This week we interview two teenagers (Noelle and Maddie Robinson) at CityLight to talk about what it looks like to live for Jesus with an "undivided heart" as a teen. They share some personal insights that will be helpful for teens and adults alike. If you are a parent - definitely have your teens listen!!! If you are an adult - listen as much of w…

Jesus encourages us to store up treasures in heaven rather than focusing our energy on storing up treasures on earth. What does this mean for you? Clearly, He is teaching that there is more to life than just making money and being comfortable. It can be challenging to not be distracted by this fast paced life of consuming more. What can we do to re…

The Good Life Podcast is back! In this episode we discuss with Mandy Dunn the importance of our secret life with God and she shares some personal insights on how reading the Bible continues to be so powerful for her. She also shares some of her story of how hard worship leading is for her. And, of course, we talk about a lot of other really off top…

Before we practice our faith in the presence of others, we need to be practicing our faith before an, "audience of one." In this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus challenges us to have a robust "secret life" of faith. He stresses that God sees what we do in secret and He will reward us. He is looking to have our hearts, and not just our act…

When Jesus talks about loving your enemies, it can be easy to dismiss it as irrelevant for our lives since most of us don't have literal enemies. What can we learn from this teaching for our lives? How can we apply Jesus' encouragement to pray for, love, and do good for those who are difficult for us?…

Guest speaker John Elmer invites us to consider the "holy discontentment" God has placed inside each of us. What gets us up in the morning? What gets us stirred up in our hearts enough to DO something about it? John challenges us to use the gifts and talents God has given each of us. To use them in this world for His purposes. Listen and be challen…

Why does God care if we lust after other people? Why does God care who we sleep with? In this teaching we cover both of these questions and more, as we look at how God can help us live with sexual wholeness in an over-sexualized culture.By Christian Dunn

In this episode we dig deeper into Jesus' teaching about contempt, anger, and reconciliation.By CityLight Vineyard

In this section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus puts His finger on our relationships. Where are we hurting? Where are we harboring resentment, anger or bitterness? How can we move towards forgiveness and reconciliation? Jesus emphasizes that the community of believers will be the light of the world. If we are to be that light we need to learn to …

Listen in as Amos and Christian discuss what it means for us to be the Salt and Light of the earth - and how when Christians live by the Word of God, we really do offer the world an hopeful alternative!By CityLight Vineyard

What happens when the people of God live by the Word of God? It draws the world to God! The world is looking for Christians, for churches, who live by the Word of God. Who love like Jesus, serve like Jesus and live like Jesus. When we live according to His Word, we become that light that those living in darkness need. Are you living in the light?…

During our new sermon series, "The Good Life", we will be releasing midweek mini podcast discussions about the text from the previous Sunday. This week's episode is a conversation with Kevin Schneider about the Beatitudes. Enjoy!By CityLight Vineyard

As we begin our series on the Sermon on the Mount, we tackle Jesus' incredibly surprising opening to His most famous teaching. Jesus turns our expectations upside down as He talks about how different life in the Kingdom of God is. He invites all of us to consider how we can live differently, treat each other differently, and therefore experience th…

Where have you seen God work in your life? How have you seen Him help you? What struggles has He helped you overcome? What if all of those times that God worked in your life, formed a story that would help others come to faith in Jesus? Your story could be someone else's doorway to faith. We just have to be willing to talk about it!…

Jesus didn't just save us FROM something, He saved us FOR something. God has given spiritual gifts to each one of us that we are called to use for the benefit of others. Do you know what your spiritual gifts are? Are you using them? Have you lost the passion for God using you? Listen to this message and be encouraged to lean in to the gifts God has…

As Christians, we long to hear God's voice. We look to him for direction, comfort, encouragement and more. At the same time, we often struggle with doubt about whether it is truly His Spirit speaking to us or not. Listen as Christian teaches about the importance of why the Spirit speaks to us. How we need to create space for His voice in our lives.…

In the Gospels, Jesus spent a lot of time healing the sick. He taught His disciples to do the same. After His ascension, the early church continued to emulate what Jesus had taught them. They continued praying for the sick and seeing them healed! If God really still heals the sick, how does that impact how we practice our faith?…

In the Garden of Eden the serpent's first words were, "Did God Really Say?" To this day, doubt about whether we can trust God's Word continues to be an issue. In this teaching, we take a deep dive and look at the evidence that supports the reliability of the Scriptures. We discuss how the earliest believers of Jesus treated, what we now call the Bi…

If you want to follow Jesus you may be wondering, "What exactly is a Christian?" In this teaching we show from Scripture, four areas of growth and formation that all Christians are invited to apply to their personal growth, in their relationship with Jesus. As followers of Jesus, we should always be in process and maturing in our walk with Him. The…

This is a core belief of Christianity - Jesus died for our sins. But why? Why did He have to die? What did His death accomplish for us? In this teaching, we tackle those hard questions. We read in the Bible how it explains and reveals the purpose for His death on the cross. The common thread that we can plainly see if His amazing love for each one …

When we read the Bible it can be easy to get lost or misunderstand the text if we don't read it as part of a unified story that leads us to Jesus. In this teaching, we learn of how God's amazing inspiration led many authors over hundreds of years to write this unified story. The Scriptures are powerful and life changing! When read the Bible in this…

Jesus has been crucified and His body is no longer in the tomb. As two of the disciples leave Jerusalem, on the road to Emmaus, they are discouraged and heartbroken. They do not see how the death of Jesus has brought life. They can't make sense out of the events that have occurred. They feel lost, discouraged and confused. How often do we feel this…

When we read the account of Palm Sunday, we see a clear picture of the crowds being overjoyed at the arrival of, Jesus. However, their excitement is based in their expectation of what Jesus will do. When the crowd discovers that His plans are different than theirs, many walk away. Are we the same? Do we try to fit God in our plans? Do we attempt to…

One of the great challenges of prayer is learning how to respond when God says "no" to something we have prayed for. Do we respond by running away? Getting angry? Praying less? Or do we lean into God and his strength and comfort in those times. As we do that, we will find that even when God says "no," he still makes a way.…

Whether its dealing with unanswered prayer, unmet expectations, or unfulfilled promises, there are times when following Jesus requires us to live in tension. Guest speaker Becky Olmstead shares Biblical perspective on living in this tension. How we can hold onto God's grace and find His hand at work in those times.…

It can be tempting to think of prayer as just an exercise in obedience that helps us grow, but really does nothing to impact how God moves and works in the world. The Scripture seems to teach something very different though. What would happen if we started praying like we actually believed God wanted to respond to our prayers?…

As we look forward to Easter, CityLight is committing to 40 days of prayer together as a church family. Scripture encourages us to be "devoted" to prayer. What does being "devoted" to prayer mean? God gives each one of us an invitation to discover what consistent and persistent prayer can look like in our lives. Join us as we lean into prayer and t…

When we live in the awareness of our needs as well as our limitations, we are then free to connect with and receive from God. Psalm 23 guides us to seek God in our limitations. We can then grab onto the fullness of His rest and love for each of us. We cannot fully embrace the sufficiency of God’s grace Paul talks about in 2 Corinthians 12, if we do…

Sometimes it's easier to cognitively understand the truths about God's love for us. How He views us versus what we truly know and apply in our hearts and minds. You may "know" how much God loves you. But does your heart feel and know that love? Or is it all cerebral? Do we know that He is for us? Or do we think He is trying to make our lives as har…

The Bible is filled with verses concerning the power our words hold. They have the power to bring pain. Words we have the potential to remember for a lifetime. However, they also have the power to bring life. Words that can be stored up in our hearts. What if we became more intentional with our words? What if we looked for opportunities to build ot…

If you missed our guest speaker, Mark Tindall now is your chance to hear his teaching! Mark challenges each of us to invite Jesus into our daily lives to speak to us. Whether we are driving to school, work or the grocery store are we asking Jesus to be with us? Have we taken a pause to remember He is waiting for us to invite Him into all we do each…

As we continue our series on how to be God's miracles in someone's life, we look at the Old Testament friendship of Jonathan and David. Through the lens of this friendship, what we find is a beautiful picture of Jesus' friendship extended to each of us. We see Jesus committing to us, sacrificing for us, and loving us. And as Jesus befriends us, we …

Jesus teaches that He is the true light of the world—the light that all of us need in the darkness we are facing. Surprisingly, He also teaches that we are the light of the world! He commissions us to take His light to a broken and hurting world! One of the easiest ways for us to do this, is by serving others. The power of serving others is that no…

Today, Christine talks about how Christ was sent to earth to give us His love and what that means for our lives.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Hannah talks about experiencing joy in the journey of the spirit.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Brad talks about how joy is not a feeling. Joy comes from the Lord.By CityLight Vineyard

When Scripture encourages us to rejoice "always", we begin to wonder how is that even possible? The key is that we rejoice "in the Lord". God is always with us, always for us and always helping us. Because He is always present in those ways to each of us, we can find joy even in the most difficult times. We are never left to suffer alone. God is al…

Today, Michela talks about the difference between happiness and joy.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Tyler talks about the importance of finding joy in life, no matter our circumstances.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Chris explains how the Christmas story teaches us about joy.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Kevin focuses on the difference between the feelings of peace that are often determined by our circumstances and the objective state of peace that we achieve through Jesus.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Dave shares the story behind the Hymn "It Is Well With My Soul" and how we shouldn't let our circumstances determine our attitude.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Gregg talks about how to find our peace in Jesus.By CityLight Vineyard

It's relatively easy to have peace when our circumstances and relationships are peaceful. But what happens when we are experiencing conflict in those areas? Is there a peace that we can embrace and rely on during times of conflict? As we study John 14-16, we will see three key ways that Jesus encourages us to increase our peace in Him. Together we …

Today, Becca kicks off the Advent week of peace and gives us insight on what the Bible says about peace and how to experience it.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Jay gets us ready for Sunday's service on Peace.By CityLight Vineyard

Most people, even those who don't follow Jesus, acknowledge our need for hope. However, without God, what is hope? Is it possible to have true hope without Jesus? This Christmas season, let's remember the source of true hope: the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Because of His great love for us, we can have true hope in this life. No matter w…

Today, John talks about what hope looks like and how we can give hope to other people.By CityLight Vineyard

On day 3 of our Advent series, Jared talks, and sings, about how all of our hope is in Jesus.By CityLight Vineyard

Today, Monica talks about having hope even in the darkest of times. Psalm 147:3 He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. Isaiah 61:3 To all who mourn in Israel, he will give a crown of beauty for ashes Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORDBy CityLight Vineyard