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Let's Talk About Sex: Q&A about Sex with Therapist Panel - 1 Cor 6:19-20 – October 25, 2026 Have questions about sex and relationships? This Sunday we have a panel of therapists who are going to address the questions you ask.

Let's Talk About Sex: Faithfulness is More Than a Marriage License City Church of Long Beach

Let's Talk About Sex: Body & Soul: A “Let’s Talk about Sex” Scenic Detour City Church of Long Beach

Let's Talk About Sex: Sex, Power, and Pleasure - 2 Samuel 11:1-5 – October 4, 2026 Sex, Power and Pleasure - seems like the title of this week’s sermon was predestined for this cultural moment. We’ll talk frankly about David’s r*pe of Bathsheba, but we’ll focus more on the positive aspects of consent, mutuality, and pleasure that we see modeled in scripture.

When it comes to our sexual histories and identities, we all have lots of stories - the ones we've told ourselves about who we are and the ones other people have told about us. Some of these stories have been helpful, healthy, healing... others have hurt, sometimes deeply. Join us this Sunday as we explore the different ways Rahab's story has been told, even in Scripture, and how God might be inviting us into greater wholeness through her example.

Let's Talk About Sex: Thinking about Sex Ed with Tamar City Church of Long Beach

Radical Rhythms: Moving with the Rhythms of Work & Rest - Genesis 8-22 – September 13, 2026 Is work-life balance really a thing? And has anyone ever managed it? This Sunday we're talking about how moving with the rhythms of work and rest can be a spiritual practice.

Radical Rhythms: Glimmers of Holiness in the Everyday Grind City Church of Long Beach

Radical Rest City Church of Long Beach

Blessing Summer: Blessed are the Merciful City Church of Long Beach

Blessing Summer: Blessed are Those Who Hunger & Thirst for Righteousness – Matthew 5:6 – August 9, 2026 Simone Weil once wrote: “The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.” This Sunday join us for an honest conversation about the way Jesus blesses those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (sometimes translated "justice"). And stay after for our usual 2nd-Sunday-of-the-month potluck, themed in August around summer brunch favorites!

One of our favorite questions to ask when folks gather around City Church is: what version of you is showing up today? Sometimes people answer happy, energized, focused, grateful. And sometimes people answer sad, discouraged, exhausted, anxious. Is there room in the life of faith for all of ourselves, for the broken or tired parts as well as the strong and beautiful? Come explore with us this Sunday as we look at Jesus's words of blessing for the poor in spirit.

Blessing Summer: Blessed are the Persecuted City Church of Long Beach

Blessing Summer: The Meek – Matthew 5:5 – July 19, 2026 We have the privilege of having Brandi Miller, host of the Reclaiming My Theology podcast, preach this Sunday with her wife Allison Sanders on Blessed are the Meek. Listen, learn, and grow in the ways of Jesus with us!

Therapists teach that those who avoid their grief inevitably shut down other emotions as well. Those who grieve expand their hearts in so many ways, connecting with themselves, increasing their own capacity for healthy relationships, and being in touch with Jesus who was known as “a man of sorrows.”