City Beautiful Church : Audio

07/20/2025 The pursuit of justice begins with a deep conviction that God created the world and called it all “good”.

07/13/2025 The cry for justice begins not with practical solutions but a deep-felt conviction that things are not as God desires them to be.

06/29/2025 Any active, life-giving, fulfilling life of prayer is rooted in a few truths... God hears me when I pray, and I hear God when I pray.

06/22/25 We participate in lifting up the world to God in our hearts through our intercessory prayers, saying “Your will be done”.

When lay hands on one another, we become the hands of Jesus to bless, heal, deliver, and empower.

07/08/25 What was confused and scattered by human hubris is now being bound together by the Holy Spirit.

7/01/25 Confession opens us up to the continual forgiveness of God so we might choose back into love.

05/25/25 The psalms are the prayers of the exiled people of God, confessing in faith that the LORD reigns in the midst of history’s afflictions.

05/18/2025 A single word uttered from an open heart can do more for us than any amount of anxious babbling.

05/11/2025 A rich prayer life connects us to God from the inside-out, and from the outside-in.

05/04/2025 Everything about our faith flows first from sharing in divine love with Jesus through prayer.

04/27/25 Jesus meets them in their fear and faithlessness and, gives them direction. He doesn’t give them the whole picture but he promises to ALWAYS be with them.

04/20/2025 The resurrection, as the central event of history, gathers all human experience into itself and sets us on a new trajectory.

4/13/25 The Salvation of the World does not parade in the front door with power and prestige, but enters in with humility and sacrificial love.

04/06/2025 Jesus is not an accessory to our modern lives, but the foundation upon which we build everything.

03/30/25 The Narrow & Wide Gates are not so much about a heaven/hell afterlife, as the way in which we embark on the journey to find God. Are we cultivating an interior posture of humility, or performing popular spirituality?

03/23/25 It is vital to become fluent in self-examination before judging others, to foster accountability and holiness with humility and grace.

03/16/25 Do we believe that God is actually good, that God will protect us and will provide what we need day by day?

03/09/25 The reward for our spiritual practices is to know and be known by God. Anything else is either secondary or a distraction.

03/02/25 We are called to be peaceable; not because it makes the world a less violent place, but because that is what God is like.

02/23/25 The syntax of the Kingdom invites us to keep our hearts tender and have a high vision of love.

02/16/25 The syntax of the kingdom invites us to shift from “how am I supposed to behave?” to “who am I becoming?" If we want to learn the language of the Kingdom, we have to stop thinking in bare-minimum obedience and turn to aspirational faithfulness.

02/09/2025 The syntax of the kingdom reveals that God’s heart is to bless all the “wrong” people in the eyes of the world.

02/02/2025 The Good News is a declaration of what God is really like, and an invitation to become truly human in God’s family.

01/26/25 The Christian life is not a bookshelf to be curated, but a garden to be cultivated. Blog & Rule of Life