Citizens Church Sermons

If wisdom is a journey, no one travels alone. In Proverbs, we see how wise friendships are essential to living in God's world, God's way.

This week, guest preacher Josh Patterson is in Luke 15. The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a story of two sons, one near and one far away, with the same compassionate father. As believers, regardless of life's circumstances, God is our compassionate father. This story is an invitation to those near and far from God to come home.

This week we finish looking at what wisdom Proverbs has for parenting. Wise parents fill the life of their children with discipline and delight.

Good parenting is built on a godly character. Good parents are first godly people. Godly parents handle faith honestly and handle words carefully.

Wisdom is living in God's world, God's way. This week we look at how we apply God's wisdom to the way we disciple our children, and how we cannot parent apart from God's grace.

The book of Proverbs teaches us that marriage is a God-given, covenant-keeping, intimate friendship. This week we learn how intimate friendship in a marriage means that I am with you and for you. 

The book of Proverbs teaches us that marriage is a God-given, covenant-keeping, intimate friendship. We learn what it means to extend covenant-keeping love by first receiving and being transformed by God’s covenant-keeping love for us.

Proverbs teaches us that marriage is a God-given, covenant-keeping, intimate friendship. This week, we consider what it means that marriage is God-given.

This week, we continue looking with wisdom at our family of origin. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The place we should begin to learn wisdom is the home, which is also often where we learned what to fear. This week we ask; what did your family fear?

Throughout Proverbs, we hear the voice of parents teaching wisdom to their children. God's design is that children would learn to live in God's ways in the home where they were raised. In this sermon, we are invited to reflect on our family of origin and consider whether our home was wise, confused, or foolish.

The book of Ecclesiastes accuses life of being blindingly brief and tragically out of our control. The only way to live wisely is to receive this brief, complicated life as a gift. Ecclesiastes 7:1-14 contributes to that message.

Wisdom is living in God’s world, God’s way. This week we revisit what we covered in the spring by looking at the posture of the wise, the posture of the foolish, and some of the major themes of the Book of Proverbs. This will help establish the foundation for where we will be going for the remainder of the series. 

Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman demonstrates God’s love and grace for his church and expands our vision of the family of God. Scripture: John 4:7-14

The Psalms teach us how to talk to God about the things that are hard to talk to God about. This week, Psalm 27 teaches us how to talk to God when we don't desire God.

Being citizens of heaven means we are part of a better story and possess a beautiful identity. That is the heart and hope of Citizens Church.

God, by His Word and Spirit, creates the Church, calling sinful humanity into the fellowship of Christ’s body. As the church, we live as God's people, in God's presence and we live out God's purpose.

One day Jesus will return and make all things right. On that day, Christians are loved, perfected, and comforted by Jesus. This is the Christian hope. 

We believe the Scriptures teach that regeneration, or the new birth, is that act of God by which the Holy Spirit imparts a new nature and a new spiritual life, not before possessed, and the person becomes a new creation in Christ Jesus (Gal. 2:20). The mind is given a holy disposition and a new desire to serve God, the dominion of sin is broken, and the heart is transformed from a love of sin and...

The doctrine of sin offers the true diagnosis for why things aren’t the way they’re supposed to be. It’s a hard reality yet the only path towards true healing.

The Christian understanding of humanity comes from the image of God in Genesis and the image of God seen in Jesus. All people are made in the image of God and have God-given values and vocations as humans. As we are loved by and reflect Jesus, we become more fully human.

Creation and Providence are not just doctrines that teach our head, but also shape our hearts. As David declares in Psalm 8, they shape our worship and cultivate a heart of gratitude for all God has done.

We believe in the accuracy, truth, authority and power of the Holy Scriptures as the Word of God.  Text: 2 Timothy 3: 14 – 17

Because of the Light, the punishment of sin is broken, the power of sin is breaking, and the presence of sin will one day be banished. Scripture: John 8:12

This summer we are walking through our essential beliefs. In this sermon, we consider the doctrine of God. We believe in the one true God, who eternally exists as one essence and three distinct persons, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 3:5–9 helps us to understand that the Gospel is not advice to follow but simply good news to receive and believe. While the law establishes a standard to attempt to measure up to, the Gospel is an invitation to accept and believe that the standard has been met in Christ.