Life on Life at City Church: Deep and Wholehearted

Life on Life at City Church: Deep and Wholehearted

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Life on Life at City Church: Deep and Wholehearted episodes

  • 242 Groups - Lesson 4: Deep Wholehearted Discipleship
    In our discipleship vision, the center of the target we are aiming for is deep wholehearted discipleship – men and women who love the Lord our God with all our heart, all our soul, all our mind and all our strength. We aim to become mature and maturing disciples of Jesus who want to see every part of our lives conformed to Christ’s life.
    24 min
  • 242 Groups - Lesson 1 - The Gospel of Grace as the Root of Life with God
    Join us as we embark on a journey of exploring together what it means to be a real-life apprentice of Jesus, learning from Him how to live in the Kingdom of God today. In this pilot episode, we look at Jesus's most famous story, the so called "Parable of the Prodigal Son." But we see that it is really a story about two sons, two different ways of being "lost" what it means to be "found" and what it looks like to live as a forgiven, beloved child of the welcoming Father. All discipleship, a li...
    48 min
  • 242 Groups - Lesson 3 - Jesus' Priority: Discipleship
    Jesus never used the word Christian. He simply said, “Follow Me.” That was the first thing he said to Peter, when he called him, “Follow me.” Matthew 4, verse 19. Jesus preferred method to describe those who followed him was “disciple.” In Luke 14 v 27, Jesus says, “Whoever does not bear his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.” In the NT, followers of Jesus are called Christians 3x, believers 15x But disciples? 235x. Jesus’ call was not to invite him into your heart OR say the sinn...
    22 min
  • 242 Groups - Lesson 2 - The First Step: Humility as the Essential Posture in Life with God
    Life with Jesus begins and always goes back to one foundational posture: humility. Humility is reality. It is a right estimation of who we truly are before God. Humility does not consist in hanging our heads or wearing raggedly clothes. It consists in being grounded, grounded in reality, namely, that we are dearly loved beggars, who live in constant need of God's grace and mercy. It is only through utter defeat, one writer says, that we take the first steps toward liberation and strength. It ...
    25 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 22: The Gospel of the Kingdom

    The kingdom of God cannot be understood without the cross, nor the cross without the kingdom. Jesus’ main message was the kingdom, and his main mission was to go to Golgotha. Kingdom and cross always go together: kingdom through the cross 

    27 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 21: The Crucible of Suffering

    Thomas Aquinas (d. 1274) once wrote that suffering constitutes the greatest challenge to Christian belief. A sensitive spirit must ask how suffering can possibly be reconciled With God’s goodness and love. Nothing can undermine faith like navigating inexplicable suffering. For that reason, a would-be disciple of Jesus must be equipped with a theology of suffering, a way to process the trials that are sure to come.

    26 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 20: Forgiveness

    We’ve talked about many important themes vital to the Christian life over these 20 lessons. In a very real way, today’s topic is where these themes come together. You could say the proof that Christ is our Lord and that His life has taken up residence in our life is in our ability to forgive. No word is mentioned more but practiced less among Christian than forgiveness. But we are never more like our Lord than we choose to forgive.  

    26 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 19: Know Your Enemy: SIN

    Probably the most misunderstood concept among Christians is SIN. We don’t really know what it is. We have almost completely severed it from its Biblical context. This failure of understanding has drastic consequences that show up every day, most conspicuously in our relationships. How we relate to others (particularly in their failings), how we relate to ourselves (in our failings), how we relate to God (as we perceive His attitude toward us) – all of our everyday relationships are colored by our functional understanding of what the Bible means when it talks about sin. 

    26 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 18: Spiritual Warfare and the Devil

    The Bible says of the Devil “we are not unaware of his schemes,” (2 Cor. 2.11). But today, for a variety of reasons, we have become increasingly unaware of how the Devil affects our world or even how sincere and thoughtful followers of Jesus are to engage this controversial theme. Let’s take up spiritual warfare under three headings. 

    ·      Know Our Enemy

    ·      Know His Schemes

    ·      Know How to Stand Firm


    24 min
  • LOL Groups - Lesson 17: We Need a Spiritual Friend to Make it on the Way

    In our busy and hurried lives, deep, intimate relationships are often the first casualty. But in the ancient world, friendship was considered the greatest of the types of love we could experience. Aristotle concluded his famous Ethics by pointing out that friendship is essential for a good and happy life. The Bible talks about friendship all through the Old and New Testaments. You could construct an entire theology around the theme of friendship. And Jesus dares to call us his friends. 

    26 min

About Life on Life at City Church: Deep and Wholehearted

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We are after deep, wholehearted discipleship at City Church Evansville. In humble reliance on God's grace, we want to see men and women who love God and love others with all of our heart, soul,…