King of Kings PCA Church

Sixth Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

We come to God not to get our way but to get his.

Eugene H. Peterson

Fifth Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

To rejoice always is to see the hand of God on whatever is happening and to remain certain of God's future salvation. Without such conviction joy would not be possible in the face of affliction, suffering and death.

Charles A. Wannamaker

Fourth Sunday of Eastertide

Rev Alex Diaz

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

Martin Lloyd-Jones

Third Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Second Sunday of Eastertide

Pastor Josh Harp

When Jesus wanted to tell his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory--he gave them a meal.

N T Wright

Easter Sunday

Pastor Josh Harp

The gospel is not just the ABCs but the A to Z of the Christian life. It is inaccurate to think the gospel is what saves non-Christians, and then Christians mature by trying hard to live according to biblical principles. It is more accurate to say that we are saved by believing the gospel, and then we are transformed in every part of our minds, hearts, and lives by believing the gospel more and more deeply as life goes on.

Tim Keller

Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday

Pastor Josh Harp

It requires more prowess and greatness of spirit to obey God faithfully, than to command an army of men; to be a Christian, than to be a captain.

William Gurnall

Fifth Sunday in Lent

Rev Alex Diaz

Make no mistake: it does not always pay to be a Christian. Nor is honesty by any means always the best policy, if material gain is your ambition. Poverty has often been part of the cost of Christian discipleship.

John R.W. Stott

Pastor Josh Harp

Fourth Sunday of Lent

The truth is available to mankind, but we repress it. ... God speaks plainly through his works, but we perversely mishear him.

Al Wolters

Third Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

There are some of your graces which would never be discovered if it were not for your trials.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Second Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights

and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular

basis might be the best investment of time you ever made.

Carl Trueman

First Sunday in Lent

Pastor Josh Harp

It is one thing to protect the right of every religious person to follow the dictates of his conscience without fear of persecution; it is another to say that opposing convictions are both true. We must know the difference between equal toleration under the law and equal validity according to truth.

R.C. Sproul

Sixth Sunday after Epiphany

Pastor Josh Harp

Sing to the lord, all the earth!

Tell of his salvation from day to day.

Declare his glory among the nations,

his marvelous works among all the peoples!

For great is the Lord,

and greatly to be praised,

and he is to be feared above all gods.

1 CHRONICLES 16:23-25

Fifth Sunday after Epiphany

Pastor Josh Harp

In a mixed community we do not desire a theocracy; rather, we oppose it with all our might,

for two cogent reasons: (1) Wherever such church rule was established, it always ended in

tyranny and the corruption of a people. (2) The church lacks the gifts required for giving

laws for civil society that evince intimate knowledge and understanding of civil life.

Abraham Kuyper

Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

Pastor Josh Harp

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry to assist each other in this task. The most selfish and hateful life of all is that of two beings who unite in order to enjoy life. The highest calling is that of the man who has dedicated his life to serving God and doing good, and who unites with a woman in order to further that purpose.

Leo Tolstoy (from a letter to his son)

Third Sunday after Epiphany

Pastor Josh Harp

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the pain of feeling that we no longer live nobly. John Updike

First Sunday after Epiphany

Pastor Josh Harp

Stars cross the sky, wise men journey from pagan lands, earth receives its savior in a cave.

Let there be no one without a gift to offer, no one without gratitude as we celebrate the

salvation of the world, the birthday of the human race. Now it is no longer, “dust you are

and to dust you shall return,” but “you are joined to heaven and into heaven shall you be

taken up.”

Basil the Great

First Sunday after Christmas

Rev. Dr. Justin McLendon

There fared a mother driven forth

Out of an inn to roam;

In the place where she was homeless

All men are at home.

The crazy stable close at hand,

With shaking timber and shifting sand,

Grew a stronger thing to abide and stand

Than the square stones of Rome.

For men are homesick in their homes,

And strangers under the sun,

And they lay on their heads in a foreign land

Whenever the day is done.

Here we have battle and blazing eyes,

And chance and honour and high surprise,

But our homes are under miraculous skies

Where the yule tale was begun.

A Child in a foul stable,

Where the beasts feed and foam;

Only where He was homeless

Are you and I at home;

We have hands that fashion and heads that

know,

But our hearts we lost - how long ago!

In a place no chart nor ship can show

Under the sky's dome.

This world is wild as an old wives' tale,

And strange the plain things are,

The earth is enough and the air is enough

For our wonder and our war;

But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings

And our peace is put in impossible things

Where clashed and thundered unthinkable

wings

Round an incredible star.

To an open house in the evening

Home shall men come,

To an older place than Eden

And a taller town than Rome.

To the end of the way of the wandering star,

To the things that cannot be and that are,

To the place where God was homeless

And all men are at home.

The House of Christmas by G.K. Chesterton

Fourth Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

When we read that “the Word became flesh“ (John 1:14), we are not to suppose that he was

changed into flesh, or mixed with flesh. The Son of God became Son of Man, not by

confusion of substance, but by unity of person. “We assert that his divinity was so joined

and united with his humanity that the property of each nature remains whole, and yet from

these two natures one Christ is constituted.” Equipped with this impeccable formula, Calvin

can readily dismiss the error of Nestorius, who separated what he should’ve distinguished

and ended with two Christs; and he can warn us against the madness of Eutyches, who so

stressed the unity of Christ’s person as to destroy both of his two nature’s. It is no more

permissible to confuse the two natures in Christ them to pull them apart.

B.A. Gerrish

Third Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.

Archibald Alexander

Second Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

Jesus shows us humanity as we were meant to be. He shows us what humanity looks like without sin, and it is breathtaking and marvelous.

Rebecca Pippert

First Sunday of Advent

Pastor Josh Harp

The first coming of Christ the Lord, God’s son and our God, was in obscurity; the secondwill be in the sight of the whole world. When he came in obscurity no one recognized himbut his own servants; when he comes openly he will be known by both good people and bad.When he came in obscurity, it was to be judged; when he comes openly it will be to judge.

Augustine (AD 354-430)

Last Sunday after Pentecost: Christ the King

Pastor Josh Harp

It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in

which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries. Flannery O’Connor

Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

I will not glory, even in my orthodoxy, for even that can be a snare if I make a god of it... Let

us rejoice in Him in all His fullness and in Him alone. Martin Lloyd-Jones

This is the final recording of a multi-part Marriage Workshop conducted at King Of Kings.

Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

True prayers are like those carrier pigeons which find their way so well; they cannot fail to go to heaven, for it is from heaven that they came; they are only going home.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Pastor Josh Harp

Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost

Jesus does nothing independently of the church nor can the church do anything

independently of Christ. Max Thurian

Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Sola scriptura did not invite a free-for-all approach to Scripture in which any and all had the right to assert its authority to substantiate whatever insights they claimed to have attained from it.

James Payton

Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

Rev. Alex Diaz

We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was.

Cormac McCarthy, words of Duena Alfonsa in All the Pretty Horses

Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too

bad. Martin Lloyd-Jones

This is the sixth of a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

This is the fifth of a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

It’s a good thing God chose me before I was born, because He surely would not have afterwards.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

In God’s design, the world is the theater of God’s glory, and humans are placed in it as

privileged spectators of his works. B.A. Gerrish

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

“Culpable disturbance of shalom” suggests that sin is unoriginal, that it disrupts something

good and harmonious, that (like a housebreaker) it is an intruder, and that those who sin

deserve reproach. To get our bearings, we need to see first that sin is one form of evil (an

agential and culpable form) and that evil, in turn, is the disruption or disturbance of what

God has designed.

Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.

Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

True faith is so contained in Christ, that it, neither knows, nor desires to know, anything

beyond him...we ought not to separate Christ from ourselves or ourselves from him.

John Calvin

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

John R.W. Stott

This is the fourth of a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

This is the thirdof a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously

committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and

destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human

being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

...faith lays hold of what is promised and therefore hoped for, as something real and solid,

though as yet unseen.

Philip Hughes

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

Ever since in the creation of the universe he brought forth those insignia whereby he shows

his glory to us, whenever and wherever we cast our gaze. …And since the glory of his power

and wisdom shine more brightly above, heaven is often called his palace. Yet…wherever you

cast your eyes, there is no spot in the universe wherein you cannot discern at least some

sparks of his glory.

John Calvin, Institutes, 1.5.1

This is the second of a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

This is the first of a multiple part series of workshops on marriage presented by King of Kings.

Tenth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

The vessels of mercy are first seasoned with affliction and then the wine of glory is poured

in. Thomas Watson

Pastor Josh Harp

Ninth Sunday after Pentecost

It seems silly that anyone who knows the difference between happiness and pleasure would

continue to trade happiness for pleasure. It seems utterly stupid for a person to do

something that he knows will rob him of his happiness. Yet we do it. The mystery of sin is

not only that it is wicked and destructive but that it is so downright stupid.

R.C. Sproul

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost

What notes are to a musician, and what the alphabet is to a reader, and what numerals are to a mathematician, the fear of the Lord is to a wise man.

Bruce K. Waltke

Rev Dr Justin McLendon

Seventh Sunday after Pentecost

The story of God’s work of redemption is what Presbyterians often mean when we talk

about “covenant.” We mean to account for how God, from the very beginning of human

history, has been working out the redemption of a chosen people for his own glory.

Sean Michael Lucas, On Being Presbyterian

Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Rev Alex Diaz

[On Evil] I was trying to find the origin of evil, but I was quite blind to the evil in my own method of research.

Augustine, Confessions, 7.5

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Pastor Josh Harp

What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father. J.I. Packer