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All God’s People, All Around Him Mike Schumann Download Well it was typically right around this time of year when, every year, as a kid, our family would pack up our bags, load up the car, and travel up to Lutsen, Minnesota. Anyone ever been up to Lutsen before?  It’s a beautiful area. It’s also an area that’s four hours away, by car, from the cities. Which, for me as a kid, might as well hav...

Welcome to Numbers Jonathan Parnell Download Father in heaven, thank you for this moment. We are here by your grace! Your Word open before us and your Spirit active in us. Speak to us, we pray, in Jesus’s name, amen. Today we’re starting a new series in the Old Testament book of Numbers, and I just want to go ahead and tell you that this book is going to surprise you. If you’ve read the Book of Nu...

Our Vision Jonathan Parnell Download What is the difference between a mission and a vision? Six weeks ago I kicked off our series “We Are Cities Church” by talking all about our mission , and today I’m gonna close the series talking all about our vision — and so what’s the difference between those two words?   When we talk about mission, we’re talking about what we’re sent to do . Vision is w...

We Are Welcoming Witnesses David Mathis Download I recognize that another event outside this building has the attention and hearts of many of us in this room this morning. Show of hands: How many here know and remember Pastor Kenny and his wife Malaina, who we sent out last year to plant a church in the Orlando area? Well, as we meet here this morning, Horizon City Church, led by Kenny, is having...

We Are Generous Disciplers Mike Schumann Download So this is sermon four of six in our series entitled: “We Are Cities Church,” the goal of which has been to communicate who we are, especially now that we’re in our tenth year, and have gone from being a church planted to becoming a church rooted right here on 1524 Summit Avenue. Back on September 8, Pastor Jonathan began this series with a message...

We Are Joyful Servants Jonathan Parnell Download “We are Cities Church” means that we take our orders from Jesus, which he gives to us in the Bible.  We are who we are and do what we do because of what he says.  That’s most basically what it means to be his church. We are a band of his disciples — and a disciple, most fundamentally, is a follower or an apprentice.  We are apprentice...

We Are Jesus Worshipers David Mathis Download Last Sunday, we began a new six-sermon series called “We Are Cities Church.” We’ve been through some distinct seasons in almost ten years as a church, and now find ourselves on the front end of a new one. You might summarize our first five years, from founding to COVID, as a time of being planted . And from early 2020 until last summer, as a time of be...

Our Mission Jonathan Parnell Download So today we’re starting a new sermon series that’s gonna go on for the next six weeks, and the title of the series is: “We Are Cities Church.” The goal is simply to tell you who we are . The reason we wanna do that is because, going back to last year, the pastors recognized that God was bringing our church into a new season, and so we took that as an opportuni...

Will You Not Revive Us Again? Marshall Segal Download Last week, we were doing some work on our basement bathroom, getting ready to host a family of seven. A couple days before the family flew in, we were putting some final touches on the paint and installing a nice vintage mirror Faye thrifted and a couple cute shelves when she noticed that the mat in front of our kitchen sink was unusually wet —...

The Way of Happiness Jonathan Parnell Download Do y’all know why people go to the State Fair? … Because they want to be happy. Y’all know why people don’t go to the State Fair … Because they want to be happy. We were at the fair last night, and it won’t be the last time we go. I tend to enjoy the fair. I love that it’s called the “Great Minnesota Get-Together ” — because it does that . We live in...

God Glorified One Way or Another Mike Schumann Download As a kid, my favorite part about school was recess. Don’t get me wrong, I liked school. I liked learning. But I liked playing even more. Now, when it came to recess, my friends and I almost always ended up deciding between one of two games to play together — football or kill the carrier. These two games are very different from one another. In...

Judge Over All Jonathan Parnell Download One of the great things about the Psalms (and one of the reasons we do a summer series through the psalms) is because you can drop in on pretty much any psalm and find something immediately helpful. Y’all ever done that before? You ever “dropped in” on the Psalms? Maybe you need a word from God, you need some encouragement from the Scriptures but you’re not...