Kingdom City Church
Kingdom City Church is a new church in Atlanta, Georgia. Our vision is to see the Kingdom of God transform the city of Atlanta through the mission of the local church. We hope our content stirs your affections for Jesus and supplements your ongoing discipleship from the local church you're apart of.
Episodes
34 episodes
Leverage: Love
In the final week of our "Leverage" series, our friend Charlie Craige preached on leveraging love. Love is more than emotion, preference, or words—it’s devotion expressed through action. In this episode, we unpack Jesus’ greatest commandments: ...
Leverage: Passion
If the enemy can't kill your faith, he'll do the next best thing - he'll kill your passion.In this week of our "Leverage" series, we're going to be calling people to leverage their passion. In 2 Timothy 1 Paul challenges Timothy to rekin...
Leverage: Pain
Pain is universal. It's something everyone has but no body wants. But what we do with pain determines so much about who we become. In this message, we look at the healing at Bethesda in John 5 and unpack the nature of pain, where it comes from,...
Leverage: Time
Time is the most non-renewable resource we have at our disposal. Statistically, the average person has about 4,000 weeks of life and many waste or misuse them. However, God invites us to leverage the time and season we're in for the sake of wha...
Leverage: Gifts
This message continues our ‘Leverage: A Life Without Regret’ series, exploring how God has uniquely gifted each of us—and what it looks like to steward those gifts well. Drawing from 1 Peter 4, we unpack how to discover, develop, and deploy wha...
Leverage: A Life Without Regret
No one wants to live a life of regret, yet many get to the end of their lives and are filled with shame. Like the old man at eternity's gate, they put their face in their hands an...
Easter at Kingdom City Church
Easter is an invitation to pause and ask yourself: “Is all that I’m seeing all there really is and all that’s available to me? Or is there a greater reality that I’ve yet to see or take hold of?” When Jesus was raised from the dead,...
Seven :: Jesus is Knocking (Laodicea)
In the final week of our "Seven" series through Jesus' seven messages to the seven churches of Revelation 2-3, we are with the church in Laodicea. Jesus' letter to the Laodiceans is the only letter where he has only rebuke for the chur...
Seven :: An Open Door (Philadelphia)
The church in Philadelphia was a small church. They didn't have much influence, power, or resources, but Jesus celebrated them and, because of their faithfulness, presented an open door of opportunity to advance the mission of Jesus in their ci...
Seven :: Wake Up! (Sardis)
Scripture: Revelation 3:1-6 (The Church in Sardis)In week 5 of our "Seven" series we're looking at Jesus' words to the church of Sardis. Jesus accuses the church of being dead even though they had a reputation for being alive. This was a...
Seven :: The Wrong Kind of Tolerance (Thyatira)
Scripture: Revelation 2:18-29 (The Church in Thyatira)Jesus' letter to the Thyatiran Church is intriguing. It's the longest letter, but it's to the smallest church in the most insignificant city. Unlike the other churches, Jesus' focus i...
Seven :: Pressure to Compromise (Pergamum)
Pergamum was one of the most influential cities in the Roman Empire. Home to the seat of Roman power and filled with Greek and Roman pagan temples, Pergamum was a wave of resistance against the Way of Jesus. In this letter to the Church in Perg...
Seven :: Faithful in Suffering (Smyrna)
The introduction of this message was cut short during editing. We shared the story of Polycarp, the Lead Pastor of Smyrna, and his martyrdom in 155AD. You can read the totality of Polycarp's story
Seven :: First Love (Ephesus)
To kick off our new series "Seven: Jesus' Words to the Church Today" we are looking at Jesus' word to the church in Ephesus. Planted by the Apostle Paul (Acts 19), the Ephesian church had a reputation for being a great church. However, Jesus ha...
Pursuit :: A Call to Sacrificial Mission
In our final week of "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", Pastor Blake calls our church to be people of sacrificial mission for the sake of expanding the Kingdom. Jesus came to usher in the Kingdom of Heaven on earth, then gave that sam...
Pursuit :: A Call to Local [Redemptive] Participation
In Jeremiah 29, God speaks the prophet to the people of Israel who had been exiled to a foreign land and godless city. He calls them to live in it, to love it, and to look forward to God's future rescue as they do. Using this text, Pastor Blake...
Pursuit :: A Call to Faithful Community
*Due to inclement weather, we were unable to gather in-person so this message was recorded during a virtual gathering via zoom.As we continue in our series "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", we are focusing on our chur...
Pursuit :: A Call to Intentional Discipleship
At Kingdom City Church, we pursue the formation of people. We long to see everyone transformed by Jesus and conformed to His image. But what does this look like in our everyday lives? What should this produce? We believe it looks like intention...
Pursuit :: A Call to Radical Devotion
In week two of our "Pursuit" series, Pastor Blake looks at Mary of Bethany's act of extravagant worship and radical devotion in Mark 14:3-9. If we are going to experience the presence and power of Jesus, it will require lives and acts of radica...
Pursuit :: A Call to Wholeheartedness
In week on of our "Pursuit: Moving Towards What Matters Most", Pastor Blake walked through the relatively unknown story of Judah's King Asa (2 Chronicles 14-16). Asa was the great grandson of King Solomon (the son of King David) and brought rev...
Christmas: Good News of Great Joy
Our first Christmas at Kingdom City Church was spent looking at Luke's account of the Christmas story. If it's true that God has come in and through the person of Jesus, then everything is changed and anything is possible.
Formed: Transformation (Pt. 2)
In an attempt to give practical tips, Pastor Blake closes out our "Formed" series with systems and structures to help get us started in our spiritual formation journey. We hope it's helpful. Some of the topics addressed:
Formed: Transformation (Pt. 1)
Jesus of Nazareth is the most important figure in the history of humanity. He changed people's lives and led them to say things like: "Everything He does is wonderful" (Mark 7:37)... He has perplexed historians and inspired artists for over two...