Kingdom City Church

Have you ever wondered if you truly belong to God—or questioned whether your faith is secure? In this message from Ephesians 1:11–14, we discover the incredible promise that every believer is sealed with the promised Holy Spirit . The Holy Spirit isn't just a feeling or an experience—He is God's mark of ownership, authenticity, security, and authority in our lives, as well as His guarant...

Before the foundation of the world, God was writing a story of redemption—and in Christ, we've been brought into it. You are not forgotten, overlooked, or unwanted. You are chosen. This message explores what it means to be chosen by God: desired by His love, adopted into His family, called to holiness, and invited into His purpose. The story you believe shapes the identity you embrace, the li...

In this message, we explore Ephesians 1:3–14 and the breathtaking reality of what God has done for us in Christ. We discover the spiritual blessings that belong to every believer: chosen, adopted, redeemed, forgiven, sealed by the Spirit, and guaranteed an eternal inheritance. This sermon examines four major themes from the passage: Unrestrained Praise — God is worthy of worship in every season. U...

What if the greatest need in your life isn't more information—but new sight? In this opening message of our series through Ephesians, we begin exploring one of the most breathtaking letters ever written. Paul's goal is not merely to teach us doctrine, but to help us see. Through the power of the Holy Spirit, God wants to open the eyes of our hearts to behold the glory of Jesus Christ, th...

Pentecost Sunday is more than a moment in church history—it’s an invitation into the story God is writing across all of human history. In this message, we explore the grand narrative of Scripture: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration, and how the coming of the Holy Spirit empowers the Church to participate in God’s mission to redeem all things through Jesus Christ. Through Acts 1–2, the sto...

In the final week of our "Leverage" series, our friend Charlie Craige preached on leveraging love. Love is more than emotion, preference, or words—it’s devotion expressed through action. In this episode, we unpack Jesus’ greatest commandments: loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and loving your neighbor as yourself. We explore how misplaced love leads to idolatry, selfishness...

If the enemy can't kill your faith, he'll do the next best thing - he'll kill your passion. In this week of our "Leverage" series, we're going to be calling people to leverage their passion. In 2 Timothy 1 Paul challenges Timothy to rekindle the fire of God in his life. This message confronts fear, isolation, compromise, and spiritual forgetfulness while calling us ba...

Pain is universal. It's something everyone has but no body wants. But what we do with pain determines so much about who we become. In this message, we look at the healing at Bethesda in John 5 and unpack the nature of pain, where it comes from, how we often mishandle it through denial, distraction, numbing, or misplaced systems, and how Jesus invites us into true healing. Whether your pain is...

Time is the most non-renewable resource we have at our disposal. Statistically, the average person has about 4,000 weeks of life and many waste or misuse them. However, God invites us to leverage the time and season we're in for the sake of what matters most.  In this episode, we explore Paul’s call in Ephesians 5 to “be very careful how you live… making the most of every opportunity.” Your t...

This message continues our ‘Leverage: A Life Without Regret’ series, exploring how God has uniquely gifted each of us—and what it looks like to steward those gifts well. Drawing from 1 Peter 4, we unpack how to discover, develop, and deploy what God has placed in our hands, not for ourselves, but to serve others and glorify Jesus. The end is near—so don’t waste your life. Leverage it. To connect,...

No one wants to live a life of regret, yet many get to the end of their lives and are filled with shame. Like the old man at eternity's gate , they put their face in their hands and weep. That doesn't have to be you.  In the opening talk of our "Leverage" series, Pastor Blake uses the example of Esau to caution and challenge us. Esau prioritized the temporal over the eternal an...

Easter is an invitation to pause and ask yourself: “Is all that I’m seeing all there really is and all that’s available to me? Or is there a greater reality that I’ve yet to see or take hold of?”  When Jesus was raised from the dead, he reversed the curse of sin and opened up a world of new possibilities for the world and for us. Yet, so many of us wander and cope through our lives and settle for...

In the final week of our "Seven" series through Jesus' seven messages to the seven churches of Revelation 2-3, we are with the church in Laodicea. Jesus' letter to the Laodiceans is the only letter where he has only rebuke for the church. His primary issue with this church? They had established a way of life that was comfortable and complacent, lacking passion and dependence. J...

The church in Philadelphia was a small church. They didn't have much influence, power, or resources, but Jesus celebrated them and, because of their faithfulness, presented an open door of opportunity to advance the mission of Jesus in their city.  I couldn't help but think of our young church as I read, studied, and preached on Revelation 3:7-13. We are young. We don't have much po...

Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6 (The Church in Sardis) In week 5 of our "Seven" series we're looking at Jesus' words to the church of Sardis. Jesus accuses the church of being dead even though they had a reputation for being alive. This was a church who had a history of doing things in the name of Jesus but had grown complacent. They had settled for having an appearance of life to...

Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29 (The Church in Thyatira) Jesus' letter to the Thyatiran Church is intriguing. It's the longest letter, but it's to the smallest church in the most insignificant city. Unlike the other churches, Jesus' focus isn't on what's happening in the culture and how it's affecting the church. His focus is actually on what's happening insid...

Pergamum was one of the most influential cities in the Roman Empire. Home to the seat of Roman power and filled with Greek and Roman pagan temples, Pergamum was a wave of resistance against the Way of Jesus. In this letter to the Church in Pergamum, Jesus commends them for not renouncing their faith in the face of persecution and suffering. However, he rebukes them for compromising and calls them...

The introduction of this message was cut short during editing. We shared the story of Polycarp, the Lead Pastor of Smyrna, and his martyrdom in 155AD. You can read the totality of Polycarp's story here .  What is a successful church? What is a successful life? More important, what does success look like to Jesus? The church in Smyrna was known for poverty and persecution not impact and influe...

To kick off our new series "Seven: Jesus' Words to the Church Today" we are looking at Jesus' word to the church in Ephesus. Planted by the Apostle Paul (Acts 19), the Ephesian church had a reputation for being a great church. However, Jesus had one thing against them... They had forgotten the love they had at first. In all their ministry efficiency, faithfulness, and productiv...

In our final week of "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", Pastor Blake calls our church to be people of sacrificial mission for the sake of expanding the Kingdom. Jesus came to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, then gave that same mission to the Church. Throughout history, the Church has wrongly sought to pursue Jesus' mission through human means: war, power, conquest...

In Jeremiah 29, God speaks the prophet to the people of Israel who had been exiled to a foreign land and godless city. He calls them to live in it, to love it, and to look forward to God's future rescue as they do. Using this text, Pastor Blake gives us a vision of how to live in our city in this cultural moment. We don't distance ourselves from it. We don't become like it. We live...

*Due to inclement weather, we were unable to gather in-person so this message was recorded during a virtual gathering via zoom. As we continue in our series "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", we are focusing on our church's pursuit of unity. This pursuit requires us to be people who live our lives in faithful community. The calling to be a faithful community responds to th...

At Kingdom City Church, we pursue the formation of people. We long to see everyone transformed by Jesus and conformed to His image. But what does this look like in our everyday lives? What should this produce? We believe it looks like intentional discipleship. We believe that all followers of Jesus should be intentional about their own discipleship as well as the discipleship of others. Making dis...

In week two of our "Pursuit" series, Pastor Blake looks at Mary of Bethany's act of extravagant worship and radical devotion in Mark 14:3-9. If we are going to experience the presence and power of Jesus, it will require lives and acts of radical devotion. We must sacrifice things of great value for the One of greatest value. The good news? Nothing we surrender to Jesus will be waste...

In week on of our "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", Pastor Blake walked through the relatively unknown story of Judah's King Asa (2 Chronicles 14-16). Asa was the great grandson of King Solomon (the son of King David) and brought revival to Judah after generations of division, decline, compromise, and rebellion.  In the first 35 years of his reign, Asa walked in wholehear...