Christ City Church Memphis

This Sunday, Robert Grisham will continue our series on the Kingdom of God. Last week we looked at what the kingdom is like. This Sunday, we’ll be looking at a community in Scripture that was shaped by this kingdom. We’re going to see how God used that community, and we’re going to see how perhaps we can use that story to impact the way we’re thinking about the kingdom and about how we live creati...

This Sunday morning, Robert Grisham will begin a two-week series on the Kingdom of God. In this first part, we’ll look at what exactly Jesus meant when he talked about the Kingdom of God, as well as what separates this kingdom from other worldly kingdoms.

Join us this Sunday for a special word on community from Rev. Angéle Johnson! 

The Spirit of God is not a tool for the powerful to wield—it is the presence of God, accessible to all. This means we are capable of more than we imagine and responsible for the change we long to see, because God is with us—all of us. Join us this Pentecost Sunday as we explore the empowerment available to us through the presence of the Spirit. 

Sometimes, it seems that more and more is wrong in the world and that a solution is farther and farther away. Some people become discouraged and want to quit trying. Others look to the future and hold hope that someday things will get better. And a few look around, see something that has to be done, and do it. Do we sit back and wait for God to make all things new, or is there something we should...

Part of trust in God is reaching for spiritual connection when you feel alone. This ache for the presence of a Someone is a part of being human. It points to the relational and spiritual longings within us. What will we do with that feeling of absence? What helpful ways could we think about it? Join us as we work through the importance of belief and absence in the series Belief+Doubt+Trust=Life.

Are you reaping the benefits of someone else’s work or sowing “seeds” that others will harvest? -probably both! Recognizing that we are all reaping the benefits of others' work and that we are creating futures that someone else will enjoy (or struggle through) can have a profound impact on how we live. Join us this special Sunday morning as we thank Central Christian Church for gifting Christ...

At times in life we hold onto God through belief, and, there is also the possibility of letting go and allowing God to hold us, and believing in that. The difference in those two stances can make a significant difference in the decisions we make, the risks we take and how we engage our relationships. Join us as we continue the conversation of  Belief+Doubt+Trust=Life.

Thank God for love. Love charges life full of meaning and hope. To love is to believe. To love is to trust and to love is to experience painful and significant doubt. Who and what we love, and who loves us, shapes our life and world as nothing else can. Join us as we continue to explore the ingredients of life in the second part of the series Belief + Trust + Doubt=Life.

Everyone decides what they want to believe. What we choose to believe in, or continue to believe, will expand or limit the borders of our world, and it sets the trajectory of what we can learn and who we will trust. Rational doubt allows us to question our beliefs, thoughts, and experiences and can lead us into deeper levels of trust and awareness. These ingredients can bring life and hope or deat...

Join us this Easter Sunday as we remember the resurrection and its power to reorient our hearts toward the life that God offers us through Christ.

Join us for a sacred and unique Good Friday service.

“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.