City Church Long Beach Sermons

Stories of Hope – Luke 16:1-9 – Sept 28, 2025 These are intense days in our country. So many of us have struggled to find equilibrium as news story after news story comes out about our nation moving away from democracy. What must it have been like for Jesus to face the uncertainty of his own political climate, and what teaching did he give us that might help us find hope today?

Stories of Hope: Luke 18:1-8 – Sept 21, 2025 Emily Dickinson famously said that hope is a thing with feathers... Do you ever feel like these days hope needs a little more grit, a little more muscle, a song just as strong and forceful as it is sweet? This Sunday we'll let an unusual example of faith Jesus described for us speak into the places of our souls that are both hopeful and angry. Because h...

Stories of Hope: Matthew 13:31-32 – Sept 14, 2025 In a world full of cruelty and darkness, hope can feel hard to come by. But what if hope wasn’t a bright shiny thing, but rather more like a little old lady who keeps stopping to talk with beggars and then one day you realize she’s Mother Teresa and she’s changing the world? How does real change happen and how does hope play into it and how do we p...

This Sunday we're talking about grief, which may sound strange because usually churches do a big, energetic kick off on this Sunday each year. And in fact, we're having TACOs for lunch! So why grief? We're talking about grief because it's so sneaky and always weasels its way into new seasons of life, especially when there is change. So if we don't look at it directly (and gently), it'll slip into...

What do you do when people put you in a box? We all love to oversimplify others - it's sometimes called being a 'cognitive miser' - because we don't want to take the energy to be curious, to complicate the narratives we tell ourselves and to relate to people as they are as opposed to how we think they are. But Jesus loves to explode boxes, both the ones people put you and the ones you put others i...

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There are two women in the Old Testament that have precious little in terms of money, influence, or connections. But what they have they use for the sake of pushing against the forces in their world that oppose the ways of God. Join us to build community connections and to be strengthened in vision and resolve for these hard times.

Untold Stories – 2 King 5:1-19 – June 22, 2025 There are so many stories in the Bible that we’ve never heard. Some have been skipped by preachers because they are too edgy or uncomfortable. We’re going to spend time looking at some of those stories this Summer. This Sunday we’ll be looking at how to relate to other religions and what it means to be faithful in our work context when it is explicitl...

Esther And The Big Flip Series – Esther 8 - June 8, 2025 No, but really... what does Jesus mean, what does he expect, when he asks us to love our enemies? This Sunday we're exploring that question, and all of its real world implications, along with Esther and Mordecai, who now find themselves with the authority to save their people from the imminent threat of empire and genocide. How do they hold...

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Esther And The Big Flip Series – Esther 4:9-17 – May 11, 2025 The book of Esther is best known for some really inspiring one liners, which could give us the sense of that one brave person taking a stand. That reading fits so many of our cultural tropes about the shape of heroism! But this Sunday we want to explore the complicated, dynamic relationship that's actually behind "for such a time as thi...

When is the right time to resist the forces of empire, and what are the right ways to do so? When do we march, when do we boycott, when do we use non-violent means to shut down the machinery of an unjust government? These are real questions, and unfortunately, very real ones these days. We’ll continue to explore these and related questions in the book of Esther this week.

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