City Beautiful Church : Audio

07/30/23 Personality is the realm of the Son, who comes to show us what it means to be fully human so we can call others into their full humanity.

07/23/23 Story is the realm of the Father, who is with us and turns curses into blessings so we might in turn tell better stories to the world.

07/16/23 Our Calling is found at the intersection of our Story with God, our Personality in the light of Christ, and the Gifts we’ve been given by the Holy Spirit.

07/02/23 We have barely scraped the surface of God’s love revealed in Jesus. Even if it takes us the rest of our lives, it is still worth it to pursue him.

06/25/23 Sabbath, the practice upon which all other spiritual practices are built, brings us back to the wholehearted truth that we are not our frenzied productivity, but the Beloved of God.

06/18/2023 As our fears become exposed to the light, the love of God clothes us to be transformed by Christ. Visio Divina exercise

06/11/23 Worry causes us to close down, prayer invites us to open up. Worry is a constant inner monologue of fear, prayer is a constant trusting dialogue with the Father.

06/04/23 “We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.” - Saint Francis of Assisi

5/28/23 Jesus provides a direction and a promise through the Holy Spirit.

05/21/23 In community we move from competition to communion with people who are here to reveal Jesus to us.

05/14/23 Jesus invites us to pass through suffering by way of sorrow, in order that we might find true joy on the other side.

05/07/2023 In moments where we can recognize resentment quickly, we ground ourselves in that moment by remembering who we are, who the other person is, and who Jesus is.

04/30/23 Silence and solitude invite us to sit in the space where our deepest need - union with God - is met, before we re-enter the noisy world of our surface lives.

04/23/23 Our faith is a dynamic journey of growth as we learn to rest in God a bit more than the day before.

04/16/23 We are in another reformation moment. It’s messy and scary. But we must trust that the Lord works with us when we go out into all the world.

04/09/23 The human God does not dwell in death; but through his resurrection he invites all creation to hope for new life.

04/02/23 The human God enters into our world and experiences all forms of loss and devastation, to offer us salvation through solidarity.

03/26/23 The human God offers himself in obedience, allows the powers and principalities to do their worst, and passes through death in order to rebirth the world

03/19/23 God gives us practices meant to help us understand who he is, but they are just a doorway, not a destination.

03/12/23 The human God is generous. If we are made in God’s image, being generous is our most natural state

The human God resists and overcomes the power-hungry structures of the world, calling us to full allegiance to him.

02/26/23 Behold, it’s really happening; hear the way He speaks, see the way He moves, get familiar with Him, because He means everything.

02.12.23 Forgiveness is the gateway to the Kingdom. To hold onto offense - to refuse to forgive or be forgiven - is to make ourselves the gatekeepers of heaven.

The Good News of King Jesus is first a declaration followed by an invitation.

01/22/23 When we participate in the Body of Christ, Jesus secures us, strengthens us, and sets us high upon a rock to gain fresh perspective.