In a world of people identifying themselves with their pain and suffering, Camilo Buchanan dives deep into John 5, recapping the story of the man on the mat at the Pool of Bethseda, and how God healed him and told him to pick up his mat and walk. In a similar way, God calls us to pick up our mats and be healed from the trauma we are keeping ourselves chained to.

Camilo Buchanan joins us for the first Collective Night of the semester and challenges us to evaluate our commitment to Jesus. While the world has led us to believe that we can have things without sacrifice, Jesus tells us that we are to take up our crosses, follow Him, and die to Him daily for His glory.

For the final night of Summer in the City, Grant Partrick comes to speak on the idol of Hustle. After spending the summer identifying and uncovering idols in our lives, Grant presses into the importance of identifying the root of most of our idols: self-exaltation. While work is a good and godly thing, he warns us about the danger of working hard for self-ambition rather than godly ambition.

Miles Fidell of Auburn Community Church joins us for night THREE of Summer in the City, focusing on how the idol of aesthetics and image can jeopardize the spiritual health of generations to come.

Kicking off our second night of Summer in the City, Pastor Louie Giglio teaches through Colossians 1, illuminating the mystery of Jesus over the world’s allure of mysticism. While we battle with existential questions of who we are and why we’re here, he teaches us that JESUS + NOTHING = EVERYTHING.

“The fullness of life is only found in Jesus.” Pastor Brett Younker joins us for Summer in the City night one with a powerful message on fulfillment. As we look to the things of this world to satisfy our every desire and make us feel whole, he reminds us that Jesus alone can fill us and that He is always enough. VERSES // Colossians 1:1-14