Citylight Lincoln Church Podcast

In the second sermon of our Psalm 51 series, we see a major shift from David's writing. As Austin points out in his sermon, David boldly asks God to look past his sin and blot out his transgression. Not only that David asks that the Spirit of God would fill him with joy! The question is, when we are confronted with our own sin, do we respond in the same way as David?

We are kicking off a new series this week while we memorize Psalm 51 as a church! For our first sermon, Josh walks us through the first 6 verses of the psalm while giving us some context on why David is writing it. This comes at a point in David's life where he is confronted with the deepness of his sin by the prophet Nathan. In Nathan's confrontation, we begin to see just how pervasive sin is in our own lives!

For this week's Heart of God sermon, Tom Rempel preaches through the book of Amos. Written to the northern kingdom of Israel shortly before their defeat by the Assyrians, Amos is a book of warning and woe to the people. God has seen how the nation has failed to remain faithful to Him once again, and He will now have His justice. But, He also promises that the people will one day be restored.

As we continue in our Heart of God series, we pick up today in the book of Joel. Being only three chapters long, Joel is one of the shorter books of the Old Testament, and when we see that it once again is a book of judgment against Israel, it can be easy to overlook. But as Skyler will show us, Joel contains a vital message about the coming of the Messiah on the Day of the Lord.

For our last sermon in our Heart of God series for the summer, Pastor Jeff Ryan takes us through the Book of Hosea. In the book, Hosea uses incredibly powerful language to describe how Israel has repeatedly chosen to abandon their God in exchange for false idols. For their faithlessness, God warns the nation of Israel that judgment is coming. However, out of His deep love for His people, God does promise that one day He will redeem them and will once again be their God!

We read through the book of Ezekiel 37:1-14 for our third sermon this summer in our Heart of God series. In the passage, God commands the prophet Ezekiel to speak to a valley of dry bones to come to life, but when Ezekiel does this, there's no life in them! But when God breathes into them, they become a great and vast army! Skyler walks us through this passage which alludes to how until we become followers of Jesus, we are like an army of people made of flesh and bone but lack the Spirit of life, God's own breath.

This week in our "Heart of God" series we are going through the book of Lamentations. This book of the Bible is without question one of the heaviest in the entire Scriptures and for good reason. As Austin points out in his sermon, Lamentations begs the question: As followers of Jesus, what do we do with our grief and sorrow? We will see in this book not only what we do but also what the LORD does when we suffer!

We are continuing our multi-year-long Heart of God series this summer, and we are starting in the book of Jeremiah! Today's passage contains a verse often thought to mean that God wants and knows all of the good things ahead of us. But, while God does want good for those who love Him, as we'll see in Josh's sermon that doesn't always look how we think it should or even want it to.

Join us as we finish our "Knowing God" series! For our sermon today, Austin takes us through 1 Corinthians 12:11-27 and shows us the Holy Spirit as a distributor of spiritual gifts. We see that the Spirit has uniquely gifted all believers to be one unified body that loves and serves God and others.

Join us as we continue on in our Knowing God series as Josh walks us through the letter to the Ephesians. In the reading, we see that Paul is showing how the Spirit empowers us in our daily life

Today we continue in our "Knowing God" series and have the joy of celebrating 21 people being baptized from death into life! 21 people have placed their trust in Jesus as both their savior and king over their life, and today they get to declare that truth publicly. In our passage today, we also see how the Holy Spirit is both our convictor and our guide and how Jesus Himself says it is better that we have the Holy Spirit now than Jesus' physical presence.

In our second sermon on the Spirit of God, Josh takes us through John 14, verses 15 through 31. In the passage, Jesus is telling his disciples that while he is going somewhere, they cannot follow; Jesus is not abandoning them but is instead sending the Holy Spirit to be with them and to guide them to love and obey all the commands Jesus gave.

Join us as we kick off the third and final part of our Knowing God series, The Spirit! This week we open up Paul's letter to Titus and how the Spirit is our regenerator. While this word isn't commonly used today, it describes the beautiful work that the Spirit does in our hearts and calls us back all the way to Genesis.

Join us as we celebrate Easter Sunday! Today is without a doubt the single most important moment in all of human history and specifically in Jesus' ministry on earth. Having defeated death itself, Jesus not only delivers on every prophecy written about him by the prophets and proves himself to be the Messiah, he forever seals everlasting life for those who believe in Him! Today Josh Luse preaches on the resurrection of Lazarus and how Jesus used it to point to his own resurrection!

In this week's sermon in our "Knowing God" series, Austin preaches on Jesus proclaiming himself as the true vine. In this passage, Jesus commands his followers to "abide" in him as he abides in them. Austin teaches what it means for Jesus to be the vine and what it truly means to abide in him!

This week we celebrate as 17 people are baptized! Baptism is a time of tremendous joy because we, as a church, celebrate the transformation that Jesus bought for us, so we publicly declare our faith in Him! And as we see in today's sermon, Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life that gives us eternal hope, and He is preparing a room for us to delight in the presence of God for all eternity!

In this next sermon on the 7 "I Am" statements in our knowing God series, we celebrate our new Co-lead pastor Josh Luse preaching for the first time at Citylight! Josh walks us through Jesus claiming to be "the gate" and what exactly that means.

For this week's sermon, we are looking at the second "I Am" statement in John 8. In our passage we find Jesus confronting the religious leaders about His identity. Pastor Jeff Ryan points out how Jesus makes a claim about where he comes from and promises the result of belief in Him!

In our first sermon over God the Son in our Knowing God series, Justin teaches from John 6. Here, Jesus claims that He is the bread of life and what will ultimately sustain us when all else falls away. When we try to substitute anything else into our life as its sustenance we are left feeling unfulfilled and hungry.

In the last part of the "God the Father" section of our "Knowing God" series, we look at God as a Father. Whether your dad was good, bad, present, or not our view of our earthly father impacts how we view our heavenly one. For this week's sermon, Austin points out key areas of scripture that reveal to us what God the Father is like and how He views those who are His children.