CityLife Church

Today we continue our sermon series on Prayer. We are building a better ethic around prayer and today we preach that Prayer is Listening (Sh'ma).

Today we begin a new series that is designed to build a better ethic around Prayer. Today we discuss that Prayer is not just an activity but Presence. Prayer is an act of the heart.

In this week's sermon we have the privilege of hosting Dr. Stanley John. Dr. John brings to us a word about using our whole, integrated lives for the building of God's Kingdom. Today, migrant workers are shaping the world for Christ and it echo's the New Testament, early church movement. Let's hear how so we can learn how to bring our work to bring the kingdom here.

In this week's sermon we take one more look at the larger topic of sexuality. The agenda is to acknowledge that all of us carry sexual brokenness and that God brings us healing.

In this week's sermon we look at Juneteenth and ask ourselves, what does a good citizen look like? How does a citizen of heaven live like in this life? What does it mean when Philippians 3:20 calls us citizens of heaven? During Israel's exile in Babylon God taught his people two qualities of what kingdom citizenship looks like. Our call includes being... A Good Citizen (Jer 29) and at times Subver...

In this week's sermon series we continue in our Sexuality Series as we look at the totality of the Christian's call when it comes to understanding scripture and Same Sex relationships. We read about what the Biblical worldview is and how that same worldview says that all people carry His Image and are so loved and called by Him. Though Scripture only offers prohibition to same sex relationships it...

In this week's sermon we look at Genesis 2:18-25 in order to build a better ethic for sexuality in marriage. Today we affirm that a marriage is a covenant, established by God, that calls people to practice Oneness, Nakedness, and point back to Christ. Let us see what this really means for our marriages.

In this week's sermon we continue the Sexuality: Know and Be Known sermon series as we look at Sexuality in Singleness. Usually when the church take a look at Sexuality or sex it is in the context of marriage and believers who are single are left alone to piece together how to pursue sexual wholeness without that significant relationship. If we are sexual beings how can we pursue sexual wholeness...

In this week's sermon (second sermon in the Sexuality: Know and Be Known by the way) we look to Jesus so we can see how He personally cared for the sexually broken. His care for those with "reputations" caused him to gain a "reputation" but it did not bother him. The only sinless man was labeled scandalous because His grace goes further than we expect. Let's find out more about how Jesus' love und...

In this week's sermon CityLife begins looking at the beautifully intimate and complex subject of Sexuality. There is so much to say on the topic and even more questions to ask and so today we lay down the foundation for the series and begin where Scripture begins in Genesis 1 & 3. We are Sexual Beings. God made us this way and God said that it was very good. Lets begin to understand the Biblical w...

In this week's sermon our very own Carla Calderon preaches on Romans 15:13. In just one verse we learn that God is our hope...He fills us with joy and peace...He meets our believing in him...and somehow all of this happens in intimate relationship with the Holy Spirit. A lot to cover in just one verse but somehow it works beautifully.

In this week's sermon our District Superintendent, Kelvin Walker, comes to CityLife to preach to us about Labels & Identity. Preaching out of 1 Peter 2:9-10 Kelvin reminds us that though labels spoken over us (or self-spoken) steal us of who we truly are, God restores us by speaking truth and sharing our real identities as his children. "Mirror, Mirror in my hand, where does my identity stand?"

In this week's sermon we preach purpose! There is purpose in your soul and God made you to find it in him. God puts in every soul purpose and we connect with that purpose when we are in intimate relationship with him. So what if you don't know what your purpose is? How can you find it? What if your already a Christian and you haven't experienced this claim? Psalm 127 helps us to know. Let us discu...

In this year's Easter Sermon we look at some of Jesus' last words on cross. "Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?...My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Like everything that Jesus did, these words are painfully beautiful to hear and should bring every reader to consider Easter's true meaning in Psalm 22. Why did Jesus shout these words? How do they communicate Easter's promise for all to hear? Let'...

In this week's Palm Sunday we worship Jesus as The King. For two thousand years the church has celebrated Palm Sunday because on the Sunday before His resurrection Jesus was briefly worshiped for who He truly was, The King. Today, we join the global Church's chant as we also exalt Jesus as Our King. Today, we preach that Jesus is the better Jimmy Garoppolo (this reference will make sense soon, don...

In this week's sermon we are in the Open Table sermon series one last time. We've exhausted the book of Luke and now we turn our attention to one last table. There is still one great table that has not yet taken place. In Revelation we are shown one more table, one more meal, one more supper and feast. Let's see what happens at this table and why our Open Table series cannot finish without preachi...

In this week's sermon our Open Table series turns to Luke one last time to see how meaningful it is that the resurrected Jesus ate some broiled fish with his disciples. What can we learn about Jesus' bodily resurrection from this short meal? What does this story mean how for how we are called to live our lives? How does the bodily resurrection of Jesus change everything in creation? Let's find out...

In this week's sermon something astonishing happens in our Open Table sermon series. Jesus meets two of his followers on the road to Emmaus and then at a table for a meal after his resurrection! This is Jesus' first post resurrection meal and it may be the most peculiar story in all the gospels. In this story His disciples are kept from recognizing Him and then when their eyes are opened Jesus dis...

In this week's sermon we continue our Open Table series as we look at how Jesus redefines the true meaning of the Passover Meal. Jesus is the sacrificial lamb that this world needs and he takes center stage as he's eagerly waited to share this meal. With the cross and the resurrection this meal becomes one that saves the entire world. Let us see how.

In this week's sermon we look at how Jesus finds the smallest (and probably shortest) man in all of Jericho. Zacchaeus is known to be short but this story isn't about his physical height but his small social standing. Somehow Jesus was able to find the loneliest person in Jericho and when he invited himself over for a meal repentance came to this small man's life.

The original plan was to continue part 1 from last week but Pastor Pedro changed things up. Instead, this week we take an honest look at life to be remembered that it is fragile and that God's invitation is offered to all. God's economy is fundamentally built on generosity and it is through God's generosity that anyone can be saved. Each Table that Jesus sits at is an act of generosity, let us see...

In this week's sermon we look at how God's Kingdom is built on Generosity and how it utterly conflicts with our world's economy of Scarcity and Poverty. Somehow God is able to provide for all because everything that He does is an act of generosity that we cannot fully explain. You don't have to be scared of God's ability to provide, He can do it. You don't have to always provide for yourself, He w...

In this week's sermon we see an awkward meal between Jesus and the Pharisees. The Pharisees once again demonstrate that they do not care to know God and they receive a few Woes from Jesus. They have built so many walls around God's holiness that they have no idea how to get back to Him. They are unmarked graves pointing people towards death even though they look so good from the outside. Let us se...

This week, we take a closer look at one of the more famous meals in Scripture - the feeding of the 5,000. From the story of this meal in Luke’s Gospel, Pastor Pedro extracts 4 practical lessons that ultimately culminate in Jesus being always enough for those who call Him Lord.

This week, we turn our attention to one of Jesus’s face to face encounters with someone who knew they were broken. In Luke 7, Jesus accepts a pharisee’s invitation to feast with those who would later kill Him. But when an unnamed, uninvited woman interrupts the meal, we witness one of Jesus’s most beautiful teachable moments. Though most would have averted their eyes from someone so undignified, w...