CTK Anacortes

As we enter into the story of Acts today, we will get a glimpse of a deep and complete picture of God's kingdom and what Jesus is doing in the here and now.

Today we climb inside the rhythms and practices of the new Spirit-birthed Jesus movement, discovering both a challenge and an invitation to co-create an intentional way of life together that bears witness to the in-breaking Kingdom of God and becomes known as a place of deep healing and belonging.

Peter's story and Spirit-inspired sermon bears witness to Jesus—Lord and Messiah—and invites us into the dynamic, death-defeating, creatively unfolding reality of the age of the Kingdom of God, confronting us with a heart-level question: are we living out the story of our culture or of the Kingdom?

Enter the story and encounter the Spirit's power at work—then and now—through a humble, listening church.

Today, as we listen to stories, we are reminded that practicing the way of Jesus is how his life and story continue in and through our own.

Today we witness the apostles counter cultural patterns of continuation and see a clear invitation to a deeper experience with Jesus.

Today we begin our trek through the book of Acts to discover the power of the Spirit through language and story—and an invitation to participate.

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On this third Sunday of Advent we're invited to see the shape of God's salvation and receive an invitation to take part.

On this second Sunday of Advent, we consider how Isaiah's longing invites us to wait with hope until our truest desire comes into focus so that we might respond accordingly. 

On this first Sunday of Advent, we are invited into the transformative experience of waiting.

This week we address the radical new reality Christ ushers in and how it redeems work as worship and subverts cultural hierarchy's. We also hear testimonies of the transformative power of discipleship to Jesus within the context of marriage, parenting and vocational calling. 

This week we discover the high calling and deep destiny God has in mind for children, parents, and how our Kingdom identity in the workplace can glorify Jesus.

This week we explore how the call to to mutual submission and Christ-like love challenges and transforms the husband and wife relationship specifically, and gender relations more broadly.

This week we explore the crucial role wisdom plays in our discipleship to the way of Jesus, call into question which spirit is animating our lives, and meditate on the power of song and thanksgiving as expressions of God alive in us.

This week we slowly begin digging into the qualities that characterize God's people as we “practice resurrection” and surrender, to be transformed into individuals— and then a community— that make a habit of “walking the way of love”, modeled for us by Jesus.

What role does Scripture have in our lives as apprentices of Jesus? The library we call “the Bible” can connect us to God and form us into people of love, but distraction, hurry, lingering mental maps from our family of origin and other influences can hinder our experience with these ancient texts.

This week we explore one of the most crucial aspects of being a disciple of Jesus: the role of the mind in the active, ongoing process of transformation; what it looks like and how we are called to partner with the Spirit of Christ to experience it.

This week Paul deepens our understanding of how the unique unity of the Spirit-filled community depends on the five-fold ministry of gift-people God gives the Church, so that the conditions for maturing from infants into healthy individuals persists and the new-community of God is realized.

This week we discover how to slow down and live out of creative love—to safeguard and grow a resilient, peaceful, and unified community—that finds its source in the loving unity of the Father, Son and Spirit.

Today we join Paul in prayer; discovering how the Spirit empowers us to cultivate lives of continual prayer, alive and attentive to the intimate presence of Christ, so that we might experience more and more the boundless depths of his love, becoming people who love like he does.

Today we reflect on the three-fold movement of faith in Ephesians 1-3: understanding God's identity, our own, and the invitation to participation in a community on mission.

Today we explore Paul's journey of transformation, discovering how the grace and power of God reframes suffering and catalyzes us to join God in the work of the Kingdom: creating a new humanity to the praise of his glory and the healing of all things.

Today we explore the power of God's grace: where it places us, how it saves us, and what unique identity and destiny it calls us into.

Jesus not only restored our relationship with God but has made all people, both Jews and gentiles, a new humanity, one family, a holy temple, joined together in Christ.

Today we explore the before and after-effects of God's audacious work in Christ and encounter the three forces that seek to keep us trapped in the land of death: the world, the flesh and the devil

Today we are invited to open our hearts and minds in a fresh way to the Holy Spirit that we might discover the power to experience resurrection life in how we perceive, think, respond, relate and act.

Today we are invited into the creative, unfolding story of God's design to make everything whole. Discovering together our own unique identity, destiny, and role to play in this strange and beautiful new community we call Church.

Today we pause before starting a new sermon series to listen for God's invitations — through testimony and the moment Jesus made breakfast for His friends on the beach.

Today we're invited to know God's will for our lives through Jesus' closing words in His sermon on the mount.

Today, we consider three important warnings Jesus gives near the end of the Sermon on the Mount—about the narrow gate, false prophets, and the final judgment.

Today, we explore what it looks like to trust in God's goodness and apply it in our daily lives.

Today Jesus teaches us about how judging and forcing good things on people runs counter to the good kingdom life. 

Today, Jesus offers three invitations to His disciples—each one a step deeper into true spiritual freedom.

Today we explore the transformative prayer that Jesus taught his apprentices to pray. 

Today we preview the transformative prayer that Jesus taught his apprentices to pray.

Today Jesus teaches his disciples who are at home in God's Kingdom the spiritual art of hiddenness.

Today we celebrate the risen Jesus and his invitation to resurrection life here and now!

Today, we pause our journey through the Sermon on the Mount to explore our calling as apprentices of Jesus to embrace the practice of lament.

In our fifth week in the sermon on the mount, Jesus teaches his disciples about key elements of human sexuality within a Kingdom/Covenant identity.

In week four of our exploration of Jesus' sermon on the mount, He teaches his followers about how we are to confront anger and practice reconciliation - a practice that leads to freedom.

In today's excerpt of Jesus' sermon on the mount, he teaches his followers the nature of our true, Kingdom identity.

Jesus' opening announcement in his sermon on the mount reveals a new kingdom map/rule that reveals his character and the character of those for whom the Kingdom of God is presently available.