Christ City Church Memphis

“The truth can set you free.” - AND freedom comes with the responsibility to make difficult choices, which is why we sometimes prefer to ignore it. Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem was the inevitable clash of mounting tensions between truth and deception, acceptance and denial, responsibility and passivity. Listen in as we are reminded of the power of truth when we stop running from it and start listen...

There are seasons in which dramatic change is thrust upon us and times when we bring about change in our lives. Both are challenging, and both take spiritual imagination to navigate well. We are in such a time when volatile change is being thrust upon us. How will we respond? Join us as we conclude the Lenten series, "Resist Hopelessness, Fast from Complacency, and Persist in Imagination.&quo...

Reconciliation is the healing or repairing of something broken, fractured, or misaligned, especially a relationship. Reconciliation can give us hope, it can bring newness, and it can be an incredible source of imagination. Listen in this Sunday to hear how a force that is reconciled may be exactly what we, and the world needs.

  Join us this Sunday as we welcome back to the pulpit,  Rev. Ayanna Watkins, as we continue our Lenten series.

This Sunday we will continue our Lenten series: Resist Hopelessness, Fast From Complacency, Persist in Imagination. Robert Grisham will be teaching on the practice of Contemplative Activism. As followers of Jesus we are called to lives of activism, but when that activism is not rooted in an abiding relationship with Jesus, the results can be damaging, both to ourselves and to the recipients of our...

During Jesus’s time in the desert, he learned what it meant to resist the temptation of hopelessness. Why is hopelessness even a temptation? How do we name it and then resist it? Join us in the first sermon in the Lenten series: Resist Hopelessness, Fast From Complacency, Persist in Imagination.

 As our series comes to a close, we settle into this important principle for our growth as followers of Jesus – we seek progress, not perfection. What are the steps toward progress we need to take after considering the topics we have addressed over the past two months? This sermon is the conclusion of Setting Your House in Order.

 Few words have the power to evoke such deep feelings of love, sadness, passion, loyalty, hate, division and belonging as family. Fewer still are the places we see the dynamics of a family play out with as much clarity as the dinner table. When it comes to addressing the health and spirituality of our families, how we gather (or don’t gather) around the table may be the most important place to sta...

 Join us, as we continue to talk about our sexuality and how we can apply what we are learning to the realms of dating and marriage. Part of the series Setting Your House in Order.

Our sexuality is one of the greatest sources of creative energy we possess. Unfortunately, many of us grew up without elders teaching us of its goodness and power leaving us open to messages that our sexuality is simply something to manage and restrain or to act on without inhibition or humility. Something as holy, powerful, and potent as our sexuality will not be reduced to either. We will not be...

Out of everything vying for our attention, health may be the most foundational. Our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being determines how we respond to the most significant events in our lives, yet sometimes, we push health to the sidelines of our priorities. Let’s rally together and seek health in all aspects of our lives. In learning to do so, we honor God by stewarding the foremost gift we...

To be sober is to be aware, alert, observant, and clear-headed. How can an individual, a family, a city, or a country cultivate this awareness if it wasn’t something learned or inherited? Furthermore, how we handle our finances requires tools, skill, and wisdom, but without an emotionally sober relationship with money, we can find ourselves misusing these tools in detrimental ways. Join us as we c...

Join us this Sunday morning as we continue in our new series Setting Your House in Order. Robert Grisham will be teaching on the 10 things that wisdom teaches us about wealth.

Starting a new year gives us an opportunity to reflect on how we spent our energy, time, and money in the previous one. It allows us to take a sobering look at the difference and similarities between what we say we value and what are life choices show we value. Once we have taken a careful look backwards we can, with intention, help, and faith, begin to plan the next year. Listen in as we seek to...

What distinguishes one life from another? Why do we fall in love with one person and not another? Surely it’s the particulars of our lives that comprise love. Join us as we discuss the experience of waiting for love and God in the particulars of life on the fourth Sunday of Advent- a time of expectant waiting.

Oftentimes waiting and worrying seem to go together. When you find yourself in a state of worry, how does it impact your life and relationships? Join us as we learn ways to let go of worry as a means of waiting and instead embrace an empowering life of waiting in prayer. The third Sunday of Advent - a time of expectant waiting.

What does it mean for us to find wholeness or completeness? You may have been told it is up to you to figure it out and that you are waiting to be judged as an isolated individual. What if the scriptures say that the work being done in us is a collective work? -That we are waiting, not for our isolated, individual perfection, but for the wholeness that we can only experience in relationship to one...

When waiting for help from God, for intervention or rescue, what do you do? How do you manage the anxiety of not knowing the when or the how? Join us, as we approach the topic of waiting with confidence, in the first sermon in the series- Waiting for the World to Change. 

Are you a rule follower? What voices and personalities have influence or power over you? How’s that going for you? How does Jesus interact with authority and what can we learn from it? Listen in as we address these important topics on  Christ the King  Sunday. 

Reminders can bring joy, prompt you to take action or cause you to understand an obligation. Join us as we discuss reminders of God's promises, grace, mercy, and love.

To live a life where you hope for justice in a world of injustice, and have faith in a God who upholds the oppressed, is to live a life marked by frustration. AND we are called to be a source of frustration for the ways of the wicked. In the tension of this post election moment,  let us find expression, hope and solidarity in both the frustration and in being a frustrater.

Join us this Sunday, as we welcome special guest Reverend Ayanna Watkins back to our pulpit!

When you lose someone you love what do you do? How do we hold the feelings of unrealized hope, sadness, pain, and memory? Is there hope beyond death? Where is God in all of this loss? Join us as we talk about the pain of hope, the grief of death and seek faith in resurrection.

There is a saying: “Heavy is the head that wears the crown”. Most of us would like to know what it feels like to have that “heavy head” because we have achieved our financial and relational dreams and must deal with the weight of managing it all. Or, to say it another way, “I’d love to know from experience that wealth doesn’t solve all my problems”.  Jesus says the way to leadership and success, i...

The prosperity gospel is not a 20th-century invention. It's been around a while. Even Jesus' disciples were surprised when he said wealth is not a sign of God's favor. Going against the grain, Jesus says mercy, empathy, and compassion rank above piety. Maybe it's better to give a bicycle than to win one.