City Beautiful Church : Audio

12/01/24 We begin Advent by waiting in darkness, because real Hope is birthed only when we are at our wits’ end.

11/24/24 The Kingdom comes through patient endurance in the shadow of Empire, if we stay true to the Voice Who guides us.

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11/10/24 The Spirit binds us together as the new family of God; but we cannot take advantage of this precious gift. We train our hearts and minds to move in the same direction towards King Jesus.

11/03/24 Wisdom contends with the goodness and brokenness of life, helping us discern what is ours to do and what is out of our hands.

10/27/24 Despite our trepidations, God—Trinity—tenderly breathes into us Himself, desiring always to share life with humanity.

10/20/24 As we mature in God’s sacrificial love, we cling less tightly to the wisdom of the world and find our home in the wisdom of the Spirit.

10/13/24 Being delivered from our Old Names is not a passive endeavor. We must persevere and wrestle with God until daybreak to lay claim to who God says we are.

10/06/24 When we embrace the reality that we have been adopted into Abba’s family, the Spirit can set us free from the unhealthy patterns of our earthly families.

09/29/24 Healing, like the other spiritual gifts, is a glimpse now of what is to come fully in the New Heavens and New Earth.

09/22/24 Prophecy is a gift meant to encourage the church by speaking a fresh word of God to one another that is framed in love and points to hope.

09/15/24 This garden is where God is our safe refuge. Christ inaugurated the eco-system, the Spirit helps us follow in His footsteps, by building each other up to be a foretaste of the coming Kingdom.

09/08/24 The spiritual gifts are different expressions of God’s singular love, creating a beautiful diversity-in-unity.

09/01/24 The Holy Spirit advocates and convicts; the spirit of the satan accuses and condemns.

The spirit-filled life is more wholistic and robust than many of us have grown up learning or participating in.

08/18/24 A total life of the Spirit marries the contemplative and the charismatic; the inner transformation with the outer demonstration.

08/11/24 The Christian life is one in which we follow in the tailwind of the Wild Goose, knowing he will lead us to ever greater freedom.

8/04/24 What have I learned about my attachment to Abba in this series? What is the invitation for me in the next season to grow in love and secure attachment?

07/28/24 To love God with our hearts is to leave behind the illusion of self-sufficiency and risk desire and affection for God.

7/21/24 Rather than exhausting ourselves with frenetic activity or falling prey to sloth, Jesus invites us to right action as a sign of tangible love for him.