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Citizens Weekly
Hosted by Citizens Church BCS · EN
Citizens Church exists to create, baptize, equip, and empower disciples of Jesus in Bryan/College Station. To learn more about Citizens Church, visit us online at citizensbcs.com.
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Holy Spirit: Receive the Gift of the Holy Spirit
Mar 100:46:30Tap to summarizeThe Holy Spirit Himself is the greatest gift to us. He always comes with the Father's love. How do we receive this great gift of the Holy Spirit? Find out as Steph takes us through scriptures that point to the simplicity of being receivers in light of such an extravagant God.
Transcribe →Holy Spirit: Part 2
Feb 2200:26:48Tap to summarizeIn Holy Spirit Part 2, we go deeper into who the Holy Spirit is and why He was given. From Genesis to Pentecost, we see that God has always been inviting humanity into His life of love. Before power or gifts, the Spirit’s primary purpose is to draw us into the love of the Father through the Son—and to remind us that we are deeply loved children of God.
Transcribe →Holy Spirit
Feb 1500:48:03Tap to summarizeAs we begin our new series on the Holy Spirit, this message is both a warning and an invitation. Jesus looks for fruit, not just religious activity. Through the fig tree, the parable of the ten virgins, and stories of genuine revival, we are confronted with the danger of spiritual autopilot and the necessity of living with oil in our lamps.
Transcribe →Hunger and Thirst
Feb 800:44:10Tap to summarizeAfter a prolonged season of prayer and fasting, as Citizens shared for 21 days in January, we may turn easily back to life as usual, meaning to old appetites as usual. However, prolonged fasting produces in us new wine not fit for old wine skins. For this reason, we would do well to invite the Holy Spirit to examine our appetites, even frequently, for anything less than nourishing and less than righteous. Will we allow Jesus to root out of us the gross natural inclinations that defile us? Or will we be content hungering for worldly pleasures and applauses that distract us from His eternal Kingdom?
Transcribe →First Fruits: Converting Sauls
Feb 100:44:55Tap to summarizeGood stories are worth revisiting. The Acts 9 story of Saul's conversion—familiar to most Bible readers—welcomes a fresh reading from a different angle, looking less at Saul and more at the supporting cast of characters who each play significant roles in one of God's wilder moments of dramatic irony. Who could have expected God to redeem the enemy? And to do so through the brave actions of the local Damascus Church body? Surely, with their model in mind, what might this Redeemer do through us for the unsavory Sauls in our own lives?
Transcribe →First Fruits: Undivided Hearts
Jan 1800:40:56Tap to summarizeIn our second week of First Fruits, Kathryn teaches on undivided worship. Together, we identify potential altars we may have built up in our hearts in addition to Jesus. Looking at the lives and worship of King David and King Solomon brings us to this question:Will we be like David and tear down altars, or will we be like Solomon and accommodate them?
Transcribe →First Fruits: Prayer, Fasting and Vision - Tables
Jan 1100:38:22Tap to summarizeIn this first Vision sermon of the First Fruits series, we are reminded why we exist, where God is leading us, and why we are fasting. As culture shifts into a post-Christian, deeply lonely age, Jesus is inviting us into a renewed focus on creating disciples—not primarily through programs or preaching alone, but through relational proximity.
Transcribe →Advent: Prince of Peace
Dec 2100:30:35Tap to summarizeNo description available
Transcribe →Advent: Everlasting Father
Dec 1400:40:17Tap to summarizeIn this Advent teaching, we explore the third prophetic throne name given to Jesus: Everlasting Father—a King whose rule is marked by protection, provision, identity, and comfort. Rather than relating to Jesus as distant or conditional, we’re invited to experience His fatherly love towards us as present, personal, and unending- right now! This message calls us to stop striving, receive our true identity as beloved sons and daughters, and rest in the security of a fatherly King who never leaves.
Transcribe →Advent: Mighty God
Dec 700:34:52Tap to summarizeIsaiah 9 speaks of a child who will be called: Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Listen as we explore the might of our God and the two places of guaranteed access to his power and strength.
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