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Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

In this week's message, Pastor Jon Tyson led us through Zechariah's song, found in Luke 1:57-80, that broke forth after Zechariah and Elizabeth received their promised, long awaited son. Zechariah and Elizabeth serve as examples of waiting well, a discipline that receives little regard in our world of instant gratification. By attuning our thoughts to the Lord, worshiping Him together with preempt...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

This week, Pastor Suzy Silk began our Advent series with a message from Luke 2:25-35, which recounts Simeon's encounter with baby Jesus in the temple. Through his faithfulness to the Lord, despite so many years of waiting, Simeon was finally able to see not only his personal prayers answered, but also recognize the greater picture of God's redemption of the world through Jesus.   We invite you to...

Welcome to Church of the City New York's Advent Devotionals.  Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and...

This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series by surveying the current cultural landscape, and pointing us to the Biblical mandate God has given us to create and steward a culture that glorifies Him. As the only creatures with the distinct ability to acknowledge what is beyond ourselves, Pastor Jon invited us to live with God's vision of cultural renewal in our...

This Sunday, Pastor Keithen Schwahn continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series by unpacking the pessimism and passivity that has invaded the American church and tend to drive its view on the next generation. As we continue to develop as compelling missional disciples, we must embrace the mission to reverse the narrative that young people are a lost cause in the Western church, and dedicat...

This week, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our sermon series on Compelling Missional Disciples with a teaching on how to become fully trained. As maturing disciples, our goal is to become like Jesus, our master, unwilling to settle for anything less than all that He offers us. So in order to level up our training, Pastor Jon gave us three shifts to help fill our "formation gaps."

This week, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples series with a teaching on the importance of being intentional in our formation. By asking who we are becoming by what we are doing, committing to go to the depths with God and our community, and listening daily for the truth God is speaking over us, rather than the pressures of the world, we will be increasingly formed in the...

This week, Pastor Ashley Anderson continued our Compelling Missional Disciples sermon series with a message on the role of identity formation in becoming a compelling missional disciple. We must consider what we have falsely believed about ourselves, and then ask God to reveal our true selves and invite us into our purpose.   We are looking for people to join our team! Visit  church.nyc/staff to r...

In place of this week's podcast we have a few special announcements from Pastor Jon.  We are looking for people to join our team! Visit church.nyc/staff to read descriptions and apply. Sanctuary is an original song, written within our community, and reflects the desire of our church to be a people who close the gap between knowing God and experiencing what He offers. Captured at a Break the Soil w...

This Sunday, Pastor Sam continued our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, with a teaching on the importance of devotedly pursuing the knowledge of God, because having a proper view of God will determine everything else in our lives. The more we recalibrate our lives to the radical pursuit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God, the more of His splendor can be released on...

This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Fall sermon series, Compelling Missional Disciples, with a teaching on living a life that is attentive to the presence of God through the story of Mary and Martha. Being attentive to the presence of God is not just about big, dramatic encounters with Him, but about cultivating an awareness of Him in every area of our lives. We have been given access to live in...

This Sunday, Pastor Sam Gibson finished out our Rediscovering Church series with a teaching from 1 Thessalonians 5:12-28 on Jesus and His Church. As we look to and learn from the early church, we must be careful not to elevate them above the person of Jesus. The Church throughout time has always experienced difficult relational dynamics, because humans, in all of their brokenness, are involved. Ho...