Citizens Church Sermons

Summary: Jesus sends his followers into places of conflict and chaos to offer mercy and create peace. Key Text: Matthew 5:7 & 9

Scripture: Matthew 5:10-12

These verses in the Sermon on the Mount address the ideas of righteousness and motivations of the heart. In this passage, Jesus is explaining that those with a pure heart desire God, and not the things of God, by relying only on Him.  Key Text: Matthew 5:6 & 8

Meekness is the way of the Kingdom and the heart of the King. Scripture: Matthew 5:5

Scripture: Matthew 5:4

Key Text: Matthew 5:1-3 Summary:  "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

The sermon on the mount is the perfect picture of the nature of the kingdom of God and the flourishing life all who follow Jesus are invited into. Jesus' words show us how to live on earth as it is in heaven.

Our Mission: Citizens of heaven enjoy God, love people and make disciples.

Even though Psalm 23 is often read at funerals, its message applies to your life today. Jesus Christ will provide, lead, renew and pursue you all the days of your life. If you wander, He goes out to find and restore you, just as He did with David who wrote this psalm. 

What does the Bible have to say about the position of Elder? This Sunday, we'll spend some time examining our convictions as a Church and then present our two newest Elders to the congregation. Key Text: 1 Peter 5:1-5

In this sermon, we wrap our series in the book of Colossians. Paul concludes this letter with a list of names. John MacArthur calls this section of Colossians “a verbal group photograph.” Who would be in your group photograph? If your church or small group wrote a letter, what would you want it to say about you in the personal closing (similar to Col. 4:7–17)? In 10 or 20 years, what do you want y...

Summary: Christians are to be a beautiful disruption to the chaos of the world. According to Colossians 4:5 – 6, that beautiful disruption is marked by followers of Jesus walking in wisdom in the way they act and speak.

Summary: In our passage this week, Paul continues to give instructions regarding various relationships, this time focusing on masters. Masters are to treat their servants justly and fairly. To be clear, slavery in any form perverts God’s created, desired intention for human beings. According to the first page of the Bible, human beings are created in the image of God. Therefore, every person is eq...

Husbands are to love their wives and not be harsh with them. Children are to obey their parents. Fathers are not to provoke their children. Both of the “do not” commands in this week’s passage are given to men, and in doing so, Paul stresses the importance of a man’s influence on his family. He is to love his family in a way that reflects the heart of God. God expects husbands and fathers to lead...

Our passage this week, Matthew 9:35 – 38, begins Jesus’ second discourse in which He instructs the disciples to pray for His harvest because the workers are few. Jesus’ expectation of His disciples in this passage is prayer. He commands them to pray before He sends them out to proclaim, “the kingdom of heaven has come near”

Summary: Paul has turned our attention from the spiritual family (3:1–17) to the physical, household family (3:18–4:1). Paul described how we change—we are to put off the old self and put on the new self—and now he addresses specific relationships and roles within a home. First, he addresses husbands and wives, and next, parents and children. Children are to obey their parents in everything. Why?...

Summary: In our passage this week, Paul turns our attention from the spiritual family (3:1–17) to the physical, household family (3:18–4:1). Paul has described how we change — put off the old self and put on the new self — and now addresses specific relationships and roles within a home. Wives are to submit to their husbands. Husbands are to love their wives. Children are to obey their parents. Ep...

Summary: The backstory to help our understanding of Genesis 22 is that God promised descendants to Abraham 25 years earlier (Genesis 12:7). For 25 years, Abraham waited. And in the waiting, Abraham turned his back on the land, lied to a king and devised his own plan; he slept with Hagar, his wife’s servant and had a son. Abraham made bad decisions, but he reversed his steps, repented and returned...

Summary: The peace of Christ rules. The word of Christ dwells. Both are to make their home in us and be at the center of our relationships and corporate worship. Why? So that we do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus. Scripture: Colossians 3:16-17 

Summary: After exhorting us to put on love, Paul addresses peaceful relationships in the one body of Christ, which is an objective peace that Jesus secured at the cross. The context of verse 15 is both individual and corporate: peace with God is the basis for peaceful relationships with others.

This passage marks a pivotal point in redemptive history as God begins to establish a covenant people for Himself. The advancing of God's kingdom is evident in His setting Abraham apart and promising descendants as numerous as the stars. Thousands of years after this covenant is made, Jesus Christ, the true Seed of Abraham, will bring salvation to the world. Scripture: Genesis 12:1-4

In our passage this week (James 1:2-4), James reminds us that we can respond to conflict and trials differently. The World — and indeed our own flesh — has convinced us that trials are something to avoid or escape as quickly as possible, but James says that trials are to be embraced because God is doing His most profound work in our lives during our darkest days. He is transforming us into the ima...

This week, we will see that forgiveness is a response to sin, requires repentance and reveals the heart of God — to the one who sinned and to the one who was sinned against.

Summary: In Colossians 3:12-14 we are instructed to “put off” sin and “put on” the character of Jesus. We are to live out the practices of the new self, putting on love, above all. Christians are to have a distinct love for one another, which is a call for relational endurance as we bear with one another.

In 1 Corinthians 15:12–20, Paul argues that without the Resurrection there would be no hope. The gospel would be a futile and empty message, and Christians should be pitied. But because Christ has been raised, all that we proclaim of the gospel is true!