Christ City Church Memphis

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.

Have you ever felt pressure to immediately make decisions, have answers and form judgements about people and events? While our culture tends to gravitate towards this type of posture in life, the wisdom of the gospel tells us there are many things that can only be understood after a time of suspended judgment and unsettling unknowing. Join us as we explore a path toward this wisdom of unknowing in...

Have you noticed how heavy it is to carry your true thoughts and feelings about life when you don’t feel like you can share them? At what cost do we live life only showing up as who we think others want us to be? What would it look like to welcome all of ourselves to our life as followers of Jesus and human beings on a journey to become whole.  Listen in as we explore the path of wholeness and int...

Were you “cliqued up” in middle school? High school? Maybe you were on the outside looking in? In the first half of our lives deciding who's in and who’s out is important to form our identity; it can even feel like the difference between life and death. As we get further along in life wisdom calls us to understand belonging in a new way, one that can build desperately needed bridges in our familie...

Have you ever thought “if I just get this, I’ll be satisfied,” only to find yourself back in the same place of discontent moments later? What if finding deep contentment and satisfaction cannot happen through acquiring more things, control, power, money, admiration, etc. but can only happen by letting go, losing, and surrendering? Listen in as we explore this path, the path of a disciple of Jesus.

There are a variety of symbols that summon our allegiance- country, consumerism, political party and more. Whom and what we pledge our allegiance to, whether knowingly and unknowingly, has the potential to shape our lives in impactful ways. Listen in as we conclude our series Status Symbol as we take a look at the symbols that command our allegiance.

Symbols of love dominate the landscape of our lives: love songs, dating apps, instagram couples, hallmark and Netflix movies, etc., etc.  As humans we are often defined by whom and what we love (and who loves us). Do you love your family, your partner, America, God, money, the truth, capitalism, the church, yourself, the south? How do the symbols connected to these loves impact the level of import...

Where is God? In church? In us? Around us? In believers and not unbelievers? Just as we do today, the ancient people of God had symbols to give them, clarity, security and connection to the presence of God. What we believe about those kind of symbols and what they represent can determine what status we believe we have with God and others. Join us as we take a look at how sacred symbols have the po...

In the previous sermon we explored the vision of CCC. To reach the destination of our vision we need a mode of transportation. Our mission is that vehicle. Explore with us how we move through the world as  followers of Jesus who serve with heart, worship in wonder and create with purpose.

At Christ City we have a simple vision. We aspire to become: A place to belong and a place to know God. Just because it is simple does not mean it is easy. Join us as we remember and recommit our hearts and minds to this inspiring and challenging vision.

Join us for a message from elder Amanda Wiig, as she brings us a word from the Spirit and explores what Jesus means by “the poor will always be among you.”