Cities Church Sermons

Though these prophets don’t all say they same thing, they do rhyme. There’s a rhythm and a pattern to their messages that we ought to understand at a basic level.

Metaphor is powerful. It integrates the invisible world with the visible. It helps us see things that are otherwise unseen. That is especially the case in the book of Hosea.

The most amazing of all human social arrangements is the church of Jesus Christ.

There is no such thing as generic “parenting.” In truth, there is mothering and fathering. And we do this together.

Part Two of the Together series builds a framework for how we should think about singleness, and offers three lessons for unmarrieds from the life of Paul the apostle.

[Due to a technical difficulty, the audio quality is poor.] Joe Rigney kicks off a new series on what it means to be the church Together. He gives three illustrations for a healthy marriage rooted in the gospel.

When a narrative comes to an end, the narrative world displayed by the author rejoins the world of the readers.

This is a story of high stakes on the high seas in Acts 27.

There stood Paul, donned in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs, speaking to the king and his cronies...

How do you conduct yourself when you know you are heading into opposition and hostility?

We live in a society increasingly more fit to create celebrities than leaders.

What will find increasing dissonance with our surrounding culture is actually the key to everything we think and say: Jesus is real; Jesus is alive; Jesus has been raised from the dead.

Acts 15 stands out as one of the most important chapters in the Book of Acts because it’s the only place where we see the church come to a theological crossroads.

Paul goes on three missionary journeys in the book of Acts. Chapter 14 shows us the the ending of that first journey, and a relevant theme emerges.

We want to train our minds to run in biblical ruts, to have God’s acts in history shape our understanding of ourselves and our own day.

The gospel and the community it creates, called the church, are on the move, beginning at Ground Zero in Jerusalem, but not staying there.

One of our goals in reading the Bible is to train our minds to run in biblical ruts. We want to learn to read the story we’re in by immersing ourselves in the stories God likes to tell.

Acts 8 is a transitional chapter in the book of Acts. We move away from a Jerusalem-focus to a wider vision of the church’s growth.

The point of Stephen’s sermon is the repeated rejection of God’s will by God’s people; he cashes it all in (verses 51–53) with their rejection of the Messiah.

The task in this sermon is to look at the first part of Stephen’s speech and ask the question: “What is Stephen getting at with these Old Testament examples?”

As the word of God grows, and the church increases, the practical dynamics of church life inevitably change.

One of our tasks as Christians is to learn to read the story that we’re in. As individuals, we have a past and a future. As families, communities, and as a nation, we have pasts and futures. And we tell ourselves stories in order to make sense of where we’ve come from and where we’re going and what our role in the story is.

One of our tasks as Christians is to learn to read the story that we’re in. As individuals, we have a past and a future. As families, communities, and as a nation, we have pasts and futures. And we tell ourselves stories in order to make sense of where we’ve come from and where we’re going and what our role in the story is.

What we find in the last section of Acts 4 is not an isolated event, but starting here, we discover a theme that is repeated throughout the rest of the book. And that theme is a vision for how the church lives in this world.

In Acts 4:1–12, we see the controversy surrounding the name of Jesus, and what that name represents — the real person who lived and died and rose again and has fundamentally changed the world and time.