City Beautiful Church : Audio

When lay hands on one another, we become the hands of Jesus to bless, heal, deliver, and empower.

07/08/25 What was confused and scattered by human hubris is now being bound together by the Holy Spirit.

7/01/25 Confession opens us up to the continual forgiveness of God so we might choose back into love.

05/25/25 The psalms are the prayers of the exiled people of God, confessing in faith that the LORD reigns in the midst of history’s afflictions.

05/18/2025 A single word uttered from an open heart can do more for us than any amount of anxious babbling.

05/11/2025 A rich prayer life connects us to God from the inside-out, and from the outside-in.

05/04/2025 Everything about our faith flows first from sharing in divine love with Jesus through prayer.

04/27/25 Jesus meets them in their fear and faithlessness and, gives them direction. He doesn’t give them the whole picture but he promises to ALWAYS be with them.

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.