Cities Church Sermons

In this special stand-alone sermon for our 10-year anniversary as a church, Pastor John Piper visits us with a message from Psalm 19. This passage focuses on two foundational pillars for us as a church. Pastor John exhorts us that these cherished pillars are essential for our future, helping us answer questions about ultimate reality and ultimate truth. And they came to us in Jesus Christ our Rede...

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon John 1:19-34 in which we find two things about John the Baptist and one thing about us. Does your life forge a path for people to get to Jesus or does it put obstacles in the way?

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon John 1:14-18 in which John shows us the glory of Jesus. And so the questions is: do you want to see it?

In this sermon, Pastor David Mathis begins the New Year with our new sermon series through the Gospel of John by expounding upon John 1:1-13. Therefore, we enter 2025 making much of Jesus, considering him, enjoying him, marveling at him — which is how John opens his Gospel.

In this sermon on Numbers 33-36, Pastor Jonathan Parnell concludes our series through the Book of Numbers by focusing in on the example of faith by the five daughters of Zelophehad. And even beyond their exemplary example of faith, their story takes us to Jesus – our kinsman redeemer.

In this sermon on Numbers 31-32, Pastor David Mathis contrasts God’s command to “kill every male among the little ones” to the similar acts of anger ordered by Herod in Bethlehem and Pharaoh in Egypt. This passage is a dark subject for the Sunday before Christmas, but this is actually the real setting for Christmas – a desperate, cursed, evil world in which surprising light dawns. Here’s three ray...

In this sermon on Numbers 26-30, Pastor Jonathan Parnell offers three encouragements to the rising generation. The older generation should invest in the younger generation because there will come a day when the older generation is no longer, and the younger generation will be leading the way.

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Numbers 22-25 in which we find two contrasting men on either side of God’s promises to the godly. One man provides a portrait of worldliness, while the other shows a heart won over to God.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Numbers 20-21 where God displays that he wants your faith whoever you are. And just as the snakebitten Israelites were instructed to look at the bronze serpent if they wanted to live, we are to look to Jesus if we want to live. God wants our faith!

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Polley expounds upon Numbers 16-19 in which we see three acts of judgment and three acts of provision from God. We see that just as Aaron stood between the living and the dead – Jesus stands in the gap for us, between life and death, but more than holding back sin and death, he defeats it. Jesus is the only way back to God.

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Numbers 13-15 in which we witness one of the greatest tragedies ever told. God’s chosen people are standing on the verge of the Promise Land and the twelve spies return to the camp with a foreboding report. Unbelief has descended upon the camp. This story teaches us four things about unbelief.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Numbers 10:11-12:16 by tracking with these three movements found in this story: on one hand there is a “shiny new car,” and on the other hand there’s “the fine print,” and then there is what it means for us. And what we learn is that right now, in the new covenant, what we have was a dream for Moses.

In this sermon, Pastor David Mathis expounds upon Numbers 7:1-10:10 by focusing on what we need to know, how we should live, and how we see Jesus in this text. God still leads and guides his people’s daily movement but how does this look for us under the new covenant?

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Numbers 1-6 in which God provides some instructions for how to journey through the wilderness. God gives us roles to play in the church, wants us to have healthy relationships, and he dwells among us making his face shine upon us giving us a foretaste of a greater reality still to come as we journey onward to glory.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell introduces our new series through the Book of Numbers, the fourth book of the Torah, by expounding upon Numbers 1:1 and the apostle Paul’s commentary on Numbers found in 1 Corinthians 10:1-14. The main point overall is that we might learn to live with God on the road of the Christian life and here’s three things we can prepare to do in response to this book....

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell completes our series “We Are Cities Church” by looking at our ultimate vision in Revelation 7:9-12 and applying it to our Matthew 28 mission here and now. Here are five facts about our vision that help us see what it would look like if we were effective in making joyful disciples of Jesus who remember his realness in all of life...

In this sermon, Pastor David Mathis expounds upon three truths for our welcoming witness drawing from the witness of the early church in the book of Acts and engaging what it means that we are witnesses to Jesus in our post-Christian society.

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon the examples of discipleship found in Acts 20:17-21. A generous discipler is someone who gladly and purposefully seeks to help other Christians follow Jesus. In this text, we find two methods for helping other Christians follow Jesus.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Jesus’s words to us in John 13:1-20 to see his example of serving and to follow it. Jesus wants us to be servants and to be a servant like Jesus means we serve at a cost, from freedom, and with joy.

In this sermon, Pastor David Mathis provides three reasons why our first and foremost calling is to be Jesus worshipers making connections to John 12:20-26. The first thing to know about Cities Church is that we worship Jesus. Being Jesus worshipers is just part one of our new fourfold way of capturing what we mean by “joyful disciples of Jesus.”

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell looks at Colossians 1:28 to begin this new sermon series called “We Are Cities Church” which is all about who we are. Who has Jesus called us to be and what does he want us to do? We learn three things here, from the apostle Paul, about the mission of our local church.

In this sermon, Marshall Segal wraps up our Summer of Psalms (Part 6), expounding upon Psalm 85 which is a psalm and a prayer for all our low moments in the Lord. We all have low moments of various kinds, and so we are all regularly in need of reviving. We look at our need for revival, our hope for revival, and then three fruits of revival.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Psalm 84 which shows us the way of happiness. Everybody wants to be happy, and Jesus is the way – Blessed are those who dwell in God’s house!

In this sermon, Pastor Mike Schumann expounds upon Psalm 83 which is a psalm about a people in need of much help. In this passage, after first crying for help, the psalmist provides the reason he’s asking for God’s help, then makes his request to God, and then explains the result he is hoping for – that God may get his glory, no matter what.

In this sermon, Pastor Jonathan Parnell expounds upon Psalm 82 which is a perplexing passage but clearly affirms three truths about God and reality that matter for how we live: God reigns over all, God will judge all moral unrighteousness, and God will get his global glory.