Cities Church Exhortations Cities Church

In this exhortation, Jon Hoglund refers to the “day by day” renewal that the Apostle Paul explains in 2 Corinthians 4:16. Our temptation is to look at the slowness of our progress and ask, “Is God really at work?” But we should remember that sanctification is a slow and patient work in which God acquaints us with the new creation.

In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Polley compares the incomprehensible depths of the Grand Canyon with the even grander incomprehensibility of the new heavens and earth. We may not know what heaven will be like in full, but God has given us glimpses of it here on earth now when he reveals himself to us. Let’s recognize and appreciate the new creation God has started in our hearts so that when we do arrive in glory we will be prepared to embrace all that it is, with the eyes of our hearts wide open.

In this exhortation, Pastor Mike Schumann reminds us that even now that Jesus has ascended into heaven, and it is so much greater up there than down here, we should remember that the King keeps caring for his people, it is his citizens who stop caring for their king. Jesus has ascended into heaven. Even still, we are not out of his sight, nor his mind. Jesus has ascended into heaven, out of our sight. Is he out of our mind as well?

In this Easter Sunday exhortation, Pastor David Easterwood reads from Luke 24:1-6. If a man in dazzling apparel observed our lives today and saw the places we went to seek comfort or value or security or satisfaction or belonging or joy or love — would he have to ask “Why do you seek the living among the dead?”

In this exhortation, on Palm Sunday, Jon Hoglund reflects upon the triumphal entry of Jesus and what it tells us about our current reality. Could we surrender to Jesus today that plan of ours that we really treasure, and that if it didn’t come about, we would be upset with our creator and Lord?

In this exhortation, Pastor Jonathan Parnell exhorts: As Jesus worshipers, know what it is in your life that fuels and drains the purpose for which God made you. What distracts you from Jesus? What helps you to see and savor him, to glorify and enjoy him?