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CTR Podcast
by Christ the Redeemer
From sermons to lessons, listen as Father Chris Culpepper, Rector of Christ the Redeemer in Fort Worth, TX, Father Charles Humphery, and guests, teaches us the ways of the Lord.
Episodes
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05.22.2022 | Christianity is love, not legalism
Isn’t Christianity just a bunch of rules? Aren’t Christians just a bunch of hypocrites? Listen in as Fr. Chris dispels some of the common misperceptions about God and Christianity and opens us up to the truth and depth of his love.
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05.15.2022 | A New Commandment
In John chapter 13, Jesus issued a new commandment to his disciples; to love one another just as he has loved them. But how could these flawed disciples, love the same way God does? The answer is simple; God would place His love in the hearts of the disciples and in doing so, make them capable of...
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05.08.2022 | If you are the Christ, tell us plainly
Fr. Chris' sermon is based on our Gospel reading, John 10:22-30. In this passage, Jesus is walking in the temple and is stopped by the Jews and asked, "If you are the Christ, tell us plainly?" Listen to Fr. Chris as he delves deeper into the meaning of this question and a second question arises...
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05.01.2022 | The Splinters of Life
The traumas of our past can be painful. So painful in fact that we may find ourselves crying out to God for relief. But the relief God wants to give us comes in the form of treating our problems, not just numbing the pain they cause.
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Easter Sunday 2022
The Resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most important day in human history. It changes minds, changes hearts, and changes the world. Even so, the question is this: Has the Resurrection of Jesus Christ changed your world? Listen in as Fr. Chris talks about how the Resurrection of Jesus can change...
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04.15.2022 | Good Friday 2022
Good Friday 2022
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04.10.2022 | Why was Christ crucified?
On Palm Sunday, we hail Christ as King, then see him killed on a cross, just one week later. How did this happen? How did the same people who acclaimed him as king then call for his crucifixion? And, what is the message to us today? Listen in as Fr. Chris explores both the gruesomeness and glory…
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04.03.2022 | Time is Running Out to Repent…
In Luke 20, Jesus knows that his crucifixion is merely days away and that there is an active plot against him. He knows the Pharisees seek to kill him in an attempt to secure their positions of power. But Jesus warns them in the "parable of the evil tenants" killing him will do nothing to secure...
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03.27.2022 | The Heart of the Father
In the parable of the Prodigal Son the younger brother is sensual and worldly and the older is self-centered and calloused. The sins they manifest are different but neither has the heart of their Father.
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03.20.2022 | Once Last Chance to Repent
Based on our Gospel reading from Luke 13: 1-17, Fr. Charles puts the Parable of the Fig Tree in historical and applicable context. How is an unfruitful fig tree relevant to Israel and to us? Listen to Fr. Charles as explains.
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03.13.2022 | What is Salvation?
A man approaches Jesus and says, "Lord, will the saved be few?" In light of this, Fr. Chris takes up three issues: what salvation is not; what salvation is, and how we can know if we are among the saved.
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02.27.2022 | This is How We Go From Death to Life
Dead people are talking to Jesus? Jesus’ own face is transfigured - what does that even mean? And, on this particular Sunday at CTR, some children got baptized. What do we make of all this? How to we put it together? Listen in as Fr. Chris talks about how we go from death to life.
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02.20.2022 | Forgiveness and Freedom
Forgiveness and freedom are at the very heart of the Gospel. How can we experience this in our lives? Listen in as Fr. Chris talks about what it means to experience the forgiveness of God in Christ Jesus and live that out in our lives.
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02.13.2022 | Come, Follow Me
“There is lots of good news! God’s Kingdom is on the move.” Fr. Kramer, from Love for the Least, is one of our mission partners. He joined us this Sunday to celebrate the Eucharist with us and preach the Gospel. His message is based on our Sunday readings and his mission work. Listen to Fr....
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02.06.2022 | Perfect love in imperfect people.
If you continue walking with Christ, he will change you into his image and likeness.
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01.30.2022 | The Mission
In this week’s sermon, Fr. Gresser begins with a story from February 3, 1943. How does this story almost 80 years ago and the story from our Old Testament reading, Jeremiah 1:4-10, have to do with us today? Listen to Fr. Gresser as he uses these stories to illustrate that we all have been given a...
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01.23.2022 | Freedom
What is 'freedom' exactly? We know that it is something people have desperately wanted from the very beginning. Listen to Fr. Chris as he explains what freedom is, and that there is only one path to find it.
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12.19.2021.) Reflected Glory
What are those moments in your life that cause you leap for joy, to shout, and to break out in song? Could one of those moments be celebrating that Jesus Christ has once come into the world and will come again? Listen in as Fr. Chris explores the source of our joy and the mission of the Church.
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12.12.2021.) Repentance, Advent and the Church
Just as John called Israel to repentance, Christ still calls His church to do the same. Christians should be the first people willing to repent from their own sins.
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12.05.2021.) Repent and be Baptized
The message of John the Baptist is prepare yourselves for the coming of the Lord. Repent and be baptized. As we wait on the same Lord's second coming, The message of the church today is no different. Repent and be baptized.
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11.28.2021.) Repentance and Faith
Fr. Chris’ sermon is based on our Gospel reading, Luke 21:25-33. As Fr. Chris points out, Jesus’ words can be difficult to hear for those who don’t believe but can be of great encouragement to those who do. Advent is about preparing for His Coming, and as Fr. Chris explains, using his own...
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11.21.2021.) Whose mark do you bear? (Featuring Bishop Ryan Reed)
It is always a pleasure to welcome Bishop Reed to Christ the Redeemer. Listen as he gives a powerful message on the importance of Christ the King Sunday – in our church calendar, as well as, in our lives.
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11.07.2021.) The Beatitudes are good news, not good advice.
Listen to Fr. Charles as he explains, first to our children and then to us, that the Beatitudes are a summons to live in this present world with a quality that makes sense in God's promised future.
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10.31.2021.) Guest Priest: Father Robert Gresser
Father Robert Gresser joins us today!
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10.24.2021.) A Big Miracle in a Small Town
In the Gospel story of Blind Bartimaeus, Jesus performs a miracle. He gives Bartimaeus back his sight. However, that's not the only healing Jesus performs. Listen in to hear about the healing Jesus makes available to all of us.
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10.17.2021.) Can you drink the cup that I drink?
Remember that time that you were embarrassed, mocked, ridiculed, shamed? How did it make you feel? What did you want to do about it? In a world that lusts for vengeance and revenge, Jesus offers another way. His way. The way of the Cross, which seems foolish to the world, but for those who are...
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10.10.2021.) Giving Up to Gain
Often, we struggle with things God might be asking us to give up, but have we considered what we might gain? Listen in as Fr. Chris talks about the rich, young ruler in Scripture - and a very powerful real-life example - of how the gain is infinitely more rewarding than the give.
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The Book of Revelations (Session 4)
Today we continue our Sunday School teachings of the last book in the Bible... Revelations. We talk about chapters 8 and 9.
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The Book of Revelations (Session 3)
Today we continue our Sunday School teachings of the last book in the Bible... Revelations.
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The Book of Revelations (Session 2)
Today we continue our Sunday School teachings of the last book in the Bible... Revelations.
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10.3.2021.) Everyone is a Steward
Listen to Fr. Charles as he answers two fundamental questions on stewardship. The first, in his children’s message, “What does it mean to be a steward?” and then the second, in his message to the congregation, “What is the critical truth about stewardship?”
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9.26.2021.) Jesus Came to Cast Out and Conquer Evil
Because the idea of Hell is such a difficult topic, many either refuse to acknowledge it or dismiss the idea of it altogether. Yet, it is a true doctrine of Christianity, as taught by Jesus Christ. Listen in this week as Fr. Chris talks both about the reality of evil and Hell and the Good News of...
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The Book of Revelations (Session 1)
Today we begin our Sunday School teachings of the last book in the Bible... Revelations. Watch live on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ctrfw/
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9.5.2021.) The Fight of Our Lives
Christ has promised us that He and His kingdom will prevail over this world of sin and darkness. But he has no made promise that we will be safe, only that he will be with us, even unto our death.
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8.29.2021.) Battling to Build the Kingdom of God
Did you know that when we sign up to be Christians, we sign up to be soldiers? That means, in part, that we must know who our enemy is, and who our enemy is not! Listen in as Fr. Chris talks about the spiritual armor God gives us to fight the good fight and lays out the landscape for the battle.
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8.22.2021.) Have You Decided to Follow Jesus?
Our world is at war, but it's not just a physical war. Underneath it all is a spiritual warfare. Satan is trying to destroy us. Jesus is offering to save us. Have you made your decision? Listen in as Fr. Chris speaks about this most important decision we will make in our lives.
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8.15.2021.) I AM the Bread of Life: The New Passover Meal
Our Gospel reading this Sunday is from John 6:53-59. It has some of the most difficult verses to understand - in Jesus' time and ours. Listen to Fr. Charles has he explains our Gospel reading in terms of our physical and spiritual worlds; and in terms of God's promises kept and promises not yet...
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8.8.2021.) I am the Bread of Life: Transformation and Conversion
In today's message, Fr. Chris talks about how Jesus' words are not only divine revelation and information, but also call us to transformation and conversion.
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8.1.2021.) Lessons for the Church: Listening to the Words of Jesus
As is our custom for the first Sunday of the month, we begin with a message to the children. This month: We Learn the Small Things First Fr. Charles’ sermon, to the church, is based on Mark’s Gospel, chapter 9. Beginning at verse 42, Jesus realizes that his disciples are having a difficult time...
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7.18.2021.) Lessons for the Church: Time
Father Humphery sermon is based on Matthew’s Gospel, chapter 13:18-30, with the parables of the Sower and the Weeds. As he points out in his sermon, we have a lot more in common with the Israelites, who heard these parables spoken by Jesus over 2,000 years ago. Listen to Fr. Charles as he dives...
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7.11.2021.) Lessons for the Church
Father Humphery uses Luke 16 as the basis for his sermon this week. Listen to his message, as he gives a historical perspective on Jesus’ parables, and reminds us of some important lessons from those parables.
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7.4.2021.) The Deep Dive
Our Gospel this Sunday begins with the people of Nazareth rejecting Jesus. Why would they reject Jesus? Fr. Charles could have preached on that alone, but there was another story that he kept thinking about from Luke’s Gospel. Listen to Fr. Charles as he takes us ‘off road’ a bit to illustrate…
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6.27.2021) We Can’t Do This on Our Own.
Father Humphery uses the entire chapter 5 of Mark to illustrate that sometimes, as hard as we try, we can’t do this on our own. In Mark’s Gospel, chapter 5, there are three people with three different problems. And as hard as they try, they can’t solve them. Listen to Fr. Charles as he explains…
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6.20.2021.) Life’s Storms
Fr. Charles' sermon is based on our Gospel reading, Mark 4: 35 - 41. Most of us are familiar with this passage. A great windstorm comes up, and the disciples are naturally terrified. The waves are crashing against the boat, water is pouring in and the disciples think there is a good possibility...
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6.13.2021.) Third Sunday After Pentecost
Father Chris teaches us today on the third Sunday after Pentecost
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6.6.2021.) Youth Sunday/ Second Sunday after Pentecost
First Sunday of the month means its Youth Sunday. Father Charles gives a sermon for the youth, plus its the second Sunday after Pentecost.
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5.30.2021.) Trinity Sunday Sermon
Father Chris gives the Trinity Sunday Sermon this week.
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5.23.2021.) The Feast of Pentecost
Father Charles talks about the Pentecost and the feast!
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5.16.2021.) Ascension of our Lord
Father Charles discusses the ascension of out Lord.
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5.2.2021.) Father Charles Humphery
Father Charles Humphery first sermon
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From sermons to lessons, listen as Father Chris Culpepper, Rector of Christ the Redeemer in Fort Worth, TX, Father Charles Humphery, and guests, teaches us the ways of the Lord.
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