City Church Podcast

Matt opens up the next in our 1 Samuel series, showing the importance of patience in the Christian walk, and the catastrophic effects that impatience and a failure to wait on the Lord can have on your life. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:00pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter...

Josh opens up 1 Samuel 12 and shows how we can best support and uphold our spiritual leaders, and how our confidence in God can remain strong through any turmoil and storms we are facing. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:00pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe!...

We're joined by Pete Dray from UCCF who brings us a challenging message on leadership, trusting and submitting to leaders both in the world and in the church. Ultimately showing how Jesus is the only perfect leader ever, but this was displayed in weakness on the cross. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:00pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invi...

Boaz opens up 1 Samuel and introduces to us Saul as God's chosen king to lead Israel, and how ultimately Jesus is God's chosen king that we all long for. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchmanchester.org

Greg Willson from Redeemer Chorlton opens the word from 1 Samuel, and shows how God's people rejected Him and asked for their own leader like the other nations, and how we constantly do the same thing in our own lives. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcom...

Eric opens up 2 chapters of 1 Samuel and reveals what the story of the ark of the covenant's capture means for us today. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchmanchester.org

Through 1 Samuel 7:2-17, Eric explains to us what repentance really means. In this passage, the Israelites successfully defeating the Philistines in battle, only after having turned back towards God and repenting of their error. Eric points out that there are several key steps to repentance in this passage that are relevant to us and our relationship with God today: Instead of merely turning from...

Matt takes us through the entirety of 1 Samuel Chapter 4, showing us not only God's faithfulness through various trials, but His ever-willingness to forgive us when we repent. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychur...

Pete Evans from Trinity Prestwich brings us an encouraging word on 1 Samuel. That the lamp of God had not yet gone out when the Word of God came to the young Samuel, and how now He has perfectly revealed Himself to us through His son Jesus, and His word in the Bible. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite...

Justin Leslein from one of our partner churches, First Pres Macon, opens up 1 Samuel chapter 2 and shows how our loyalty to God should not depend on circumstances, and that demonstrating the truth in love is crucial for Christian discipleship. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for Go...

Matt begins our new series in 1 Samuel, focussing on Hannah's longing for a child before God and what it reveals about vulnerability in prayer and laying our desires before the Lord in expectation of use in His Kingdom. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welco...

Matt opens up the parable of hidden treasure, and reveals how buying fields is a sub-narrative all throughout scripture, and shows how preciously God values his people. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchmanch...

Ralph opens up Matthew's gospel as we reflect on how God has used City Church's ministry to build His kingdom, like the mustard seed growing into the largest tree of all. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchman...

Ralph opens up the final part of 2 Timothy, and shows what, why and how all of the Christian life should be centered on preaching the gospel. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchmanchester.org

Ralph opens up 2 Timothy chapter 3 and shows how in order to complete the Christian endurance race of life, we need three things: to avoid shipwreck, to follow the right leaders and to use the right equipment. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no mat...

Matt opens up the next in our series, and shows how we need to take care to build one another up, rather than slipping into becoming a toxic person in a church community. And how God will ultimately make us each useful for his purposes. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glo...

Matt opens up 2 Timothy and shows how Paul's illustrations of soldier, athlete and farmer apply to the growing christian in the 21st century, and how we can reignite our walk with God when we feel in a spiritual valley. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welco...

Chris kicks off our new series in 2 Timothy, looking at how the gospel of Jesus Christ is central to the Christian life, and we will do well to guard it as Paul instructs Timothy to do in the early church times. Your church in the city. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no m...

Ralph finishes our series in the book of Mark with a sermon on Jesus' resurrection, how we can know it really happened, and why it changes everything about our lives if we are in Him.

Ralph unpacks chapter fifteen of Mark, where we learn the lengths God goes through in order to save us from death and sin and what that means for us. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite you to enjoy him for God's glory. All are welcome, no matter what you believe! www.citychurchmanchester.org

Eric takes us through Mark 14 and 15 where we discover what it means for us to be saved by a God who is not only perfectly merciful but perfectly just. Despite our boastful claims of faith like Peter, Jesus knows that we will fail, but still loves us and dies for us so that we can be saved. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sundays at 4:30pm – to hear good news about Jesus. We exist to invite...

After finishing Ecclesiastes last week, we are back for our “fourth season” of the gospel of Mark, this time focusing on chapter fourteen, where Matt discusses the dramatic final moments of Jesus’s ministry: though Christ knows Peter will deny him and that the disciples will let him down in Gethsemane, he still loves them and dies for them. Matt points out that we, like the disciples, let Jesus do...

In spite of fighting off illness, Matt helped unpack our final sermon in Ecclesiates, covering the last two chapters of the book. For one last time, he dives back into the writings of Qoheleth, the preacher, as Qoheleth unpacks the one thing we all have to face in life and our greatest fear: death. But Matt reminds us that despite the inescapable reality of death, there is still hope for us throug...

This week, we dive into Ecclesiastes 9, 10 and 11, where we are reminded that there is a deadening and frustrating powerlessness in our lives that we all experience. While Matt unpacks the preacher's practical advice to get out of powerless places, he reminds us that this advice can only work when we have the gospel in mind, setting our hearts on Christ. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sunda...

After our hiatus for Evangelism Sunday last week, we dive right back into Ecclesiastes (chapters 7-9) with Ralph, where we learn that secularism---whether through pragmatism, hedonism, or moral relativism--- can't provide solutions to the "meaninglessness" and hardships in life, but the only solution that truly satisfies and addresses our needs is Christ. Join us in person or online – LIVE on Sund...