Christ City Church Memphis

If you’ve been around church very long you’re probably familiar with the term discipleship. It’s not a term that we use outside of the church world. What does it mean to be a disciple of Jesus? Why would we want to become his disciple? And what should we hope to gain by being his disciple? Join us this Sunday as Robert Grisham explores these questions.

Political division, sexual abuse and coverups, gun rights, abortion rights, COVID vaccine responses, immigration, racial injustice; these are just a few of the many issues that are ripping us apart, both as a society but also as individuals. And they continue to cloud this “Way of Jesus” faith that we belong to. There are days when we wonder if perhaps the church is causing more harm than good. Th...

We tend to notice things that are important to us or things we have been trained to see- a carpenter notices which way the wood grain runs and a parent can tell if their child is telling the truth. What we notice shapes our view of reality, what we think is possible and which proble

Join us this Juneteenth and Father's Day as we welcome a special guest preacher, Rev. Ayanna Watkins. Rev. Watkins is the Lead Organizer and Executive Director of the Memphis Interfaith Coalition for Action and Hope (MICAH).

We often speak of truth as something that exists on its own, independent of any person or perspective. The Bible, on the other hand, speaks of truth as understood in relationship and mediated through relationship. Join us as we explore just what it means to live out of the truth of your relationships.

Dreams and visions can inspire us to pursue higher, more noble and creative goals. Truth telling can ground us by forcing us to look at what life is, instead of what we wish it to be. How can we become the type of people who ask for, and look to receive, these gifts from the spirit of God? Join us as we explore these questions on Pentecost Sunday.

Christians have been waiting for the restoration and the renewal of all things - the return of the Christ - for a long time. What does it look like to live in between the despair of our current world and the hope of a renewed one? Join us as we conclude the series The End. And the Beginning.

What would you do if the sun didn’t set and you always felt safe enough to keep your doors unlocked? What if the most difficult challenges of your personal life and of society seemed solvable? Join us as we commit our imaginations to 24 hours of daylight. Part of the series The End. And the Beginning.

In a vision of the end, John shows us an amazing scene where the divine presence comes to dwell on earth in a new, incredible city. This picture stands in stark contrast with the familiar image of a few faithful christians being caught up from the earth into a weightless heaven. Join us this Sunday as wonder and worship at the prospect of a heavenly address on earth when God moves in! Part of the...

People of every nation, tribe, and language, get along and rejoice in John’s inspiring vision of the future. What makes this possible, and how can this revelation bring hope to our present? Join us as we continue the series The End. And The Beginning.

The story is bookended by belonging and connection and wholeness. How do we live in the middle of the story in light of this hope? Join us as we continue to explore The End. And The Beginning.

Each person sees things from a different vantage point based on when, and where, we were born and what we’ve experienced. It’s part of the reason we argue about the best path forward as a society or who’s turn it is to do the dishes. Understanding the limits of our perspective can be freeing as we seek a connect to the one who is and who was and who is to come. Join us as we pursue a new point of...

It can be scary when something ends, even when its something we wouldn’t describe as good or helpful. In the first letter to the Corinthians, Paul is writing to new christians about accepting the end of their old way of viewing realty and the startling revelation of a new one. The resurrection of Jesus, the Christ, he argues, is the hinge upon which the door to this new paradigm is swung open. Joi...

Confrontation is a part of life. How we engage and avoid it greatly affects the way our lives unfold. Join us this Palm Sunday as we see Jesus' mounting confrontation with the power of Jerusalem itself and what this moment can teach us as his followers.

If we find the necessary courage to ask for what we need, confessing what we have tried to do on our own that has hurt or harmed ourselves and others, a newness can open up to us. This newness is filled with togetherness, wholeness and hope. It is a place in step with the work of God. Join us as we conclude our series Failing at Sin!

What keeps us from returning to God when our bad decisions have caught up with us and we’ve “sobered up”? Why won’t we go “home” when that’s exactly what we want to do? Jesus answers these questions with a story. Join us as we immerse ourselves in the spiritual genius of Jesus’ parable about coming home. Part of the series Failing at Sin.

The story of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet is often read, but not lived. Foot washing isn’t a common practice across Christianity, despite Jesus’ explicit command to wash one another’s feet. What does it mean to live a life answering “the Jesus ask” of washing one another’s feet and how can that show up in our Lenten practices? What does it mean that Jesus asked his disciples to love one anoth...

When we talk about sin we are also talking about others expectations and what they think about our actions. What does God think of us when we stray from the path? Listen in to join the discussion. Part two of Failing at Sin, a Lenten series.

Do the ends justify the means? Jesus was tempted to think so during a pivotal moment in his life - the beginning of his public ministry. As we gather for the first Sunday of Lent we wrestle with the powerful pull of three temptations Christ faced in the desert. We will confront how their meanings and message shape our personal and public worlds and how we can resist turning stone to bread.

When Jesus died, one of the things that changed was that we as followers of Jesus now have access to God that those before never did. In this passage Paul shares what a big deal this is. Join us this Sunday morning as we talk about what an awesome privilege it is to experience the presence of God.

Last week we began to discuss the rules that those in the family of Jesus Christ gather around. This week we continue to explore the soaring heights of the law of Jesus as we are confronted with his instruction on how to treat our enemies and those who mean us harm. Part of the series KinFolk.

Every family has guidelines by which they live. The rules let us know what is off limits and for what we should strive. When you are kin through Jesus, the family rules are much more invigorating and distinct from the rules we find elsewhere in our culture. How these Christ-kin codes are interpreted by our denominational cousins and aunties is also hotly contested and debated. Kinfolk! Join us as...

As kinfolk, the family of God, we are part of a community unified by the grace we have received and the life we want to live(in Christ). While we strive and hope and pray for unity, we are not the same. We are part of one body but with different parts and a variety of functions, roles and life experiences- unity within diversity. This is an inspiring vision but living it, well that’s a bit differe...

What type of picture comes to mind when you think of your relationship with God? Does it look like eating together at a table? In the scriptures one of the main metaphors for God and his people is a bride and groom-a marriage. When we receive the bread and the wine it is sometimes called the wedding feast. It represents a covenant of love renewed every Sunday between us and God. Listen in as we di...

Baptism marks the beginning of joining a new family- one started by Jesus. This family isn’t defined by race, allegiance to country, the will of a parent, or blood. It transcends our categories of “us” and “them”. It has the potential to reconcile the impossible chasms of fear and hatred amongst human identities and reconnect those alienated from God. Listen in as we we become reacquainted with ou...