The Ctk Uptown Health Fair is only three days away, so here’s a few details to be aware of. 1. Purpose. The Health Fair is part of our Mosaic ministry that is reaching out to Cincinnati with Cross-Cultural Love. This fair is designed to care for the whole person, body and soul. On Saturday, we will serve our neighbors …
More →How can you plant a thriving church in a culture of a million different voices and a thousand pressing decisions? Learn how Sojourn Network churches across the U.S. do it with our simple Faithmapping model for planting gospel-centered churches, filled with people who reflect each city’s culture and work for its good. The Faithmapping Micro-Conference …
More →The Christmas Store Christ the King Church is pleased to announce our involvement in a Christmas Store. City Gospel Mission is partnering with us to make this happen. Here’s how the Christmas Store works. Several area church partners distribute registration forms to parents they know need help. Parents are assigned a set shopping time. They …
More →333 Warner St. is the new home of CTK Uptown. God has graciously given us this wonderful facility, strategically placed in the Clifton Heights/University Heights/ Fairview neighborhood of Uptown. We love being a part of the Uptown neighborhoods of Cincinnati! Our desire is to be good neighbors in our new neighborhood, and be welcoming to newcomers …
More →Hey Ctk friends! I took some time to discuss this in my sermon last Sunday, but we need everyone to be aware of a great opportunity we have as a church. As you are probably aware by now, Ctk church has been given a new church building in our neighborhood recently, and we are in …
More →Paul argues in Galatians 4 that Christians are the true Sons of Abraham because we share the faith of Abraham. God made promise to Abraham to bless the entire world through his offspring. Abraham didn’t know the whole story; he trusted God for the revelation God had given him at that time. But now, in …
More →In last Sunday’s sermon, we talked about thirteen different ways to identify Fear of Man in your life. I drew heavily upon this list and also added some of my own. #1. You frequently think about what other people are thinking about you. #2. You long to be noticed more than you long to be …
More →About three years ago, when we were first trying to find a place for our church to meet, we started praying for God to provide a permanent facility for us. In the inner city, church plants often have a hard time gaining traction until they have their own building. Eighteen months ago, we contacted Fairview Baptist Church, a church in our …
More →This is the final aspect of masculinity covered in our Men’s Leadership Training. Men are Kings, Cultivators, Protectors, and finally, Coaches (Shepherds). As men, God has made us to coach each other in being good Kings, Cultivators and Protectors. Being a coach doesn’t mean having superior skill sets and abilities. In fact, a lot of …
More →(Note: This is Part 7 of our series on biblical masculinity, adapted from Men’s Leadership Training) Men are made to be protectors—to guard and keep what has been entrusted to them. But our instinct to protect can be used in extreme ways that are not good. Some men abuse their role as protector. Rather than …
More →(Note: This is Part 6 of our series on biblical masculinity, adapted from Men’s Leadership Training) Ambrose Redmoon said, “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the judgment that something else is more important than fear.” This is the essence of what it means to be a protector–the determination to defend. Men are hard-wired …
More →(Note: This is Part 5 of our series on biblical masculinity, adapted from Men’s Leadership Training) Men are cultivators. They are wired by God to be creative with the resources around them. To cultivate is to produce something beautiful and useful out of the raw materials available to you. So men make machines that are …
More →“You have lived on the earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter.” – James 5:5 The final point from our previous message in the book of James was that having wealth tests where we find comfort. It’s not wrong to find comfort in the things that money …
More →I have a hard time believing that God is okay with my mistakes. I know he can handle my sin, but when it comes to my lack of planning, my oversight, and my ignorance, I tend to think that there’s no room for forgiveness. Good thing I’m wrong. Have you ever felt like this, like …
More →(Note: This is Part 4 of our series on biblical masculinity, adapted from Men’s Leadership Training) When God created Adam, he put him in the middle of a garden and told him to make something of the world. We know this as the Cultural Mandate: “Be fruitful and multiply; subdue the earth and fill it; …
More →In the last post in this series we saw that God created men to be kings. As kings, men are wired to take initiative and get things done, to have dominion over every part of their lives: over themselves, their stuff, their relationships and their work. Men are called to be get-it-done dudes who refuse …
More →(1) What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? (6) But he (God) gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from …
More →Two Kinds of Gossip There are two ways to gossip. We can gossip with things we say or with things we listen to other people say. Both are participating in gossip. But the Bible does not forbid talking about other people. There are numerous instances in the New Testament where people are called out by name because their …
More →Last week we started Men’s Leadership Training, a 10-week course on how men can be better men. The objective is for us, as men, to see ourselves in light of who God has made us, how sin has messed us up, and how Jesus restores us. Here is an overview of the course, a roadmap …
More →There is an apparent contradiction between two verses in the Bible. James says, “A person is justified by works and not by faith alone” (James 2:24). Paul says, “One is justified by faith apart from works of the law” (Romans 3:28). Although they appear contradictory on the surface, a closer examination of how James and …
More →This past week Michael preached “Overcoming Anger” from James 1:19-26. Anger is an intense emotional response to being denied something we really want. It can be legitimate anger, but even so, typically the legitimacy of our anger soon intersects with the sin of our heart, and it leads us away from “the righteousness that God …
More →Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. James 1:19-20 I am a fan of profoundly simple and practical advice. There are plenty of instances in scripture where we are presented with spiritual …
More →I’ll be completely honest with you: I can’t stand to be criticized. And it’s not that I think I’m above criticism—certainly not. It’s just that criticism has this way of . . . crushing me. That’s right—it knocks the breath right out of me, and leaves me dizzy on the floor. Don’t get me wrong. …
More →I was texting with a friend of mine who, as I type, is in New Orleans, getting ready for the National Championship game tonight. He’s an LSU tiger fan and couldn’t be more excited to see his team fight for the highest prize in college football. No doubt the town is buzzing today with fans …
More →I have read through the Bible several times over the past few years and have found a couple of things helpful. 1. Use a Reading Guide to track your progress. Pretty much all you need to know can be found right here. Here is the plan that I like to use. 2. Choose a readable translation. Here’s a good rule …
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