Church of the City New York
Welcome to the Church of the City Podcast. Church of the City New York is a church community passionate about making missional disciples who pursue the presence of God and "practice the way of Jesus for the renewal of the city." We believe in the authority and power of the scriptures to shape our communal life and practice, as we seek to teach God's word with clarity and conviction. Most of the teaching in our community is done by Pastor Jon Tyson, Pastor Suzy Silk, and our teaching team. We have both morning and evening services and meet in the heart of Manhattan. For more information visit: http://www.church.nyc
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Controversial Faith: Q&A Panel
05/13/2024
Controversial Faith: Q&A Panel
This week, Pastor Jon Tyson and Pastor Suzy Silk wrapped up our sermon series on Controversial Faith with a Q&A to answer some of the common questions and objections skeptics and seekers have regarding Jesus, the Scriptures, and living as a Christian in our modern world. Pastor Jon framed this time with 1 Peter 3:15-16, and claimed it is more important than ever for Christians to deal with their controversial faith.
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Controversial Faith: Why Does God Care About My Sexuality? - Jon Tyson
05/06/2024
Controversial Faith: Why Does God Care About My Sexuality? - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon continued our Controversial Faith series with a teaching on Biblical sexuality. We live in sexually confusing and chaotic times, and as we begin to examine the effects the secular sexual ethic has on individuals and our culture at large, instead of flourishing, we find decay, pain, and brokenness. However, we are called to honor God with our bodies by faithfully stewarding our sexuality, because we were bought with a price, and one day we will be with Christ forever in a soul satisfying union that is a fulfillment of every desire we’ve ever had. Additional resources: Making Sense of the Church: Marriage - Jon Tyson The Controversial Jesus: Sexual Formation - Jon Tyson / The Controversial Jesus: Jesus and the Gay Community - Jon Tyson / The Controversial Jesus: Jesus, Gender, and the Trans Community - Jon Tyson /
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Controversial Faith: How can a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering? - Suzy Silk
04/29/2024
Controversial Faith: How can a Good God Allow Evil and Suffering? - Suzy Silk
This Sunday Pastor Suzy Silk continued our Controversial Faith series by asking the question: How can a good God allow evil and suffering in the world? The tension between the sovereignty of God and the realities of suffering often hold people back from experiencing and accepting the person of Jesus, or eventually drive people away from Him. In an effort to address this problem of pain, Pastor Suzy laid out five reasons not to turn away from Jesus when faced with evil and suffering.
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Controversial Faith: The Church and Politics - Jon Tyson
04/22/2024
Controversial Faith: The Church and Politics - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our series on Controversial Faith with a message on how we, as Christians, should engage with politics. As people of God, we can participate in politics with eschatological hope and humble conviction instead of despair. Ultimately, we pray, vote, protest, and practice principled pluralism because we know the solution to the problem of politics in our modern world: declaring Jesus is Lord.
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Controversial Faith: Why Can We Trust the Bible? - Suzy Silk
04/15/2024
Controversial Faith: Why Can We Trust the Bible? - Suzy Silk
This Sunday, Pastor Suzy Silk continued our series on Controversial Faith with a teaching on why we can trust the Bible. Translated into 698 languages, the Bible is the best-selling and most influential book in world history, and is worth reading based on these merits alone. Pastor Suzy then provided context on why the Bible is different from all other books through analyzing the genre and style, the authorship and preservation, and how we should respond to reading the text as followers of Jesus.
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Controversial Faith: The Exclusivity of Jesus - Jon Tyson
04/08/2024
Controversial Faith: The Exclusivity of Jesus - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon kicked off our new series on Controversial Faith by addressing Jesus’ scandalous exclusivity. The claim, “Jesus is Lord”, has been highly contested throughout history, and it is no different today. However, as His followers, we must acknowledge our own sinfulness, lead with with gentleness and respect when sharing our beliefs, and be willing to be misunderstood as we publicly witness about Jesus Christ, the only name that can save.
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Easter Sunday 2024 - Jon Tyson
04/01/2024
Easter Sunday 2024 - Jon Tyson
This Easter Sunday, Pastor Jon taught about how we come to believe in the resurrection from the story of the two disciples on the road to Emmaus from Luke 24. Believing in the resurrection of Jesus is a key belief for salvation, and the Apostle Paul goes so far as to say that if Christ has not been raised from the dead, then our faith is useless and futile. Pastor Jon laid out the three things it takes to believe in Jesus’ resurrection: evaluating the historical facts, gaining a theological understanding, and having a personal encounter with the person of Christ.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Envy - Suzy Silk
03/25/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Envy - Suzy Silk
This Sunday, Pastor Suzy Silk closed out our sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a teaching on envy. A prohibition against coveting, or envy, is included in the Ten Commandments, because it is a slippery slope that begins in our thoughts and quickly leads to death. Holy Week reminds us that Jesus Himself demonstrated costly trust and costly obedience in the Father’s plans for Him, and costly love towards even those who took part in His death. We can choose to turn away from envy because we have the better thing—the presence of Jesus, now and forever.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Pride - Ralph Castillo
03/18/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Pride - Ralph Castillo
This Sunday, Pastor Ralph Castillo continued our Lenten series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a teaching on pride. Our current culture has a way of turning vices into virtues and praising disordered loves, making it difficult to identify pride, and can result in practicing righteousness as a way of being seen and honored by others. However, when we choose the way of humility, and practice our righteousness in secret, we recieve the better reward because the Father Himself is rewarding us.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth - Jon Tyson
03/11/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Sloth - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Lenten series over the Seven Deadly Sins by exploring the often unnoticed dangers of sloth. Originally, the Desert Father’s understanding of sloth was less akin to laziness and more in line with acedia: spiritual resistance to spiritual progress. As followers of Jesus, we must push back against the spirit of acedia through the power we have received in the Holy Spirit and make every effort to persevere in our faith.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath - Tim Brown
03/04/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath - Tim Brown
This Sunday, Pastor Tim Brown unpacked the destructive power of wrath as part of our Lenten series on the Seven Deadly Sins. Anger often signals us to something that is wrong or unjust, but when we express our anger through violence or scorn, we lose God’s heart for ourselves and for others, and allow wrath to rage in our lives. However, Jesus calls us to confess anger like the sin that it is, and follow Him in the way of mercy, that freely forgives.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Lust - Jon Tyson
02/26/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Lust - Jon Tyson
This week, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our sermons series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a teaching on the destructive power of lust, and how Jesus calls us to become people of love and integrity in Him. Although we can lust over things like money and power, in Matthew 5, Jesus addresses lust in the context of strong sexual desire. Pastor Jon urged us to consider that walking in the way of Jesus includes pursuing a counter-cultural sexual formation.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony - Suzy Silk
02/19/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Gluttony - Suzy Silk
This week, Pastor Suzy Silk continued our sermon series on the Seven Deadly Sins with a teaching on gluttony versus living a Spirit-filled life. We often end up over-consuming when we seek comfort and pleasure outside of intimacy with God. However, the Lord longs to satisfy our deepest desires with Himself, and calls us to a life full of His Spirit.
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Seven Deadly Sins: Greed - Jon Tyson
02/12/2024
Seven Deadly Sins: Greed - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson kicked off our Lent series focused on the Seven Deadly Sins, starting with greed. Scripture addresses greed with striking frequency, and Jesus warns us to watch out for the ways greed will destroy our spiritual lives. Greed is ultimately the opposite of Godly contentment: it's centered around possession, hoarding, covetousness, and comparison. True freedom — to love, give, serve, and seek the Kingdom first — is true wealth.
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Leverage: Money - Jon Tyson
02/06/2024
Leverage: Money - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson closed out our Leverage series with a teaching on leveraging our money for the Kingdom and how we should have a vision for giving. Developing a vision and theology of giving is essential to our spiritual maturity and discipleship. We need a Godward view of giving, remembering that all we have has been given to us by God and is His to do with as He pleases. If you want to get in touch with Pastor Jon to learn more about being a Gospel patron, please reach out at [email protected].
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Leverage: Love - Jon Tyson
01/29/2024
Leverage: Love - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our Leverage series with a teaching on leveraging our love and the importance of an “undivided heart” from Psalm 86. There will always be a temptation to withhold part of our heart from God, but we were created to remain in His love. When we humble ourselves to learn how to fear His name and rely on His faithfulness, God promises to change our hearts to bear enduring fruit connected to Christ.
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Leverage: Time - Jon Tyson
01/22/2024
Leverage: Time - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon Tyson continued our January sermon series, Leverage, with a teaching on how we can leverage our time for the glory of God. While the modern world is riddled with deceptive mindsets and mechanisms created to steal and waste our time, God calls us to be conscious stewards of our time, and aim to live in our current seasons with the knowledge and hope of our future in eternity with Him.
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Leverage: Gifts - Suzy Silk
01/15/2024
Leverage: Gifts - Suzy Silk
This Sunday, Pastor Suzy Silk continued our January teaching series, Leverage, with a teaching on leveraging our spiritual gifts for the Kingdom of God. We are each given one life, but often don’t know how to live in ways that are honoring to God. We might end up wasting, or wrongly using our lives, but as followers of Jesus, we can actually live a life fully pleasing to the Lord.
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Leverage: Life Without Regret - Jon Tyson
01/08/2024
Leverage: Life Without Regret - Jon Tyson
This Sunday, Pastor Jon kicked off our January sermon series, Leverage, which is centered on the idea of living a life free of regret and fully leveraged for the Kingdom of God. Regret is a distinctly human feeling, and Pastor Jon laid out how regret happens, the real life consequences that cause regret, how we can avoid regret, and how regret can be redeemed as we move into 2024.
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Advent Devotional: The Angel's Song & The First Noel
12/25/2023
Advent Devotional: The Angel's Song & The First Noel
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Isle'r Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: The Shepherds' Proclamation & Advent Hymn
12/22/2023
Advent Devotional: The Shepherds' Proclamation & Advent Hymn
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Lindsey Arcaro Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: The Earth's New Song & O Come All Ye Faithful
12/20/2023
Advent Devotional: The Earth's New Song & O Come All Ye Faithful
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Isle'r Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Resound (Advent 2023): Mary's Song - Suzy Silk
12/18/2023
Resound (Advent 2023): Mary's Song - Suzy Silk
This week, Pastor Suzy Silk continued our Advent series, Resound, with a teaching on Mary’s Song recorded in Luke. The accounts of the Christmas story given in Luke’s Gospel are intentionally noted as eye witness accounts, establishing the story of Jesus’ birth as historical fact, not fable or fiction. His approach invites us to receive the Good News of the birth of the Messiah, as true, and respond as Mary did, with great joy. We invite you to prayerfully consider practicing the way of generosity through financial giving to the Living the Liturgy offering at .
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Advent Devotional: Mary's Song & Magnificat
12/18/2023
Advent Devotional: Mary's Song & Magnificat
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Emily Lindquist Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: Elizabeth's Blessing & Angels We Have Heard On High
12/15/2023
Advent Devotional: Elizabeth's Blessing & Angels We Have Heard On High
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Isle'r Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: The Nation's Song & Silent Night
12/13/2023
Advent Devotional: The Nation's Song & Silent Night
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Isle'r Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Resound (Advent 2023): Zechariah’s Song - Jon Tyson
12/11/2023
Resound (Advent 2023): Zechariah’s Song - Jon Tyson
In this week’s message, Pastor Jon Tyson led us through Zechariah’s song, found in Luke 1:57-80, that broke forth after Zechariah and Elizabeth received their promised, long awaited son. Zechariah and Elizabeth serve as examples of waiting well, a discipline that receives little regard in our world of instant gratification. By attuning our thoughts to the Lord, worshiping Him together with preemptive praise, and spending time in the promises of His Word, we can follow their example of waiting with hope. We invite you to prayerfully consider practicing the way of generosity through financial giving to the Living the Liturgy offering at .
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Advent Devotional: Zechariah's Song & Behold
12/11/2023
Advent Devotional: Zechariah's Song & Behold
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Emily Lindquist Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: Anna's Proclamation & Advent Hymn
12/08/2023
Advent Devotional: Anna's Proclamation & Advent Hymn
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Emily Lindquist Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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Advent Devotional: Isaiah's Song & Come Up Here (Let Us Adore Him)
12/06/2023
Advent Devotional: Isaiah's Song & Come Up Here (Let Us Adore Him)
Welcome to Church of the City New York’s Advent Devotionals. Jesus was good news in the First Century, and He is still good news today. In the Christmas stories recounted in Scripture, people always responded to Jesus with amazement and praise. This response came from deep longings and heartbreak being met with God breaking in to fulfill His promises, offer His forgiveness, bring His justice and peace, and extend His love. This Christmas, we hope you will have your own encounter with the person of Jesus and the good news of His birth, and like those of old, let your song of praise resound to the world around you. Song Credits: Emily Lindquist Written By: Church of the City New York Editorial Team
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