City Beautiful Church : Audio

01/11/2026 Lord, what is my next faithful step with my finances for 2026?

01/04/2026 The Infant God bids us to leave behind a transactional world of power, so we might give and receive the gifts of heaven.

12/28/2025 How do we stay faithful in the midst of holy waiting? We point others to the light of hope by telling stories.

12/21/2025 In Mary, we see that faith means to give ourselves over to something greater than ourselves - the eternal source of hope, peace, joy, and love.

12/14/2025 Repentance isn’t, “Clean yourself up so God will come,” it’s, “Turn, because God is coming to you.” This is where Advent hope lives.

12/7/2025 When the world feels disenchanted, Advent teaches us how to watch for the Light.

11/30/2025 Our God does not demand sacrifice for appeasement; our God provides sacrifice for atonement. In Christ, God and Sacrifice become One. And that is a gift.

11/23/25 We look for the life of the world to come because we know the King is good, doing things even now we cannot perceive.

11/16/2025 Looking for the Resurrection begins when we recognize that what we want most is Jesus Himself,
and refuse to hurry past Him, choosing instead to stay and spend the day with Him.

11/09/2025 The Church is now the primary way Jesus chooses to be present in the world.

11/2/2025 The Holy Spirit is the Divine Breath, the sigh of love between the Father and the Son.

10/26/25 What is true of Jesus is true for us: Human history will not end in Death and despair, but in resurrection and reconciliation with the Father.

10/19/25 The Trinity goes through great lengths to offer a radical and unique path to invite us into the freedom of that perfect union.

10/12/2025 If the Father is the Divine Mind, the Son is the Divine Word. The Word emanates from the Mind, but the Mind is also realized in The Word.

10/05/2025 Our God is the Father of all fathers, the uncaused cause of everything, who creates and sustains out of self-giving love.

09/28/2025 “We believe”, not as a way to box in our faith, but to open up a grand vista of exploring the depths of God and God’s story.

09/21/2025 “Unity” is not something we work to create; it is something already won for us that we learn to embody in our life together.

09/14/2025 At the Cross, we meet the God who remembers — and in His remembrance, He calls us to become a people who “go and do likewise,” to join Him in repairing the world.

09/07/2025 The kingdom of heaven grows slowly, but it only moves in one direction.

08/31/25 The Shepherd King is ruling in glory now, welcoming in those who participate in the healing of the world and indicting those who do not.

08/24/2025 Working through our story and experiencing the deep healing of Jesus is where the truth of our worth meets our shame and unbelief and shatters our loneliness.

08/17/2025 By naming both our passions and limitations, we are better able to discern how God is inviting each of us to help repair the world.

08/10/2025 Our repentance is evidence that God’s mission to reveal His justice to the world has pierced our very hearts…and our participation in that mission is evidence of our repentance.

08/03/2025 God is not limited to only working through Christians to bring justice upon the world.

07/27/2025 Justice, in the eyes of God, is the great leveling of humanity towards a “common good”.