Christ The King Lutheran Church

09/09/2026

LOVE ALWAYS TRUSTS

“Love always trusts” (1 Corinthians 13:7). You know enough about relationships to understand how important trust is. If two people don’t trust each other, that relationship doesn’t stand a chance.

Yet, of all the things the Bible says about love, this sounds like one of the hardest. Love always trusts? “Don’t you know, Lord, how untrustworthy everyone is?” Your heart has been broken too many times to trust others. You have been taken advantage of too many times to trust what other people say.

God understands. God understands what its like to have people let him down, betray him, lie to him, and try to take advantage of him. We human beings commit those sins against God every single day!

So how can love always trust? Because there is One who is absolutely trustworthy: “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight” (Proverbs 3:5-6). You can trust in the Lord and his plans for your life!

God will never let you down. His word is most certainly true (John 17:17). He has washed your sins away through Jesus’ blood on the cross (1 John 1:7). He is always with you (Matthew 28:20).

As you trust in the Lord, give other people a chance. Take them at their word. Give them the benefit of the doubt. Because you have a sure foundation in Christ that can never be shaken. Love always trusts.

If you'd like to learn more about God's love for you, please join us on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. here at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133). Jesus loves you!

09/08/2026

God wants to take the “can’ts” out of our months. “God can’t make my marriage better.” God is able! “God can’t bring my children back to faith.” God is able! “God can’t make my health better.” God is able! “God can’t work the world’s chaos out for good.” God is able! Even if he doesn’t do what we imagine, he’s already done immeasurably more. “God can’t forgive my sins.” Yes, he did at Jesus’ cross! “God can’t love me.” Yes, he does, more than you can possibly imagine. “God can’t save me.” Yes, he has, by his grace through faith in Jesus. God “is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine” (Ephesians 3:20). I hope you can watch this sermon about God’s love and power for you through Jesus: “God Is Able.” Jesus loves you!

God wants to take the “can’ts” out of our months. “God can’t make m...

09/07/2026

LOVE ALWAYS PROTECTS

“Love always protects” (1 Corinthians 13:7). There’s a picture behind that word “protects.” Don’t think of a knight in shining armor or a gun or weapon. The word really means to “cover over.” One dictionary says this talks of a “love that throws a cloak of silence over what is displeasing in another person.”

Do you? Does your love protect others? Do you do all you can to cover over what is displeasing in other people? It’s so easy to do the opposite. It’s so easy to uncover people’s sins and hurt people’s reputations. It’s so easy to speak before you think and tear down people’s self-esteem. That’s not love.

“Love always protects.” Love covers. God’s love does. Jesus gave his disciple John a vision of heaven. All the people he saw in heaven were wearing white robes. Here’s why: “They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb” (Revelation 7:14). Jesus’ blood covers over our sins. Jesus’ righteousness is a perfect white robe that we will get to wear in heaven forever.

“Love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins” (1 Peter 4:8). Can you see how Jesus’ love does that? His love protects you. His love covers over every one of your sins.

Whom can you protect today? Whose sins can you cover with Jesus’ forgiveness? Whose reputation can you shield from false accusations? Whom can you help find security in Jesus? Love always protects.

If you'd like to learn more about God's love for you, please join us on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. here at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133). Jesus loves you!

09/04/2026

In the Bible, Paul prayed for Christians and Christian churches. Here’s what he prayed, “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” (Ephesians 3:17-18). Isn’t that a great prayer? Paul wanted Christians to know how much Jesus loves them. You and I need that too. We need God to open our eyes to how great his love for us is.

Because then we’ll say what Paul said: “Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen” (Ephesians 3:20-21). When you know God’s great love for you in Jesus, you realize that our God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine.

I hope you’ll join us this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133) to learn about God’s great love and power for you in Jesus.

In our Bible study at 9:00 a.m., we will start a new Bible study on the work of the Holy Spirit. We believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Of the three persons of the Trinity, many Christians are least familiar with the work of the Holy Spirit. In this Bible study series, we’ll study the vital work of the Holy Spirit to create and sustain saving faith in Jesus. This Sunday, we’ll learn about conversion and how the Holy Spirit uses God’s Word and Baptism to bring people to faith in Jesus. I hope you can come to Bible study to grow in your faith and trust in the Lord.

It will be a great Sunday for you to be here at church. God bless your weekend!

Pastor Nathan

09/02/2026

LOVE REJOICES WITH THE TRUTH

Right and wrong seem to be all muddled up in our world today. We’re told to “love” just about everything, even things that God calls sinful. Is that good? No! “Love rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6).

True love has a clear understanding of what is right and wrong, of what is true and false. Where can we find that? Where can we find the truth? In the Bible! Jesus himself once prayed to God the Father, “Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth” (John 17:17). Love rejoices with God’s truth.

Instead of calling evil good or good evil, true love call things what they are. Sin is sin. Evil is evil. Good is good. Not based on subjective judgments made by people, but based on the unchanging truth of God.

Do you want to hear some truths that you can truly rejoice in? Jesus is with you always, to the very end of the age (Matthew 28:20). Jesus’ blood on the cross has washed away all of your sins (1 John 1:7). God loves you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3). Jesus is right now preparing a home in heaven for everyone who believes in him (John 14:1-4). Salvation is God’s gift to you by faith (Ephesians 2:8-9).

Isn’t God’s truth the very best? How can you grow in God’s Word today? How can you increase your knowledge of God’s unchanging truth? That’s what love does: Love rejoices with the truth.

If you'd like to learn more about God's love for you, please join us on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. here at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133). Jesus loves you!

09/01/2026

Every day brings so many reasons to worry, but you don’t have to. Jesus says so. Jesus says you don’t have to worry, and he means it! Every day you can decide to live by your sinful nature or to live by the Spirit. I know it’s a struggle, but live by the Spirit! You can get all flustered by other people’s sins, or you can forgive them by God’s grace. You can wear yourself out trying to make yourself into something, or you can rest in what God has made you. You can worry about your money, or you can share it with others and feel your heart be refreshed. You can worry about your guilt, or you can take it daily to the foot of Jesus’ cross and trust in his forgiveness. I hope you can read or watch this sermon: “Live by the Spirit”. God bless you!

Every day brings so many reasons to worry, but you don’t have to. J...

08/31/2026

LOVE DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL

The devil loves to make sin look fun. He wants to make you think that if you don’t give in to his temptations, you won’t be able to enjoy life. Think of all the sins that the devil leads people to delight in: One night stands, drunkenness, greed, power, insulting others… We far too often delight in our sins.

What evil are you delighting in right now in your life? Your conscience is telling you it’s wrong, but you don’t want to give it up, because it seems so fun. Remember this: God knows. God sees it all. And here’s what God says, “Love does not delight in evil.”

God certainly doesn’t. When his people long ago delighted in evil instead of in the Lord, God called out to them: “As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?” (Ezekiel 33:11).

Do you hear God calling out to you? “Turn! Turn from your evil ways!” We need that encouragement every day. As fun as sin might seem, it leads to death and hell, and God doesn’t want you to go to hell. That’s why he sent Jesus to be your Savior!

Today’s the day to repent of your sin and turn to the Lord, because love does not delight in evil.

If you'd like to learn more about God's love for you, please join us on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. here at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133). Jesus loves you!

08/29/2026

What are you worried about today? We could all make a pretty big list, couldn’t we? Life is filled with worries and anxieties about all sorts of things: Family, relationship, accidents, sickness, finances, politics, the future… How could we not worry? Because we trust in Jesus, and he has everything under his control! Jesus says, “Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (Matthew 6:34).

In Sunday’s sermon, we’ll focus on one powerful solution to worry: The Holy Spirit. You don’t live life alone. You live life by the Holy Spirit. It’s the Holy Spirit in our hearts who gives us comfort and peace, no matter what we have to face in life. We’ll see that living life by the Spirit is so much better than living according to our sinful natures.

I hope you’ll join us this Sunday at 10:30 a.m. at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133) to find peace and hope in the worries of life through Jesus and the Holy Spirit.

In our Bible study at 9:00 a.m., we will finish our Bible Study on the book of Judges in the Old Testament. This Sunday, we’ll study a messed-up story of how the pride and arrogance of one of Gideon’s sons brought disaster on himself and on all the people whom he led. We’ll talk about the problem of poor leadership in our world and the importance of wisely choosing whom to follow. Through it all, we will be reminded to put our hope and confidence in Jesus, and not in any earthly leader. I hope you can come to Bible study to grow in your faith and trust in the Lord.

It will be a great weekend for you to be here at church. God bless you!

Pastor Nathan

08/28/2026

LOVE KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS

Everyone has an excellent memory. You might try to dispute that: “I can’t remember anything!” Sure you can. You have an excellent memory. You remember everything that people have done to wrong you. From today. From high school. From your first year of marriage.

What grudges are you holding today? Against your spouse? Against your siblings? Against your former friend who’s now enemy #1? What list of grievances do you keep rehearsing in your mind? It feels so natural to keep a record of all the wrongs done to us.

Except, it’s wrong. If you keep a record of wrongs, you’re sinning, because “love keeps no record of wrongs” (1 Corinthians 13:5).

Who could possibly not keep a record of wrongs? God. God doesn’t keep a record of wrongs. Here’s his promise: “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more” (Jeremiah 31:34).

If God were to keep a record of our sins, it would be miles long. Page after page after page. Yet, he doesn’t. When Jesus died on the cross, God forgave all our wickedness and sins. In fact, he didn’t just forgive our sins. He forgot them. God remembers our sins no more. You are forgiven. For everything!

Isn’t that amazing? You can stop keeping track. No more lists of grievances. No more grudges. God gives you a new start everyday with Jesus’ forgiveness. Whom can you give a new start to today?

Love keeps no record of wrongs.

If you'd like to learn more about God's love for you, please join us on Sundays at 10:30 a.m. here at Christ the King Lutheran Church (9223 E 95th Ct, Tulsa, OK 74133). Jesus loves you!

08/26/2026

The Bible says a lot of things, but it really has just two messages in it. Can you remember two things? Yes, you can! They are the Law and the Gospel. The Law shows our sins. Think of the letters S.O.S. The Law shows our sins. The Law is any passage that commands us to be a certain way and shows that we’re not. The Gospel shows our Savior. S.O.S. again. The Gospel shows our Savior. The Gospel is every promise of what Jesus has done to save us. If you understand the Law and the Gospel, it unlocks the Bible’s message. I hope you can watch this sermon: “The Law and the Gospel.” God bless you!

The Bible says a lot of things, but it really has just two messages...