Christ City Church Memphis

Have you ever been working hard on something important to you only to watch someone else do it far better and more creatively? How did you react? There is an incredible life lesson available to us in these moments, when we have done all we can do and we are still unable to become what we want to become. All it takes, to attain this understanding, is a willingness to reexamining what the biggest th...

What are the moments that create a distinct sense of a “before and after” in your life? How have these moments changed the way you view the world and your relationships? As we begin the series Epiphany we start by reflecting on the revelation of Jesus as the place where heaven and earth comingles as never before. Once recognized, this event, this person, forever changed and changes the perception...

Have you given up on love? -the love of relationships filled with meaning and hope? Love that anticipates divine care in the midst of the mundane and ordinary loneliness of life? What if we were in the company of such love and didn’t know it? Join us as we explore love, loneliness and the expectation of divine company in our final sermon of the series Elevating Hospitality.

Have you ever felt the heights of optimism and the depths of despair within a single day? As we wait for God during this advent season, it can be frustrating to acknowledge that our lives are continuously filled with both joy and sadness, beauty and ashes. How we think about this paradox is essential to how we practice hospitality. Join us in part three of the series Elevating Hospitality.

In our second sermon in the series Elevating hospitality we explore the sometimes difficult idea of preparing a place in our world for the activity of God and how repentance plays a critical role in the process.

Hospitality is one of the most essential needs. It has the potential to deepen existing relationships and create the space for new ones to flourishing. The prophets dreamed of a day that God would make a home with God's own people and, in turn, that all people would benefit from God's divine and universal hospitality. Join us as we ponder the importance of hospitality in our faith. This is a four...

God’s ultimate goal for humanity is redemption and rescue, and his means for doing that was Jesus’ death on the Cross. Join us this Sunday as we seek to unpack all that this means as Robert Grisham teaches.

Join us as we explore the value of hard work, the distinction between idleness and rest, and how our faith can help us find the equilibrium we all so desperately need.

As we acknowledge all saints day this Sunday we take time to engage some of life’s most eminent questions. What happens when we die? If there is an afterlife, what will it be like? Do we have a connection to those who have died? Join us as we contemplate what it means to know the Divine as the God of the living.

What does it mean to be reconciled to God? Is it believing the right doctrine or following the right teacher? Maybe it’s simply having a personal relationship with Jesus? What if reconciliation with God actually has just as much to do with with our relationship with God as it does our relationship with others? Join us this Sunday as we explore these questions.

What if generational poverty didn’t exist? What if each family had their own property? What if the deck was stacked, every seven years and every fiftieth year, toward the most vulnerable- debts being forgiven, priceless family land restored? How would our world look different today? In the book of Leviticus, which is mainly concerned with holiness and purity laws, stands a chapter where these magn...

The concept of owing someone something seems to be an inescapable aspect of human interaction. It’s something we don’t often question unless we are the ones that need to be forgiven. What kind of world would we have if every debt had a shelf life and everyone, not just those “too big to fail”, had a chance to start fresh-financially. This is the world that the prophets of ancient Israel put f...

How do we respond to the demands and opportunities within the complex web of social and economic relationships we call society? How do we live when resources, jobs, and opportunities seem to be at our finger tips or, inversely, far out of reach? What would it look like if we began to view our money and resources, not only autonomously, but as part of a greater economic, interdependent ecosystem? J...

What does it look like to be mastered by money, and in contrast, to learn to master money? Join us this Sunday as Robert Grisham preaches part three of the series Possession(s).

What does it take for you to listen to good advice? Many aspects of a healthy spiritual life are not a matter of needing more information or some special revelation. Instead, what we often need is to understand what makes us so complacent, self involved or afraid that we fail to do the good we already know to do -with our finances. Join us as we find hope and strength to take action in part two of...

What happens when we apply the same creativity used to build wealth or get ourselves out of financial jams to our spiritual life? Listen in as we reimagine the relationship between money and religion and see ourselves as spiritual entrepreneurs.

Being overloaded with information today from social media, streaming services, various entertainment sources, breaking news reports, gaming etc.; the list is endless how our attention gets pulled in so many ways. Join us as we look at this practice Cultivating spirituality and how we can begin to heal from fears, being overwhelmed, anxieties, bitterness and grief.

Life is dynamic and so are each of us. At Christ City we are learning to follow Jesus in the constant changes we experience in the flow of life. This perspective has led us to our mission: Becoming disciples of Jesus who recover their lives, reimagine their purpose and refresh their world. Listen in to join the conversation and click https://christcity.org/vision-mission to learn more about the vi...

The vision of Christ City Church is to be A Place to Belong and A Place to Know God. Join us as we discuss the deep and layered topic of what it means to know God and the paths we seek to connect with the Divine. Click here to learn more about our vision https://christcity.org/vision-missions .

A place to belong is the first half of the vision of Christ City Church. Join us as we explore what this looks like in the life of our church and how we aspire to be, more and more, this type of spiritual family. Click https://christcity.org/vision-mission to learn more about our vision.

When we try to make meaning in our present without taking into account the past, we end up living untethered lives, deriving purpose in a vacuous space. We need neither deride the past or accept it uncritically but instead seek to recognize our place and purpose within it. Join us, as we examine the powerful implications of knowing your place. Part three of three in the series Embracing Purpose.

How can we live our lives knowing that one day we will be gone and those coming after us will inherit what we have left? Depending on our age and stage in life, the answer to this question can look very different. One thing we can be sure of is that it takes faith mingled with purpose to build a spiritual inheritance for the future that all followers of Jesus are called on to help create. Join us...

In every stage of life we find ourselves in there is an important task to accomplish. When we fail to recognize the task set before us we can lose faith, or worse, become petty, bitter, or disengaged. In this Sunday’s gospel passage, Jesus illuminates one such stage. Join us, as we ponder our life tasks as changing, growing humans.  Part one of three of the series Embracing Purpose .

With all that is, and continues, to happen in our world we can be quick to say the phrase “ It’s the will of God” from everything to disease, war, and if there is a good parking spot for us at Kroger. But what do we really mean when we say “Will of God?” In this sermon Rev. Sandra will unpack this loaded phrase using the framework presented in “The Will of God” by Leslie Weatherhead. This short bo...

In our society, we gauge our quality of life by our bank accounts, how much we can produce, and how much entertainment we can consume. The undercurrent in our thinking says we can get enough to be satisfied, we just haven’t made it there yet. The Scriptures remind us again and again that while we live by “bread”-material goods, it’s not bread alone that can sustain and satisfy us. When we try, the...