City Beautiful Church : Audio

07/28/24 To love God with our hearts is to leave behind the illusion of self-sufficiency and risk desire and affection for God.

7/21/24 Rather than exhausting ourselves with frenetic activity or falling prey to sloth, Jesus invites us to right action as a sign of tangible love for him.

07/14/24 Contemplative thinking enables us to to lean in and listen for the heartbeat of God.

07/07/24 We need a vision of what secure attachment to God looks and feels like in order to know where we’re headed.

06/30/24 To become like children is to return to a place where we can learn who we are in Abba’s eyes.

06/23/24 When we’re shamefully attached to God, we may accept that God loves us because God has to, but we don’t believe God like us very much.

06/16/24 When we’re avoidantly attached to God, we choose to go it alone rather than to offer our needs and feelings to our Abba.

06/09/24 When we’re anxiously attached to God, we constantly worry that we are never doing enough to earn God’s favor.

06/02/24 Attachment is the way that we connect to one another because we are created for community, relationship, and connection in reflection of the triune God.

05/26/24 Knowing God as “Abba”, as Jesus does, is the goal of the spiritual life. Attachment Assessment

05/19/24 Jesus did not abandon us, but ascended so he might pour out his Spirit on the whole earth through us, the Church.

05/12/24 Christ ascends so that he may fill the whole universe - binding together matter and spirit, Humanity and Divinity.

05/05/24 Jesus descends with us into the depths of the sea –into the belly of Death– with the trust that our Father’s love will bring us out of the Deep into Resurrection.

04/28/24 Jesus bares his scars not as an accusation, a pointed finger of shame or guilt, but as a sign of his deep love.

04/21/24 Ghosts are anxiety-inducing echoes of the past. The resurrected Jesus is a hopeful promise for the future.

04/14/24 As we walk this road of Salvation, even when we only see in part, He’s always engaging with us, liberating us, making our hearts burn for Him; but He reveals Himself most clearly and simply to us in the Breaking of Bread, we just need to welcome Him in.

04/07/24 Right action and contemplative thinking are important, but it is the love in our hearts for Jesus that prepares us to see him as he truly is.

03/31/24 The cross is not about God requiring revenge or retribution in order to forgive, but God reconciling us to Godself by overcoming evil and death.

03/24/24 King Jesus does not come to meet the expectations of the world as we know it, but to welcome us into a dramatically new world.

03/17/24 Mary’s devotion and adoration turns waste into worship (Matthew 26:6-16).

03/10/24 Jesus binds himself to us in our suffering, takes us by the hand and leads us through death, so that we might inherit eternal life.

03/03/2024 Every single belief system we have needs to be brought to the cross and examined against the life and actions of Jesus to see if they hold up. 

02/25/24 Jesus came to deliver us from evil spirits that try to bind us and keep us small.

02/11/24 The signpost at Cana reveals that Jesus is YHWH, the king of the earth. He is the one promised to bring to make the earth right again— to make it flourish.

02/04/24 Jesus passes through the desert of the human experience in order to liberate us from the snares of the devil.