Advent is a season of waiting for the coming of Christ. Living in this day and age, we have the joy of being able to look back on Christ's first coming. Therefore, as we wait for the second coming of Christ, we need to hope in and hold onto the promises of God. Leaning into God's promises gives us access to the hope we long for. This week we look at the promise of God's peace, that you are going to be ok. Scripture: Isaiah 9:6 & Luke 2:11-14
Dec 13, 2021•46 min•Ep. 131
Advent is a season of waiting for the coming of Christ. Living in this day and age, we have the joy of being able to look back on Christ's first coming. Therefore, as we wait for the second coming of Christ, we need to hope in and hold onto the promises of God. Leaning into God's promises gives us access to the hope we long for. This week we look at the promise that God sees our hurt, our struggles, and is with us. Scripture: Luke 1:46-55
Dec 06, 2021•43 min•Ep. 130
Advent is a season of waiting for the coming of Christ. Living in this day and age, we have the joy of being able to look back on Christ's first coming. Therefore, as we wait for the second coming of Christ, we need to hope in and hold onto the promises of God. Leaning into God's promises gives us access to the hope we long for. This week we look at God's promise to be present with his children. Scripture: Galatians 4:1-7
Nov 30, 2021•47 min•Ep. 129
Psalm 67 is a prayer that God’s glory may be seen among His people and that God’s grace may be seen among those far from Him. Our prayer is that the people of Citizens Church would embody this prayer in their communities and beyond.
Nov 15, 2021•32 min•Ep. 128
Psalm 33 is a reminder that God is not only deserving of our gratitude, but that expressing thanks and gratitude to God is good for the human heart and soul.
Nov 08, 2021•40 min•Ep. 127
When faced with difficult circumstances, how do we honor God through our response? Psalm 33 gives us an outline for our posture towards God and towards our circumstances.
Nov 01, 2021•21 min•Ep. 126
The Psalms teach us how to talk to God about the things that are hard to talk to God about. This week, Psalm 27 teaches us how to talk to God about our fears.
Oct 25, 2021•37 min•Ep. 125
In Psalm 16, David is calling out to God from a place of lack — of emptiness. When we are in a season of longing, God meets us. He comforts us with His presence. Psalm 16 is a prayer to abid in God who will sustain us in the hard seasons.
Oct 17, 2021•50 min•Ep. 124
We conclude our Belonging series with the last value — Living on Mission: Joining God in restoring all creation. At Citizens Church, we want to proclaim the gospel as we share our faith, love our neighbors help the vulnerable, and contend for justice in the world around us. Scripture: Matthew 28:18-20
Oct 11, 2021•46 min•Ep. 123
In Week 4 in the Belonging series, we examine our value Whole Person Discipleship: All of life fully formed by love for Jesus. Scripture: Colossians 1:28 and Romans 8:28-29.
Oct 04, 2021•40 min•Ep. 122
In the Belonging series, we are walking through our church values. This week, we look at our third value, People of Presence: The active pursuit of God and others. Scripture: Matthew 5:6 and Jeremiah 17:7-8
Sep 27, 2021•40 min•Ep. 121
We continue this week in our series called Belonging, in which we are asking our members to renew their membership and walking through our church values. This week, we talk about our second value, Word of God: the true story of who God is and who we are.
Sep 20, 2021•44 min•Ep. 120
On our two-year anniversary of becoming a church, we launched a new series called Belonging. In this series, we are asking our members to renew their membership and walking through our church values. In this first week in the series, you will hear our heart behind the renewal and our first value, Life in Christ.
Sep 13, 2021•40 min•Ep. 119
Paul’s charge to the early church was to live lives marked by generosity, tangibly supporting the needs of the body. That same charge applies to the church today; the response and motivation being gratitude and thanksgiving. Scripture: 2 Corinthians 9:6-15.
Sep 07, 2021•42 min•Ep. 118
God wants to talk to us about the deeper things going on in our life. Through the book of Psalms, He has given us a guide for how to talk to him about the things that are hard to talk about. This week in Psalm 42 & 43, we learn how to talk to God when He seems far from us.
Aug 23, 2021•41 min•Ep. 117
God wants to talk to us about the deeper things going on in our life. Through the book of Psalms, He has given us a guide for how to talk to Him about the things that are difficult to pray about. This week in Psalm 51, we learn how to talk to God about our sin.
Aug 16, 2021•42 min•Ep. 116
God wants to talk to us about the deeper things going on in our life. Through the book of Psalms, He has given us a guide for how to talk to Him about the things that are hard to talk about. This week in Psalm 73, we learn how to talk to God about our doubt.
Aug 09, 2021•49 min•Ep. 115
God is reconciling all things in Christ including the ethnic and cultural tensions that attempt to divide us today, and God has a redemptive plan which He call us, as followers of Christ, to participate in.
Aug 02, 2021•40 min•Ep. 114
When we spend more time with Jesus, we come to know and love Him more, ultimately finding our meaning, mission and message as we go out into the world and live as people of God under His grace and for His glory. Featuring guest Preacher Dave Bruskas; scripture Colossians 1:15-20.
Jul 26, 2021•37 min•Ep. 113
In His sermon, Jesus invites His followers to become whole people who hold onto him. He concludes the sermon with weighty words, spoken from a heart heavy with love, so that we don’t miss the life he invites us to live.
Jul 19, 2021•38 min•Ep. 112
The gate you choose to pass through determines the path you are on. Scripture: Matthew 7:12-20
Jul 12, 2021•28 min•Ep. 111
God wants to hear from his followers. As a good father gives gifts to his children, so does a good God want to care for those who proclaim his glory. Scripture: Matthew 7:7-12
Jul 05, 2021•38 min•Ep. 110
In this passage, Jesus teaches his followers about how to be open to receiving loving correction from our Christian brothers and sisters. There is a distinction between moral discernment and not being judgmental. Scripture: Matthew 7:1-6
Jun 28, 2021•41 min•Ep. 109
To know God is to love Him. To love Him is to trust Him. And to know, love and trust God leads to an overflow of obedience.
Jun 21, 2021•26 min•Ep. 108
"Seek first the kingdom of God." Jesus teaches us that seeking the kingdom and believing God is working in the present, combats our anxiety.
Jun 14, 2021•47 min•Ep. 107
Jesus wants our worries. In His sermon, He teaches us what anxiety is and what truths about God help combat and uproot the worry in our lives.
Jun 07, 2021•39 min•Ep. 106
In Matthew 6:19–24, Jesus outlines there is a way to live rightly and a way to live wrongly. One way is to align yourself with the values of the kingdom of heaven and the other is to live in opposition to it. Jesus concludes this section in Matthew 6:24 by highlighting that you cannot love and serve two masters. You cannot love both God and money.
Jun 02, 2021•37 min•Ep. 105
In Matthew 6:19-21, Jesus ’s teachings beg a question that every disciple should consider: “Do you put your treasure where your heart should be?”
May 24, 2021•32 min•Ep. 104
In the sermon on the mount, Jesus reveals we have a Father in Heaven who is good for us and good to us. Scripture: Matthew 5-7
May 17, 2021•37 min•Ep. 103
What does it sound like to pray to a God who we know, and who knows us? Scripture: Matthew 6: 7-14
May 10, 2021•47 min•Ep. 102
