City Parish

08/31/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/083026

We build our names, our towers, our tools — and they build us back. Genesis 11 confronts our need for self-authorship with the God who calls us by name.

08/24/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/082326

Jonah believes every true thing about God and wants none of what God wants. A sermon on right belief without joy — and the love that finally reorders us.

08/17/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/081626

Jonah sleeps below deck while pagan sailors pray. A sermon on Jonah 1:4–16 about belief that never wakes us — and the Christ who shines on sleeping people.

08/15/2026

It’s been a whirlwind since last week, but we’re still buzzing after getting the honor to host the first La Gala Anual for the amazing faculty/staff of McDowell Elementary. These folks pour their hearts and souls into what they do for their students and their families and we were incredibly honored to dedicate an evening to both celebrate and shower them with good food and gifts. Thanks for what y’all do, McDowell & DLIA🦋!

08/10/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/080926

Jonah gets a word from God and buys a ticket the other way. A sermon from Jonah 1:1-3, Nineveh, Tarshish, and the mercy we would rather God had kept to himself.

08/03/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/080226

Psalm 132: David vowed to build God a house; God swore to build David one instead. The house is now people, not a building — and we're the stones, not the builders.

07/27/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/072626

Psalm 130 finds us drowning in our own sin. But God is not tallying our failures — with him there is forgiveness, and mercy plentiful enough for all of it.

07/19/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/071926

Psalm 122 asks a glad church what its joy is evidence of. In Christ we are a colony of heaven — bound together, praying peace, seeking our city's good.

07/15/2026

https://cityparish.church/blog/071226

Guest preacher David Allen on Psalm 127: we cannot build our own lives by striving. Rest, dependence, and the freedom of building on the finished work of Christ.

07/07/2026

Some of our leaders got to connect with other church leaders (all a part of Stratum Foundation) to explore bringing Alpha USA to Sonoma County. Can’t wait to see how the Spirit moves in this collaborative endeavor.