Christ City Church Memphis

What do we do with the moments that are too big to hold? The experiences that we can’t find categories for? As life weighs us down with disappointments, it becomes increasingly difficult to carry the largeness these unbelievable moments offer us in our wounded and smallish hearts. Resurrection Sunday is a reminder that the living God is still ready to roll away the stones of grief and heartache to...

What are you willing to do to achieve success? What if the game of getting ahead is rigged? Would you want to find out before it’s too late? In our final installment of Jesus Walks, we see Jesus…riding into Jerusalem to seemingly win the game, all the while knowing it’s a house of cards. What’s better than success? The crucified King Jesus points us to a hopeful and scary answer.

Following Jesus by embracing our mortality. Week 5 of 6 in Jesus Walks.

Jesus came to save and not to condemn. Believing in him is the only thing one must do to be delivered from death and one’s own sin… and a copper snake on a pole has something to do with it all. Let’s talk about life and death, poison and healing, light, dark, and shame in this week’s installment of Jesus Walks.

In an uncertain world, how can one be sure of their standing with God? The ancient Jewish sacrificial system helped millions of people deal with this question. Through a clearly prescribed ritual, someone could know she was okay with God, and God was okay with her. Jesus disrupted this system as he flipped tables, drove out sacrificial animals, and foreshadowed the destruction of the temple where...

The second installment of our Lenten series, "Jesus Walks." “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For those who want to save their life will lose it, and those who lose their life for my sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it. For what will it profit them to gain the whole world and forfeit their life? Indeed, what can they...

The kingdom of God is near”, “repent,” “believe in the “good news.” What do all these familiar yet ancient terms mean? What is it that Jesus is calling us to? Join the discussion in part one of Jesus Walks a Lenten series.

What if I told you you had an inexhaustible access to creativity? What if the key to tapping into it was less work and more rest- Resting, waiting, believing. What if this slower pace of active and intentional rest, was the path to deeper contentment, better ideas, more hope, and an inexhaustible creativity? With God, it can be. Part 5 of 6 in the Recreate series.

We were created for community, but in our world today, community is not what it once was. Isolation due to quarantine, coupled with the political divisiveness all around us, has made true community really challenging. In this passage, we are given a fresh vision of the life together that God has in mind for us.

Jonah’s story is a good place to start looking at all the ways we struggle with connecting to others. Jonah’s resentment and unclear boundaries leave him filled with rage and isolated even from God’s Divine Mercy. We unpack what resentment does and how boundaries help us understand limits that support reconnecting with God, self, and other. To commit to pledge for 2021, go to christcity.org/pledge...

What is freedom? Who has it? What does it look like? Explore with us a vision of an integrated view of Christian freedom and how it can make us more creative, less divisive, and more self-aware. To pledge for 2021, go to christcity.org/pledge . If you've never given to Christ City, consider making a one-time donation. If you would like to give to our ministry, please go to christcity.org/give

Have you ever imagined God speaking to you? What’s The first thing you imagine hearing? For many of us, it's words of judgment or disapproval. Not so from the Scriptures who introduce God as a passionate creator speaking life, goodness, and abundance. Join us as we explore God as creator and re-create what it means to know God as a being infinitely creative and interested in our creativity. T...

Have you ever found yourself frustrated, scared, or confused by the actions of people in your own faith tradition? Maybe just plain unsatisfied by them? Would you be willing to receive a gift from those outside of that tradition? If you were Mary and Joseph caring for the Christ child, the answer would be yes. Listen in as we reimagine the Christmas story of the three magi with these ideas in mind...

How can one find satisfaction in life? Listen in as we encounter a pair of lesser-known figures in the early life of Jesus that provide some answers in part one of this two-part series.

In your life you will face times where you say to yourself, “How can this be?” Sometimes this will be because of a good you scarcely imagined possible other times it’s because of tragedy. Sometimes the trust required to believe in the good mingles with a terrible fear of the potential of tragedy. The birth of Jesus, the Christ, was like this. Listen in as we ponder the “How can this be?” of this s...

When we enter Advent, we are entering into a season full of waiting and tension. But within this waiting and tension, we also find that there is great hope in a world to come.

How can we expectantly wait for change while experiencing a discouraging delay? 2nd Peter has some ideas that might help.

Have you ever said, “Why do You let this happen?” or “Will You please fix this!” to God, and you are still waiting for an answer? Are you still waiting for God to “show up”? If so, this message is for you.

What happens in the end? Do my decisions matter? Is it all up to believing the right things? This parable in Matthew gives us a lot to think about when we ask ourselves the question “How will my life be seen in light of eternity?”

There is great hope in the promise that with God, death does not have the last word. Today we look at how this promise can impact our lives today.

"Choose you this day whom you will serve" has nothing (ok, a little) to do with who you vote for. How can Christians living in 2020 lay aside generations of beliefs, idols, and cultural norms and reclaim their identity as the chosen, beloved family of God? Join us as we unpack Joshua's final challenge to the Israelites!

As we observe All Saints Day together, we ask the question- “Who is a saint? How is the task of the saint different from what is typically expected from an American Christian? Is it something we can participate in?” Listen in to join us.

Some of us are rule followers by default, and others tend toward breaking the rules. Regardless of where we land, we are all more likely to follow the authority of someone or something when it is personally compelling to us. What happens when something becomes so compelling that when we share it, it doesn’t stop there, but we end up sharing ourselves as well. Spoiler alert, we’re talking about the...

Eavesdropping on Moses' conversation with God arguing for His presence to go with the Jewish people as they go to the promised land. We begin to consider how we are wrestling with God. What jagged, hard edges are pressing against us inside the cleft of the rock? Then we remember God's hand covering us and seeing God's back in the afterward.

When we trust that God is bigger than our impulses, wiser than our anxiety, and has more to give than what we have; we can live a life brimming with faith and courage. We can follow leaders who believe in what life could be and never resign ourselves to the “golden calf" of what is.