Citylight Church Center City Philadelphia - Sermons

Luke 1:1-4

Gareth Weakly

Have you ever decided on something, only to later question your life choices when someone asked, "Are you sure?". Luke's Gospel was written to remind you that you can be sure of the message about Jesus. We'll see in Luke 1:1-4 that it's a message that's already been fulfilled, it's a reliable message, and it's an orderly message.

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Mike Anderson

What is the Lord\'s Supper, and what is its relationship to church membership? Pastor Mike will examine that question in 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 and encourage us to take the Lord’s Supper like it’s the Lord’s supper. How do you do that? Take it when you come together as a church, take it while remembering and proclaiming the Lord’s death, and take it with self-examination.

Mike Anderson

What makes a church a Protestant, as opposed to a Roman Catholic or Eastern Orthodox, church? That's the topic of this Sunday Seminar, which builds off the last seminar on the Nicene Creed, where we looked at what it means to be a "mere Christian".

Galatians 3:26-29

Mike Anderson

What in the world does baptism have to do with church membership? Should churches baptize believers who don't intend to be members of their church? Should churches admit members they don't believe have been baptized? Pastor Mike addresses these questions, and others, in Galatians 3:26-29. We'll see that faith, baptism, and church membership belong together because all church members are treated as sons of God through faith, as baptized, as unified, and as children of Abraham.

Daniel 10-12

Mike Anderson

A common observation of those who have lived a long time is that many things are cyclical: one generation dies and another takes their place, one leader steps down and another steps up. Will these same patterns, and the patterns that we’ve seen repeating in the book of Daniel, continue forever? In Daniel 10-12, we’ll see that they will not: though wars will come, our God will deliver us. Therefore, be strengthened in his love, stand firm and act, and wait for the final deliverance

Daniel 9

Mike Anderson

Daniel grew up during a time when God's people were together in the land God had given to them, but we've seen that the book of Daniel begins when he is being forcibly removed from the promised land and God's people are scattered from their land, their friends, and in some sense, even from God. Christians today, too, live in this world as sojourners and exiles. We'll see from Daniel 9 that our God will restore his people to his place…but not yet. We’ll look first at how God’s people pray for restoration, and then at how our God will restore his people.

Daniel 8

Mike Anderson

Do you believe there is real evil? If evil is real, how can we have real hope for the future that isn't just wishful thinking? Daniel shows us that our God will end whatever evil he allows against his people. To see that we’ll look first at evil’s prosperity, and then at evil’s end.

Daniel 5

Mike Anderson

When the authorities over us are wicked, what should we do? Should we give in to them to protect our safety? Or should we try to overthrow them and create a new order? For Christians, knowing that our God judges the proud changes everything. Pastor Mike Anderson shows us from Daniel 5 that the proud mock our God, our God convicts the proud, our God sentences the proud, and finally, our God executes the proud.

Mike Anderson

This year marks 1700 years since the Council of Nicaea, at which the foundation for the Nicene Creed was laid. In this seminar Pastor Mike explains why creeds are a wise way for churches to contend for the faith once for all delivered to the saints, and why the elders of Citylight Center City believe this particular creed would be a wise creed for our church to adopt as one of our official doctrinal standards.