This message was delivered to Christ Church after the Choir's performance of the Christmas Cantata, "Love Made a Way."

In the fourth week of Advent, Pastor Matthew Watson reflects on the theme of love, naming Jesus’ birth as God’s light breaking into a weary world’s long night, inviting us to receive God’s love and to "punch holes in the darkness" through love.

Kirjoittanut Sam Beh

Matthew’s Christmas story teaches us something essential about decision-making. When one person chooses to trust God in uncertain and challenging circumstances, they are likely to discover they are not alone—and that God is quietly at work in many hearts at the same time, bringing about awe-inspiring and unexpected good.…

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

We Need Christmas Because Christmas Generates Joy. This message from Pastor Garvon on Luke 1:26-38 was given December 14, 2025. Joy is generated with we choose to listen to God's plan, when we recognize that God is in control, and when we accept and surrender to what He is doing.

Advent joy invites you to participate in what God is already doing in setting things right: The desert will bloom. The wilderness will sing. The speechless will find words. The ransomed will return with everlasting joy.

As you settle into your seat in the theater, the house lights dim, the stage is empty, and the orchestra begins to play. Before you meet the characters or hear their voices, the musicians use the overture to introduce the melodies, harmonies, and themes that you will hear throughout the show. What if the gospel stories of the nativity aren’t just i…

In this second week of the Advent season, Pastor Watson shows us that God's peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of wholeness—shalom—breaking into the chaos. It is the presence of God's Spirit that enables us to have peace in the midst of life storms and chaos. It is the presence of God’s Spirit in you that brings the Shalom we ar…

Kirjoittanut Josh Del Begio

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Hear our guest speaker and regional minister, Rev. Kevin McNeil, preach on peace.

Pastor Garvon Golden delivered this message to Christ Church of Rapid City on November 30, 2025.

Pastor Keith McCraw delivered this message to Christ Church of Rapid City on November 16, 2025.

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

In this first Sunday of our Advent series, Pastor Andrea invites us to name our darkness while still daring to await the promised light of Jesus, whose arrival brings hope into places of fear, injustice, and exhaustion. True hope is not passive optimism but a courageous, active refusal to let darkness have the last word, trusting that God is alread…

Kirjoittanut Jon Bryars

When we wait with hope, it transforms how we use our resources, how we plan, and how we spend our time. The disposition of a follower of Christ is one that turns toward hope even in the midst of despair, and it can be seen in the way they live their lives. Hope leaves seeds sown in its wake because it believes in tomorrow. It trusts in divinely ins…

Acts 28 shows that God meets us in the in-between places, where vulnerability opens us to receive and share the Spirit’s surprising kindness, healing, and love. Even in constraints and uncertainty, like Paul under house arrest, the Spirit remains unhindered—forming us, sending us, and working through ordinary acts of welcome, courage, and faithfuln…

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

Kirjoittanut Jon Bryars

This Sunday, churches throughout the world will be celebrating Christ the King Sunday. The purpose is to recenter our lives on the true King of the world. Join us this Sunday morning at Christ City Church as we seek to do the same. Robert Grisham will be our guest preacher.

Guest speaker Rev. Dr. Essentino Lewis, Jr. (Clifton Park Baptist Church) continues our series in Acts, preaching on Acts 27.

Kirjoittanut Josh Del Begio

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We often cling to a sense of security that quietly costs us the very things that can make us whole. When we hedge our bets and compromise what we know is good, we end up losing pieces of ourselves in the process. This week we’ll explore what it means to stop being afraid of losing the wrong things, and how choosing an abiding trust—even when it fee…

Pastor Andrea teaches on Acts 25:23-26:32, where we’re reminded that even when we feel bound by circumstance, God’s Spirit gives us the freedom to speak truth and bear witness through our own stories. Discover how your story, no matter how unfinished or ordinary, can become an act of resistance, faith, and transformation in a world that tries to si…

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

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When people of faith trust in a collective hope of a future beyond their lives, resurrection bursts into the here and now. Join us as we develop an imagination great enough to envision a God-soaked future shaped by the resurrection of Christ.

Pastor Garvon shares the three ways to move head as Paul explains in Philippians 3:10-14. Message given November 1, 2025.

When Paul stands on trial before Festus in Acts 25, he shows us what faithfulness looks like inside a broken system—telling the truth, using what we have, and remembering where our true citizenship lies.

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

Kirjoittanut Jon Bryars

It is important to take a step back and see how we have grown—both individually and as a spiritual community. As we reflect, we may find ourselves filled with an energizing gratitude. From that place of thankfulness, we can take hold of the encouragement we need to nurture every desire for goodness and every deed prompted by faith. Let us receive a…

Guest speaker Rachael Wade, founder of the Olive Us ministry, preaches on Acts 24, where Paul is put on trial before the the governor of Caesarea because he was deemed to be a "troublemaker." This was not Paul’s first trial, or his first imprisonment. What can we learn from Paul on how to continue despite persecution, pain, and imprisonment? Where …

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

The Way of the Cross is surrender, servanthood, and obedience. Pastor Garvon shares Paul's perspective on his personal journey of The Way to the Cross and how we can also have Paul's attitude in our own lives as he writes in Philippians 2:5-9. Message given October 26, 2025 to Christ Church of Rapid City, SD.…

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Do you feel stuck—like the energy for life, progress, and action is just out of reach? The practice of asking for forgiveness may be the key that unlocks the flow again. Join us as we explore how humility, honesty, and grace can transform even the most stagnant places in our souls.

In a world where control feels elusive and power is often abused, Acts 23 reveals that followers of Jesus are called to wield a different kind of power. This message from Pastor Justin reminds us that true power looks like love: speaking truth with integrity, showing up in solidarity, and trusting that God is still at work, even through ordinary pe…

Paul's contentment in his adversity gives us insight into how we can achieve contentment in our own circumstances. Pastor Garvon shares this message with Christ Church on October 19, 2025 using Philippians 4:10-13.

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How do we pursue justice when the times seem unfavorable? Paul challenges Timothy and us as readers to continue the work of an evangelist, learning from the Scriptures while challenging and correcting each other to grow closer to God's vision of heaven on earth.

Dr. Wells visits Christ Church on October 5, 2025. We are not just in a RUN, we are in a RACE. Hebrews 12:1-6.

Guest speaker Pastor Anthony Parrott from The Table Church teaches on Acts 21 - 22. What does God call us to do in the face of crowds of opposition? What do we say when we are outnumbered by those who refuse to believe the truth?

Kirjoittanut Daniel Golin

Kirjoittanut Sam Beh

What if God’s work isn’t about breaking into the world from above, but flowing through it from within—and through us? Instead of hovering outside of nature, waiting to intervene, could God move in the waters, the soil, and the shared actions of human cooperation? In a world often searching for spectacle, we’re reminded that grace is found not in th…