What are some practical ways we can pass through hard times with faith and hope? In this episode, Fr. Chris looks to 1 Peter 3 to discover how Peter encourages his readers who are facing significant difficulties and challenges. Peter gives practical, Christ-focused wisdom that can strengthen and sustain us in our own hard times.

How do God's people lose their first love? What are the ways that we drift from faithfulness? In this week's podcast, Fr. Chris looks at Amos 8:4-12 and how Israel wandered from God's ways by placing their trust and confidence in other things. Drift is often subtle and slow-moving. At some point we may wake up and find that we are in need of returning to the Lord and renewing our confidence in Him. There are lessons for every Christian and every congregation in this passage.

In this episode Fr. Chris discusses the nature of suffering and how Christians can walk with faith and hope through difficult times. The epistle of 1st Peter was written to a people familiar with suffering, a people who needed to be reminded of the authentic hope we have as followers of Jesus. Fr. Chris examines 1st Peter, verses 3-7 and unpacks five keys to suffering well.

We see so much uncertainty and unsteadiness in our world. Many of us have a lingering sense of anxiety regarding the current state of the world. We're not the first to face the challenge of being faithful in difficult days. Fr. Chris points us to Paul's words in 2 Thessalonians 2 and 3 to learn how the Gospel is the stabilizing force we need for these times.

Fr. Chris looks at what has been given to us in the Incarnation and the implications of that event in the lives of Christians. Do we really understand our need of God and our need of being saved? Only when we do will we understand why our Lord came to us. Only then can we truly open, explore, and appreciate God's great gift in Jesus.

This is the first lesson in Fr. Chris' Series, "Christ & Culture" which seeks to help develop and utilize a Christian worldview in examining modern cultural issues. In this lesson he unpacks what a worldview is, why it is important, what questions it seeks to answer, and what comprises the Christian worldview.

In this episode Fr. Chris speaks about the nature and authority of Scripture and the central place it occupies in the life of a Christian. He discusses some of the causes of modern skepticism about the Bible such as modernity, antinominism, and the weaponization of the Scriptures. Using Thomas Cranmer's famous prayer for the 2nd Sunday in Advent, he unpacks the historic church's teaching on Holy Scripture.

What are the hallmarks of authentic Anglicanism? Fr. Chris walks us through five of the essential elements of the Anglican Church --Biblical, Liturgical, Evangelical, Pastoral, and Catholic (NOT Roman Catholic, but catholic in the sense of upholding the teaching of the church across time and cultures). While Anglicanism has its challenges, he explains that there is a balance and a unique ethos within this church that gives it both breadth and boundaries.