CTK Lord's Day Worship

When are we to honor authority, and when should we resist it? Mordecai gives us an example in the art of moral discernment.

Mordecai saved the king's life one day, but refused to bow to evil the next. That's not contradiction — that's wisdom. Biblical faithfulness means knowing when to honor authority and when to resist it. When doing right seems costly, remember: God sees, records, and will vindicate.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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Is God really at work when powerful schemes make things seem upside down? In Esther 2, we see how God overturns wicked plans and uses messy situations through surprising instruments, such as vulnerable women in pagan courts. This pattern of ironic providence reveals how enemy schemes backfire and God flips the script against stacked odds.

What does this mean for us in today's world of political maneuvering and compromises? Watch to discover how God’s hand is at work in dark places, speaking to your fears, workplace, and family.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour." — Exodus 20:16 (KJV)

Series: Law Homilies

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When leaders refuse to rule themselves, their sin snowballs—cowardice, abdication, and chaos follow in homes, churches, and nations. In Esther 1 we see a king try to fix his failures with a decree of divorce, broadcasting bad news to the empire, but God quietly uses even this folly to move Esther toward the throne and preserve His people. True, biblical leadership is not about self-preservation but the glad, sacrificial responsibility modeled by Christ, the better King who gives Himself to reconcile, not discard, His bride.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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"Thou shalt not steal." — Exodus 20:15

Series: Law Homilies

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On Baptism of the Lord Sunday, we explore the first of Isaiah’s Servant Songs and see how God marks His Servant, Jesus Christ, with the Spirit and declares His delight in Him. Through Christ's perfect obedience and fulfilling all righteousness, He has purchased these promises for His people, empowering us to carry forth His mission, bringing His judgment to the isles.

As servants of the Lord, marked by baptism and emboldened by promised victory, we are called to expand Christ's Kingdom in our corner of the world.

Preacher: Robert J. Hewitt III (Elder Candidate)

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"Thou shalt not commit adultery." — Exodus 20:14

Series: Law Homilies

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To properly build anything, the Church must be rooted and grounded in Jesus Christ, her Lord, and the people of God within a local church must be bought in—willing to move forward with the vision being set and trusting that this is God’s means to care for them and their posterity, not just the church’s ideas for the best ways to build a following, stay relevant, pay the bills, and so on.

What you build and how you build it matter to God. This is His house. So we must build with Him in mind, and we must build with His people in mind, since that is who He intends to serve.

So we must build, not with wood, hay, and stubble that won't withstand testing, but with gold, silver, and precious stones, works suited for the trying fire.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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God demands a new song not because He's chronologically needy, but because the Incarnation is so staggeringly excellent that our old hymns won't cut it—Christ Himself is the unwonted praise-song that warrants our most ardent attempts at worship, even though they'll all fall short.

This isn't about novel tunes or fresh sentiment; it's about hearts regenerated by sovereign grace finally able to sing what angels announced and creation groans for: God crashing into history as a baby to reclaim His world and crush the serpent's skull.

So sing, Christian—not because you're manufacturing religious feelings, but because the cosmic King has come, is reigning, and will return to finish what He started in that Bethlehem stable.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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Simeon's song "Now let depart" reveals the ultimate freedom of dying to self—a man so captivated by seeing God's salvation in the infant Christ that he can release his grip on life itself with perfect peace. This Advent sermon explores how true faith conquers not just the fear of death, but our desperate clinging to self-preservation, teaching us that when you have nothing to fear from death, the world has nothing left to threaten you with. The worst they can do is kill you, and for the believer who has held Christ in his arms, death is not loss but gain—not an ending, but a peaceful departure home.

This Christmas, we remember that Christ's birth reminds us that there is greater life in Him than in our old selves.

Preacher: Derrick Taylor

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