City Beautiful Church : Audio

How does Church unity play such a vital role in being ambassadors for Christ? We take a dive into Ephesians 4 to help us envision how unity strengthens our witness for the sake of the world.

The Church is a rag-tag group of strangers, built on the foundation of King Jesus, seeking to embody the Kingdom of heaven.

Following Jesus isn’t “cool” or “relevant”. For us to be the Church is to provide a radical alternative to the world that just might save it.

Resurrection means that we follow King Jesus into becoming new creation. Sitting at the empty tomb pivots us to faithful action, a renewal of our minds, and an enlarged capacity to love

Like the Human God, we are taken, blessed, broken, and offered to the world.

Jesus, as the wisdom of God, demands our attention, even as he seeks us.

Jesus, as our mediator, cleanses us from sin so we can do God’s work in the world.

We may not always perceive it, but God's fingerprint is all throughout our stories in times like these.

Jesus is the fulfillment of all God was up to all along.

In w(rest)ling with the God-revealed-in-Jesus, we find deep rest.

The God of the Old Testament accommodates our violent tendencies, but puts them to death through Jesus on the cross.

Where humanity failed in our role as mediator between God and old creation, Jesus fulfills the call to intimacy with God as the firstborn of New Creation.

How you start the story shapes everything - how you see God, yourself, and all of creation.

We must renew our approach to the Old Testament to know King Jesus fully.

we are called to carry one another.

What is stirring the waters of my soul in the present moment?

From the Throne Flows a River of Renewal

“At Christmas we celebrate the arrival of an unreasonable God who saves the world in unreasonable ways.” - Ryan and Shavier

Advent reminds us that God’s Kingdom of Love is always reshaping the wilderness of the world."

Advent prepares us for the joy of receiving Jesus as the splendor of God.