CityChurch Podcast

If God permits loss in our life, it is never to hurt us.  So then why?  Brian Higbee talks about how to transform loss into a weapon of war.  Check it out.  

David asked, "Who can ascend the holy hill of the Lord, who can sit in His holy place?"  Then he answered "Only he with clean hands and a pure heart." And then David talked about God, mighty in battle.  Could it be that we prevent God from fighting for us in battle because we carry a soiled heart?  Brian Higbee talks about how our hearts can be impure, soiled and how to purge our hearts so that th...

Why does God have such a regard for man?  And how does that regard separate us from all of creation?  Brian Higbee talks about God’s amazing interest in man and the journey of that interest with man.  Check it out.  

A wadi is a stream bed that gushes with water in the rainy season but quickly runs dry and provides no quenching of thirst for a dry and thirsty land.  For the woman or man of God to be like a wadi is unlike what God desires.  Brian Higbee talks about how we can each be unlike a wadi, but be a river for all who thirst.  Check it out.  

When God assigns us to something...anything…our work, our family, our own life His grace is sufficient for us to follow Holy Spirit's leading even into the finest detail.  But what about when we don't?  Does that mean there was not grace?  Or does it mean that we have made grace insufficient.  Brian Higbee talks about grace sufficient and the blessing that brings into our lives.  He also explores...

The thoughts we have are precious.  So precious that they actually form the system of value that determines how we value everything.  Imagine the crisis that can be avoided if we simply guard our thoughts completely and continually.  Brian Higbee talks about our thoughts and how we must value and protect them.  

There was a blessing released to those who God considered critical, valuable, and the most important.  However, men saw them differently.  Who were these ones so important to God?  What is the blessing that is released to them?  Brian Higbee talks about the Christmas Blessing.   Check it out.  

Where did they come from?  Not just geographically, but historically?  Who sent them?  What is their significance?  Brian Higbee talks about the origin of the wise men and their significance.  

When the kingdom of God ignites the gospel - the good news - within a man, that man transforms immediately and continually.  It is not just a changing of sides.  Brian Higbee talks about the powerful life changing effect of the mystery of the good news of the kingdom of God.   

What is Christmas...really?  What does the word mean?  What does God intend with the celebration of Christmas?  Brian Higbee explores the meaning of the word "Christmas" and its significance to the follower of Jesus today.  

This whole season of thanksgiving...where does God stand?  Is it necessary?  Brian Higbee talks about the giving of thanks and the implications to our world.  

Why is it that we roller coaster as believers?  Up and down.  In great faith then we doubt?  How is it that sometimes we are powerful and other times could not push through a wet paper bag?  Could it be that it has nothing to do with what is out there?  Could it be something within me?  Brian Higbee talks about the power of the blood of Jesus without which our lives miss the completeness of what H...

Haggai prophesied to Judah that theirs would be struggle and curse.  Why?  Because Judah departed from God and His kingdom come.  Brian Higbee talks about the Kingdom that Jesus inaugurated and makes available to you.  The question is do you live in His kingdom or a kingdom not yet come.  

If it is God doing all the work, why is corporate prayer important?  What does it do when people come together to pray.  Brian Higbee explains why corporate prayer impacts in a way far greater that if one prays alone.  

The war between the kingdom of darkness and the Army of God wages on.  But there are countless christians that find themselves being overwhelmed wondering where God is?  The great and mighty King Josiah found himself in that same place.  Why?  Brian Higbee talks about how God does prepare and equip us to fight in the battle of the Lord.  But what about when it is not His battle?  Check it out.  

So many have been part of the church and then find themselves parting.  The problem is that they also part from God.  Why does this happen?  Brian Higbee talks about one of the reasons is that we regularly find ourselves on the wrong battlefield fighting the wrong battle.  Check it out.  

Jen Metzger tells us we were made to hear God and it is not as hard as we make it out to be.  This is not just a statement she makes but a life she lives.  Check it out.  

Jesus said, “My sheep hear My voice.”  He then said, “I say nothing unless I hear My Father say it first.”  Do you think He was telling us something?  Brian Higbee talks about how crucial hearing God is.  Check it out.  

Joshua Higbee talks about the power of agape and that it keeps no record.  Check it out.  

Jesus said for us to go.  Why?  Brian Higbee talks about why it is crucial for us to go into all the world.  Check it out.  

So what effect takes place when you rekindle your first love?  Last week Brian Higbee talked about rekindling your first love.  But what happens when you do?  What can you expect?  Check it out.  

The church of Ephesus was doing so much right.  Yet they were missing the most critical part of being the body of Christ...being in love with Jesus.  They left their first love.  Brian Higbee talks about how easy it is to let your love of Jesus get cold and how to rekindle that love.  Check it out.  

How do we transition kidz from Kids church to function fully as part of the core of CityChurch?  Check it out.  

Brian Higbee talks this week about being formed or de-formed.  Walking in the discipline of the Lord or the chaos of another way.  Check it out.  

Sometimes God is in a mood to pick a fight and He includes His sons and daughters when He does.  Jesus is in Jerusalem, the pinnacle of religion and politics and confronts sickness, death, and disease in one fell swoop.  Brian Higbee talks about the confrontation and what Jesus was going after at the pool of Bethesda.  Caution*** it may not be what you think.  Check it out.