Elevate City Church

What would it look like for Jesus to get His way in your heart and change how you relate to people? The reality is that there is no pain quite like people pain. Often the bitter pain we experience from people causes anger. Anger is Murder in Seed Form - It’s the acorn before the oak tree. It starts small but if you allow it, it’ll grow and grow until its untamable and destruction will follow. Ange...

How does The King see the scriptures in the Kingdom? How does Jesus think about the Bible? Have you ever thought about that? For us today, one of the big problems that we can have with the Bible is our familiarity with it. When we come to the Bible, instead of reading it as a book to redeem, challenge, and inform us, we can come to the Bible and think that we've got it figured out. But these w...

Jesus, in His sermon on the mount, is looking at this average group of people, and he is making this over-the-top statement--You are the salt of the earth. You are the value of the earth. Those of you who embrace His beatitudes, who participate in the Kingdom, you become the salt of the earth. What does it mean to be the salt of the world? What does it mean to be the light of the world? What was t...

Jesus in the sermon on the mount, invites Gentiles, poor people, females, sinners, the sick, and the most unacceptable in society into the Kingdom of God. Jesus starts the greatest sermon of all time by disrupting our assumptions about the good life, about the blessed life. The power of the kingdom always flows to those who need it most. It's these kind of people, who are in positions like thi...

This sermon was, and will be, the greatest sermon ever preached. Since the beginning of time, great speeches have shaped the world. Martin Luther King's I have a dream to fight for equal rights. John F Kennedy, we're going to the moon. When we took one huge step for mankind. Winston Churchill's we shall fight on the beaches before we storm the beaches at Normandy. But no words have sha...

Have you ever considered how much of Jesus ministry happened around the table? One of the things that you might pick up on in Luke's investigation in the life of Jesus in his gospel, is the theme of memorable meals. The church is not the church, the atmosphere is not the ekklesia, without you consistently gathering with other people around the table. What would happen if you reimagined how you...

Life is about relationships. More than anywhere else on the planet, the Church is where you will really find your people. It's where you'll find your people to do life with. Your people who will sharpen you, your people who will encourage you, your people who will inspire you, people who will be there for you and with you. When Jesus names his people The Church, He is making this declarati...

There are generations of Christians that have devoted their minds and lives to getting the message of the Gospel to people. Which is great…. but this is the reality - Tools don’t mean anything if we don’t share them. Our prayer is that this message of the kingdom would ignite urgency and fire in our generation to share the Gospel often and with passion. 5 reasons we must urgently share the message...

The beauty of Spiritual conversations is that they are doorways that God uses to open people’s hearts and minds to the hope of Jesus. Every conversation is a divine appointment waiting to happen and an opportunity to share the Good News of the Gospel with anyone, anywhere. We live in a world where news is everywhere that you look. It’s on social media, it’s on billboards and in magazines and newsp...

Jesus, in Matthew 25, uses this brilliant contextual illustration about sheep and goats to paint the picture of what it is going to be like when He comes back. "You've gotta get this in your bones that the God who became flesh will come back to rule as king, and he will sit on a throne, and he will bring angels with him." Joey McLaughlin In this message we look at: The Return of The...

One day, we will stand before Jesus and give an account for our lives. That should motivate us and change how we live today. Jesus has given us HIS KINGDOM to live in today and He’s coming back at a time we won’t expect and when He does, He’s coming as the King and He is gonna ask us: “What did you do with the life that I gave you?” Through a series of parables, Jesus encourages us to live awake,...

In this parable the orphan finds their adoption. In this parable the proud are humbled. In this parable the wayward find their way home. In this parable the refugee finds shelter In this parable the hurting find healing In this parable the sinner finds their savior. This is the parable of the prodigal son. 11 And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. 12 And the younger of them said to his fa...

When Jesus walked this earth, more than he talked about money or peace or faith or politics, He talked about The Kingdom. The Kingdom of God, or the Kingdom of Heaven, or simply, the Kingdom. And when talking about the Kingdom, we have to be reminded that it’s simple enough for a child to understand and enter in, but also complex enough for you to never feel like you’ve got it all figured out. Jes...

The most famous parable is the Good Samaritan. Can you just consider how there is no good reason that this small story, just seven verses told by some irrelevant Jewish rabbi, would show up in secular institutions and on political platforms? We name hospitals after this story. People, some of the most famous painters in the world, would want to paint this story that this little rabbi told in the m...

The King's invitation to you today is to come and work. Come and work the ground. Come and be a part of the vineyard. Come and cultivate. Come and till the land. Come and make disciples. Come Expand the kingdom.  Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Thomas Cheeseman on The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard. We'd love for you to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifica...

The glory, the worth, the value, the shine, the glimmer, the treasure of the Kingdom is not seen by everyone. It’s covered, it’s buried, people are blind to it, they walk right past it never realizing what they are trampling upon. It’s hidden to them. This is why people can see Jesus without seeing Jesus. Why people can hear the gospel, without hearing the gospel. Why prayer gets discounted, why c...

Contrary to popular belief, Jesus didn’t come to establish a political party or create a new religion. Jesus didn’t come to earth to just love people and make their lives better, although he did do that — Jesus came to establish a Kingdom. The Kingdom of God. When Jesus began to speak, He didn’t compare the Kingdom of God to a high mountain, a mighty river or even a majestic oak. Jesus compared th...

Jesus isn't as interested in intellectually checking the boxes and formulating a definition for the Kingdom, As He is in telling stories. Instead of using definitions for the Kingdom, Jesus understood that the kingdom needs to be felt. For you to really understand the kingdom, you need more than nouns, verbs, and adjectives creating subject matter... you need emotion. You need experience. You...

In this message, Pastor Joey preaches about the already, not yet Kingdom of God. One of our big goals for this series has been to try to shatter the understanding that heaven is just a place that we'll go to someday, up in the sky. What we're wanting to do is talk about this idea of the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of God. Inaugurated eschatology -- articulates the already not yet king...

We are in a series of messages talking about what Jesus talked about most, and what Jesus talked about most was the kingdom of God. The kingdom is everything in the Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke & John). It's prolific, redundant, explicit, everywhere, every thing the epicenter of the story. More than anything else, this is Jesus' primary topic of conversation. It's his favorite thin...

What kind of king is Jesus? What kind of king was He expected to be? Throughout Scripture, the Kingdom of God has a lot of different names. At times it is called the Kingdom of Christ, or just the kingdom or the Kingdom of Christ and God, or the kingdom of his beloved son. The gospel writer Matthew refers to it as the Kingdom of heaven, the kingdom of heaven. Now this creates quite the problem for...

Many people's conception of the Christian gospel goes something like this... 2000 years ago, a man named Jesus came from heaven to earth. He lived a good life, performs miracles. But then he died on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. And then he was placed in a grave. Three days later, he got up out of that grave and he returned to heaven, where now he is waiting to someday come back again...

Is there evidence of Jesus's resurrection? Is there evidence that Jesus was the son of God? In this Easter message, Pastor Joey McLaughlin preaches a powerful apologetic defense for the reality of the Easter story. "For most people Easter is an energetic day full of pretty colors, gourmet lunches, fun festivities, family traditions, and a nice peppy religious service. But can I remind you...

Church, if you are in Christ, you’ve been adopted into the family of God, and given a new identity, and that identity comes with a purpose, a mission for your life to know Jesus and make Him known. But there’s a problem, it’s that there is a real enemy and real forces that are opposed to that mission, doing everything that they can to wage war on our identity, and stop our cause. So, if we are goi...

What does true Biblical submission look like? In one of the most controversial passages in scriptures -- Ephesians 5:21-6:9, We find the most comforting claims of who we are in Christ. We discover how submission and headship in marriage and in the Church is a great gift for God's children. Because of this great gift, we can approach scriptures like these not with fear but with confidence in wh...