City Beautiful Church : Audio

02/25/24 Jesus came to deliver us from evil spirits that try to bind us and keep us small.

02/11/24 The signpost at Cana reveals that Jesus is YHWH, the king of the earth. He is the one promised to bring to make the earth right again— to make it flourish.

02/04/24 Jesus passes through the desert of the human experience in order to liberate us from the snares of the devil. 

01/28/24 We believe God has gifted us to one another in this church, so that we become more together than what we are apart.

01/21/24 We have been gifted the Holy Spirit to keep us connected to God and give us direction.

1/14/24 What we believe about God, and how we attach to God, shapes our understanding of everything around us and within us.

01/07/24 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.

12/31/23 The foundation of the spiritual life is to see ourselves in the arms of a loving God.

12/17/23 The Anointed Shepherd King of Bethlehem is the only one who can rule the world as God intends.

12/10/23 In the advent of the Messiah, we receive God-With-Us, who liberates us from bondage to freedom.

12/3/23 In the advent of the Messiah, the serpent’s head is crushed, sin and death are destroyed, and the children of Adam are gifted new life.

11/26/23 Christ the King of the cosmos is the culmination of all time and space. Every story and experience; past, present, and future; even death and life find their completion in him.

To live “in the name of Jesus” is to testify with our lives to the reign of the king in his new heavenly world.

11/12/23 There is a kind of hope that removes us from the action, and a kind of hope that gives us courage to stay faithful to the good work of the Kingdom.

11/05/23 If the light of Christ is at the heart of all life, and we are the part of creation tasked to see life flourish, we read creation to find God and do all we can to care for it.

10/29/23 The biblical vision for God’s justice and righteousness insists there is enough for everyone.

10/22/23 For us, being “in Christ” becomes the foundational identity through which all other identity markers are redeemed.

10/15/23 To love our neighbors as Jesus commands is to let ourselves be affected on the heart level, for our benefit and theirs.

10/08/23 Christians are called to faithfully work for “the common good” as resident aliens in a foreign land.

10/01/23 Freedom is not a wide-open ocean we tread indefinitely; it is a river we cross to begin our moral formation in the name of Jesus.