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Contemporary Church in Katy, TX - Reaching one person at a time through intentional grace. We are Charis City Church. Grace changes everything.

Charis is the Greek word for Grace, and that is who we want to be. We want to allow Jesus to transform our city, one person at a time. If you are looking for a place to belong, learn about Jesus, and make a difference in our community, this is the place for you.

06/22/2026

What a great Sunday and Father's day with our Charis Family!
Yesterday we wrapped up our "Courageous" series in the book of Joshua with a challenge straight from Joshua 24. Joshua gathered all of Israel and issued a declaration that still echoes today: "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord." That's the standard. The question is whether we're living up to it.

We are living in a fatherhood crisis — not because men stopped having children, but because courage walked out the door. Joshua 24 gives us four marks of a courageous father:

🔹 A Courageous Father Fears the Right Thing — Joshua commands Israel to "fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness." Fearing God isn't weakness — it's awe that reorders your life and determines how you lead your family.

🔹 A Courageous Father Leads by Example — Joshua says "as for ME and my household." Courageous dads go first. Your kids are watching whether your faith is real or just something you do on Sunday.

🔹 A Courageous Father Gets Rid of Idols — Before declaring God, Joshua said to throw away the false gods. An idol is anything that gets the time, energy, and devotion that God alone deserves.

🔹 A Courageous Father Declares God for His Family — Not just privately. Out loud. At home. Your declaration gives your family an identity and a north star when the world pulls them in every direction.

Your family doesn't need a perfect dad. They need a present one, pointed in the right direction. One day your kids will reach back into their memories for something to hold onto. What will they find?

Take a stand. Make the declaration. And go home and live like it's true. "As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord!"

06/15/2026

What a great Sunday with our Charis Family!

We're in week 2 of "Courageous," and this week we landed in Joshua 3, right at the edge of the Jordan River. After 40 years of wandering as judgment for their rebellion, Israel is standing in the exact same spot where it all fell apart. Same river. Same promise. New decision to make. And the central truth of the message: Excuses keep you on the riverbank. But obedience carries you into the Promised Land.

The Promised Land isn't Canaan for us. It's the fruitful, thriving life with God that He's been promising you while you've been stuck surviving in the wilderness. And the secret to getting there isn't complicated. It comes down to one thing: Seek the presence of God.

Here's what that looks like:
🔹 Get in God's Word daily - Hebrews 4:12 says the Word is alive and active. It doesn't just teach you. It changes you from the inside out when you actually sit in it.

🔹 Don't neglect church - gathering together isn't just a habit, it's how we draw near to God and experience His presence as one body (Hebrews 10:24-25). That's what's at stake when we check out.

🔹 Pray bold, desperate prayers - Joshua asked God to stop the sun and God did it. James 4:2 says it plainly: you don't have because you don't ask. Stop hedging. Start asking.

🔹 Drop the excuses - your past may explain where you are. It does not excuse where you stay.

Your excuses might be real. Your hurt might be real. But none of it is bigger than the God who stopped the sun for Joshua and parted a flooded river for Israel. Don't remain stuck on the riverbed - seek the presence of God and let Him lead you into the life He has promised you!

06/11/2026

Join us Sunday, June 21 as we celebrate fathers and wrap up our Joshua series! Dads, this one's for you. Every father gets a quality coffee mug, and we're serving a breakfast worth showing up for: fresh bagels from the Bagel Cafe and free Black Rifle Coffee to fill that new mug!

And one more gift for the dads: no photobooth this year!! No posing, no pictures, no pressure. Just bring the family, enjoy a great breakfast, and worship with us on June 21!

06/08/2026

Fear is one of the most universal human experiences, and the Bible addresses it more than almost anything else. This week, we kicked off a new series called "Courageous" by studying Joshua 1:1-9, where God commissions Joshua to lead the Israelites into the Promised Land following the death of Moses.

God's message to Joshua was clear and repeated: "Be strong and courageous." Here are four truths from that passage that show us how to find courage today:

🔹 Find Courage in the Sorrow - God didn't wait for Joshua's grief to pass before calling him forward. Whatever loss or hardship you're carrying, sorrow doesn't disqualify you from what God has for you.

🔹 Find Courage in the Promise - God told Joshua, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." That's not a probability. It's a guarantee. And that same promise, echoed again in Matthew 28 by Jesus, still has your name on it.

🔹 Find Courage in the Presence - Philippians 4 reminds us that "the Lord is near" and promises a peace beyond understanding when we bring our fears to Him. God's presence is real even when we don't feel it, and the more we walk with Him, the more we recognize it.

🔹 Find Courage in the Word - God told Joshua to meditate on Scripture day and night. Fear has a loud voice, and the only thing that consistently drowns it out is the truth of God's Word. You fight fear's lies with God's truth.

Whatever you're facing right now, you don't have to face it alone. The same God who was with Joshua at the Jordan River is with you today. Be strong and courageous!

06/01/2026

This Sunday, we got to celebrate a baptism, and we wrapped up our "Love Like Jesus" series in John 15, where Jesus uses the image of a vine and its branches to describe what it looks like to stay connected to Him!

Jesus calls Himself the "true vine" — not one option among many, but the only real source of life. Everything else you try to build your identity and strength around is a false vine. It may seem to work for a while, but it will eventually let you down. Here's what that means for us:

🔹 Connection is everything — Jesus doesn't call us to a checklist or religious performance. He calls us to remain in Him. That word "remain" (or "abide") means to stay, daily and actively. Fruit doesn't come from trying harder. It grows naturally from staying connected.

🔹 Pruning isn't punishment — God the Father, as the gardener, prunes healthy branches so they'll bear even more fruit. The hardships and seasons of difficulty in your life may be God preparing you for something greater, not punishing you for something wrong.

🔹 Abiding changes what you want — When you're genuinely connected to Jesus through His Word, prayer, and daily walk with Him, something supernatural happens: your desires start to align with His. Prayer stops being about getting what you want and starts being about what He wants.

🔹 Sticks can become branches again — A branch disconnected from the vine becomes a stick — lifeless and fruitless. Storms and sin are two of the biggest reasons branches fall. But Jesus has the power to graft dead sticks back into the vine. That's the Gospel. The true vine bled on the cross so that every disconnected branch could be restored.

No matter where you are today — deeply rooted or feeling completely dried up — it's not too late. Jesus didn't die for healthy branches. He died for sticks.

05/31/2026

Thank you for worshiping with us!

Want to know more about Charis City? You can connect with us by texting CONNECT to 833-778-3596 or by visiting www.chariscity.com

05/28/2026

The church isn't meant to look at the world as a battlefield with people to defeat. It’s time to drop the stones, strap on our sandals, and head down the road to Jericho where people are hurting and need help —because that is exactly what Jesus did for us.

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05/26/2026

What a great Sunday with our Charis Family!

This week in our "Love Like Jesus" series, we worked through the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10. A lawyer asks Jesus a simple question: who is my neighbor? But what he really wants to know is, what's the bare minimum I have to do? Jesus doesn't let him off the hook.

Here's what He shows us:
🔹 Doing the minimum isn't love: the priest and Levite had a legal excuse to pass by the wounded man. But finding a loophole to avoid someone in need isn't righteousness. It's self-protection.
🔹 Real love requires action: 1 John 3:18 says don't love with words or speech, but with actions and in truth. Love that never costs you anything probably isn't love.
🔹 The hero of the story is the last person anyone expected: Samaritans and Jews weren't just uncomfortable neighbors. They were active enemies with centuries of real hostility between them. And yet, the Samaritan stopped. He crossed every barrier to care for someone who would have despised him.
🔹 Jesus isn't calling you to expand your circle. He's calling you to remove it entirely: your neighbor includes your enemy. That's the whole point of the parable, and it's one of the hardest things Jesus ever asked of us.

We weren't the Samaritan in this story. We were the one bleeding in the ditch, and Jesus came down the most dangerous road there is to pull us out. He crossed every barrier, paid every cost, and loved us when we were still His enemies. That's not a metaphor. That's the gospel.

And because of that, "just enough" isn't a category that exists for us anymore. Jesus didn't do just enough. So when you see the person in your life who is hard to love, the one you've been avoiding or writing off, that's your Jericho Road. Get in the dirt. Love them anyway. That's what it looks like to love like Jesus.

05/21/2026

In a world full of constant noise, God is still speaking in a whisper. But to understand or obey His Word, we first have to slow down and do something incredibly important: listen.

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05/18/2026

What a great Sunday with our Charis Family!

We had a special morning — celebrating our seniors and honoring families through child dedications — before continuing in our "Love Like Jesus" series.

This week we looked at one of the most important words in all of Scripture — the Hebrew word Shema. It's the word Jesus begins with when He's asked the greatest commandment in Mark 12: "Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength." Shema doesn't just mean to hear. In the Hebrew mind, it carries three things — all at once.

What the Shema actually requires:
🔹 Listen — Are you paying attention? We live in the most distracted culture in history. God hasn't stopped speaking, but you can't hear a whisper through constant noise. Loving God completely starts with actually being present to Him.
🔹 Understand — Do you feel the weight of it? There's a difference between reading Scripture and letting it land. John 3:16 isn't information to agree with — it's an invitation to be changed by. God wrote it as a love letter, not a theology exam.
🔹 Obey — Do you follow? James 2 is clear: even the demons believe, and shudder. Real faith moves. A healthy fear of the Lord — not terror, but the deep awareness that God is not your peer — is what keeps us on the path and out of our own way.

The Shema isn't just a feeling you hold in your heart. It's a direction for your feet. The question isn't simply "Do you love God?" — it's "Does how you live show it?" God has been speaking clearly and consistently. The invitation is to stop giving Him the nod and say, "You have my full attention."

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700 Westgreen Boulevard
Katy, TX
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http://www.chariscity.com/

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