CityLife Church

This week, we begin our very new “Our Beatitudes” sermon series on Jesus’s most famous sermon, the Sermon on the Mount. We explore the “why” behind the way He began His sermon. Pastor Pedro gives us an overview of what we will study in this series: what Jesus means when He calls us “blessed”, what a deeply satisfied life in God's Kingdom looks like; what matters most and what brings true life; how...

This week’s sermon brings our two part Mother's Day & Father's Day message to a close. Pastor Pedro elaborates on the idea that the God of the Bible is a God who provides true care for our souls. God knows our exact emotional, physical, and spiritual state at any given moment and, if we allow Him to, He will bind up every one of our wounds. In 1 Kings 19, we witness how God allows Elijah to rest a...

This week, we FINISH our 17 week journey through the Book of Ephesians. We conclude by reminding ourselves that Paul’s epistle is about the MYSTERY of Christ and His Gospel. We reflect on the questions, “What is the mystery of the Gospel that so captivated Paul?” and “How do we live in this mystery?” And pray that we, CityLife, would also be so captivated and bold in sharing this mysterious Gospel...

Our Missional Communities have been learning more about the person of the Holy Spirit and what His role is as part of the Holy Trinity. Today we look to explore what life looks like when we are filled by the Holy Spirit's presence. We turn back to Ephesians 5:15-18 to help us further understand two aspects of living life with the Spirit: what Biblical Wisdom looks like and what a relationship with...

This week, we continue our study of the Armor of God, given to Christ’s followers. In Ephesians 4, Paul urges believers in Asia Minor to cast off their old ways of life and to prepare for a new way of walking. The Armor of God is part of the new way that God instructs us to adopt. It will change everything about the way we walk when we are faithful to put it on. 

This week, we continue our New Relationship section with Paul reminding us that our enemy is anyone who opposes God and his Kingdom, i.e. the 'rulers', 'authorities', 'cosmic powers', and 'spiritual forces' of this earthly kingdom. Let’s hear what Paul has to say about our spiritual struggle and how we have been taught to STAND. With the first part of a two part sermon on God's Armor, Pastor Pedro...

This week, we look at the last relationship Paul explicitly addresses: Slaves and Masters. In his address, Paul urges slaves to be Christ-centered in everything they do and gives a short but powerful reminder to slave owners of their commitment to follow Christ in everything too, because Jesus is the only Master and we are all equal before His Cross. Paul’s letter to Philemon gives even greater pe...

This week, we take a break from our Mystery Series to honor all CityLife mothers on Mother's Day. Being a parent is one of the highest callings given to us by God, so we spend this Sunday remembering Elijah. His is an intimate story where God perfectly provides care and rest to one of his most tired servants. This message is the first of a two part sermon to be completed on Father's Day, reminding...

This week, we take a look at how children and parents are called to live with one another. We discuss a child's call to obey and honor and a parent's call to nurture their kids towards instruction, discipline, and God. 

This week, we begin our final section of Ephesians, New Relationships. If I am a new being, part of God's new society, and producing evidence of change in my life, then I allow God to redeem every one of my human relationships. Paul starts with the closest human relationship, calling wives and husbands to mutual submission, because God created marriage to be the safest and most self-giving relatio...

This week, we conclude our two part sermon on the Christian's call to live a "Visible Life." Paul’s letter to the Ephesians teaches followers of Christ that life IN CHRIST is lived out in the open because we now have the power and presence of the Holy Spirit available to us. Pastor Pedro challenges us to allow the Holy Spirit to confront us and call us out on the visibility and integrity of the li...

In this week's passage, Paul once again upends the way that we look at ourselves and how we are called to live as followers of Christ. We are no longer darkness but have been made to BE God's light. We are called to "evidence" our faith in Jesus by the way we live. Followers of Christ are called to be visible not hidden; to live in openness not in secret. Let's explore how this might be possible t...

In this passage, Paul addresses the second aspect of our New Measures: purity. In considering these marks of the Christian’s life, we must ask ourselves how growth in unity, and now purity, are reflected in our growing maturity IN CHRIST. How exactly do we grow in purity as we follow Christ and live in His new society?

This week, Paul takes a sharp turn in his letter to the Ephesians as we begin our third major section in our Mystery Series- New Measures. Fully confident in what Christ did for the Church, Paul begins to direct the Christian’s heart to its response to the Mystery of Christ. How can believers gauge whether they are responding to the Gospel? The Ephesians and we today, are to be pursuing unity in t...

This week's sermon we’re reminded of how Christ loves His Church. Paul writes that Jesus’s incomprehensibly comprehensive commitment to us is beyond our understanding. Our response to this radical love is simply to grow; in maturity, in knowledge, and in love for our Savior. Paul encourages us with the revelation that one day we will be filled with all the fullness of Christ, and exhorts us to fal...

This week, Paul finally lets us in on what this mystery is all about! The "Mystery of Christ" is that ALL people are welcomed into God's family through Jesus. In other words, all the distinctions we hold tightly order to differentiate ourselves from others are meaningless in Christ. The "Mystery of Christ" is that Jesus’s Gospel transcends every boundary. Pastor Pedro breaks down what this really...

This week, Pastor Ryan introduces the next portion of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians on “God’s New Society”. Here, Paul is encouraging Gentile Christians - who have been made to feel like outsiders by Jewish Christians - to claim their new identity as those who were once far off from God, but now are brought near by the blood of Christ. Likewise, the art of mosaic pottery mirrors how God breaks us...

This week, Pastor Pedro gives us Paul’s definitive word on the significance of finding New Life In Christ. Paul tells of Jesus’s rescue and our new trajectory. We were once the “walking dead”, lost in our sins, but because of God's kindness we now walk out good works. How does this happen? How does God's kindness and grace save us? Two words. "But God."

This week, we find Paul celebrating the Holy Spirit and the assurance we have in our salvation in Christ. He prays that the saints in Ephesus would learn and experience three things: the hope of our calling, the riches of our glorious inheritance, and the immeasurable greatness of God's power through Jesus. Would that God's children know and live out of these three things, our lives would be trans...

In this week's sermon, Pastor Pedro points to three fundamental Christian truths found in Ephesians: Election, Adoption, and Unification. Paul lays out these central distinctives in our faith and how they change everything about who we are and how we live our lives. Join us as we strive to understand these deeper mysteries of Christ.

This week marks the start of our first sermon series of 2021, our Mystery Series. This series will focus on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians and the concept of being IN CHRIST. Pastor Pedro notes that in the first two verses of Ephesians, everything Paul mentions comes from God and we’re introduced to a profound mystery: that we are in Christ. Join us as we dissect what scholars have called the “Que...

In this week's sermon, our very own Carla Calderon preaches to CityLife for the first time through Psalm 51. In this sermon, we are reminded of the importance of posture in the life of someone who is passionately seeking to live out faith. How did God use some of David's most sin-filled moments to teach his people about posture before God?

In this week's sermon, very special guest preacher Pastor John Soper leads us through Psalm 34 and praise. Why is it that when life gets hard we are called to praise God? How is it that praise changes our hearts and at times our circumstances? Pastor Soper leads us through these important questions.

Pastor Pedro’s first sermon of last year looked at Abraham's life and how God would interface with His people. Continuing the trend this year, we look back even further to when Abraham was still Abram in Genesis 15. In this “early” chapter of His story, God sets the precedent for all those who belong to Him, by proving that He is trustworthy. Even through where He geographically places His people...

In this week's sermon, we take time to think about the year that was. Before we hastily turn the calendar page, hoping for everything to be magically fixed, we stop and reflect on this difficult year and how God has seen us through it. Through a deep dive into John 21:25, Pastor Pedro reminds up that no matter what happens in life, Jesus is always greater and we can trust in Him, period. Let’s not...