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City Church Boise Sermons

Feb 9, 2020

Jesus declares only he can bring us genuine spiritual life, and that anyone who says otherwise is peddling destructive lies.

Matthew 7:13-14 

13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way...


Feb 2, 2020

Through the incarnation of the Son of God, Immanuel: God came near to sinners like us to befriend and thereby save us from sin.

He is explicitly stating that He is the narrow gate. He, Jesus, is THE way, the only way to true life.

 

Matthew 7:12

“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for...


Jan 26, 2020

Through the incarnation of the Son of God, Immanuel: God came near to sinners like us to befriend and thereby save us from sin. 

The incarnate Son of God calls us to incarnate him, to bring God near to sinners like us, as we befriend and thereby point to him. 

 

12 “So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do...


Jan 19, 2020

God calls all who are His to respond to His love for us, by loving one another as He loved us, thereby pointing each other and our world to Him.
 
Matthew 22:34-40 ESV
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. ...


Jan 12, 2020

Prayer isn’t about bending God’s will to ours, but about surrendering our wills to his and thereby thriving in him, as we tell his story for his glory and our best.


Matthew 7:7-11 ESV
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives,...