City Beautiful Church : Audio

04/20/2025 The resurrection, as the central event of history, gathers all human experience into itself and sets us on a new trajectory.

4/13/25 The Salvation of the World does not parade in the front door with power and prestige, but enters in with humility and sacrificial love.

04/06/2025 Jesus is not an accessory to our modern lives, but the foundation upon which we build everything.

03/30/25 The Narrow & Wide Gates are not so much about a heaven/hell afterlife, as the way in which we embark on the journey to find God. Are we cultivating an interior posture of humility, or performing popular spirituality?

03/23/25 It is vital to become fluent in self-examination before judging others, to foster accountability and holiness with humility and grace.

03/16/25 Do we believe that God is actually good, that God will protect us and will provide what we need day by day?

03/09/25 The reward for our spiritual practices is to know and be known by God. Anything else is either secondary or a distraction.

03/02/25 We are called to be peaceable; not because it makes the world a less violent place, but because that is what God is like.

02/23/25 The syntax of the Kingdom invites us to keep our hearts tender and have a high vision of love.

02/16/25 The syntax of the kingdom invites us to shift from “how am I supposed to behave?” to “who am I becoming?" If we want to learn the language of the Kingdom, we have to stop thinking in bare-minimum obedience and turn to aspirational faithfulness.

02/09/2025 The syntax of the kingdom reveals that God’s heart is to bless all the “wrong” people in the eyes of the world.

02/02/2025 The Good News is a declaration of what God is really like, and an invitation to become truly human in God’s family.

01/26/25 The Christian life is not a bookshelf to be curated, but a garden to be cultivated. Blog & Rule of Life

1/20/25 We take by faith that God desires to speak to each of us, and we are capable of learning to listen.

01/12/2025 The invitation in the present moment is to repent, be refreshed, and anticipate restoration of all things.

01/05/2025 In an era of Herodian power-grabbing and religious lethargy, we have an opportunity to reclaim the joy and awe of those who move towards Jesus in humble worship.

12/29/24 Divine revelation breaks into our supposedly “normal” lives, inviting us to witness the arrival of the Messiah. What we experience is made real when we share what we have seen and glorify God.

12/22/2024 The light of Love has dawned on us in the coming of the Messiah, piercing the darkness of sin and death.

12/15/2024 Our joy increases as we travel the Highway of God, seeing God’s splendor in the Messiah, and witnessing new life spring forth in the desert of meaninglessness.

12/08/24 The peace offered in the Messiah is the antidote to a world that insists on violence, oppression, and neglect as the status quo.