CityChurch Podcast

Brian Higbee's friend, Bill Vanderbush, just wrote a must read book called The Fire Of God Is Not Optional.  In it, Bill explores the absolute necessity the Fire of God has in being the covenant people of God.  Brian talks about the role of the fire of God in the old covenant people and in the new and how we recover this essential component to our function in the kingdom of God. 

We are the covenant people of God; at least that is what each of us under the Lordship of Jesus signed up for.  But like old testament Israel, have a name and having a life are vastly different.  God chose Israel but Israel did not choose God.  They chose religion.  They chose the celebrations.  They chose to be a people.  But they did not choose to be the people of God.  Why?  What was missing?  What is missing in much of the body of Christ today?  Brian Higbee explores what it means and how to be the covenant people of God.  Check it out.  

When it seems like all the life is gone from what is important to you, your marriage, your kids, your job, your church do you just talk about how it has not life?  Does your talk reflect what is going on?  If so, you have lost the greatest ability of the modern day believer.  What if you rose above and the nasty speak and found out what God is saying?  Brian Higbee talks about the example that God gave us in someone who saw just dry bones.  In that example we see how to make life where there were only dry dead bones.  Check it out.  

It is the intent of the Lord that we have authority and become powerful people of God: walking on water, raising the dead, rescuing the lost from damnation, healing disease, and broken limbs, commanding storms, living life in obedience.  All of this and much more is in store for us.  John 14:12 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.But we must learn how to be careful.  Brian Higbee talks about what it means for a modern day believer to be careful.  Check it out.  

This is a crucial time for the earth.  The times and seasons are about to change.  For those who are conformed to His image, who have chosen for the Lord to shape them, form them, position them, the time of blessing is arriving.  For those who refuse to be conformed to His image, the kingdom, as it falls to the earth like a warm blanket, will crush those not conformed and out of position.  Brian Higbee heard this from the Lord just a few days ago and sees the importance of communicating it to the body of Christ here at CityChurch as well as the region and the nations.  Check it out.  

What is the difference between independence and freedom?  What are we, as believers to embrace?  Is independence always a good thing?  Check out this message from Brian Higbee on the heels of celebrating Independence Day.  

Who is Jesus?  Really.  Who is He?  Who is He to us?  Paul, an apostle of Jesus, wrote to the church at Colossae the immutable truths about Jesus.  Why?  Jack Taylor once said, “A spoken word is like a whisp of smoke.  A written word is as if etched in stone.”  Paul wrote it so it would be in stone for the early church and for us.  Brian Higbee takes an excerpt from this letter to the church in Colossae and talks about who Jesus is to us today.  Check it out.  

Deborah Robertson, Pam Whitcher, Shannon Richard

David Moeller, various testimonies, various prophecies

Joel Whitcher, Joel Thornton

Whitcher, Higbee, Lukasko, Hughes, Coker

Brian Higbee, Jay Moeller, Charlie Coker

Pastor Bobby Richard brings his Cajun flavored, spicy message from the throne room of heaven.   Check it out.  

Did you ever resonate with what another is saying?  What is that?  Actually it means that you are "tuned" to the same interest.  When they speak, the inside of you resonates or gets excited about what they are saying.  The same is true of heaven.  When we are interested in what heaven has to say, we resonate or get excited.  But what when we are not in tune with heaven?  What happens then?  Brian Higbee talks about how to get in tune with heaven.  Check it out. 

Cain was so close to getting it right.  God showed him what to do and even warned him of what was preventing him from doing the right thing.  And still Cain listened to something other that God.  We do that often.  How can we get it right?  It is closer than you think.  Brian Higbee talks about being close to God yet not knowing it and the slight adjustment we must make to never fall prey to another voice.  Check it out.  

One tree...just one.  All of the trees of the garden could be eaten from, especially the tree of life.  Yet Eve took of that forbidden tree.  What is it?  Why is it so damaging?  Brian Higbee explores that tree that he calls the Tree of My Own Understanding.  Check it out.  

Jackie Shopes has been in pursuit of the kingdom of God and who she is in the kingdom since she was a little girl.  Now a wife, a mother, a woman with a career has not swayed her from her pursuit.  Listen in as Jackie talks about what she does to stay in pursuit.   

Testimonies are powerful.  They are an opportunity to share when God shows up.  And on this Mother's Day, we turn loose our mom's to tell about just that.  Check it out.  

Jesus ascended to the Father with the command for His disciples to go to Jerusalem and wait for Holy Spirit.  They did.  But it took ten days from the time they arrived in that upper room until Holy Spirit came.  Why?  What happened in those ten days.  Brian Higbee explores those ten days and finds a significant truth for what lies ahead for the body of Christ.  Check it out.  

Have you ever not been invited to an event that you really wanted to be part of?  On the day of Pentecost three thousand became part of the early church.  Why?  Because they were invited.  Brian Higbee talks about a shift in the culture of the church that will bring many into the kingdom simply because they were invited.  

This combined event change the history of the world and has changed the lives of mankind.  Both are crucial.  One without the other negates both.  Brian Higbee talks about the effect of the crucifixion and resurrection and how it has changed the life experience of men.  

How do you see yourself?  Do you know that the way you see yourself is a reflection of what voice you are listening?  When Israel approached the Jordan the first time, they were divided into two groups.  The first group were the giant killers; Joshua and Caleb.  The second group saw themselves as grasshoppers.  Which one are you?  Do you want to live in the desert of deliverance or the land of promise.  It is completely up to you.  Check it out as Eddie Robertson and Brian Higbee together form this message.  

Why a prophetic people?  Why prophesy?  Is prophecy for the church?  Paul longed for all to speak in tongues…but even more to prophesy.   Is prophesy limited to only prophets?  To those who have that gift?  It would seem the Apostle Paul concludes in 1Corinthians, “brethren desire earnestly to prophesy.” Why?  Why Is prophecy so crucial?  Could it be that we suffer far more at the hands of those who desire harm upon us than we should?  Could it be that God intends for us to come in to agreement with Him and be part of removing and exposing the harm we suffer?  Brian Higbee talks about the prophetic people of God and how God intends for the prophetic to be a powerful force to remove and expose the harm we often unnecessarily suffer.  Check it out.  

Why did Joseph command his sons to carry his bones back to their homeland?  What was the result of his bones remaining in Egypt until the exodus?  Is there power in bones?  Brian Higbee takes us through a line of thinking about dead men's bones and what the Word has to say about them.  Check it out.  

What do you do when there is no hope, no joy, no peace?  Brian Higbee talks about how to restore all three.  Check it out.  

Lena Richter talks about how God chooses to restore marriages and how He did help Lena and her husband Jake in that very journey.  

What is honor?  Is it important to God?  If so, is it important that we understand how God thinks about honor?  And if that is true, is it important that we hold honor in our hearts correctly as well as display it correctly?  Brian Higbee talks about honor and its cruciality in the healthy functioning in the kingdom of God.  Check it out.  

The Wide Eyed Convergence is the intent of the Lord to take us to the next season of the kingdom.  Innocence leading to childlikeness leading to wholeness which permits greater kingdom function is what the Lord is leading us to.  Randy Hill, Charlie Coker, and Brian Higbee have brought their three streams of ministry to form the gushing river of God.  Check it out.  

The Wide Eyed Convergence is the intent of the Lord to take us to the next season of the kingdom.  Innocence leading to childlikeness leading to wholeness which permits greater kingdom function is what the Lord is leading us to.  Randy Hill, Charlie Coker, and Brian Higbee have brought their three streams of ministry to form the gushing river of God.  Check it out.  

The Wide Eyed Convergence is the intent of the Lord to take us to the next season of the kingdom.  Innocence leading to childlikeness leading to wholeness which permits greater kingdom function is what the Lord is leading us to.  Randy Hill, Charlie Coker, and Brian Higbee have brought their three streams of ministry to form the gushing river of God.  Check it out.  

The Wide Eyed Convergence is the intent of the Lord to take us to the next season of the kingdom.  Innocence leading to childlikeness leading to wholeness which permits greater kingdom function is what the Lord is leading us to.  Randy Hill, Charlie Coker, and Brian Higbee have brought their three streams of ministry to form the gushing river of God.  Check it out.  

The Wide Eyed Convergence is the intent of the Lord to take us to the next season of the kingdom.  Innocence leading to childlikeness leading to wholeness which permits greater kingdom function is what the Lord is leading us to.  Randy Hill, Charlie Coker, and Brian Higbee have brought their three streams of ministry to form the gushing river of God.  Check it out.  

Jacob loved Rachel.   But he was required, by the father of Rachel, to be faithful to Leah, the one Jacob did not desire.  After learning to love what he did not love he could love who he did love.  It is that way in the kingdom of God.  It is often that God will have us be faithful to what we do not desire and the seeds of faithfulness will birth the fruit of desire.  Brian Higbee talks about this struggle in the body of Christ to run from what demands our faithfulness.  

There is the moment David was prophesied by Samuel, the prophet, to be king.  But it took over a decade.  Why?  Moses leads Israel to the Jordan River, but it is 40 years until they actually cross.  Why the delay?  Brian Higbee talks about the importance of the delay and what God is up to in the delay.  Check it out.  

If God permits loss in our life, it is never to hurt us.  So then why?  Brian Higbee talks about how to transform loss into a weapon of war.  Check it out.  

David asked, "Who can ascend the holy hill of the Lord, who can sit in His holy place?"  Then he answered "Only he with clean hands and a pure heart." And then David talked about God, mighty in battle.  Could it be that we prevent God from fighting for us in battle because we carry a soiled heart?  Brian Higbee talks about how our hearts can be impure, soiled and how to purge our hearts so that they become clean and the power of God rises against our enemies.  Check it out. 

Why does God have such a regard for man?  And how does that regard separate us from all of creation?  Brian Higbee talks about God's amazing interest in man and the journey of that interest with man.  Check it out.  

A wadi is a stream bed that gushes with water in the rainy season but quickly runs dry and provides no quenching of thirst for a dry and thirsty land.  For the woman or man of God to be like a wadi is unlike what God desires.  Brian Higbee talks about how we can each be unlike a wadi, but be a river for all who thirst.  Check it out.  

When God assigns us to something...anything…our work, our family, our own life His grace is sufficient for us to follow Holy Spirit's leading even into the finest detail.  But what about when we don't?  Does that mean there was not grace?  Or does it mean that we have made grace insufficient.  Brian Higbee talks about grace sufficient and the blessing that brings into our lives.  He also explores grace insufficient and what that really means.  Check it out.  

The thoughts we have are precious.  So precious that they actually form the system of value that determines how we value everything.  Imagine the crisis that can be avoided if we simply guard our thoughts completely and continually.  Brian Higbee talks about our thoughts and how we must value and protect them.  

There was a blessing released to those who God considered critical, valuable, and the most important.  However, men saw them differently.  Who were these ones so important to God?  What is the blessing that is released to them?  Brian Higbee talks about the Christmas Blessing.   Check it out.  

Where did they come from?  Not just geographically, but historically?  Who sent them?  What is their significance?  Brian Higbee talks about the origin of the wise men and their significance.  

When the kingdom of God ignites the gospel - the good news - within a man, that man transforms immediately and continually.  It is not just a changing of sides.  Brian Higbee talks about the powerful life changing effect of the mystery of the good news of the kingdom of God.   

What is Christmas...really?  What does the word mean?  What does God intend with the celebration of Christmas?  Brian Higbee explores the meaning of the word "Christmas" and its significance to the follower of Jesus today.  

This whole season of thanksgiving...where does God stand?  Is it necessary?  Brian Higbee talks about the giving of thanks and the implications to our world.  

Why is it that we roller coaster as believers?  Up and down.  In great faith then we doubt?  How is it that sometimes we are powerful and other times could not push through a wet paper bag?  Could it be that it has nothing to do with what is out there?  Could it be something within me?  Brian Higbee talks about the power of the blood of Jesus without which our lives miss the completeness of what He has done.  

Haggai prophesied to Judah that theirs would be struggle and curse.  Why?  Because Judah departed from God and His kingdom come.  Brian Higbee talks about the Kingdom that Jesus inaugurated and makes available to you.  The question is do you live in His kingdom or a kingdom not yet come.  

If it is God doing all the work, why is corporate prayer important?  What does it do when people come together to pray.  Brian Higbee explains why corporate prayer impacts in a way far greater that if one prays alone.  

The war between the kingdom of darkness and the Army of God wages on.  But there are countless christians that find themselves being overwhelmed wondering where God is?  The great and mighty King Josiah found himself in that same place.  Why?  Brian Higbee talks about how God does prepare and equip us to fight in the battle of the Lord.  But what about when it is not His battle?  Check it out.  

So many have been part of the church and then find themselves parting.  The problem is that they also part from God.  Why does this happen?  Brian Higbee talks about one of the reasons is that we regularly find ourselves on the wrong battlefield fighting the wrong battle.  Check it out.  

Jen Metzger tells us we were made to hear God and it is not as hard as we make it out to be.  This is not just a statement she makes but a life she lives.  Check it out.