Christ City Church, Washington DC

We celebrate Christ City Church turning 7 years old (including our time as a parish of The District Church), with a message from Pastor Matthew about where we’ve been, and where we’re going. Watch the full service on our YouTube channel to see video messages from former and current members and friends of CCC:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTtWS_tTu78

The Ethiopian eunuch, Lydia, a demon-possessed girl, a jailer – Pastor Watson concludes our series on The Welcoming Kingdom by showing how the Kingdom of God expands to those who were traditionally viewed as outside of traditional boundaries. [ Acts 8:26-31, 34-39 ; Acts 16:13-16 ]  

We are to love our enemies because we see the imago dei – image of God – in all people. But who is our enemy, and how do we love them? Pastoral Associate Andrea Ackermann looks at Jesus’ examples of loving his enemies in the gospels, and challenges us to identify and pray for our enemies.

As humans, we are going to have differences and disagreements. Pastor Justin Fung addresses how we navigate being united in community with folks with whom we may not see eye-to-eye, even if we both call ourselves Christians, particularly in relation to LGBTQ+ individuals. How do we understand oneness in Christ with people who may express their faith differently, perhaps even in ways that hurts? Is...

Pastor Watson introduces our new sermon series, “The Welcoming Kingdom.” For the next few weeks, we will better understand the expansive nature of God’s Kingdom, and consider how this informs how we behave as a local church. Pastor Watson looks at how Jesus, and even Old Testament prophets, embraced those historically outside the community of faith. He challenges us to follow Jes...

This Pentecost Sunday, in the midst of protests for black lives and a pandemic, Pastor Justin Fung names the power and purpose of the Holy Spirit, and how vital the Spirit is for us today. [ Acts 2 ] Resources Urban Doxology, “God Not Guns”

Pastor Matthew unpacks the historically misunderstood Ephesians passages about submission to show how the gospel breaks down unjust power structures and brings freedom. [ Ephesians 5:21-6:9 ]

Pastoral Associate Andrea Ackermann explores the church as a community of holiness. Understanding holiness begins with identity. We are God’s people, God’s church, a visible manifestation of God’s spirit and movement, and we are called to live into this identity. [ Ephesians 4:17-5:20]

In the third week of our Being Church series, Lisa Watson explains how to be a community on mission by answering these questions: Who gets to be a part? What do we do? and How do we do it? [ Ephesians 3:1-13 ]

How do we, as a community, anchor ourselves in the work of Jesus in a manner that displays the reconciling, unifying, uniting love of God in the midst of our differences and diversity? We are called to live out our new humanity in Christ, in the context of the new Human Family that God has formed through Christ’s cross. Pastor Watson reflects on how we are to be the church, given the beautif...

This week we learned that a dear member of our church, Angel Scroggins, passed away. In response to this news, Pastor Watson decided to take a break from our Being Church series and pause in this moment to lament – to grieve this loss, and other losses that we are experiencing during this time. This sermon gives space for us to name the death and loss that we’ve experienced, and then t...

Just as the disciples had to figure out how to do life together after the Resurrection, so too we wanted to revisit the idea of who we are in light of the Resurrection. Pastor Justin kicks off our new series “Being Church: Becoming a Called Community” by exploring what it means to be the body of Christ. W e belong to Christ, and when functioning properly, we work together as a unit to...

He is risen! He is risen indeed. This Easter Sunday, Pastor Matthew Watson explores the story of Simon of Cyrene, who was forced to carry Jesus’ cross on the way to Golgotha. We are reminded that we don’t have to carry our crosses alone. [ Mark 15:21-24 ,  Matthew 28:1-10 ]  

On Palm Sunday, we celebrate and remember that Jesus is King. Pastor Justin Fung helps us explore what that means for us in these times of chaos, anxiety, and turmoil. [ Luke 19:37-42, 45-46 ] Resources Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion, and the Divided Life , by Chuck DeGroat Two-minute prayer (courtesy of Fuller FORMATION ) For 21 consecutive days, practice a quick prayer with a trusted fri...

As we close out our 12-week series on Learning to Live, Pastor Matthew Watson uses words from Paul’s letter to the Colossians to help us consider what’s next. [ Colossians 1:9-14 ]

As we begin to round out our Learning to Live series, we look at learning to live for the sake of the world. God does not invite us only into a one-on-one relationship between God and me but into one which directly affects and impacts those around us and the world in which we live. Pastor Lisa Watson talks about what it might look like for us to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with o...

In our first livestreamed service,  Pastor Justin talks about “Church” — unpacking the very real church hurt that most, if not all, of us have experienced — or will experience — but also the very real hope for what church should be and can be, particularly when the coronavirus has upended so much of ordinary life. [ 1 Peter 2:4-5, 9-12 ] Resources What we can do: Foll...

Pastor Watson shows us the place of Scripture in Jesus’ life and asks us to consider what that means for how the Bible should be situated in our lives. He reminds us of the many ways that Jesus used Scripture to confront and comfort. [ Luke 4:1-21 ]

How do we deal with the hard things, the darkness, the very real brokenness in our lives and in the world? Andrea Ackermann teaches us the sustaining practice of lament for helping us overcome and endure. [ Psalm 13 ]

Jesus prayed all the time. But what is prayer? Prayer can take all sorts of different forms, but at its core, it’s about a relationship with God. Pastor Fung specifically looks at the prayer for God’s Kingdom to come on earth as in Heaven, and what this picture of justice would look like. [ Luke 18:1-8 ]   Follow along with Learning to Live at learningtolive.app .

In our Learning to Live series, we’re learning to live – and love – like Jesus. This week, Pastor Justin explains how this spiritual transformation can happen, and what it takes to live a full life. [ 1 Timothy 4:7b-10 ]

Lisa Watson reminds us that Jesus is the clearest reflection of God, and in him, we can see what love looks like. Our growth as followers of Jesus – our ability to live as Jesus lived – hinges on our growth in love. [ 1 Corinthians 13:1-8 , 13 and 2 Corinthians 3:18 ]

In this week’s Learning to Live sermon, Pastor Watson reminds us that the Gospel doesn’t start with the fall and end with the cross, but starts in a garden and ends in a city and has its defining moment in an empty tomb. This narrative is still unfolding and has a place for you in its midst. [ Luke 3:1-20]  

This week, Andrea kicks off the section of Learning to Live that focuses on story – our story, God’s story, and how those intersect. Knowing our own stories enables us to know ourselves. She explores how stories both form and transform us, and reminds us that our stories are not static, but continuous. [ Matthew 4:18-22 , John 21:1-7 , Acts 2:37-41 ]

Pastor Watson continues the Learning to Live series with a look at how Jesus invites us to spend time with him, since it’s relationships that lead to transformation. New life starts with an invitation, a conversation, a relationship. This invitation from Jesus is extended to us so that we may then extend it to others. [ John 1:35-42 ]