Biblical teaching with local-church warmth.
New City Church | Teachings is a sermon feed rooted in biblical passages, especially recent teaching from John and 2 Timothy. The tone is conversational and congregational, moving from announcements and prayer into close readings about Jesus, obedience, resurrection, worry, restoration, and hope.
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New City Church | Teachings captures the sound of a church working through Scripture in real time. The setting matters. These are not detached lectures; they come wrapped in greetings, announcements, ministry updates, prayer, worship cues, and invitations into congregational life. Recent episodes repeatedly return to John’s Gospel. Jesus is presented through his own words, from the bread of life discourse to the resurrection appearance before Thomas. The teaching is patient with the text. It reads long passages aloud, names chapter and page numbers, and stays close to the movement of the biblical narrative. The tone is warm and practical. It can be casual, with fist bumps in the lobby, Father’s Day popcorn, student camp reminders, and volunteer calls for kids camp or the safety team. Then it turns serious quickly. Messages address belief, doubt, obedience, sin, grace, baptism, the Holy Spirit, and the meaning of life. Holy Week shapes several excerpts, including Good Friday, Easter invitations, daily prayers, and public baptism. The church’s community concerns are visible, too. Wraparound care, foster care and adoption, neighborhood prayer, street outreach, and an urban corridor all appear as part of the ministry landscape. The preaching often frames Christian faith as something embodied in action: serving, inviting, praying, being baptized, and keeping Jesus’ commandments. It is also openly doctrinal. One message connects Christ’s obedience to the undoing of the curse and the gift of righteousness by grace through faith. Another centers Thomas’s demand for evidence after Easter morning. Another treats worry, treasure, and tomorrow through the ordinary pressures of family and church life. The feed suits listeners looking for Christian teaching with a local, pastoral texture. It is Scripture-forward, community-minded, and grounded in church practice rather than studio polish.
Made for: For listeners seeking Christian sermons grounded in Scripture, church community, prayer, and practical discipleship. It especially suits people who appreciate pastoral teaching tied to ordinary congregational life.
What sets it apart: The feed pairs close biblical exposition with the lived texture of New City Church: baptisms, camps, neighborhood prayer, wraparound care, Holy Week rhythms, and volunteer ministry. It feels less like a studio product and more like a gathering carried into podcast form.
Imperfect people, being courageous, believing in Jesus to make all things new.
Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A close study of John 14 connects Christ's obedience and the Spirit's work with a church community's shared practice of prayer.
Obedience is treated here as love in action rather than spiritual scorekeeping. Through John 14:15-31, the preacher connects Jesus' obedience to the Father with Paul's contrast between Adam and Christ, then turns to the Spirit's work in revealing Christ's righteousness to…
A sermon on coveting that locates discontent in everyday comparison and redirects it toward communal faithfulness.
Contentment in a World of Coveting treats the final commandment as something more interior than a warning against taking what belongs to someone else.
A grounded sermon on moving financial goalposts and the difficult practice of trusting God.
Anxiety shows up here as the shifting math of enough: the income, car, or house that seems like it should finally bring relief, until the goal moves again.
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
A pastor concludes a series on the Ten Commandments by examining the tenth commandment against coveting.
Marv Proctor delivers a sermon at New City Church on Matthew 6, focusing on Jesus' teaching about worry and treasures.
A pastor introduces a Vision Sunday focused on the church's most important thing, reading from Isaiah 1 about prayers God does not hear due to injustice.
A sermon on the second commandment about not making idols, exploring what it means to have no other gods before God.
A sermon exploring the first commandment 'You shall have no other gods before me' and how to interpret Old Testament laws as New Testament believers.
A sermon exploring Jesus' declaration 'I am the bread of life' from John 6, emphasizing belief and eternal life through partaking of his flesh and blood.
A pastor delivers an Easter sermon on John 20, focusing on Thomas's doubt and Jesus's invitation to believe.
Nate, pastor at New City Church, examines Peter's three denials of Jesus in John 18 and Jesus' later restoration of Peter in John 21.
A church pastor announces upcoming Easter events, encourages baptism and volunteering, and introduces a new wraparound care ministry.
Nate, pastor of New City Church for 16 years, uses Jesus’ prayer in John 17 to ask what life is for and how people should live.
New City Church | Teachings studies John 14:15–31 and argues that Jesus undoes sin’s curse through obedience to the Father.
New City Church | Teachings examines Jude’s call to “contend for the faith” and argues that grace cannot be separated from Jesus’ lordship.
New City Church | Teachings examines Paul’s letter to Philemon, focusing on Paul, Onesimus, and Philemon’s responsibilities after Onesimus ran away and came to faith in Christ.
Pastor Cesar preaches on rekindling God's gift within you from 2 Timothy 1:1-7.
A Father's Day sermon at New City Church encouraging trust in God regarding finances and the future, with church announcements.