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citychapel.nycCity Chapel exists to see and spread the full measure of the Spirit empowered renewal promised by Jesus that brings personal conversion & deep-life transformation, wholehearted community, social justice, and cultural beauty to New York City and Northern Jersey, and through here, the world.

  1. 3d ago

    Luke 22:14-29 - Finding your place // Tables of Jesus - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions Jesus has just finished instituting the Lord's Supper when a dispute breaks out among them over which one is to be regarded as the greatest. Underneath the argument is a real and human question: what is my place, and is it a place of significance? Jesus names the pattern plainly. It's a system built on hierarchy, leverage, and control—the same instinct that fills our own moment, amplified by algorithms constantly surfacing the top of every hierarchy, with envy and despair over the gap between where we are and where we think we should be. His word to his disciples, and to us, is direct: not so with you. Greatness starts with where your eyes are trained—and Jesus says to train them on the bottom, not the top.

  2. Aug 23

    Luke 19:1-10 - Jesus and Zacchaeus, Seeking One Lost Sheep // Tables of Jesus - Chiwon Ahn

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions Before the encounter even begins, Luke gives us everything we need to understand what's at stake. Zacchaeus is a chief tax collector—wealthy because he has cheated, and everyone in Jericho knows it. His name means the pure one. Everyone sees him as a traitor. So when he hears Jesus is passing through, he doesn't push to the front of the crowd. He runs ahead and climbs a tree, just to catch a glimpse without being noticed. What he doesn't know is that Jesus has already come looking for him. When Jesus reaches the tree, he looks straight up, calls Zacchaeus by name, and says: I must stay at your house today. That word—must—carries the weight of divine necessity in Luke's Gospel. Jesus did not wander into Jericho by accident. He came to this city for one reason: to find the one man everyone else had written off. The crowd grumbles. But Jesus goes anyway—deliberately, purposefully, joyfully. And at the table, something extraordinary happens. Without being commanded or prompted, Zacchaeus stands and declares that he will give half of everything he owns to the poor and repay everyone he cheated four times over. The grace of being found, of being seen and called by name, is already transforming him before a word is formally preached. The Son of Man came to seek and save the lost. This is not just Zacchaeus's story. If Jesus actively sought the one person nobody thought was worth finding, we are sent to do the same. Invite them to your table. Let them encounter the same Jesus who came looking for Zacchaeus.

  3. Aug 16

    Luke 14:12-24 - How to Be a Better Host // Tables of Jesus - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions Throughout Luke, Jesus uses the table as a mirror. The way we build a guest list reflects the way we live our entire lives. And at this dinner party, he names what everyone has taken for granted: the logic of reciprocity. You invite people who can invite you back. You give to those who can give in return. The problem with that system is twofold. It's self-serving—hospitality motivated by expected return isn't really generosity at all. And it's exclusionary—it quietly locks out anyone who has nothing to offer. Jesus isn't just critiquing a dinner party. He's offering a new logic for how we relate to people, because the old one keeps the needy permanently on the outside. The alternative is intentional, sacrificial, and eschatological. Intentional, because we naturally drift toward the familiar and safe—without real effort, our circles quietly entrench the very biases Jesus came to dismantle. Sacrificial, because every invitation extended to someone who can't reciprocate is one that won't come back to you. And eschatological, because the repayment Jesus promises isn't immediate—it comes later, at the resurrection. He's asking us to trust his math over ours. The best hosts are the best guests. And being a great guest in Jesus' kingdom means showing up knowing you have nothing to offer—and coming anyway. When we know what it feels like to be an outsider who's been welcomed in, we become people who naturally look for the outsiders around us. The great host has one desire: that his house be full. Our calling is to join him in filling it.

  4. Aug 9

    Luke 10:38–42 - Kingdom Hospitality // Tables of Jesus - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions The table is still the place where we make real contact with others. And what Jesus does at the table is describe a new order entirely—a new way for relationships, a new way for power structures. Kingdom hospitality doesn't just turn strangers into guests. It turns enemies into family. Just before the story of Mary and Martha, Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan. The context matters: kingdom hospitality exists because the world is hostile and people arrive wounded. The call is to slow down, to stop, to give someone your full attention—to treat people as human beings rather than interruptions. So why is it so hard to live out? Jesus answers through Martha. She's doing everything expected of a good host, and yet he says: Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things. Anxious points to a deeper fear beneath every surface worry—what if things fall apart? Troubled carries the image of noise, a volume that won't quiet down. When we're full of that kind of noise, we have nothing left to give others. Mary has chosen the one thing that is necessary. The good portion—a phrase rooted in inheritance and in food—the richest, most sustaining part. The part that actually keeps you alive. When we sit with Jesus and let his words settle into the deepest parts of us, the noise begins to quiet. And from that place of rest, we become people who can offer others the full attention he has always given us.

  5. Aug 2

    Luke 5:27-32 - Where does Jesus want you? // Tables of Jesus - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions Where does Jesus want us? Close. He invites himself into the lives of seemingly all the wrong people, and what he offers them is not a program or a prescription—it is his presence. The table picture he gives us emphasizes friendship, conversation, curiosity, hospitality, and ordinary everyday connection. There is a physical intimacy to sharing a meal with someone. You sit face to face, the meal takes time, and you linger. This is the kind of spiritual leader Jesus is—not a drill sergeant, not a detached monk, but someone who pulls up a chair and stays.

  6. Jul 20

    Luke 10:7-11 - "...Now What?"// Good News - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Reflection Questions Jesus sends out seventy-two of his followers into the ordinary uncertainty of life—not just the leadership team, not just the clergy. Everyone carries a call. He sends them partnered, because there is power in partnership, and he sends them out carrying his peace: not merely a wish, but something tangible that can be transmitted and received. At some point, those followers find themselves somewhere unfamiliar, asking the natural question: now what? The bills, the deadlines, the endless ordinary things make it easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. Jesus anticipates this, and his answer comes in three clear commands—eat, heal, say—each one answering a question we ask in those moments. Find a table. The table was where Jesus did some of his best work. His instruction to his followers was not to rush past it but to linger, to receive, to let life and mission move at the speed of real connection. Aim for healing. The practical question in every friendship is simply: what is this person going through? That place of pain or uncertainty is exactly where kingdom restoration is most needed. Say something. To say the kingdom of God has come near is to say: God sees you, knows you, and because he is here, a different life is possible—not distant, not theoretical, but near. Jesus is honest that not every door will open. Rejection is real, and it can feel like death. But the power to face it doesn't come from our own resolve—it comes from looking at what Jesus chose. He came eating and healing, and what the world gave him in return was the cross. When that becomes real to us, it sends us back out, open-handed, willing to risk again.

  7. Jun 21

    Deuteronomy 5:16 - "Honor Your Father and Mother" // Jean Park

    Canva Slides Full Summary and Reflection Questions The fifth commandment tells us to honor our father and mother—but for many, that word carries baggage. It can sound like a call to perform, to obey without question, to stay silent about pain. Before real honor is possible, honesty has to come first: honest about how the people we're supposed to honor may have caused us deep pain, and honest that our memories are stories shaped by perspective, not objective recordings. This command was never just for children. It was given to grown adults with aging, frail parents—and it sits at the hinge point of the Ten Commandments, bridging our relationship with God and our relationships with each other. The Hebrew word for honor, kabed, means heavy, weighty, substantial. To honor someone is to treat them as having worth—not because they've earned it, but the same way a baby is cared for simply because they belong to us. For those who grew up with parents who weren't safe, honor doesn't require unsafe proximity. Kabed can be carried in the heart, without hatred, even from a distance. Every earthly parent will eventually disappoint, fail, or leave—and that ache points us to the one Father who never does. The good news is that whatever we bring to this—gratitude, grief, anger, or longing for a parent we never had—we can bring it honestly to God, who heals what needs healing and meets us right where we are.

  8. Jun 7

    Matthew 14:13–21 - "Bring them here to me" // Good News - Jeremiah Lepasana

    Full Summary and Discussion Questions Jesus encounters a crowd that has grown up around the things of God and is still hungry, weary, and searching for hope. Rather than turning them away, He has compassion on them and welcomes them into His care. While the disciples focus on what they lack, Jesus focuses on what He can do. He takes their small offering, multiplies it, and feeds thousands. In the process, He teaches them that they do not need to be the answer—they simply need to bring what they have and connect people to Him. The miracle points beyond physical bread to a deeper reality. Jesus later explains that He is the Bread of Life. He is the true source of the security, satisfaction, and hope we spend our lives searching for in other places. What the crowd needed most was not simply food for a day, but a Savior who could satisfy the deepest hunger of the human heart. The good news is that Jesus still meets people in their weariness and need. He invites us to stop looking elsewhere for what only He can provide and to find our deepest fulfillment in Him.

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    City Chapel NYC
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
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