Church In The City, Chicago Il

How do I love myself well - like Jesus loves me - so that I can love others?

Followers of Jesus are called to live in the same "way" that Jesus did -- The Way of Love. We learn this way by seeing and experiencing the love of Jesus for us. The great commands to love God and love people beckon us to lay our lives down in the same way of self-sacrifice, trusting in the transformational power of God's Spirit working through Calvary-like love to accomplish God's plans.

Living like Jesus is Lord is the adventure of counting the cost of following Him and resting in the promise of His victory.

Is thanksgiving dependent on circumstances or the consistency of who Jesus is and what He's done for us?

Honor has incredible power. We pursue honor by starting with a revelation of Jesus' honor and value for us. We take practical steps of avoiding comparison, taking the effort to honor others, considering what's important for others, avoiding offense, and thinking the best of one another.

Those who are faithful with little can be entrusted with much. As we seek to become people of great impact for God's Kingdom, we fix our eyes on Jesus and run the race with endurance through faith and hope.

Our obedience is rooted in the Lordship of Jesus, and we are invited into a partnership of participation with God as we walk in response to all that He says.

What is our dream for CITC? To be a covenant-community - a family - of God’s people where He is present, wanting nothing more than to see His reign and rule come to our neighborhoods and the nations while understanding the vital role of partnership and accountability in achieving this.

If Jesus is my Lord then how does grace shape my identity? And how do we ensure that God's grace is not in vain?

We can trust Jesus because He is safe. It's those leaders that make us feel safe that we can trust and follow--Jesus' sacrifice was the ultimate demonstration of servant-leadership. When we fully trust a leader like Jesus, fear leaves. Every organization, group or family with a leader has an environment that motivates their action--we live in a fear-based society, yet the sacrificial lamb of God is a leader who demonstrates why we can trust Him. We, as followers of Jesus, serve those around us and establish environments of safety and trust, and, in doing so, expand the reign of Jesus and make way for people to know the true King.

Freedom in Christ gives us the ability to choose to truly love, give & serve. When we walk by the Spirit, we deny the destructive "self" and sacrifice our lives for the glory of God and the love of people.

Advancing the Kingdom through our daily lives by loving others as Jesus loves us.

Framing the series, "Because Jesus is Lord..." by answering the question 'Who is the King of God's Kingdom?" and "How does the Kingdom of God daily impact the way I live?"

The greatest event in world history - the Father sending His Son to a world who needs to hear the good news of the gospel - is repeated each and every day in each of our lives as we are sent by Jesus to those we're called to love and impact with the good news of the gospel.

God the Father showcases his ultimate victory in raising his Son, Jesus Christ, form the dead. Celebrate the fullness of the completed Gospel!

Terry Krueger, a dear friend of Church In The City & member of NCMI’s Ephesians-4 Team, ministers to us and ordains new elders in our church — Mat & Sheetal Philip — and celebrates the return to eldership of Mark & Courtney Nelson. In this message, Terry challenges us all to look to the Good Shepherd and find Him as our source of life and example of leadership.

Jesus, continuing His Farewell Discourse, displays great love and care for his disciples. He explains the nature of His campaign so that His disciples will not be confused or offended about the things that are about to happen to him and to them. He prepares the disciples so that they can grasp their role in His coming Kingdom, and equips them with the promise of the power and comfort of the Holy Spirit. In the same way, today, Jesus wants his disciples to understand his campaign and to participate, by His Spirit, in the transformational work of the Kingdom of God.

Because Jesus is the vine and we are the branches, there is the promise of fruit. But the time between the promise of the bud and the fulfillment of the fruit can be a lonely and difficult time. How do we navigate our way through that difficult season? We abide in Jesus; more specifically we abide in His word and in His love.

Jesus reveals that God has made a way to be with him, to know him and to live in him now.

Greatness in the Kingdom of God is so counter-cultural to greatness in the world. By washing His disciples' feet (a foreshadowing of his death on the cross), Jesus demonstrates unconditional love and that serving others is the hallmark of true greatness.