Christ City Cast

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

Christ City Cast is a religion podcast hosted by Christ City Church, with 352 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  Simply All | Simple Saints

  Sep 16, 202649 min

  How do you stay whole even as contemporary life pulls you in different directions? Saint Paul calls the church "saints": people made holy in Christ, set apart, and called to grow into that gift of holiness... together. In the second message of our fall series, Simple Saints , we consider how God's own undivided life gives shape to that calling. Drawing on divine simplicity—the harmony of God—the sermon asks how our desires, actions, and relationships can become whole and holy in world of fracture and brokenness. Questions for Reflection: Where, when, and in what ways have you experienced the wholeness of being set apart by God? Where do you feel divided or mixed up in spirit, soul, or body? As you bring those places to God, how does Paul's promise, “He who calls you is faithful,” shape your hope? Scripture References: 1 Thessalonians 5:23–24; 1 Corinthians 1:2–3; 1 Thessalonians 3:11–13; James 5:7–8; 2 Corinthians 3:18; 1 Peter 1:13–16; John 1:9; Exodus 3:14. Liturgy: Psalm 116:1–9; Romans 8:27–28. Voices/Quotes: Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (Elwell and Beitzel); Eugene Peterson, Practice Resurrection ; Michael Gorman, Inhabiting the Cruciform God ; Augustine, Confessions 1.3.3–1.4.4; Peter Leithart, “What Sort of Parts is God Without?” Aristotle. Sermon Notes & Liturgy | Simple Saints --- Tired of consumer Christianity? So are we. Come rest in Jesus. → Sundays at 10:10AM 642 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: @christcitylife TH: @christcitylife FB: christcitychurchdallas YT: @christcitylife

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  Our Family Name | Simple Saints

  Sep 7, 202635 min

  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: @christcitylife X: @christcitylife TH: @christcitylife FB: christcitychurchdallas YT: @christcitylife

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

  Sep 7, 202649 min

  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: @christcitylife X: @christcitylife TH: @christcitylife FB: christcitychurchdallas YT: @christcitylife

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

  Aug 21, 202643 min

  "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: @christcitylife TH: @christcitylife FB: christcitychurchdallas YT: @christcitylife

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

  Aug 11, 202645 min

  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: @christcitylife X: @christcitylife TH: @christcitylife FB: christcitychurchdallas YT: @christcitylife

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