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At City Lift Church we believe that courage is contagious, so it is our hope that these messages fuel you with courage for your journey.
This Sunday, we have a powerful word from a special guest speaker! Pastor Desmond Cook breaks down the story of Samson for some biblical wisdom on your walk with God.
What circumstance do you find yourself in today? And where is God in the midst of it? Join us as we talk through what to do when you find yourself in trouble and out of faith.
We all fall short of God's standard when we sin. But how do we recover when we mess up? This Sunday, we wrap up our "Clean" series with a message of repentance and hope.
Living out holiness day-to-day can be challenging. In our third installment of "Clean," Pastor Matt talks through practical steps for walking daily with Jesus.
How do you get out of cycles of condemnation and shame? Walk with us as we talk through temptation and God's grace in today's message.
What does it mean to fully surrender to Jesus? In the first installment of our new sermon series "Clean," Pastor Matt defines righteousness, holiness, and sanctification in our walk with Christ.
A lot of us pray and then we forget or just don’t think about what we prayed for. Listen in as Pastor Matt shares how we can put faith into our prayer lives by preparing for our prayers to be answered.
How do we persevere through life and our walk with Christ when situations get challenging? Join Matt Rutter as he preaches on running the race the God has set before us.
We've all done something wrong and felt guilt and remorse grip us. If you are experiencing shame today, you've come to the right place. Listen in for a message on the freedom and joy found in Jesus!
Welcome to 5 for Five: a service where we host five communicators who each speak for five minutes! This Sunday, we have a special line-up from our City Lift family who each have a unique word to share with you today.
What are you afraid to ask God? Pastor Hubert Dauphin, a member of our City Lift family, has a powerful word for you on bold prayers.
Why do we share our faith and how can we be effective in telling people about Jesus? This Sunday, we're talking God's mission and practical ways we can carry it out as his local church.
Listen in as Pastor Matt continues the series "As It Is In Heaven" about unity in the church. As the body of Christ, we will have differences but there is unity in our diversity as we keep our focus on what we do have in common: Jesus.
This week, we unite with churches all across South Florida for a series on the kingdom of God. Join us this Sunday for our first message of "As It Is In Heaven."
What do you have your confidence in? Listen in as Pastor Matt talks about being secure in Christ this Sunday at City Lift
We all have things that we're great at and some things that we're not so good at. What we do have in common is that we all have a call of God in our lives. Whether you're already walking in your purpose or still trying to figure it out, listen in on this message that's all about the higher calling God has for us.
God has given us the greatest gift yet- his love. Listen in on this Sunday's message about God's free gift of love to you and how to receive it.
Have you ever made a big mess in your life and had no idea how to even begin cleaning it up? This message is for those of us who've messed up. Listen in for a beautiful reminder of God's power and ability to transform any situation we find ourselves in.
We’ve all had a time in our lives when we could have used a little more mercy when we’ve messed up. In this message, we’re reminded of the deep mercy that’s always available to us through Jesus.
It's City Lift's 4th birthday! Listen in as we celebrate and reflect on all God has done over these past four years. Pastor Matt speaks from a perspective of what it looks like to trust in God and run the race he's set out for us.
Sometimes it's easy to forget that we serve a big God and we limit ourselves because of life's circumstances. In this first message of the series Big God, we're reminded that God's thoughts and his plans are so much greater than ours. God's "yes" for your life is so much bigger than anyone else's "no."
This week at City Lift we had the honor to interview Laurie Jeselsohn from Hope Women's Center. As a church, we want to serve and support our local community the way Christ has called us to. Laurie shares the heart and mission behind Hope Women's Center as well as practical ways we can help the unborn and their families.
Good families have hard conversations. Here at City Lift, we believe that we are a united family that can talk about difficult and confusing topics and shed God's light on them. Join us for a message on the sanctity of life and God's heart for unborn children and their families.
What can we do on an individual and personal level to move the kingdom of God and the mission of God forward? Listen in on this message as Pastor Matt talks about a few fundamental guidelines we can all use in our daily lives as a believer in Jesus Christ.
What connects us to Christians all over the world? This week we continue the conversation on the foundation of our faith and what has kept the church alive and growing for over 2,000 years.
Why do we do what we do? In this message we pause and talk about what this thing called the church is all about.
How do you know if you're under spiritual attack? Is it just me or is it the enemy? These questions and more are answered in this week's message as we learn about spiritual discernment.
Oftentimes, we go into spiritual warfare without a battle plan. This Sunday, Pastor Matt laays out practical steps to combat temptations.
This Sunday’s message is all about how the enemy grows a lie in our minds and how we can use God’s word to build a mind on the rock of Christ Jesus.
Listen in as Pastor Matt starts a great discussion on spiritual warfare and a lot of the misconceptions surrounding it.
Ever felt like you were up against the greatest obstacle without any way of winning? This message is for you. Pastor Desmond speaks on what it looks like to trust God and be victorious in him.
We all have work that we do daily, whether it's in an office or at home. But what does God say about our work? Listen in as our very own Matt Rutter preaches on the purpose of our work in God's eyes.
In this message, Pastor Matt talks us through how we approach love from a biblical perspective and how we can apply this to today's culture. We are reminded of the tension between love and truth and how they both need each other.
Memorial Day weekend at City Lift is always exciting with our annual 5 for Five Sunday! Listen to speakers from our City Lift family- Catia, Kevin, Evelyn, Matt, and Desmond- on different topics just for you.
Have you ever been hurt and wanted to respond with pettiness? Listen in for a short message on letting go of the offenses in your life.
Most of us don't like discipline. But God loves us so much, that he confronts our wrongs with loving correction. Listen in for a message from the book of Amos on God's discipline and His grace.
What season of life are you in? As we celebrate mothers this Sunday, we also celebrate the different seasons that God has us in.
How do you respond to stress? In part 2 of "In My Mind," Pastor Matt delves into practical and spiritual wisdom for healthily dealing with anxiety.
How can we as people experience such high highs and then shortly after some low lows? This Sunday we take a look at the story of Elijah, how God responded to him, and how it all relates to our mental health.
The cross and the empty grave give us an image of who God is and what Christianity is all about. Listen for a special Easter Sunday message about what Jesus did for you.
Who is this Jesus? Join us for a special Palm Sunday message about wrestling with the question of who Jesus is to us.
We've all failed someone or failed at something. This week Pastor Matt reminds us that failure isn't final. We can overcome failure the Godly way and move forward.
Hannah, like many of us, had a problem that she was desperate to resolve. But what set her apart is how she responded to her problem by bringing it to God. Listen in to Part 1 of HER to learn more about Hannah's story and how we can let God into our pain.
How do we rest in what God has given for us instead of looking at all that we don't have? Join us for part 2 of Green Eyed Monster to hear about how you can live in contentment instead of comparison.
Who or what is going to define your self worth? This week, we address what leads us to jealousy and envy as we begin our two-part series, Green Eyed Monster!
What do you do when you reach a challenging season of your marriage? In part 3 of The Rings, Pastor Matt walks through the mission within marriages and God's heart for our spouses.
How do we slow the current of conflict and celebrate the current of connection? The Holy Spirit has a deep plan of connection for your marriage but sometimes conflict quickly draws us apart. In this message we learn how to intentionally stay connected to our spouse.
In marriage you see what you choose to focus on. Your spouse can get better at certain things but they'll always be a canvas of features and flaws and so will we. In this week's message we learn how to love our spouses for who they are and not who we want them to become.
God has faithfully sustained City Lift Church, even in the midst of external factors out of our control. But what is he calling us to next? In this message on the state of the church, Pastor Matt challenges us to contribute our presence, our influence, and our prayer to the local church to bring Jesus to our community.
Church is not just on Sunday morning. The church extends to the communities we form even outside the weekend service. Listen in to find out how you can make friends and Godly connections through Lift Groups
What does God say about equality? As we celebrate our progress on MLK day, join us as we also take inventory of what God is still calling us to do today.
In life we will all get hurt and offended. It's easier to let go of the offense of a stranger but it's so much harder to let go of the pain from those close to us. In this message, we talk about how we can choose to forgive others and the fresh start it gives us to walk in the freedom God intended for our lives.
Most of us like to start the year with a new resolution and a new vision of what we want our lives to look like. It's great to have a vision for our lives but this Sunday's talk challenges us to also set our vision of what God wants to do through us this year. We are not begging for a blessing, we are stretching because God is blessing!
Do you have healthy patterns in your life? The exhaustion you feel may be because of unhealthy patterns, problems, people or the pace we’ve set our life to run by. This week Pastor Matt talks about learning to not live life in a constant state of exhaustion and what the word of God has to say about it.
Fear is always going to come knocking on your door. But how should you respond? Listen to this Sunday’s message to hear what the Bible says about fear and how to bring it to Jesus!
Was that the Holy Spirit, my emotions, or the pepperoni pizza I ate late last night? This message answers the question how do we know if we're hearing from the Holy Spirit? Pastor Matt gives us six guideposts to help us along the journey of growing more in tune to what the Holy Spirit has to say.
The Holy Spirit has been around from before creation and still works and moves today. What role does the Holy Spirit play in our lives? Listen to this Sunday's message to get the play-by-play of how He is working in your life!
Do you find the concept of the Trinity confusing? Have you ever wondered who the Holy Spirit is and what he means to this whole Christianity thing? Then this series is for you! Join us this month as we dive deep into the person of the Holy Spirit.
This Sunday City Lift celebrates its 3rd birthday! We believe our best days are ahead of us because of God's faithfulness. We may remember our affliction but we can stay anchored to Christ. This message serves as a reminder of who our anchor is.
Everything God does in our lives is initiated by faith and received by grace. Waiting on the promise may have our attention, but what God really wants is our heart. This week, Pastor Matt talks about a mature faith that requires us to stay and see it through until God fulfills his promise.
Are you using colorful or useless language to describe your problem instead of solving it? This week, we look at the biblical example of David and how God has given us all we need to address the problems in front of us.
What has Jesus done for you? When we realize who God is to us and what he has done in our lives, we react from a place of gratitude. This week, we dive into how to worship God passionately as individuals and as a church.
Have you ever been in a room and the vibe was bad? We as humans are selfish by nature, and it’s easy to focus on ourselves instead of others. This week we choose to remember that church isn’t about me it’s about the “us.” That’s what creates a vibe of full of friendship.
Who gains when you give? Cheerful giving is a part of who we are as a church, and we believe that God has called us to give from a grateful heart. Join us as we challenge misconceptions about tithing and as we choose to trust God as our source.
Need a dose of courage this week? God does not call us to a failure- or frustration-free future. Get encouraged as we talk about how God graces us for each season by building our confidence in Him!
Who are we as a church? Join us as we kick off our series on City Lift's core values! This week, Pastor Matt spoke on our mission as a church to reach our city and to love others in everything we do.
Guest pastor, Terrence Mullings, preaches on how the names we live under can propel us forward or hold us back. Learn about the identity God has called you to in this week's message!
Is it possible you’re still fighting the same battle over and over again because you haven’t consulted how God wants to bring about the victory in your life? In this encouraging message from Pastor Matt Shull, learn how praise is above everything. If you are facing a Goliath and problem right now, this message is for you. Part 2 of Goliath Must Fall.
Hope has been hit hard in 2020. The amount of fear is palpable. We are fighting injustice. Everything feels overwhelming and its left many of us exhausted. Everything we are facing is real yet we, as the people of God, are not hopeless. Hope is a byproduct of being with Jesus. In fact, God is called the God of hope! We don’t have to face anything in this life alone. Nor do we have to fight evil without hope.
We invited Dr. Harold Lewis, the VP of Biblical Diversity in our network, to join us for this conversation. He is currently in Minneapolis helping the local church there. He shares about George Floyd’s funeral, painful personal experiences and how we can respond as a church family. This is an interview you don’t want to miss.
As a church family we believe that black lives matter. We all draw our value from our Creator and when the enemy of our souls tries to steal the value of some, it should infuriate us all. Listen as we hear from our Pastor on racism, God’s Word on equality and to hear our stance as a church.
In Daniel chapter 3 we get a great picture of how to respond when thrown into pressure. Accusations, drama and trials aren’t fun to go through but we can grow through them.
His presence gives us the confidence to face pressure. Jesus said He would never leave us or forsake us. As we face pressure we know we don't have to face it alone.
Today is all about building healthy families! While no family is perfect, we can be in process and make progress.
Pastor Matt & Alyssa Shull are joined by Pastor Martin & Marielly Ramirez to talk on parenting in this new normal of staying at home.
Pastor Matt & Alyssa Shull talk on conflict and communication in this new normal of staying at home.
Jesus walked out of His tomb so He could lead you out of our tomb! Join us as we celebrate Christ's victory over death.
In this special Palm Sunday message Pastor Matt Shull shares 4 practical ways to flatten the curve of fear in your life.
Join Pastors Matt & Alyssa Shull from their home for an encouraging message based off the book of Esther. Discussing where is God in all of this?
In this message learn three things you can do when facing a hard time. We hope this message is an encouragement to you during this season dealing with COVID-19.
As our world confronts the coronavirus we hear from Pastor Matt how we should react to it. We also continue our series on Open talking on control and what it looks like to live our life with open hands instead of closed fists.
There is nothing greater than God's mission. When a Christian is on mission in their environment they are at the ultimate place of their lives. Let's discuss how aligning our time, talent and treasure gets us there!
Your singleness is a gift with an expiration date! In this week's episode we dive into how we can embrace our season of being single and how God uses this time to set the course for the rest of our lives.
God doesn't want to hurt you through relationships, He wants to bless you through relationships. In this message learn how to navigate through breakups in a healthy way.
Marriage is a mirror. It doesn’t solve your problems and it doesn’t create your problems.Marriage reveals your problems. Your marriage is worth fighting for. Listen in to learn how to resolve your battles together.
Ever feel like you're running in circles? We spend wild amounts of energy on pursuits that often don't lead anywhere. In this episode we 'Pause the Pursuit' and talk about meaning.
Jesus laid the foundation for how we should use our finances. Hear from founder of The Resseguie Group, a financial consulting company here in South Florida, Dave Resseguie as he dives into God's Word on how to handle finances. Learn what sound stewardship and a generous heart looks like.
We are entering a new decade! There is no better way to go forward than to let go of the hurts in the past. Let's run free at a new decade.
We are the salt of the earth. Just as salt enhances the flavor of our food, we are supposed to enhance the world with our hope. In this message learn how to become a dealer of hope.
No one likes getting ghosted. It's frustrating when people don't respond to your texts or return your calls. But what do you do when God doesn't respond? For over 400 years God didn't talk to His people. He was silent but He wasn't absent. May this message cause your hope to rise.
God wants you to step off the pages of your story and step onto the pages of His story. You may be stuck in a sentence of feeling defeated but God will be faithful to complete what He started in you. This message from Pastor Terrence Mullings is all about how there is a better story for your life.
We look at the biblical character of Naomi in this message. Life has been really hard for her and she’s gone through a lot of pain. In the process of her pain she tells the community to change her name to Mara which means bitter, even though her name Naomi means pleasant. Pain if it’s not turned into praise becomes poison in our soul. It has the ability to change the way we view ourselves, our Heavenly Father and our social community. This is a great teaching on how to overcome the RAT of pain.
Just because you think a thought doesn't mean it needs to stay in your mind. Pastor Vanessa Gracia Cruz shares 3 attitudes you should have when dealing with your thought life.
With so much in our society pushing us towards status and position, God is calling us to not miss what he’s trying to do in our hearts during the process. Having heaven’s perspective in the middle of what’s uncomfortable is often times the catalyst he uses to propel us towards our ultimate purpose.
How can we overcome RATS and Garden our minds towards health? Pastor Matt shares some insight: count the right thoughts, catch the wrong and remain calm in the mental hijack.
City Lift Turned 1! As we go into year number two we want twice the passion, twice the heart and twice the effectiveness. We’re excited for the future!
Shame like discouragement is such a bully. We were never designed by God to experience shame. Shame always attacks the value of the person. Learn how grace forgives and helps us overcome sin all while keeping the value of people.
God rescues us through grace and He transforms us through grace. Many believers begin in faith and then feel like they need to ‘work’ to keep their salvation going. We hope this message helps you rest more in His grace.
God doesn’t want something from you, He just wants you. Let’s talk about how God wants to meet you where you are as you kickstart your relationship with him.
God wants us to stretch for more. He has greater blessings He wants to give us and we have to stretch ourselves to prepare for those blessings. As we increase our capacity God wants us to live in contentment and not chaos.
An unwilling prophet, a totally un-inspiring message but one of the greatest revivals in the Old Testament. Jonah 3 helps us understand repentance and what it means to come to Jesus with humility.
Jonah's decisions put him in a bad place. We've all made bad decisions that have put us in a bad place. But how do we begin to get out of it? Hear a few insights on how to move forward after you've created a bad scenario.
Who deserves God’s grace? Extending God’s love and mercy to people is easy until we become the focus of their attacks. Then forgiveness, grace and love becomes an uphill battle. In this message Pastor Matt talks about the power of forgiveness.
Faith has the ability to trust God. Many times in life we are going to have to hold a promise in our heart before we hold it in our hand. Don’t get exhausted or discouraged in waiting on God. He’s faithful to do what He said He will do.
God calls Abram on a journey without revealing the destination. In life God doesn't usually give us a GPS but we do get a guide. We want to put faith in the person not the place.
In this teaching Pastor Matt gives 10 simple ways to be the best dad for your kids. Being a father is not easy but it’s one of the great joys in life. We love you dads - you got this!
Hear Pastor Martin Ramirez speak about finding a life of meaning and purpose. Let’s dive into what making a difference looks like by following the example of Jesus, a man who revolutionized what a life of serving looks like.
Having a hard time moving forward? Still digging in your past, trying to find new life? This message is for you. There is more in your future. God wants to bring new people, places and ministry into your life. May God give you a resilient heart as you listen to this message.
Reconciliation can often feel like unwinding a ball of yarn. It doesn’t take long to mess it all up but it takes specific attention, trial, error and time to unwind it. How can we work towards reconciling with a family member? Find out in this message.
Difficult conversations are a part of all of our lives. We will face them in our workplace, with our friends and definitely in marriage and family. But these conversations are needed to keep the relationships in our lives healthy. We want healthy families and we want God in our families, so how we approach difficult conversations is important. In this message learn how to have healthy difficult conversations.
In this episode you will hear a message from our Mother’s Day service. Butta P joined Pastor Alyssa Shull and had a conversation about their journeys to motherhood, struggles they have faced, how to instill faith into your children, and how to strengthen your relationship with your mom!
People are stressed because life is stressful. The demands of paying bills, raising a family and navigating relationships is all real. In this message you will hear how to diffuse stress and live in victory over worry.
Who is Jesus? Part 2 - His fragrance is love, His words are Kind and His pace is peace.
Jesus makes this wild statement about being the way, the truth and the life. Is God being specific or exclusive? Why should we consider Jesus as the way? Hear some compelling responses in this message from Who is Jesus Part 1.
In this episode you’ll learn that:
1) Your Calling will Call you
2) Your Calling will Qualify you
3) Your Calling is Inconvenient
4) Your Calling won’t Quit on you
God will call us to projects He knows we can't accomplish without Him. We don't have the power to bring down the walls, but we do have the power to decide to follow Him all the way. This is the 1st message of our series Beyond.
Before God made marriage, He made single. We all have a single season. You don’t have to wait on bae to discover your destiny. Jesus fulfilled His mission single, nothing missing in His life. In this message you will learn how you can enjoy your season of singleness.
Men and women see, hear and process the world differently. In this message, Pastor Matt & Alyssa Shull open up about 13 years of marriage and the 3 main things that help them in their communication.
Half the battle is simply staying in the ring when things are difficult. Whether you’re believing for a better marriage, starting a new business or enrolling for school. God is with you. In this message, Pastor Matt Shull talks about how to keep and choose courage.
The space between where we are and where God is leading us is called : The Process. If you’re in the middle of your process you’re going to find encouragement in this message.