City Church Cardiff Podcast

God created you to enjoy meaningful connection through friendship. This sermon examines the unexpected friendship between Mary and Elizabeth as they walked through God-inspired experiences together. Learn the importance of sharing time, advice and faith with the people that God has brought in to your life.

Preparing for the “advent” of our Lord Jesus Christ is an important season for Christians to search our hearts, clear away the clutter and make room for Jesus. This sermon challenges us to examine our hearts and how wholeheartedly we love Jesus our Lord. There is a call to a fresh hunger for Christ and His kingdom – to pray, “Come Lord Jesus revive your church”.

We can rejoice and be grateful because of God’s grace, which in turns grows the fruit of joy in our hearts. This sermon encourages us to pursue defiant joy, whatever our circumstances or whether we feel it or not. Exploring the story of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles, we see that we can face our trials with defiant joy, fixing our eyes on Jesus even when we don’t know what to do.

We are not grateful because we are joyful; we are joyful because we are grateful. There is a joy that comes from abiding in Jesus, and this is a kind of joy that even defies the devil. This sermon inspires us about how we can have joy amidst challenges; without diminishing the troubles or difficulties we face, we discover how the joy of the Lord can be our strength – and how we can therefore be re...

Grumbling is a problem and it has consequences: it keeps us stuck in situations rather than having a hope for change; it negatively affects the people around us; and ultimately it blocks our relationship with God. This sermon takes us to the root cause of complaining and shows us how, by fixing our focus on the Lord, God can break the power of complaining and instead give us a new language of grat...

Have you built a memorial to God? Not only does such remembrance display gratitude to God but something powerful happens in us, and also in others, when we recall the spiritually significant events of times past. Discover why it is important to keep on remembering the things that God has done – how as we remember God’s goodness and past faithfulness, we can build faith for today and hope for tomor...

This first sermon in our ‘Choose Gratitude’ series shows us how to be thankful in all circumstances. We learn principles from the Bible that remind us, exhort us and show us about how we should offer our thanks to God. We see how such an attitude of thankfulness is vital to helping us walk well through the challenging times of life, and also how gratitude is a mark of Christian discipleship. Let t...

Be blessed by this sermon based on the story of the raising of the widow’s son in Luke Chapter 7. Guest Speaker Amy Summerfield – CEO of Kyria, a leadership network that champions, empowers and releases women into their spheres of influence, and Head of Development at Skylark International, a network of churches, charities and organisations – inspires us about how, through the power of Christ, we...

If we are going to walk in the supernatural power of God, we need to rediscover and grasp hold of the power of prayer. This final sermon in our ‘Kingdom Of Power’ series shows us how to do this through reliance on God, being in His presence, and walking in our authority as followers of Jesus. Be galvanised to pray with fresh fervour as you learn just how critical prayer is in realising the promise...

At times the doctrine of faith has been abused or stretched beyond its biblical bounds; this hope-building sermon calibrates our understanding of faith whilst also exhorting us to reach out for all that God has said is possible. Based on the remarkable healing of the woman in Mark 5, we learn what faith is and what it isn’t; we discover that faith is only as strong as its object and that the sourc...

It is possible to know Jesus but to never have experienced the filling of the Holy Spirit. Through this teaching about the diverse gifts that the Holy Spirit gives to every Christian today, learn how to live a life empowered by the Spirit and how to discover and grow in the supernatural gift(s) that He has for you. See how this leads not only to personal joy but also to the extension of God's...

Addressing the spiritual power deficit that exists in much of the western church, this inspiring sermon will provoke you to hunger for increasing manifestations of the supernatural power of God. Discover insights about the kingdom of God and learn about the power and authority that is available to us as believers as we pray for something of heaven come to earth today.

We live in a time where some will seek to distort the gospel or degrade God's invitation of new life; this sermon reminds us that the people of God have been entrusted with keeping and defending the good news of salvation. We learn that there are good and reasonable answers to all objections raised against the gospel, and also how we can speak hope in this season of shaking.

This sermon gives us some of the practical tools and confidence we need to share the gospel naturally with others in our everyday settings. Learn how to tell both your story and Jesus' story, and be equipped in how to lead someone in making a response to Jesus.

In the Bible the demonstration and the proclamation of the gospel go hand in hand. This sermon continues our series Show & Tell by exploring the ways in which believers can demonstrate the gospel through godly living, doing good deeds, and operating in the gifts of the Spirit. Be inspired and equipped to be the kind of Christian whose life is a living witness of the hope, love and power of Jes...

The gospel we believe - the way that we define the gospel -  determines the type of Christian that we are and the type of disciples that we make. If we have a faulty or incomplete understanding of the gospel - if we fail to see that the gospel isn't just about conversion or forgiveness but about discipleship and the rule and reign of Jesus over every part of our lives - we won't live the...

Do you ever feel like you don’t have what it takes? Do you feel limited by past failures or doubt your ability to keep going? Let this sermon encourage you in your calling as you hear how Jesus turned up to bring reassurance (and even cook some breakfast!) for his friends. This reassurance went beyond comfort and validation to a new place of motivation. As you listen, allow Jesus to remove your wo...

This concluding sermon in our series on the parables of Jesus in Matthew 13 is a clarion call about responding to Jesus before the judgement that is to come at the end of the age. We are reminded that time is short and we are shown what to do to get right with Jesus, as well encouraged about sharing the good news about Jesus' invitation into His kingdom with others.

This sermon reflects on Jesus’ sixth parable in Matthew 13 and shows us exactly why, when we discover Jesus and His kingdom, this is worth giving up everything to possess.

This sermon unpacks Jesus' fifth parable in Matthew 13 - a brief but insightful story about the kingdom of God using the metaphor of hidden treasure. Be practically inspired about how to first dig and then discover the treasures of knowing Jesus, as well as the joy and blessings that result from being completely sold out for God's kingdom.

This parable describes several important things about the working of the kingdom in our present age – it may have a small beginning but it will increase and can lead to tremendous growth. Be encouraged as you hear in your own growth as a believer and to allow God to transform you from the inside out

In this, the third parable of Matthew 13, Jesus continues to challenge those who have spiritual eyes and ears to understand more about the kingdom. Continuing His use of everyday objects such as wheat, weeds, and this time mustard seeds, Jesus emphasises the importance of both spiritual growth and increasing influence. Our lives are significant and our faith counts. This sermon helps us to conside...

This second parable in Matthew 13 describes the growth of both wheat and weeds in the same field; Jesus goes on to explain how the children of the King exist in this age alongside, though not constrained by, evil - and ultimately how evil is vanquished and how His kingdom and kingdom people are harvested for glory. Allow this sermon to help you see the reign of God grow ever stronger in your life...

Why is it that two people can hear exactly the same Bible message and one can have their life changed by it and yet the other remains unmoved? Jesus reveals the answer in the parable of the four soils. This sermon draws out three helpful principles from Jesus' famous parable; taking a look at the garden of our own hearts, we discover how to deal with hardness, shallowness and weeds - all of w...

This sermon by our Youth & Young Adults Pastor Becky Vesse on Youth Takeover Sunday encourages us from the book of Joshua about how all generations can enter together into the promises of God, and gives an insight into what God has been doing amongst City Church Youth this year.