Cities Church Sermons

In this sermon on Galatians 4:21-31, Pastor Kenny Ortiz explains the connection to Abraham in this passage and the truth it reveals that if we trust in Jesus, if we wholeheartedly believe in him, we then are counted as members of God’s family. “Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise” (v.28‬).

In this sermon, our church planting resident Jordan Hecox preaches on Galatians 4:8-20 and he challenges us to ask ourselves: is Christ's influence in your life greater than any other influence?

In this sermon on Galatians 4:1-7, Pastor Joshua Foster reminds us of our salvation. There are so many glorious aspects of our salvation and of redemption that it is like looking at a prism and seeing how the light refracts into different colors. There is only one salvation and yet there is a universe of glories in this great salvation. Psalm 3:8 and Jonah 2:9 both say that “Salvation belongs to t...

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Galatians 3:15–29 where the apostle Paul compares the Abrahamic Promise and the Mosaic Law, reminding us of the “now” of gospel reality.

In this sermon on Galatians 3:10-14, Pastor Kenny Ortiz explains how Jesus made it possible for us to be justified by his death on the cross. Galatians 3:13: “… Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “’Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree’…”

In this sermon, Max Kozak expounds Galatians 3:1–9 and focuses on three pictures put before us: their baby picture, their family picture, and the gospel picture.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell leads us in looking at Paul's gospel explanation and gospel reorientation in Galatians 2:15-21. The Gospel is truth and it reorients everything about our lives.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Paul's confrontation of Peter in Galatians 2:11-14 in which our greatest takeaway is that Gospel congruence is the way we help one another live.

In this sermon, Pastor Joe Rigney explains how Paul’s defense, in Galatians 1:11-24, of his apostleship takes the form of a story. Paul gives a bunch of history, highlighting particular details about his former life, his calling as an apostle, and his relationship to the other apostles. Why does he do this? How does his narration answer those accusations? And finally, what are some applications fo...

In this sermon on Galatians 1:1-5, Pastor Kenny Ortiz explains how Paul gets right to the point in his letter to the Galatians. His apostleship is not from man, but from God, and the death of Jesus for us is the center of his message.

One of the things that my family does on a normal night is that, over dinner, we go around the table and we talk about the highs and lows of our day. What happened today that made you excited? What happened today that was difficult? What was your high and what was your low? I try to help the kids name their emotions and draw out the language of the heart — and it is the most chaotic thing I do. Do...

One of the reasons that we love Christmas is its paradoxes. At Christmas in particular, we see realities come together that our human instincts do not expect to be together, and then we see, with surprise and delight, that they do indeed fit together, contrary to our assumptions — and it makes us happy. The paradoxes of Christmas expose our false and weak and small expectations. They remind us tha...

Picture an iceberg. A massive iceberg, with ice mountains rising from the sea in all directions, and ice roots stretching into the unseen depths of the ocean. Biblical revelation is like that iceberg. What we have in the Scriptures is the part of the iceberg that juts out of the water, but the fullness of God’s meaning plunges to the depths. Thus, in seeking to know God through the Bible, we have...

In this sermon, Kenny Ortiz closes out the Exodus series by giving a recap and overview of the entire book and then summarizing the last six chapters. Way back in the Garden of Eden, humans enjoyed God's presence, but we sinned and the perfect fellowship was broken. But God immediately promises to send a savior. Then, the entire books of Genesis and Exodus are the unfolding plan of God to fulfill...

So over the next two Sundays, God willing, we’re going to spend two sermons looking at Exodus 34, and that’s because this chapter is the high-water mark of God’s revelation in the Old Testament. Next week we’re gonna deal more with the Mosaic covenant and what that means for us, but this week we’re going to focus on verses 1–9 as the continuation of what Pastor David Mathis showed us last week in...

In 1539, about 22 years after the Reformation had begun, a Catholic Cardinal named Sadoleto wrote a letter to Protestant Geneva, trying to convince the city to return to the Catholic Church. John Calvin had been a pastor in Geneva, but was exiled the year before. But Geneva turned to Calvin to write a response to the Cardinal. In it, Calvin identifies the main issue of the Reformation as this: the...

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In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan examines Exodus 28-29 and discusses the garments of the high priest. This foreshadows our New Testament high priest, Jesus! He sacrificed himself for us, and because he is raised from the dead and ascended to the Father, Jesus is in the Most Holy place for us right now, not with our names engraved on his garments, but our names are written in his wounds. Jesus as ou...

In this sermon, Pastor Joe examines the design of the Tabernacle outlined in Exodus chapters 25-27. God gave particular instructions because the design demonstrated the magnitude and gravity of holiness of God. The old covenant was established and the people of God could worship, but there were limitations upon how close they could get to the presence of God. God had given them very specific instr...

In this sermon, Pastor Kenny examines Exodus 24. This is the passage wherein we see the establishment and confirmation of the covenant between God and the nation of Israel, established through the shedding of blood. Throughout this narrative we see that God was willing to go to great lengths to make it possible for his people to approach him and commune with him. God wants us to experience his pre...

In this sermon, Pastor Kevin examines Exodus 23 and highlights the theme and exhortation for us to remember; in the manner that God's people are instructed to do so in the Old Testament. This is very relevant for us today because we live such fast-paced lives and our sanctification so often feels much slower than we want, so it's very helpful for us to slow down to remember that God is not just th...