City Church Garland

In this sermon from Mark chapter 10 Pastor Keith explains why Jesus came, namely to serve and suffer for us to be an example and exchange His life for ours. He also highlights the reality that Christ- followers must suffer, serve and sacrifice for others in order to follow Jesus faithfully.

This was a special sending service for Chad and Nancey Bradley, who are missionaries of CCI Garland to Ethiopia. They are working with SIM currently in Ethiopia to train leaders in the Ethiopian church.

Knowing and following Jesus is at the core of Christianity and it must be priority for every Christian. In this sermon Pastor Keith explains what it mean to know Jesus and follow Him.

In the parable of the sower Jesus gave his followers four example responses to the message of the Kingdom and He exhorted His follower to take heed and listen carefully. The Kingdom of God advances in the lives of those who hear the message of the Kingdom, receive it and holdfast to it.

In this sermon the Kingdom Comes Pastor Keith explains how Jesus the King brought God's Kingdom on earth. He also explains what the kingdom of God is and ways that Christians can participate in advancing the Kingdom on earth like Jesus did.

The people of God have great reason to be courageous in the face of natural disaster or world war because God is their refuge, strength and very present help in trouble.

In this sermon on Psalm 95 Pastor Keith explains what worship is, how to worship God and why we should worship God. The big idea of this message from this Psalm is that God’s people are called to worship God with joy, reverence and obedience because He is our Deliver, God, King, Maker & Shepard.

In this sermon on Psalm 145 Kevin Diaz explains what worship is and why God's people should worship Him.

In this sermon Pastor Mike explains some helpful insight for life as you seek to be faithful in following God, yet see the wicked prosper while not following God. In Psalm 37 we are given instruction to not fret over evil doers or envy them. Instead we are instructed to trust God, do good, delight in the Lord, commit our way to God and rest in Him. Believers should resist anxiety and despair by releasing their worries to God.

God calls parents to influence their children by teaching them what He has done and what He has said, so that their children would set their hope in God, not forget His works and obey His commands.

In this sermon on Psalm 67 Chad Bradley highlights the reign of God, the salvation and the blessing of God from the chapter. The Psalmist expresses his earnest desire for the nations to worship God, which is the thrust for global missions. Chad also shares about the mission work that he and his family are preparing to do in Ethiopia.

The book of Job is helpful for those going through suffering or those who have loved ones suffering. Knowing that God is sovereign and good in our suffering helps us to suffer well. And this is something that we learn from the book of Job.

The Bible teaches us to fear the Lord in both the Old Testament and in the New Testament. In this sermon Pastor Keith explains what the fear of the Lord is, why we should fear the Lord and ways we can cultivate a fear of the Lord in our lives and in our families.

In this teaching Pastor Keith describes not only what evangelism is and how to do it but he also explains the why behind doing it. He gives ten reasons why Christians should share the gospel with the world.

In this sermon Pastor Keith explains how wisdom teaches us that God is the ultimate source of our satisfaction and that we are to enjoy and be content with the things in life as gifts from God's hand.

In this sermon Dr. Adrian Smith does an excellent job of telling the story revealing the big picture of the message in the book of Ecclesiastes. He articulately expounds on the reality that we all live under in post the Fall of humanity, yet Dr. Smith doesn't leave us in this message without the hope of the resurrection which "solves the riddle of death" that the Preacher in Ecclesiastes wrestled with. He said "Without resurrection there really is no answer to the pessimistic sermon of Ecclesiastes, a sermon squarely and solidly based on the undeniable reality of death. What Ecclesiastes observed hasn't gone away; fate, accidents, tragedies, injustice, death. But knowing the resurrection of Jesus enables us to face all of those things with hope".

Wisdom teaches us to live well in this life. To stay on the path of wisdom one must keep their eyes and ears attentive to wisdom and guard their hearts and mouths.

The book of Proverbs teaches us that there are two main paths in life that people follow and pleasant benefits accompany those on the way of wisdom, while painful consequences accompany those who are on the wrong path. In Proverbs we learn how to live well in this world according to our Creator's design and in it we learn why one should seek to live well. In this sermon Pastor Keith explains how; wisdom is to be priority for the person who desires to live well, wisdom is to be parentally transferred to the next generation and, wisdom teaches us to ponder which path each of us are on, along with it's outcome.

The workers of Christ, especially devoted to reach the lost of our world with the Gospel, are "few" indeed (and have always been). Yet it has always been through the "few" that Christ has expanded His Kingdom. Christ has invested in these "few" with His authority and as a result they are proven again and again to be more than conquerors. In Luke 10 Jesus taught His followers to pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into the harvest and He sent out His followers to be among those "few" laborers. Will you take action on His instructions to pray that laborers be sent out and will you be one of the "few" workers of Christ?

The book of Jonah is a comical story of a reluctant prophet who tried to avoid God and His missional assignment. In God's mercy He overcame the resistance of the prophet Jonah, in order to display His mercy not only to Nineveh but also to Jonah. God is a missional God who calls His people to join Him in accomplishing His global mission. God's mission overflows from His character, namely that he is gracious, compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love. When one fails to align with mission of God it reveals a disconnect with the heart and character of God. That's was the case with Jonah. The thing that should have fueled Jonah mission, the mercy of God for sinners, was the reason He avoided the mission. Jonah knew that God would grant mercy to anybody who turns to Him in repentance. God worked with the brokenness and failures of this reluctant prophet. So we can be encouraged that God too will work through us and regardless of our weakness and failures when we surrender to Him. God used a sinfu