Preacher: Garrett Soucy

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This week’s Law Homily returns to the Third Commandment (Ex. 20:7) and presses the question: where are we tempted to be ashamed of God’s truth, grace, and ways?

In a culture that rewards apology and compromise, the warning still stands—God “will not hold him guiltless” who takes His name in vain. That sin isn’t only loud blasphemy; it can be the quieter posture of explaining away Scripture, softening hard edges, or living in ways that make us a shame to the truth we confess.

The call is clear: don’t apologize for what God has said and done. Repent where fear of man has shaped obedience, pray for Christ’s Church to recover courage, and remember the gospel: Christ’s perfect obedience is credited to sinners by grace, so we can pursue joyful obedience without shame.

“Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.”

Title: The Shame of Blasphemies

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In Esther 9, what was decreed for the destruction of God's people became the occasion of their total deliverance. Not because of human strategy, but because God exalted His anointed and put the fear of His name before kings, rulers, and entire provinces. God's counter-decree answered the decree of death — and it always does. Christ is the greater Mordecai — who waxes greater and greater, whose kingdom has no end, and who brings all of history to its appointed feast.

Title: The Church Age

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This homily explores the Second Commandment and what it means to worship God rightly. It examines both the restrictions and duties of biblical worship, revealing how acts of worship profoundly affect not only individuals but their children and grandchildren. Discover why God cares so deeply about how He is approached, why cultural religious practices and worldly substitutes cannot replace biblical worship, and how the simplicity of God's covenantal means of grace are far more powerful than human ingenuity. Learn how the curse of false worship is reversed through Christ's work and new covenant, bringing generational blessing to all who love Him and keep His commandments.

“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. ⁵Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; ⁶And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.”

Title: From Curse to Covenant

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