Elevate City Church

Have you ever wondered why you should or need to go to church? Sometimes we need other people in our lives to tell us to stop sleepwalking and to wake up. Because if we’re honest, it can be easy to find ourselves lulled to sleep in this thing called life. It’s easy to get caught up in the currents of culture and get stuck in the streams of striving, and let busyness and distraction rule our lives...

Listen, life tends to lull us to sleep, we get stuck on auto pilot, caught in the current, we become spiritually lethargic. And I’m guilty of it too. In the busyness and inertia of life we start sleepwalking. We fall asleep on what matters most. We fall asleep on faith, fall asleep on eternity, fall asleep on God. We loose the fire. At Elevate City, it’s awakening or bust. It’s something supernatu...

We need to awaken to the life that God has created us for. It can become so easy to find ourselves falling into cultural, conventional, and comfortable religion, but Jesus is inviting us to awaken to new life. Are you bored with your faith? Then God is too. Tune in to this message today from Pastor Joey to hear about what it looks like to awaken to the life that Jesus has created you for. John 3:1...

Do you know the great God of Awakening? In this powerful message, Pastor Joey encourages us to see the greatness and glory of our God and how when we wake up to His greatness we will experience awakening. Isaiah 6:1-8 In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. 2 Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six...

We need awakening because people get sleepy. It’s part of the story. Sin, the enemy, the world, time…lulls us to sleep. We get complacent. We doze off. Become exhausted. Get distracted. Culture has a way of sedating us, using anesthesia on us. This happens all throughout the biblical narrative, Adam & Eve, People in the days of Noah, the entire Old Testament narrative, John the baptist in pris...

What do you Pray when you find yourself in prison? Do you pray when you find yourself in prison? You may not find yourself in literal prison today but situationally, mentally, emotionally are you locked up? Imprisoned by anxiety, bound by depression, confined by comparison, arrested in addiction, incarcerated by insecurity. Maybe you feel like your house is a prison. Your home is full of dysfuncti...

Would you like to grow in your rhythm and practice of prayer? Would you like to experience power and breakthrough in your prayers? Well if so, tune into this message from Pastor Mike Reinsel on one of the Apostle Paul's prayers that teaches us how to grow as people of prayer. Ephesians 3:14-21 14 For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth...

We’ve all heard the phrase: practice what you preach. Today, we want to advocate for you to practice what you pray. We don’t just want to pray prayers with our lips, we want to pray prayers with our lives. We want our walk to back up our talk. Because the reality is that if we’re truly gonna build a house of prayer, we’ve got to be a people who practice what we pray. And the kind of prayer that we...

Why is Jesus delaying his return? This very real, felt question isn’t limited to first-century believers. Just look at the world around you. Evil is rampant. There’s violence and mass shootings and terror. There’s brokenness and pain and suffering. The innocent are oppressed while the wicked prosper. High rise moguls get rich while the assaulted are shunned. We can’t help but wrestle with the same...

In 2 Peter chapter 1, we see Peter give a reminder for the early church and for you and me that in this Christian life, those that want to stand resilient, must learn to step out of comfort the of shallow Christianity, ditch the life jacket, and dive into the endless pursuit of knowing the God of the universe. Because resilient disciples know that there is always more of God to know and that life...

Tune in to this powerful message from Pastor Thomas on how to suffer well as a christian in today's culture. 1 Peter 4:12-19 12 Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. 13 But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. 14 If...

After listening to this message you will leave thinking different. Not just thinking different from other people, thinking different from your family, or your friends. You will leave this message asking yourself do I really think like Jesus? How similar is my thought life to Jesus’ thought life? Do I ever think about the things Jesus was thinking about? 1 Peter 4:1-11 Since therefore Christ suffer...

Tune in to this message to learn how to suffer well and impact the world instead of being impacted by the world. Resilient Christians see earthly suffering as an opportunity to store up heavenly blessing. Sermon on 1 Peter 1 Peter 3:8-22 8 Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind. 9 Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but...

Do you want to know how to have relationships that are life-giving and long-lasting? The reality is that Jesus knows how relationships are supposed to work, and His ways are the best ways for us. Don't miss this powerful message from Pastor Joey on Resilient Relationships. If you want a relationship that is resilient you need a so that eternal perspective. Sermon on Relationships / 1 Peter 3:1...

God’s glory is worth it. Living in obedience to the will of God, is worth it. Living as outcasts in the midst of a world that stands against our convictions, is worth it. Submitting to leaders that we don’t like or agree with, is worth it. Living counter-cultural lives, even if it costs us our reputation is worth it. And that’s where we find ourselves today in 1 Peter chapter 2 verses 11-25… Askin...

Tune in to this powerful message from Pastor Joey McLaughlin on how a Christian's identity determines their activity in this world. 1 Peter 2:1 So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. 1 Peter 2:2-3 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— 3 if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 Peter...

1 Peter 1:13-25 13 Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 14 As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, 15 but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, 16 since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am ho...

1 Peter 1:1-12 Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, 2 according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Chri...

Matthew 9:35-38 35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers ar...

42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers. 43 And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles. 44 And all who believed were together and had all things in common. 45 And they were selling their possessions and belongings and distributing the proceeds to all, as any had need...

Matthew 6:5-13 5 “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. 6 But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.7 “And when...

In this series we've been looking at the Questions Jesus Asked in scripture. 339 questions Jesus asked, and this Sunday we look a question so important, he asked Peter three times, and we believe it's a question He is gonna ask you one day too. John 21:15-19 15 When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, L...

In this series we've been looking at the Questions Jesus Asked in scripture. 339 questions Jesus asked, but this Sunday we look at the first recorded question Jesus asked. In Luke 2, when he asked "Why were you looking for me, did you not know I would be in my father's house?" Luke 2:41-52 Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the Feast of the Passover. 42 And when he was twelve years ol...

This series we're looking into some of the deepest, thought provoking questions Jesus asked in the Bible. Jesus asked 339 questions recorded in scripture and this week we're looking into the question "What Do You Really Want From Me." Mark 10:46-52 46 And they came to Jericho. And as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great crowd, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was si...

In this series we're looking into some of the questions asked directly from Jesus himself. Jesus in the Bible asks people 339 questions. Last week we touched on the question "Who do you say that I am" and this week Pastor Joe unpacks the question Jesus asks Peter after Peter walked on water to Jesus. "Peter, why did you doubt." 22 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go before h...