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Getting Up to Speed
November 7th, 2024
If you're just joining us, we want to ensure you understand who we are and where we're going. In April 2024, Andy Naselli and Tom Dodds proposed planting a church in the Stillwater area to the elders of The North Church. After their proposal was approved, they recruited Dustin Williams and Nathan Colestock to join them.We held our first interest meeting in early September, where we explained our ...
Wait. You're Using Hymnals?
October 15th, 2024
Yes. At Christ the King Church, we're still using hymnals. Why is a church in 2024 planning to use hymnals? I promise we didn't find this idea in the church planting manuals. Let me make it sound even funnier.Andy and I own hymnals digitally and highlight our favorite parts from our iPad and Macbook. We've all been using an app from our phones to help us learn the songs. While I'm planning service...
Our Liturgy Explained
October 7th, 2024
When churches meet to worship God, they structure the meeting in a particular way. Some call the structure of a worship service an “order of service” or “order of worship” or “liturgy.” Every church has a liturgy. Along with many other Protestant churches over the centuries, we deliberately order our worship service in a gospel-shaped sequence:Call to worship. God calls us together to worship, and...
Mission and Vision
September 21st, 2024
In the days of Ezra and Nehemiah, Jerusalem lay destroyed because God’s people compromised and hoped in other gods. Our situation is much the same. The church is in shambles because we have mixed ourselves with the secular paganism of America. God used Ezra and Nehemiah to rebuild the temple and the city and renew worship among God’s people. I believe he’ll do the same for us.As I look around the ...
Men Wanted for a Hazardous Journey
September 6th, 2024
The kingdom of God needs the kind of men who want to join Shackleton. Men with vision, moxie, and stamina....
How Do We Live in Our Crazy Culture?
August 27th, 2024
Grace and peace to you in the name of Christ the King. The culture around us aims to tear down society with folly, false teachings, and deception. But fear not, we serve a God who is unchanging, and His Word remains our anchor.As pastors of Christ the King Church, we aim to equip every believer to declare biblical truth with conviction, not fear. We teach sound doctrine (Tit 2:1).How do we live in...