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City Church Houston
Renewing Houston by bringing the beauty of Christ into broken places. To learn more visit www.citychurch.org.
Episodes
City Church HoustonThe Center of Wonder
To find meaning in life, you have to find what's hidden in the mystery of a person.
City Church HoustonThe Unshakeable Wonder
Hebrews was written to people who were shaken. The author of Hebrews is trying to help people persevere—to bring us to what is essential to perseverance.
City Church HoustonA Window for the Weary
Whatever weight you find underneath yourself today, Matthew wants to ensure you that rest is possible. But true rest can only be found in accepting Jesus'…
City Church HoustonA Window of Hope
Do you find yourself inventing hope? Maybe you are tying your hope to your circumstances. Acts 8 shows us a different kind of hope.
City Church HoustonA Window of Justice
When you are in the middle of pain, it can feel like it's consuming your life. But in this text we see Job doesn't go through pain all by himself. Job helps us…
City Church HoustonThe Invisible Window
Wherever God has placed us, we are there for his purposes—to be instruments of love, justice, hope, and peace. Through Esther we see a glimpse of the ultimate…
City Church HoustonA Window of Ultimate Reality
“Revelation gives us the last word on Jesus, and this word is that Jesus is at the center…” Eugene Peterson
City Church HoustonA Window of Courage
Figures in Scripture like David can magnify our vision and help us find courage to face the most menacing giants. David helps us see that we need a reality…
City Church HoustonA Window in the Wilderness
John the Baptist called for people to repent, but repentance isn’t about groveling. It’s about becoming a new person. God’s kindness leads us to repentance…
City Church HoustonA Windowed World
The Bible is a book of windows that open to the world beyond us—full of breathtaking beauty, outrageous love, and eternal hope. By lifting the blinds and…
City Church HoustonHey Jude
Jude tells Christians to ground themselves in the love of God. The only way to remain faithful in a world of falsehood is to anchor our lives in the truth of…
City Church HoustonThe Freedom of Serving
It is the extravagant love of God that animates us from first to last. Our lives are to be characterized by love, and that love fills us with life.
City Church HoustonFor the Love of the World
Jesus challenges Nicodemus to doubt his doubts, and Jesus also shows Nicodemus the extravagant love of God.
City Church HoustonPatience, Perseverance, and Prayer
James shares about persevering in the face of trials. Because life is often difficult, lived amidst a broken world at odds with God, our posture should be one…
City Church HoustonListen Up!
Prideful self-reliance is a vain attempt to control your life. Instead, humbly trust God with your life.
City Church HoustonAnatomy of Arguments
The cause and the cure for all our fighting involves every single part of us.
City Church HoustonThe Deadly Fire
You can learn a lot about someone's life by observing how they use their words.
City Church HoustonVital Signs
For James, the vital sign of our belief in God is our behavior toward others. What will we do with the challenge James gives us in this passage?
City Church HoustonThe Royal Law of Love and Freedom
How can we withhold love from others when Christ pours out his love to us?
City Church HoustonFixing Religion
James is concerned about how Christians present themselves to the world, a world that is sometimes confused by how Christian beliefs differ from Christian…
City Church HoustonSeduction of the Soul
Oscar Wilde famously quipped, "I can resist everything except temptation." James is sympathetic and teaches us the solution.
City Church HoustonProcessing Pain
James has the feel of ancient wisdom literature, like Proverbs. It’s practical, and begins by inviting us to deal with a relevant problem: pain. How can we…
City Church HoustonThe Gospel According to Isaiah
Jesus’ first sermon he ever preached came from a passage in Isaiah: “The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim…
City Church HoustonEzekiel: The Valley of Vision
Suffering is the valley of soul making. God’s people in exile felt cut off from life, and you might feel that way too. But there is one who was cut off from…
City Church HoustonWidow from Nain: Death, Resurrection and Life
We don’t know the widow’s name in this story. Jesus sees a face of affliction and moves toward her. Jesus never uses anyone for his own benefit. On the cross…
City Church HoustonSustaining Faith
Do not grow weary and lose heart. How do we have a growing and sustaining faith that lifts us when you fall, and gives deep joy even when we hurt? Jesus bore…
City Church HoustonMartha and Mary: Loss, Love and Life
In this passage are two sisters interacting with Jesus and dealing with the loss of their brother. They show us the multidimensional nature of affliction, and…
City Church HoustonTabitha and the Widows: Marginalized to Mobilized
Tabitha offered her ordinary skills to extraordinarily care for others. She humbly plays her part in the gospel story as if what she was doing is as ordinary…
City Church HoustonJob: Mystery, Misery and Wonder
"I’ve never lived at a point in time when so many people are suffering simultaneously throughout the world. Our forms of suffering vary, but the common…
City Church HoustonPaul: Not Losing Hope
The Apostle Paul doesn’t hide his scars. He shows us the hope found in suffering.
City Church HoustonHope that Lives | Easter Sunday
This won’t be remembered as a happy time in history, but there is a unique hope held out at Easter. The resurrection is a catalyst for tragic optimism that…
City Church HoustonPalm Sunday
The purpose of the book of Zachariah is not to take our modern chaos and decode it. It’s to bring us comfort in the midst of the chaos.
City Church HoustonAntidote to Anxiety
Our new normal is utterly abnormal. It seems like only certainty is uncertainty, and this can take a toll on our mental health. While anxiety tends to disrupt…
City Church HoustonMicah: Merciful Love
The first Sunday to not meet in person due to COVID-19, Linc Ashby preaches about a merciful love. There is mercy in being called out. There is a promised…
City Church HoustonJoel: Returning Love
“Return to the Lord“ is the theme of the book of Joel. God speaks to us today through his word and his Holy Spirit animates that word in our lives. Wherever we…
City Church HoustonHosea: Scandalous Love
Hosea is a shocking story of scandalous love that can warm our wayward hearts. The metaphor of marriage in our relationship with God is one of unrivaled…
City Church HoustonThe Art of Love
Why is it important to talk about art? The first sentence of the Bible shows God as the original artist, and we are his masterpiece. The impulse to create is…
City Church HoustonLove for Justice
When you think of justice, what comes to mind? This passage is not only addressing particular systems of injustice or internal comfort during seasons of…
City Church HoustonLoving the Outsider
Meeting Jesus leads us to the gift of faith, and Jesus pushes against the ways we seek to find our identity outside of him. We are all outsiders who Christ has…
City Church HoustonCommunity of Love
All of God’s actions are loving all the time, no matter what our lives look like. To receive the love of God is to let the love of God pour out of you. Faith…
City Church HoustonDevoted to Love
A Christian is not one who tries to do better. God makes us new and our identity is found in him, which requires us to take seriously putting to death the…
City Church HoustonAnimated by Love
The woman’s behavior in this story was scandalous, and the one hosting the party for Jesus turns her behavior of love into an indictment on Jesus. When we…
City Church HoustonCentered in Love
We see David’s soul opening up in this Psalm. We see him have an insatiable thirst that is not just unique to David. We see a human, soul-ish thirst. We all…
City Church HoustonThe Angels and the Shepherds
God came to us because we are all broken and in need of rescue. He came to free us from our guilt and fear. We are destined for the ultimate joy the angels…
City Church HoustonThe Angel and Joseph
Angels bring a heavenly message of God into the heat of human experience. They interrupt our lives. But this message from an angel in the book of Matthew is…
City Church HoustonThe Angel and Mary
God uses unexpected messengers to deliver an unimaginable message about an incredible savior. No one knows better than this savior what it is like to trust God…
City Church HoustonThe Angel and Zechariah
This scene with Zachariah shows us what it’s like to be in a real relationship with a real God. How can I be sure of Jesus? Zachariah wasn’t sure. He also did…
City Church HoustonThe Currency of Generosity
We are supposed to see ourselves as money managers rather than money owners. Because God made everything, it all belongs to him. When we are not living our…