City Church Boulder

There was one theme saturating everything Jesus said and did; one thing He started and ended His public ministry talking about; one thing we all want and need. We’re looking at the intro in this week’s message. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchb...

Jesus received his identity from his father and lived from that identity. He invites us to do the same. When you know who you are and whose you are, you know how to live - how to really live. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

Lean in as we hear from our Director of Operations, Michelle Hessler, from Matthew 3. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

Everyone loves a good origin story. Matthew takes us back in the story of Jesus, not just for background context, but because the more we understand Jesus, the more we understand ourselves CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

Jesus. How do you capture the magnitude of this name? The simplicity? The beauty? The weight? The grace? The wisdom? The power? The love? The sacrifice? John, one of Jesus’ closest friends and disciples tried to sum it up at the end of his account this way: “Jesus did many other things…and if every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books...

We wrap up our series “Essentials” by reviewing our 9 practices and how they work together in the life of this family as we practice the way of Jesus, together, in Boulder. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

Community: an idea familiar to the culture we live in, but experientially it often seems a far cry from what Jesus had in mind. What makes community in the way of Jesus different, more formational, and more impactful than the versions the world has to offer? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com...

Humility is a part of someone’s character that is typically admired (at least from the perspective of an obituary), but how do you grow in it? How do you become a humble person? Richard Foster says, “More than any other single way, the grace of humility is worked into our lives through the discipline of service.” CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can...

Jesus said, “come to me…and I will give you rest”, but most of us don’t have time for that do we? Even if we did, what does it mean to truly rest? We’ve definitely mastered entertainment, but we probably wouldn’t relate our latest Netflix binge to Jesus’ invitation here, would we? (Wait does “The Chosen” count??) Dallas Willard once said, “hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.” Wh...

As we gather to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, we will consider how the accounts of the resurrection are, to quote Tim Keller, “intensely rational, merciful, personal, and wonderful,” and too good not to look into for ourselves CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.in...

Fasting is perhaps one of the most disconnected practices from our modern day experience of following Jesus. It is difficult to understand, post-enlightenment, how anything spiritual can be connected to our stomachs. What role can “not eating” possibly play in empowering me to follow Jesus CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citych...

Many Jesus followers have a sincere desire to obey Jesus in the area of making disciples, but for a variety of reasons, they struggle to see their lives produce this kind of fruit. What if you could become the kind of person that partners with God in such a way, that you look up before the end of this year and you’re baptizing someone with your own hands that you’ve introduced to Jesus? What if th...

Hear from Craig Alsup as he shares about our partnership with and God’s activity in and through Manna Worldwide. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

In a culture saturated in consumerism, materialism, and hedonism (the idea that pleasure and experience are "the highest human good"), is it possible there's a better way? A more joyful way? A deep seated contentment available through practice in the way of Jesus? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebo...

In a world of hurry and noise, what does it look like to follow Jesus into the practice of silence and solitude? What do we gain if we do? What do we lose if we don’t? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

In a culture of ideological compromise, what does it look like to carry an honest and courageous commitment to orthodoxy as we practice the way of Jesus together in Boulder? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

We start our journey of taking up the easy yoke of Jesus through the central practice of prayer. Richard Foster says “Of all spiritual disciplines, prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.” In other words, prayer is how we learn to “be with Jesus.” But it doesn’t stop there. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE...

“My Yoke is Easy; Burden is Light” - how do we carry the invitation and way of Jesus into our whole lives? How do we move increasingly from information to transformation? How do we experience as Dallas Willard notes “the effective and full enjoyment of active love of God and humankind in all the daily rounds of normal existence where we are placed” both now and over the long haul? Welcome to “The...

As we wrap up this series, we will take a simple look at the consistent effort we must make to live as whole-hearted apprentices under Jesus. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/citychurchboulder

Howard Dayton says “Giving is not God’s way of raising money, it’s God’s way of raising people into the likeness of His Son.” As followers of Jesus, our desire is to become like Him in every aspect of our lives. As a result, the practice of generosity is central to our spiritual formation. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citych...

When we look at our lives with the end in mind, most, if not all of us, want to minimize regret and enjoy life to the full. We all want to make the most of our time—we all want our lives to matter. But how do know that we’re giving ourselves to the right things? As followers of Jesus, we acknowledge that God has given us this one life to live, and in and of itself, it’s a sheer, amazing gift. But...

We are the most time-aware generation in human history. We have found ways to make every second of life as efficient as possible. We are simultaneously the most time-poor generation in human history. We live with an attention deficit currently losing to the attention span of a goldfish. As followers of Jesus, how should we respond? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE...

CS Lewis says “God finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.” It’s so easy to settle for far less than what is available to us in Jesus - life to the full; a life saturated with what is good, beautiful, and true. How do we cultivate a hunger for God and not settle for less? CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulde...

An essential distinctive for this trip around the sun is that as followers of Jesus, we must practice the way together. As we step into this new year, we will leverage the practice of fasting together for our formation. CITY CHURCH EXISTS TO HELP PEOPLE FIND THEIR WAY TO GOD FROM WHERE THEY ARE. You can find us here: www.citychurchboulder.com www.facebook.com/citychurchboulder www.instagram.com/ci...

It’s so easy to lose sight of the gravity of opportunity surrounding the beginning of a new year, the opportunity to evaluate our last steps and our next steps, our dreams and our goals, our ambitions and destinations; to take stock of our lives and to see where we’re going and who we’re becoming along the way. Lean in for the kick off of our new series, “A Trip Around the Sun.” CITY CHURCH EXISTS...