City Church Garland

In this sermon Pastor Keith explains how the Gospel changes how we view our work, how we do our work and why we do our work. The God of the bible works and He created mankind in His own image with the design to work as well. God is honored through honest and hard work and others benefit from it as well. Your work matters because God has designed you for it and therefore it has dignity and value not just because you get a paycheck from it.

What is the motivation that drives those who are faithful and fruitful in ministry? Christians need all the healthy encouragement and motivation that they can get to fuel them towards faithfulness. And the Apostle Paul explained what it was that motivated him in his ministry in 2 Corinthians chapter 5. In this chapter he not only explained the what of his gospel-centered ministry but also the why behind what he was doing. If you don't get a biblical why that motivates you in ministry then you may be prone to lose heart doing what you are doing in ministry or avert the missional aspect of ministry.

The Apostle Paul had an eternal and spiritual perspective that helped encourage him to stay faithful in ministry and to the mission God had called him to. In 2 Corinthians chapter 4 Paul shared some of the reasons why he did not "lose heart" or give up in ministry.

God's glory was displayed through Christ raising the dead and His sympathetic response to those grieving, so that we might get glimpse of glory and believe in Jesus. Jesus is sympathetic, Jesus is sovereign and Jesus is the source of life!

Jesus calls His followers to carry the torch of His ministry. In this powerful sermon Pastor Mike Ward explains the nature of incarnational ministry. He explained that it involves Christ followers embodying the message of Christ, embracing the resurrection of Christ, being empowered by the Holy Spirit and exercising the delegated authority of Christ.

The Apostle Paul imitated the example of Jesus and modeled for other Christians a life worthy of imitating. He told Christians to imitate him as he imitated Christ. In Acts 20 Paul calls the elders of the Ephesian church to reflect on how he lived among them. Pastor Keith highlights some of the characteristics that marked Paul's life from this passage and challenges the church to live a missional life as well.

Jesus modeled a lifestyle of evangelism that we who are Christians are to imitate. In this teaching from John chapter 4 we see a glimpse of the most missional person who ever walked the earth, Jesus, engage in a simple evangelistic conversation. We see Jesus press pass the social and cultural barriers of the 1st century to evangelize a Samaritan woman through a simple conversation.

In this sermon from Psalm 90 Pastor Keith explains how our time in this life is short and we must keep this in perspective to live wisely. And we must pray that God fill our days with His mercy and grace.

God is honored through the wise and faithful stewardship of our money and we save our self pain by heeding the wisdom He gives us about managing money. In this message Pastor Keith highlights five wisdom principals from the book of Proverbs that can help you manage well the money that God has entrusted to you.

This is the 3rd sermon in our series on Stewardship. In the sermon Pastor Mike Ward highlights how God is generous and gracious towards His people and one of the effects of grace in the lives of Christians is radical generosity. Christians are called not only to be recipients of grace but also conduits of God's grace into the lives of others.

There are great dangers and opportunities that accompany wealth.The Scripture warns us against the dangers of wealth and instructs us in how to make the greatest investment with what we have. In this sermon Pastor Keith explores the problems money can bring and the biblical solution to avoiding it's pitfalls.

Recognizing that everything belongs to God is foundational to being a good steward of your finances. In this sermon Pastor Keith explains how God is the owner and ruler of all things, and all that we have is to be faithfully stewarded under his authority. There are many pains that occur through handling finances foolishly. Having a biblical perspective of money and possessions can help save you much pain and devastation and free you up to be generous with what you've been entrusted with. It can also free you of worry about having enough and from seeking the satisfy the monster of greed, always wanting more.

God has displayed in glory in creation and in the Scripture. And we must give our attention to His beauty and truth revealed so that we might give God the glory He is due.

There is power to change things in prayer that is offered up in faith by the righteous. In this simple and practical message from James 5 Pastor Keith explains how God works powerfully through the prayers of His people.

God calls Christians to be people devoted to prayer who not only petition for their own needs but faithfully and fervently pray for others. In this sermon Pastor Keith explains how praying for others is hard work and it is expression of the love of Christ.

Fasting is a practice that has lost popularity among Christians today. It was something Jesus did and the early church did and many church leaders today that we most respect do as well. Jesus taught His disciples about fasting saying that "when' they fast they were to do it secretly to be seen by God and God would reward them. He taught them not to fast be seen by people because that would become their reward.

In this message Pastor Keith explains how and why Jesus came to earth and what our appropriate response should be. Jesus is the King who came miraculously and humbly to the earth to save us from our sins and reconcile us to God.

It is God's will for His people to be filled with joy and His reign in His people brings great joy into their lives, which is also a testimony to the world that God is enough to satisfy the human heart. In this sermon Pastor Keith explained how joy is a requirement for God's people and yet it is result of God's work in their lives. Joy is a commanded by God (Philippians 4:4, Matt. 5:12) yet it is produced by God's Spirit (Galatians 5:22). Joy is a manifestation of the Kingdom of God reigning in His people. The last portion of this sermon did not get recorded. In that part of the sermon Pastor shared how joy is also something that Christians must fight for in their lives.

God has designed His people to display and advance His Kingdom in the world through being peacemakers in every relationship.

The Kingdom of God is to be the priority of every follower of Christ and the point of view from which all of life is seen. In this sermon Pastor Keith addresses the problem of worry and anxiety, which tends to be magnified around the holidays. Looking at the teaching of Christ in the sermon on the mount he explains how we all need a Kingdom perspective to effectively combat anxiety. He also unpacks what it looks like to prioritize the Kingdom of God in our lives.