We have been richly blessed at Cities Church with an ever-increasing number of children— gifts from the Lord as the Bible calls them, not distractions.

Our mission at Cities Church is the Great Commission, and underneath that mission, we have three essentials that correspond to the three main structures of this church.

Paul Tripp is quoted as saying, “If God doesn’t rule your mundane, then he doesn’t rule you. Because that’s where you live.”

The easiest, most radical thing we can do for our neighbors might simply be saying hello. So why don’t we?

In this world, we go to bed with things unfinished or with checklists that are completed only to be drawn up again the next day. But cascading over it all is that the most important, hardest work in this life is finished. 

It’s not lost on the leadership here at Cities Church that as we plant this new church in 2015, we do so in a dramatically more post-Christian day than we were born into in the 80s.

Anger is always exposing what matters to us. And most of the time, if we are honest, what our anger tells us about what really matters to us is not so pretty. 

How does the meaning of life fit in with the mission of Cities Church? What does this look like in the context of discipleship? In particular, what does it have to do with us telling our friends about Jesus?

In this article, Emily Thiel introduces a short video from Nancy Guthrie that answers the question: “What do I say to those who are grieving?”

The glory of God is for all the peoples of the earth. Do we really understand what this means?

Speaking from her own experience of suffering, Emily Thiel encourages Cities Church to not be frivolous in the face of pain, but, even in the midst of it, even when it makes no sense, to trust God that one day it will.

We want to encourage you to become whole counsel of God people by developing a deep familiarity with the Scriptures. I like that word—familiarity. Like family. I want the Bible to be like family to me.