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  1. 2d ago

    Our Family Name | Simple Saints

    What's in a name? Really? The first message from our Simple Saints series begins by gathering the 'fruit' of our summer in James. James ends his letter calling us to speak life over one another, to draw one another into life — which is another way of saying: live into who you are and who's you are... Live into your family name. So... what is our family name? You might be thinking "Christian." But did you know that the name "Christian" appears only three times in the New Testament? And, it wasn't a 'family' name, but was given by outsiders at Antioch who noticed this group kept talking about Jesus. The name the early church took for themselves was "saints" — Paul's most common way of addressing the churches, thirty-nine times over. A saint is one set apart by God, for God: a holy one, distinct because of their relationship to God. It is not a title of distinguished accomplishment but of received blessing, one that gives shape to the identity and actions of the person so blessed. What we are called by, who we are called to be and to become and... Who it is that calls us... in every sense is our "call-ing." Which is why Paul greets the church in Corinth as those already "sanctified in Christ Jesus," yet "called to be saints" — made holy, and becoming holy. Saintliness is both a gift and a task. But, it is derivative: it comes from Christ and is being given to us. For fourteen years, this has been our quiet work as a faith family — becoming simple saints in life together, ones who cannot be described or understood apart from God's intent and attention. Questions for Reflection: What emotions, thoughts, doubts, or affirmations arise as you read Paul's greeting as addressed to you: "to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints"?"Saint" names you by what God does in and for you, not by what you do for God. Where do you struggle to believe that?What would it look like this week to live into the name you have already been given? Scripture References: 1 Corinthians 1:2-3; Romans 1:7; 2 Corinthians 1:1; 2 Corinthians 13:13; Ephesians 1:1; Philippians 1:1; Colossians 1:2; Philemon 4-5; James 1:2-4; James 5:13-20; Acts 11:26; Psalm 34:1-10; Romans 8:27-28. Voices/Quotes: Eugene Peterson, on Paul's use of "saint"; Michael Gorman, on saintliness as gift and task; James D. G. Dunn, on holiness as the beginning and the process of salvation; John Webster, on holiness as indicative and imperative Sermon Notes & Liturgy | Simple Saints --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  2. 2d ago

    Complete Faith (5:13-20) | James: Faith at Work

    What do you do when you believe, but feel too weak to live what you believe? James ends his letter where he began: with faith growing toward a life that is complete, lacking nothing, amid the troubles of ordinary life. In this final sermon in our Faith at Work series, James 5:13-20 invites us to participate in that work through prayer, praise, and the care we give and receive. In suffering, we turn to God for wisdom. In joy, we sing praise. And when we feel weak, we call for others to pray over us and remind us who we are in Christ. Anointing in the name of Jesus gives visible expression to a life held in Christ. The prayer of faith rests in his faithfulness and his restoring work. As we confess our sins, pray for one another, and bring a wanderer back, we participate together in that work. Faith matures in a shared life, where we can receive care in our weakness and speak the truth and grace of Christ to someone else. Questions for Reflection: Where do I turn first when life becomes difficult, and what would it mean to ask God for wisdom there?Who could I invite to pray for me where I feel weak? Whose need might I attend to this week?What would look different tomorrow if I responded joyously to faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 5:13-20; James 1:1-8; James 1:17; James 4:13-17; James 5:7-8; Acts 2:42. Voices/Quotes: Douglas Moo Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work -- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218. Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  3. Aug 22

    Protest, Patience, Presence (5:1-12) | James: Faith at Work

    "Come now, you rich. Weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you." Just some light, Sunday morning devotional reading... right? In James 5:1-12, James speaks first as a prophet against the unrighteous rich: those who hoard, defraud, and live in self-indulgence while the people who work for them go unpaid or overlooked. Then he turns to those who are taken advantage of--the ones who were slighted or simply forgotten about--and asks for something harder than outrage: patience. This sermon moves through three questions. 1) Not "are you wealthy," but "are you righteous" — do you rightly relate to what you have, how you got it, and who you owe? 2) Not "will your cries reach God," but "have they already" — James writes in the perfect tense: the cries of the harvesters have already reached the Lord of hosts. 3) Not "how long," but "who is with you now"--the same compassionate and merciful God who met Job's grief, argument, and lament without flinching. Patience, is not doing nothing. It is doing the faithful thing without pretending you are in control of the end. And in the end, all he asks of us is a simple yes--not a performance of faith, not a grand gesture to prove we mean it, but a yes that is yes, because the God who hears us is nothing like the ones who need convincing. Questions for Reflection: Do I trust in my riches more than I trust in God — and what does that trust produce in me, or around me?When or why do I grumble, and how does it shape the way I treat the people closest to me?What would be different tomorrow if I humbled myself through faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 5:1-12, James 4:13-17, Matthew 6:19-24, Job 1-42, Psalm 146 Voices/Quotes: Douglas J. Moo, The Letter of James Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas. Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylife X: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  4. Aug 11

    If the Lord Wills (4:11-17) | James: Faith at Work

    What is your life? A mist? A vapor? Something more? Less? In James 4, James turns from the war within us to the way we live in the world. He confronts two universal sins: the individual sin of judging and condemning one another — exalting ourselves to lawgivers — and the collective sin of presuming we are in control of our lives, planning our futures as if we were the source of our own present and future. James calls us to humble ourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt us. Not self-flagellation, but the joyous irony that when we are exposed, unhidden, and vulnerably honest before the One who is obviously greater, we are not condemned but conformed. We grieve our sins (plural) and the sin-full state of the world (Sin, singular), but through Jesus our brokenness is transformed, redeemed as faith, and made visible in how we live and love one another. Questions for Reflection: Where have I condemned others because I failed to grieve my sins?How can my grieving Sin lead to my submitting to and discerning of God's will?What would be different tomorrow if I humbled myself through faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 4:11-17, James 4:7-10, James 1:2-4, James 1:17, James 1:18, James 1:21, James 1:25, James 2:10, James 2:12, James 2:13, James 3:13, Romans 12:2, Psalm 39:1-7, James 5:7-8 Voices/Quotes: A.W. Tozer (paraphrase) Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218. Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  5. Aug 9

    At The Heart of Faith's Work (4:1-12) | James: Faith at Work

    What keeps you from peace? In week 9 of our series on James, we arrive at one of the most confrontational passages in the New Testament. James asks, "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?" His answer is not about the other person, the circumstances, or even the truth — it is about the war within us: frustrated desire met with twisted passion. This sermon moves through James 4:1-12, confronting the way we ask God without submitting to Him, the way we pursue lesser loves as if they were ends, and the way we treat God as a genie or a distant power instead of the One who longs for us in covenant. James accuses us of adultery — not first against ourselves or others, but against the One faithful to us. And yet even there, grace is greater. At the heart of the work of faith is a humility that does not think less of ourselves, but thinks of ourselves less — so that we find ourselves totally infatuated and consumed by the One who gives all to us. Questions for Reflection: Who am I devoted to? Myself? God? Someone/thing else?In what ways does my faith lead to my humility, and therefore, to grace?What would tomorrow look like if I responded devotedly to faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 4:1-12, James 1:3-4, James 1:9, James 1:17, James 1:19-20, James 3:13-18, James 3:14, Hebrews 11:1, Matthew 5:21-22, Matthew 11:28-29, Psalm 24:1-6 Voices/Quotes: Douglas Moo, TPNT Commentary on James Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  6. Jul 28

    Evidently Wise (3:13-18) | James: Faith at Work

    How do you know if you are living wisely? James does not ask for your credentials. He asks for evidence. "Who is wise and understanding among you?" is not a question looking for a particular set of ideas or even beliefs — it is a question looking for a particular way of life. In James 3:13-18 there are two kinds of wisdom. One is earthly and unspiritual, carrying bitter jealousy and self-interested rivalry underneath it. It can be factually accurate and still be false to the truth. The other comes down from above: pure, peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. If our seeing and reacting produces disorder in our relationships with God, others, the earth, and ourselves, we are building on sand. Where a life sows peace, a harvest of righteousness follows. The test is not how much we know. It is whether our lives author peace, manifest righteousness (right-relationships), and embody the Kingdom of Heaven. Questions for Reflection: Where do envy and self-interest exist within my heart?Am I authoring peace in my roles, responsibilities, and relationships? How, or why not?What would tomorrow look like if I responded wisely to faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 3:13-18, James 1:5, James 1:8, James 1:15, James 1:17-22, James 2:1-13, James 3:9-12, James 4:4-7, James 5:7-8, Psalm 37:1-11, Matthew 7:24-27. Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work -- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218. Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylife X: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  7. Jul 16

    Words through the Word (3:1-12) | James: Faith at Work

    What if the problem with our words is deeper than just saying the wrong thing? In James 3:1-12, we are invited to feel the weight of the tongue. Our words matter in our journey of faith, our work, and our community. They can bless God while wounding people made in his likeness. They can become a fire that divides, or they can participate in the healing work of the Word made flesh. This sermon traces James’ warning against using words for our own elevation, his call to be quick to listen and slow to speak, and his deeper invitation: not the suppression of words, but the transformation of character. We cannot tame our tongues through technique. Instead, we bring our divided hearts, humbly and honestly to God and depend on Jesus, the Word of truth, to transform us. Questions for Reflection: What do my words reveal about myself?How do my words bless other people?What would tomorrow look like if I grounded my words in listening to Jesus? Scripture References: James 3:1-12, James 1:18-19, James 1:26-27, Genesis 1:1-3, Genesis 1:26, Genesis 2:19, John 1:1-3, Acts 2:2-4, Revelation 12:9-10, Psalm 119:105-112, Philippians 2:12-16. Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

  8. Jul 8

    Fullness of Faith (2:14-26) | James: Faith At Work

    What if faith was never meant to be a private belief you keep separate from the rest of your life? In week 5 of James: Faith At Work, we sit with one of the more difficult and controversial passages in the New Testament: James 2:14-26. James asks, to paraphrase, "What good is a claim of faith while ignoring a brother or sister in need?" He presses against a faith that separates us from our neighbors, from ourselves, and from God--faith that merely confesses the truth, all while leaving daily life untouched. This teaching reflects on James' warning about dead faith, his examples of Abraham and Rahab, and the deeper beauty underneath the warning: living faith is not performance. It is not self-justification. It is the whole person moving toward Christ. Faith is brought to fullness as the implanted word works through us in love, mercy, provision, and ordinary obedience. Questions for Reflection: What areas of my life have I separated from my faith?How is my faith at work in my daily life and community?What would tomorrow look like if I responded to faith at work within me? Scripture References: James 2:14-26, James 1:18, James 1:21, James 1:27, Matthew 25:34-40, John 13:35, Genesis 15:6, Genesis 22, Romans 3:28, Deuteronomy 6:4, Philippians 2:12-13, Psalm 107:1-9 Voices/Quotes: Douglas J. Moo, The Letter of James; Dallas Willard, The Divine Conspiracy; Eugene Peterson, The Message and A Long Obedience in the Same Direction; Martin Luther; The BibleProject; Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals Sermon Notes & Liturgy | James: Faith at Work --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we.Come rest in Jesus. Sundays at 10:10AM642 Brookhurst Dr, Dallas, TX 75218.Christ City Church is a faith family following Jesus together in east Dallas.Learn more at www.christcity.life Follow us on...IG: @christcitylifeX: @christcitylifeTH: @christcitylifeFB: christcitychurchdallasYT: @christcitylife

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A podcast for Christ City Church in Dallas, TX. Sunday sermons, community conversations, and more...

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    2019 - 2026
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