Elevate City Church

Do you know your Destiny, your Disobedience, your Direction, and your Daily Decisions? Your greatest destiny in life is to be an imitator of God. To be children of light imitating our Heavenly Father. A roadmap into understanding what it truly means to walk as Children of the Light is found in Ephesians 5:1-21. We'd love for you to subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications to get upda...

Everyone wants authenticity. People search for it, culture encourages it, and the world is desperate for it. So what does true authenticity look like? What is our truest, true self? Is it just discovering our truest feelings? Or could authentic true identity exist outside of yourself? Pastor Joey McLaughlin teaches through Ephesians 4 of what a biblical authentic christ-centered identity can look...

You have been given a grace by God. What is the grace you need to Walk OUT -- 7 But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. 8 Therefore it says,“When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men.” 9 (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth? 10 He who descended is...

What could your life look like if only you knew how much God truly loves you. When you understand how loved you truly are, and how core that is to your identity: it has the power to change how you live what you do and ultimately everything about you. In Ephesians 3, Paul is on His knees pleading with God for Ephesus, and for you, praying that we would know the magnitude of God’s love for us. Paul...

One of the biggest plot twist throughout all of life and the scriptures in this -- you are adopted into the family of God. Paul in his letter to Ephesus, found in Ephesians 3:1-13, has a new declaration for the family of God... Attention family… there’s been a secret kept hidden since the beginning of time. You are a part of the biggest scandal in history. The mystery of your true identity makes y...

Church is not a place you attend, it’s a people you belong to. Pastor Joey McLaughlin gives the blueprint of this message: 1. You don’t belong and you feel it. 2. Identity and belonging are inseparable. 3. So you try to belong but to the wrong thing. 4. You can truly belong but only by the blood. 5. You do belong but not to yourself. You belong to a new community, a spiritual family, and to God Hi...

Who you Were is far worse than you think. Who you Are is far better than you think. Who you are Becoming is beyond what you can imagine. In this message Pastor Joey McLaughlin clearly preaches the gospel, and who you are in Christ as found in Ephesians 2:1-10. In Ephesians 2:10-10 we find: - Who you were: You were DEAD - Who you are: You are ALIVE - Who you are Becoming: An Eternal Masterpiece and...

The beginning, middle, and end of the Christian life is about knowing God. Knowing Jesus as savior is a beautiful beginning to your walk with God and you could spend the rest of your life growing in your knowledge of Him as Savior, but at the same time, there is so much more of God to know. You’re invited to know Him as Friend, and Guide, and Father, and Provider, and Defender and Peace. The more...

Do you know your identity IN CHRIST? You are chosen and you are loved and you are blameless and you are adopted, redeemed, forgiven, lavished. You've got an inheritance. You are the praise of God's glory. Two words that Paul uses to tie all of those words together. Two words that change everything for the Ephesians, in two words that can change everything for you and me. Two words that sta...

Why is it that every year we are sold on this opportunity for it to be a new year and a new us to only find that it's a new year, but the same us. It's the same broken habits, the same broken systems, the same internal monologue, the same crushing insecurities, the same suffocating questions. Who am I? Who do you think you are? Who do you really think that you are when you strip it all awa...

"Joy is a decision to agree with God about the total story of my life. Joy is found when I remember the whole story." - Joey Mclaughlin This Christmas at Elevate City we celebrated the arrival of JOY in the birth of Jesus. Undoubtedly, joy and Christmas are synonymous. How much joy do you feel in your spirit? How much joy are you living in? How much joy are you walking it? And I'm ta...

“The Arrival of Peace” This word “Peace” has become the theme of Christmas for people all around the world — it’s the word that gets plastered on billboards and put in greeting cards, it’s found on Christmas trees and its hanging over chimneys, it’s the word that no matter your religious background or beliefs is most associated with this season. For many, if we’re honest, the arrival of the Christ...

There are four things that every human heart longs for hope, love, peace and joy. At Advent, we celebrate the arrival of those things, those things breaking into humanity. In this sermon Pastor Joey preaches about the arrival of love and what I want for you to know is that behind all of your intellectual arguments and under your extremely tough exterior, what every human heart longs for is love. Y...

This is more than an ending of the year. Advent is a time of Hope. This hope is a hope where we stand between Jesus birth and his coming back again. We stand on the foundation of hope. What you hope for actually shows what you live for. It shapes what you live for now. Hope shapes your perspective on the world. It shapes how you see your past and things that have happened to you. It shapes how you...

What if the first thing God commanded us to do in Creation, the last thing Jesus commanded on the mountain, is the first thing He asks us when he returns? What if we took the great commission not as the great suggestion? For 10 weeks our Church has unraveled our vision of "X- Multiply"; in this panel discussion you will hear from our Pastors more of the Heart and How of this 10 year miss...

In this message Pastor Joey Mclaughlin takes a deep dive into the vision of generously giving whatever it takes to see Jesus' Great Commission realized and to live into a story way bigger than ourselves because we know Jesus is infinitely worth it. There’s almost no excuse for you to not love, be passionate about, and sacrificially give to the Church you’re apart of. Jesus doesn’t need it. He...

What comes into your mind when you think about Church? Maybe you think a building, with a steeple and a cross. Maybe a large auditorium with lights, a speaker and a band. Classic adage, not a building. Maybe you think scandals. Or Christian celebrity. Maybe you think hurt. Or politics. In this message, Pastor Joey McLaughlin prays we’ll find ourselves falling in love with the Church, we’d become l...

There is a leadership crisis in the Church at large. Pastors and leaders have left ministry at an alarming rate over the last decade. We believe much of that is due to a lack of effective leadership development. At Elevate City we want to equip future leaders with the spiritual rhythms, theological training, leadership skills and practical ministry experience to lead the Church forward. The Church...

In a world that is obsessed with the self, kids are painted in our culture often times as an inconvenience that can be taken care of. We pay to let someone else raise them, we distance them, and don’t let them distract us from our goals and then wonder why there’s a generation that’s starving for attention. But Jesus speaks with this bold proclamation: "I see Kids as of utmost importance.&quo...

Mankind is glory hungry. In this message Pastor Joey McLaughlin talks about the nations, the world, and getting the gospel around the globe. Mankind is seeking to build a name for ourselves, we are coming for God’s throne and are willing to trample over anything that stands in our way. Our hunger for glory -- to be known, powerful and recognized -- makes us say, "This is our land. This our ho...

God’s will isn’t about getting Him on our agenda, but getting us on His agenda. And His agenda is serving the “the least of these”. His agenda is investing in the lost, forgotten, forsaken, and marginalized. With our time, yes. With our relationship, yes. WIth our talents, yes. And with our money, yes! A commitment to serve the Poor, the Prisoner and the Orphan. Jesus said in Matthew 26:11 ; the p...

We cannot be obedient to the great commission in our generation without baptism front and center. The early church saw God add to their number day by day those being saved (Acts 2:47). We long to see our commitment to prayer, disciple making and bold gospel conversations result in lost people coming to faith in Jesus every single day. There are 365 days in a year. If 10 years from now we see 365 b...

What is the Gospel? Why does it matter? And how can you be changed by it? Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey on The good news of The Gospel. We believe the bold proclamation of the Gospel still has power to save (Romans 1:16). We believe a necessary part of fulfilling the great commission is sharing the gospel (Matthew 24:14). We believe the primary way God saves is through the...

What if the vision for your life was to be a person of prayer? Before God does a great work, He always sets His people praying. And in this great work that we believe God has called us to, we have to become a people of prayer. The power and longevity of our movement will be determined by the intensity and frequency of our prayers. Luke 10:1-9 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two[a] others and...

It’s Vision Sunday. We are imagining the future, believing for the impossible, hearing the dream, looking out towards where we are headed. Where we are headed is: Igniting a multiplying Great Commission Movement to change the world. Vision is what could be or should be in light of what currently is. We know people who have vision, an entrepreneur, an artist, a sculptor…a painter doesn’t see a blan...