A direct sermon on freedom, spiritual slavery, and baptism as present obedience.
The episode begins with church updates, then moves into a sermon about freedom, obedience, and the shared confession of one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.

Warm sermons with a missionary pulse.
CTK Bellingham Messages is a sermon feed from Christ the King, built around live teaching, prayer, scripture, and mission updates. The messages move quickly from biblical stories into practical calls toward faith, sacrifice, baptism, and global mission.
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CTK Bellingham Messages is a steady feed of Christ the King sermons and church messages shaped by scripture, prayer, and a strong call to lived discipleship. The sound is local and immediate. Speakers greet people in the room and online, celebrate new babies, thank volunteers, give missions updates, and then turn the congregation toward the biblical text. Recent episodes center on the “There is One” series, with messages on baptism, power, decision, direction, and mission. They also include Christmas-season teaching from the “With” series, where Emmanuel becomes a way to talk about loneliness, connection, and God’s nearness. The sermons often begin with a story. Then they widen. A missions report from Belize becomes a reflection on sacrifice, a Palm Sunday setup becomes a sermon on God’s power, and the Great Commission becomes a practical map from Whatcom County to the ends of the earth. The teaching is Christian, invitational, and unembarrassed about asking for a response. It speaks often about Jesus, the Holy Spirit, freedom, obedience, witness, baptism, and the cost of following God. The rhythm is energetic. Short memorable lines sit beside longer stretches of explanation, recap, and application. The show is not trying to sound like a polished studio conversation. Its appeal is the opposite: it keeps the feel of a church service where announcements, humor, biblical interpretation, and altar-level seriousness all share the same hour. Missions are especially prominent. Laurel introduces global work as Global Missions Director, and the messages name partners and places while asking the church to give, go, pray, and build relationships beyond itself. Grant’s messages often move from everyday anecdotes into urgent spiritual questions. Brian’s Palm Sunday message leans into human limitation and God’s power rather than self-improvement. The show suits listeners who want Christian teaching that is warm, direct, and practical. It is especially useful for people drawn to sermons that connect Bible passages with decisions about generosity, community, weakness, family life, work, and global mission. Some episodes include difficult references, including slavery, human trafficking, violence, and sexual misconduct in biblical narratives. Those moments are handled pastorally rather than sensationally. The overall posture remains hopeful: faith is treated as something meant to move outward, into ordinary life and toward people beyond the church walls.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian teaching with clear biblical application, live-church warmth, and frequent attention to missions. It fits people who prefer sermons that move quickly from scripture into decisions, prayer, generosity, and everyday obedience.
What sets it apart: Its distinctive strength is the blend of local church intimacy and global mission urgency. Birth announcements, holiday jokes, Belize updates, baptism appeals, and Great Commission teaching all sit inside one pastoral stream.
Welcome to CTK Bellingham! Our desire is that you would experience new life in Jesus and be challenged to pursue an intentional life of discipleship. Here, you'll find weekly messages by Pastor Grant Fishbook and other CTK teaching pastors.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
CTK Bellingham Messages connects biblical teaching to honest self-examination, practical discipleship, missions, sacrifice, and prayer.
CTK Bellingham Messages turns biblical passages and congregational life into practical sermons about following Jesus. Grant Fishbook and fellow pastors move easily among scripture, personal testimony, church projects, and questions aimed at immediate self-examination.
The Great Commission follows you to Monday morning; the question is what you'll do with it.
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A direct sermon on freedom, spiritual slavery, and baptism as present obedience.
The episode begins with church updates, then moves into a sermon about freedom, obedience, and the shared confession of one Lord, one faith, and one baptism.
A Palm Sunday sermon frames human limits as an invitation to trust God's resurrection power now.
Palm Sunday opens into a sermon on resurrection power as something Christians can draw on now, after Easter. Brian, a pastor at Christ the King, connects the crowd's cry of "Hosanna" to the limits people meet in ordinary life, then moves through Matthew 5 and Ephesians 1 to…
A grounded sermon on sacrifice, godly decisions, and the patience to wait in prayer.
Grant begins by thanking the congregation for helping fund a restoration home in Belize, then brings in Karen, its primary leader, through a short video from DJ and Dorothy Van Weertheisen, shared with care around safety.
A church-centered sermon brings the Great Commission into ordinary places and daily witness.
The episode frames the Great Commission as a responsibility that starts close to home and keeps widening outward. Its main movement comes through John 20, where fearful disciples meet the risen Jesus and are sent as the Father sent him.
A missions service turns disciple-making into a steady call to keep going.
Global Missions Focus Month is shaped here around motion: a church continuing toward people who need Jesus, not as an event on the calendar but as a posture of discipleship.
A personal wilderness testimony becomes a sermon on identity, forgiveness, and finding God in disorientation.
Brady Rector frames the wilderness as a place where faith is tested and identity gets stripped down. He draws from addiction, substance abuse, and a nine-month suspension after plagiarizing a college paper, giving the sermon a lived-in center.

Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.




Emily Jamison preaches on wilderness seasons from Exodus 17, using Brady Rector's testimony of addiction recovery in the Tennessee woods as an opening example.
In this sermon titled 'Unless a Seed Dies...', the speaker explores spiritual growth by contrasting superficial religious experiences with a genuine relationship with Jesus.
Baptism is "a private decision that goes public," and "baptism doesn't save you. Jesus saves you."
“My grace is sufficient for you,” and “my power is made perfect in weakness” reframes weakness as access to God’s power.
CTK Bellingham Messages' "There is One, Part 4: Decision" links Belize missions work with David's choices in 1 Samuel 23.
Grant opens at Christ the King by thanking Andy, the solo worship leader he nicknames "Bandy," and by previewing the new podcast "Continuing the Conversation with Grant Laurel Fishbook." He then gives a rapid tour of partners and projects in Belize, Italy, Israel, Tanzania, Kenya, India, and Thailand, including a trafficking-rescue home, a refugee-relief community center, and a church-planting network replicated more than 2,000 times.
CTK Bellingham Messages' "There is One, Part 2: Mission" ties Grant Fishbook's sermon to Global Missions Focus Month, Matthew 28, and Acts 1:8.
A pastor delivers a sermon reflecting on King David's life and the promise of God's presence, encouraging listeners facing loneliness and hardship.
A Christmas sermon about God's promise of presence, featuring a personal anecdote about a podcast interview and a romantic lunch at Jimmy John's.
A pastor reflects on the true meaning of Christmas as God's promise of presence, contrasting it with cultural celebrations.
A pastor shares testimonies of miraculous healings and introduces a sermon about God's promise of presence.