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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 HoustonRelational Generosity
We are the Mona Lisa of God’s artistry. The picture in the Bible is we are God’s. But we are currently estranged from him. God did not simply lower our debt…
City Church HoustonThe Generous Life
When do you find another person’s character most attractive? Isn’t it when you see them give of themselves freely to care for others? We need to let the beauty…
City Church HoustonHaunting Grace
In those wilderness years, God’s plan for Moses entails raising up a leader to enter the promise land. Moses will not be entering the promise land, and it…
City Church HoustonLove the Foreigner
A concern for those in the margins is not only a modern concern, but a biblical one. What does the Lord ask of you? He wants you. His love for us is grounded…
City Church HoustonPeople of the Wild
We are a stiff-necked people. But God does not love us because of anything we do. We fashion idols for ourselves when we try and take a good gift that God gave…
City Church HoustonA Comfortable Test
Even though this world is mostly wilderness, we see glimpses of the promised land. The constant in these places is who God is. He is present and active with us…
City Church HoustonLaws of Love
Christianity looks at the exclusive claim in this passage, a passage that Jesus later quotes, not as exclusively legal but existentially loving. The way he…
City Church HoustonLaws of Liberty
In bringing us the Ten Commandments, God is not just bringing the law but bringing himself. When we reimagine the law the way it was originally designed it is…
City Church HoustonA Consuming Fire
Love must be understood in the larger biblical context that God is also a consuming fire. Coming near to him, his fire will shape your life. God speaks his…
City Church HoustonA Short Journey to Nowhere
What do we need to enjoy a full life? How do we find life at its fullest? We need words, direction, and the wisdom to listen. God made us, so he knows better…
City Church HoustonFinding God in Work
When life centers around me, it will always be meaningless. When our work feels meaningless, you can always find meaning in it when you find God in it. No…
City Church HoustonFinding God in Life
Naaman is one of the least likely people to find God, but God finds him. Naaman is a picture of faith and work and a face of growth. The hero in this story is…
City Church HoustonFinding God From a Distance
What is the thing in your life that makes you feel unknown, isolated? For Naaman it was leprosy. But his leprosy became an occasion for finding God. Naaman…
City Church HoustonLove: David and Mephibosheth
Before we love, we have to know we are loved. The king in this story provides us a glimpse into God’s heart. The cripple in this story shows us a glimpse of…
City Church HoustonMutual Affection: Elijah & Elisha
Human friendship addresses the human need to draw close to God. When you have mutual affection, part of you will cry out, wherever you’re going, that’s where I…
City Church HoustonGodliness: Hannah
Growing in godliness is growing more into the image we were originally designed for. Hannah grows in her godliness through suffering. Her suffering is complex…
City Church HoustonPerseverance: Job
Job is more known more for his perseverance than his patience. He goes on a spiritual journey that has lingering agony, which brings up some of the big…
City Church HoustonSelf Control: Joseph
Joseph uses his power to care for other people, and he looks outside of himself to find self control in the midst of temptation. In temptation, the aim is not…
City Church HoustonKnowledge: Adam and Eve
True knowledge is inseparable from belief in the goodness of God in your life. You were destined for a spiritual life, so stop throwing yourself in the trash…
City Church HoustonGoodness: Ruth
In difficult seasons, it’s sometimes hard to see true things. We don’t typically question the goodness of God when things are good, but we do when it seems…
City Church HoustonFaith: Abraham
In Genesis 12, we see in a nutshell God’s story of redemption. Abraham teaches us about faith and connectivity to God.
City Church HoustonHow to Grow Spiritually
Jesus loves us and he wants us to pursue godliness, but it is important to get that in the right order. Religion puts imperatives before the indicative that…
City Church HoustonThe Power of Spiritual Knowledge
To know the living God is to know God in hope. When you realize you are called by him to know him, there is security. The wealthiest person in the universe is…
City Church HoustonThe Triumph of the Son of Man
Apocalyptic literature can fire up the praying imagination when the beasts of life come at us and when we see the beasts in our own heart. There is a God who…
