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Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on how God is good.

Pastor Jon Tyson teaches about the redemptive, beautiful, and confrontational nature of biblical goodness. With the Holy Spirit producing the fruit of goodness within us, we have the power to redeem, to bring beauty, and to overcome evil with good.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on kingdom kindness.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on truly believing that God is kind.

Pastor Jon teaches about having a spirit of kindness during a time of harshness. Through the Holy Spirit, we are called to manifest God's kindness that is compassionate and others-directed.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on perseverance through suffering.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on persistence and Moses.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on persistence and Abraham.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on the patience we find in Matthew.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on the patience we find in Proverbs.

We continue in our study of the fruit if the Spirit as Pastor Suzy teaches about patience that endures. Through the power of the Holy Spirit and persistence in prayer, we are able to persevere in our suffering and meet others with a patience that imitates the Father's.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on the beauty of peace with God.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on peace in the midst of chaos.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on peace and purpose.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on guarding the peace of your heart.

This Easter Sunday, Pastor Jon preached about the good news of Jesus's resurrection and the peace God offers to our collective anxiety and fear. Through Jesus, we can receive the peace of His presence, the peace of purpose, and the peace of His power. Jesus sends His Holy Spirit into our hearts so we can live with peace, have communion with God, and carry His gospel to the world.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on courageous joy.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on gratitude and joy.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on choosing joy.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This one focuses on Psalm 73.

Pastor Jon teaches about defiant joy as as an internal reality, produced by the Holy Spirit, that sees the beauty in the Word and the world, enables a different response, and anticipates a glorious future. Especially in a time of despair, we must live out of the joy that comes from the Holy Spirit -- a generator of life that lets us operate in a different way than the world around us.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is about love and forgiveness.

We continue in our study of the the fruit of the Spirit as Pastor Jon shared a message about what it looks like to love in a time of selfishness. When we root ourselves in the love of God through Christ, we are able to bear the fruit of that love, turn away from oursleves, and let if flow freely to those around us.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is about love in secrecy.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is about 1 Corinthians 13.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is the fourth one of the week.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is the third one of the week.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is the second one of the week.

Following along with our current sermon series on fruit of the Spirit, this is a devotional to help you reflect on how the Spirit is moving in your life. This is the first one of this week.

Pastor Jon preaches about choosing a Spirit-led life over one driven by the flesh, which is any independent coping mechanism for life apart from God. The flesh uses and destroys, the law judges and excludes, but the Spirit transforms and loves. Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

This past Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson shared a special message about how the Church has a chance to respond in the wake of this public health crisis. He urged us to use this time as an opportunity to grow deeper in our faith and move towards those around us with compassion. This has not taken God by surprise, and with our hope in Him, this could be the Church's finest hour.

Pastor Suzy Silk teaches about why sin is a "big deal" and why we will be studying it during this season of Lent. Sin is the opposite of God's original design for our world and is what separates us from Him, ourselves, and those around us. We cannot save ourselves, but we are ultimately freed from our sin through Jesus' sacrifice on the cross and the resurrection on Easter. Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

Pastor Jon preached about the city of New York as an altar, calling for the people of God to come together in one heart and one mind, in order to seek the Lord, fast, and pray for our hearts to turn back to God.

In this episode, Pastor Suzy taught us about the importance of maintaining a communal altar of sacrifce and praise as a church, calling us to remember our first love, Christ, and cultivate a heart for Jesus together.

Pastor Jon talks about building altars in our home that pass on a spiritual inheritance to future generations. In Deuteronomy 6, God lays a clear pathway for how to develop resilient disciples. Specifically, He calls us to break off destructive generational patterns of spiritual complacency and worldliness, and to build a compelling vision of Himself, an ecosystem of discipleship, and a vision of spiritual legacy. This happens by creating environments where we're always informing and discussing things of faith: at home, while we're commuting, in daily transitions, when we leave and enter our home—every moment is an opportunity for discipleship. - Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

In this episode, we start a new series called Altars. Pastor Jon encouraged us to remember that through Jesus, we no longer have to offer sacrifices to enter into God's presence, but we are called to create new altars of prayer, praise, and encounter in our hearts.

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This past Sunday, Pastor Suzy Silk preached about creating a culture of honor that springs out of honoring Christ first. In turn, we receive honor from each other as we see each other's story, calling, sacrifice, gifts, authority, and future. Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

This past Sunday, Pastor @jontyson taught us that ambition is a good thing and a gift from God, when we can reframe it to have a holy ambition. We can do this through having kingdom vision, a crystallization of discontent and radical sacrificial action. A holy ambitions leads to divine accelerations.⁠

In this episode, Pastor Jon Tyson introduces our new series called CHURCH.NYC, discussing all the essential "Jesus stuff": the miracles, the message, and the mercy of Jesus. // 2020-01-05

In the third week of Advent, Pastor Jon Tyson reminds us that the incarnation was God chosing to make Himself known to us through Jesus Christ. Jesus showed up in the midist of scandal and obscurity, not to power over us, but draw us to Him, inviting all who believe to become children of God. // 2019-12-15 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God. The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John testified concerning him. He cried out, saying, "This is the one I spoke about when I said, 'He who comes after me has surpassed me because he was before me.'") Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. John 1:1-18 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

In the second week of Advent, Jon Tyson reminds us that from Genesis to Relevation, God's desire is to be with His people. Throughout all the joys and all the sorrows of this season, God promises that He is with us and that we carry the gift of His presence with us wherever we go. // 2019-12-08 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins. All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through the prophet: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him "Immanuel" (which means "God with us"). - Matthew 1:21-23 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

This week, Suzy Silk kicks off our series by giving a word on who the God of the Bible is. God is infinite, yet personal; just, yet merciful; Holy, and yet incarnate. We can respond to His coming with fear(lessness), joy, and adoration. //2019-12-01 Mary's Song: "And Mary said: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me— holy is his name. His mercy extends to those who fear him, from generation to generation. He has performed mighty deeds with his arm; he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts. He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble. He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty. He has helped his servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever, just as he promised our ancestors." -Luke 1:46-55 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @churchofthecitynewyork

In this episode, Pastor Jon Tyson ends Fall Vision Day 2019 with three stories from members of our community: Laura, Peter, and Alicia. They share their experiences concerning Holy ambition, culture of honor, and an overcoming spirit. // 2019-08-24 "Lord, I have heard of your fame; I stand in awe of your deeds, Lord. Repeat them in our day, in our time make them known; in wrath remember mercy." Habakkuk 3:2 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

In this episode, Pastor Suzy Silk continues our 1 Peter sermon series, Citizens, by examining the apostle Peter's exhortations to the church regarding Godly leadership, which starts with being a witness to Christ. Also included in this episode is one of the new worship songs written by our community, New Name. // 2019-09-01 "Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all of your anxiety on him because he cares for you." 1 Peter 5:6,7 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

In this episode, Pastor Jon continues our 1 Peter sermon series, Citizens, by examining the apostle Peter's exhortations to the church in the midst of suffering. Pastor Jon in turn offers his exhortation to our church today in the midst of secularism. Also included in this episode is one of the first worship songs written by our community, We Behold. // 2019-08-25 "But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed." 1 Peter 4: 13 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

Pastor Jon continues through Citizens, our summer sermon series in 1 Peter. As an old man reflecting on the highs and lows of his life as a disciple, Peter is urgent about how believers should live counter to their surrounding culture. Also included in this episode is a new worship song written by our community called We Tremble. // 2019-08-18 "The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray." 1 Peter 4: 7 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

Pastor Suzy continues our summer sermon series through 1 Peter, Citizens. Citizens of the Kingdom of God are eager to do good, even in extenuating circumstances, because of the hope they have in Christ. // 2019-08-11 "But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander. For it is better, if it is God's will, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God." 1 Peter 3: 15-18a Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

Pastor Jon leads us through this week's teaching text, 1 Peter 2: 13-25 and 1 Peter 3: 1-7, continuing our summer sermon series, Citizens. Despite our best attempts to avoid suffering, we may still suffer in this life. Yet, because the Spirit empowers us to fear God above any other circumstance, we can still suffer well like Jesus did. // 2019-08-04 "To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps." 1 Peter 2: 21 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC

Pastor Jon dives into 1 Peter 2: 11-12, continuing our summer sermon series, Citizens. As followers of Jesus, the Holy Spirit becomes the governing reality of our hearts, reforming our desires so as to make a marked impression on those around us. // 2019-07-28 "Dear friends, I urge you, as foreigners and exiles, to abstain from sinful desires, which wage war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. 1 Peter 2: 11-12 Church of the City New York https://church.nyc | @COTCNYC