Worship

Bruce Springsteen famously wrote, “We learned more in a three-minute record, baby than we ever learned in school.” That’s how I felt when I heard Josh Moore talk about the song “We Will Feast” by Sandra McCracken. Josh Moore, City Church Worship Arts Specialist, helped Sandra McCracken write “We Will Feast”—a worship song we sing […]

Houston knows about work. Many people move to Houston for it. As the fourth biggest city in the United States, only New York City is home to more large public companies. We have the largest concentration of health care and research institutions. The Port of Houston ranks first in the U.S. in international waterborne tonnage […]

The Year of Magical Thinking chronicles an agnostic’s grief after the death of a husband and ailing of a daughter. Joan Didion, author of The Year of Magical Thinking, upon first hearing that her daughter was in brain surgery told herself: “Read, learn, work it up, go to the literature. Information is control.” While Didion might […]

Lent is a fitting time to explore the gathering of people to hear the Word of God preached and receive bread and wine. This last part goes by a few names: the Eucharist; the Lord’s Supper; communion . . . And while different groups of Christians have believed different things about exactly what it is and what […]

Lent is a season of spiritual renewal that prepares us for Easter. It lasts forty days and reminds us of Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness (it’s actually the forty-six days before Easter, but Sundays in Lent are not counted). For followers of Christ, all life should be characterized by devotion to him. Lent, however, […]

Regularly I have two kinds of conversations with people attending City Church.  The first is with those who have come to church for the first time or are coming back to church. They don’t believe or aren’t sure what they believe. They may be spiritually indifferent, skeptical or suspicious of organized religion, but they’re there. […]