CITYLIGHTS

|| Chris Armfield || Expectations are part of life. When a person isn't aware of others, or their own expectations, life can become quite difficult. This is true in our relationship with God; expectations matter.

|| Chris Armfield ||  Trouble is part of living this life, even for faithful followers of Christ. If this is true, what level of comfort can we expect from God in the midst of the troubles we face?

|| Oliver Wong || The Jews and Greeks that flocked to Jesus on Palm Sunday actually had more in common than they thought: they both looked to right king, but wanted to put him on the wrong throne. If you long to see the Kingdom of God, listen in as we unpack this portion of John 12 and see Jesus reveal the true and simple Gospel.

|| Guest Speaker || Justin McRoberts, a well known singer/songwriter, speaker, and co-author of the book Prayer: Forty Days of Practice, shares with us what it looks like to not only pursue the practice of prayer, but to find the essence of it. 

|| Chris Armfield || 1 Corinthians 12-13, Romans 15 || There's a serious myth and misunderstanding in culture, "We can only share when we have more than enough for ourselves." Jesus demonstrates and teaches the opposite reality, that we are most whole and "at home" in God when we give ourselves away to others.

|| Oliver Wong || Are you in a season of uprootedness? To one degree or another, life is in a constant state of change. What would it look like to see new seasons, new chapters, and uprootedness as opportunity to find true rootedness in Jesus and others?

|| Chris Armfield || In this message, we discover things that have already been true long before we ever imagined they were possible.

|| Chris Armfield || It seems that everything on earth and above the earth has been measured. Measurement is used to calculate the value of something. However, God is immeasurable. What can the immeasurability of God reveal about how we approach every moment of our lives?

|| Oliver Wong || Just before Jesus was crucified, Mary of Bethany poured out $25,000 worth of perfume on his feet. The disciples complained that her offering was wasteful, but Jesus corrected them. This week, Oliver teaches on Mary's story, Leviticus and what makes an offering pleasing to the Lord.

|| Chris Armfield || Have you ever wondered why God seems to work in some cases while in others it seems like He doesn't work at all? Could it be that Jesus provides how the "supernatural works" actually work in the story of Lazarus's resurrection? We believe He does just that!

|| Chris Armfield || What is the appropriate relational, emotional, and mental response to all kinds of pain in people's lives? In this sermon, we see that Jesus models perfect presence in the midst of one of life's most excruciating pains. 

|| Oliver Wong || When Martha seeks out Jesus to resurrect her brother Lazarus, Jesus declares, "I AM the life and the resurrection." This powerful statement changes everything about the way we see life and death. 

|| Oliver Wong || Death was not meant to be a part of life, it is the result of sin in a broken world. Jesus declares that it is for our good that we witness the death of his friend Lazarus so we might understand the meaning of resurrected life. In the final sign performed in the book of John, Jesus demonstrates that we are not only sick people being made well, but that we are dead people being raised to life. 

|| Timothy Bayne ||  Carl Gustav Boberg had an encounter with the Lord, searched the scriptures to understand that very encounter and went on to write a poem that would later become the 2nd greatest hymn of all time. How Great Thou Art would bring millions of people to salvation all around the world over the next 100 years, all because he responded to what God was already stirring within him. What would happen if we chose to allow the Holy Spirit to birth a doxology from the theology that is already being spoken to us?  

|| Chris Armfield || Have you ever wondered why so many people were offended by Jesus? What if it was more about personality than grace or truth? Could it be possible that personality plays a bigger part in people believing in Jesus than we might realize?