Hot Takes | Is It the End of the World as We Know It? | Pastor Jeremy DeWeerdt

So glad that you are here, whether it's your first time or a hundred time. We are glad that you are part of the city's first church family, especially joining us at other locations and online at God Behind Bars. We love you very much. And we are in a series right now called Hot Takes, what the Bible says about AI, aliens, the apocalypse, and a world that is getting super weird. All right? We're going to talk about this. We're tackling some of the current topics, and we're just seeing what the Bible has to say about those topics, and we're having a lot of fun with it also. I mean, ladies and gentlemen, I've never preached a sermon series about aliens, AI, escapism, or anything like we're talking about this month. But you know what? I've had many of you reach out to us and say you really enjoyed it because we're actually talking about the things that your friends and your coworkers and maybe even some of your family members are talking about, and it's very important to have a biblical worldview about some of these current topics. In fact, week one, I talked about AI, and I talked about how it's very valuable as a tool, but it should never replace our ability to think critically, and it should never become our ultimate source of wisdom. But it is a tool. And I thought this. But I want to show you, Church, how your Church is using actually AI as a tool so that we can actually reach more people with the Gospel and the message of Jesus. I want you to take a moment and watch this. [Applause] That's my voice. That's crazy. Like that sounds like me. And how cool is that?

I mean, really. So if you know somebody who has English as a second language, take out your phone right now and take a picture of this slide or this QR code, send them a link because if they have a primary language of español in Spanish, this would be a great way to share with them city first so that they could have a part of city first church family just like you. I mean, this is so cool, right? Like many you don't know, I'm fluent in English and español with a little help from AI. So here's the thing. We are going to talk about our next hot topic, our next hot take. And on March 2nd of this year, just, you know, six, eight months ago, whatever that is, okay, University of British Columbia published some findings from a recent poll they took, all right, and they just published it in March. And they said this, nearly one in three Americans believe the world will end in their lifetime during their lifetime. That means one out of three of you are silently thinking to yourself, I'm going to see the end of the world. In fact, there was another poll done this year in 2026 by Varisite. And they found out that 52% of Americans believe that the final battle, I think it's interesting, this is the wording, the final battle between good and evil is already upon us. Now this poll did not mention anything about the Bible. It was not given in a religious context. I think it's just interesting that intuitively American sense that there actually is a battle between good and evil at hand right now. In a little bit of an older survey, it's not real, it's only three years old, pure research, which is a very reputable surveying kind of company. They basically have gone out and done these surveys and done these polls. And they found out that nearly four out of 10 Americans believe were living in the quote n times and among those that believe that we're living in the n times, 77% of them believe that Jesus is going to return to the earth soon. I think it's very interesting.

So are we living in the n times? Are we going to see the end of the world? Is Jesus coming back? Well, turn to the person next to you and say, let's talk about the apocalypse, all right? Today we're going to talk about the apocalypse. I've actually had some of you ask and, like, literally talk to other pastors and even email in and be like, "Well, Pastor Jeremy, talk about the apocalypse. Will he talk about the apocalypse?" Well, today is your day, all right? For those of you that are visiting, let me make a disclaimer here. We don't normally talk about the end of the world. All right? This is a very unique series we're in. But in all fairness, it seems like the world is talking about the end of the world. So maybe we should also talk about it from a biblical context or a biblical worldview. And like I mentioned like a couple of weeks ago that, you know, I talked about aliens and if you missed that message, please go back and watch it. It was a fun message, but you could tell what captures the minds and the hearts of Americans by looking at our movies and the TV shows that we binge on and how many apocalyptic movies or TV shows have come out in the last 20 years. Here's the answer a lot, all right? We're talking zombies, we're talking natural catastrophes, we're talking global pandemics, we're talking nuclear Armageddon. I mean, how many of these movies and TV shows, and we just take them in, it speaks to what we're curious about and what we're thinking about. Maybe it's like in the 1980s, the band REM, it's the end of the world as we know it, right? And I feel fine, do we feel fine? I don't know if we do or not, but you know, yesterday was Halloween and Americans love to focus on the spiritual, whether they understand it or not, do you know, some surveys and statistics have come out that people actually now spend more money on Halloween decor than they do

Christmas decor. Like there's something deep inside of us that knows there's something more to this world than what we can see and more to the future than what we can explain. It's so important that we acknowledge this. In fact, this week, I'm going through puberty this week, this week, this week. This week as we wrap up, you know, our hot takes series in a week from now, I should say next week when we do that. I'm actually speaking, I'll give you a little peek in the window when I'm talking about next week. Next week I'm going to talk about what happens after you die. And I have a lot of people that ask me that because they have loved ones that have passed away and they're like, "Well, what happened?" And I want to talk about that next week, but we think about these things. We think about the spiritual, we think about sometimes the end of the world. I mean, you know, there's just a fixation on all this. So here's the question. Is Jesus coming back soon? Is He coming back soon? You know, there's something inside of us as believers. I would say this, that has a sixth sense, I would call it discernment or the Holy Spirit, that maybe Jesus is coming back sooner rather than later. There's just something stirring, you know, that song that we just sang. I mean, there's an anointing behind that song because I think there's something inside of us as Christians that's kind of like, "Wow, it feels like the days are getting darker. So are they getting shorter?" Verse 822 says this, Paul is writing the church in Rome and he says, "For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time." It's kind of like there's like Braxton Hicks going on, all right? And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory.

Listen to this last line, line, "For we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering." There's something inside of us that's like, "Man, it will be great someday not to have to battle all the sin, all the sickness." You see, Paul is talking to Rome, the church in Rome, which by the way, they're under heavy persecution and he's saying this, he's saying, "All of creation is feeling labor pains. We're feeling the weight of a broken world. And we long, we long for the day when Jesus comes and makes it all right again, makes it Eden again, makes it all the way it should have been in the first place before sin entered the world. there were two angels that appeared to the followers of Jesus that saw him physically go into heaven, and it's recorded in Acts chapter one. It says this, it says, "Men of Galilee, "why do you stand looking into heaven?" The angel said, "This Jesus who was taken up "from you into heaven will come in the same way "as you saw him go into heaven." And so here the angels are saying the same way that you saw Jesus ascend. He will eventually someday descend from heaven. He promised it. In fact, in the book of Revelation, John who had a vision and he wrote it all down, he prophesies this. It says in Revelation chapter one. It says, "Look, he comes with the clouds of heaven, "and everyone will see him, even those who pierced him." So it's clear, it's clear that Jesus is coming back again, but here's the thing, no one knows when.

In fact, Jesus said this himself. I'm quoting him out of the book of Matthew. He said, "However, no one knows the day or the hour "when these things will happen. "Not even the angels in heaven, "or he's speaking third person here, the son himself." In other words, he's saying, "I don't even know "when I'm coming back, only the Father knows." We believe in a Trinity. It is one God, three persons, three expressions. You have God the Father, you have God the Son, Jesus, and you have God the Holy Spirit. And Jesus is saying, "These two don't know only God the Father, "only God the Father knows." Therefore, can I just say this? When someone predicts when Jesus is coming back or gives a date, I want you to hear this church as your pastor, they are a liar. All right, they're a liar. So listen, if somebody goes, oh, they're coming back, he's coming back during this time, or this is the date, you know, the back in the day. It was like 1998 or something like that. It was like 29 reasons why Jesus is coming back on September 29th or something like that. And then he didn't come back, right? See, I look at these scriptures and I get three observations that we need to focus on today. The first observation is this, his return is personal.

The same Jesus that ascended to heaven is the same Jesus that will come back to earth and will return. The second observation is his return is certain. In other words, scripture says it is gonna happen. It's not a possibility. It will happen someday, Jesus will come back. And the third thing I get out of these verses is this, his return is worth preparing for. Jesus calls his followers to be faithful and to be ready, not to set dates, but instead to be ready in their hearts. At any point, Jesus can come back. You know, we live in a world that is obsessed with predicting the future. We wanna know what is gonna happen in the economy. We wanna know who's gonna win the next election. We wanna know what's gonna happen to our children. We wanna know how much money we're gonna have at retirement in our 401K. We wanna know what the world is gonna look like in 10 or 20 or 50 years. We're obsessed with it. We're always looking in the future. And when it comes to biblical prophecy, people have been trying to predict the second coming of Jesus for literally centuries. Like, since the beginning of the church 2000 years ago, there have been person after person, church after church, movement after movement

that's been trying to figure out the date, figure out the season. You know, some people have put together, you know, charts and timelines and predictions and theories about the end times. But this is what is fascinating. What's fascinating is God hasn't told us everything about the future, but he has told us what we need to know to face it with confidence. That's really important. In fact, I'm gonna do a little poll here. And again, if you don't raise your hand on this 'cause maybe you don't believe that Jesus is coming back, that's fine, okay? Maybe this is new information to you. But if you were to just guess, this is nothing but a guess, all right? How many of you would guess that Jesus is gonna come back in the next 50 years? Raise your hand. How many of you say that he's gonna come back in the next 500 years? All right, some of you, how many you say, sometime maybe it's like 1,000 years from now he's gonna come back, right? I mean, there's hands on the Lord. If you raised your hand, that Jesus you think might be, I want you to know something. So did the first century church.

Literally, Paul, the apostles, the followers of Jesus that saw Jesus ascend to heaven, they all believed that Jesus was coming back in their lifetime in the next 50 years. And so here's the thing. I'm not saying you're wrong if you raise your hand. They said he's coming back in the next 50 years. You may be right, but my point is this, is that trying to figure out the time is not the point. All right, in fact, I love what New Testament scholar, George Ladd wrote in 1958. This is what he wrote. He said this, "Prophyse's primary purpose is to give light "for our present journey not to satisfy our curiosity." This is huge because we don't have time to go. And I mean, I could, it would become a 10-week sermon series on this subject alone. I could get into the different theories. I could talk about pre-trib, mid-trib, post-trib. I could talk about all of the different things, dispensationalism. I could talk about all of the $10 words, all right? But here's the thing. We don't have time to get into that. There are so many theories about the end times, but what I wanna focus on is this. Biblical prophecy gives us enough information to do three things. You ready? Live faithfully in the eyes of God.

Secondly, to not fear the future. And thirdly, to live with hope. Today is not an apocalyptic sermon that makes us all scared or build a bomb shelter, okay? What's that gonna do anyway? By the way, you know, if Jesus comes back, I mean, you're a little shelter and can good, so that's not gonna work, okay? So here's the thing. Let's talk about this. It's actually something we should look forward to. In fact, the Bible says of the Second Coming of Christ, the Bible calls it the blessed hope. The blessed hope. In fact, in the book of Titus chapter two, verse 13, this is what it says. While we wait, turn the person next to you and say wait. While we wait for what? The blessed hope, which is what? The appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. Right there, the Bible is saying his second coming is not something to fear, it's something to hope for. In fact, I love this. You can give that a round of applause. Some of you wanna applaud that. In fact, the Greek word in that verse for wait, it translates this idea of awaiting, of welcoming, of looking forward to something. So as we wait, as we welcome, as we anticipate,

as we have hope for a blessed hope, the Second Coming of Christ. That's really how that's translated. You know, some of you, you're already, you're looking forward to Christmas because it's November one. You now have permission after October to start putting up your tree, to start putting up the lights, to put up the tinsel, to do all these things. Some of you already did that in September. We love your passion. It's a little weird, but we love your passion, all right? Some of you are already looking forward to Christmas. You just can't wait. You have an anticipation, you have an excitement. And can I tell you in that same way, that is our posture, and even more so, that is our posture about the Second Coming of Christ. We are excited about it. We are, we are preparing for it. You know, we prepare for things all the time. We prepare for vacations. Like some of you can count literally the days until you go on vacation, even if it's in 2027. Some of us, we are preparing for retirement. You know exactly how many years to the day maybe, tell you retire. You prepare for that new baby that's coming. You prepare for that wedding that is scheduled, right?

The Bible says in that same spirit of anticipation, we need to prepare for the Second Coming for Jesus Christ to come again. It's an anticipation kind of thing. Where you literally are like, God, I cannot wait for you to come. You know, it isn't that we're trying to predict the day. We're not trying to predict the time. We just have in our spirit this sense of, oh Jesus. and sickness, so full of hurt and pain, so full of evil. This is not our home. This is our temporary home. In fact, in Revelation, chapter 1, verse 3, I love what John writes as he's having this vision. God blesses the one who reads the words of this prophecy, in other words, when the prophecy of Jesus returning, God blesses that, right? When he reads it to the church, and he blesses all who listen to its message that Jesus is coming, and what? Say what it says for the time is near, notice this, John is saying God blesses all who hear the prophecy of Jesus coming back. He does not say God blesses those who understand it, just those who hear it. And then who hear and obey, they receive, they receive the blessing. You don't have to understand it all. You just need to know he's coming back maybe soon. And so we are blessed when we not only hear it, but we also obey. What does that mean? We're going to dive into that in a moment. So many people, so many even pastors, so many even some church movements or online YouTube movements of church. They focus so much, they put so much energy into trying to predict Jesus' return, they

fixate on dates, they put out charts and prophecies and predictions and all these things. Listen, the goal isn't just to know that Jesus is coming, it's to live like we believe it. That's the goal that we live as if he's coming back tomorrow. So here's the question, Jesus is coming back. So how shall we live? How shall we live? It's kind of like preparing for Thanksgiving meal. Thanksgiving is in about three weeks, all right? And some of you, you host Thanksgiving at your home. There's like 10 people to show up, 20 people to show up, 30 people for you, those you have big families, show up right for turkey dinner. And what does that do? How does that invitation and that event influence the few days before they arrive? It influences everything. You have to go buy a turkey, you go to the grocery store multiple times, you clean the house, you set the table, you start cooking well in advance of their arrival, right? I mean, it shifts that entire week for you in the same way. If Jesus is coming and we have an invitation in our heart, Jesus come back, that should significantly influence everything in our life. Whether he's coming back in our lifetime or not, that is not the focus. The focus is he's coming back. So how does that influence our actions? How does that influence our lifestyles? How does that influence even our worldviews? I believe there are three implications, the way that it influences us, three implications to this. The first one is this expectation influences our priorities. Things shift. Like if I were to look at you and say, again, I'd be lying if I said this, but if I were

to just say, hey, Jesus is coming back tomorrow, I don't know, but let's just pretend for a minute. If I were to say, Jesus is coming back tomorrow and he really is coming back tomorrow, okay? How does that change today? How does that change today? How does that change your worship? How does that change your lifestyle? How does that change your priorities? How does it change your evangelism? See, if Jesus is returning, temporary things should not become ultimate things. Is that right? There's nothing wrong with temporary things, but they should not be the ultimate things in our heart. What do we do? I'll tell you what, this would impact what we prioritize, especially in our relationship with Jesus. We would see with eyes focused on eternity, not on just temporary things, right? Well another way that it influences us is our expectation influences our decisions. So we have an expectation that Jesus is coming back that influences the kind of choices we make, like the hope of his coming should shape how we live and what we do. impacts how It would impact how we spend our money. It would impact how we interact with our coworkers and our fellow students, right? And also the third thing is our expectation influences our entire perspective. In other words, we would evaluate what we're presently going through in the light of Jesus coming back. And you know what?

We would probably look at it a little bit different. We would look at the fact that you know how we navigate hardship would be different. And hardship is real. Like some of you are going through it right now. I'm not minimizing that. But if Jesus were coming back soon, you know what? Would you look at your hardship a little bit different? How would we perceive the highs and lows of life? You know, our expectation would teach us to realize that life here is pretty short. Now, we may live a full life. Jesus may come back in 2,000 years. But whether he does or not, our expectation of his return makes us realize life is pretty short. And we don't wanna waste it. We don't wanna waste it. You see, what we're waiting for should influence what we're living for. You need to take a screenshot of that line. Because that's really what the anticipation of Jesus' return, what it causes us to do is that we live different because we live for him. And he may be coming back. So we must ask, am I living primarily for what is temporary or what is eternal? We need to ask that, regardless of when he's coming back. Another question would be,

would the reality of Christ's return change anything about how I am living today? How I'm living today? What's ironic is that you look and you study the first century church. This is part of my formal education, my post-grad work. I did a study on the first century church for part of it. And you know, here's some characteristics of the first century church that not only I, but theologians have discovered for centuries. First of all, this, they were irrationally generous. I mean, to the point where it says in Acts chapter two, they sold their homes, they sold land, they sold everything and gave money to the church movement of building the kingdom of God. I mean, who does that? You know, and the second thing, they were intentionally evangelistic. In other words, because of their mindset, they were constantly sharing Jesus with everybody. Co-workers, neighbors, they'd even go to other cities, many, many miles away, a ship ride away across the Mediterranean even to go be able to evangelize. They were also radically committed. They were like, all in. There wasn't like, oh, you know what? On Sundays I served Jesus and Monday through Saturday, I don't, there wasn't that. They were like radically committed next.

They were unashamedly bold. Like they had a boldness about them. They were willing to say, I am a Christian in a culture that was not just post-Christian, 'cause there's no such thing as post-Christian back then. It was actually anti-Christian. Like, it's crazy. Another thing, they were courageously counter-cultural. They did not do the things that all the other people in the Roman Empire were doing. They lived counter-culture. They also were authentically connected. In other words, there was no sense of like, ah, it's raining today, I don't wanna go to church. They were like, all in. They even met in catechones, which means they had to dig tunnels to be able to meet underground. They met as a priority with one another and worshiped Jesus together and listened to sermons and pastors. I mean, like, it was like they were all in. And then lastly, they were eternally focused. And you sit there and you go, man, I wanna be like a first century Christian. That's it, right there. That's a first century Christian. Why did they have these characteristics? That's we gotta ask. Why? Why did they live this way? You know why?

It's because they encountered Jesus and they wholeheartedly believed, wholeheartedly believed that Jesus was coming back in their lifetime. They literally believed. I had to raise your hand. How many believe He's come back in the next 50 years? They believe that. They believed us so much that was there, the fruit of their life. And you look at it and there's many, many people throughout the centuries that have written books Revelation into a timeline for end-time events, all right? But you may not know this. That first century church, when they read the letter of Revelation, which by the way, the other name, one of the original names for the book of Revelation was the book of the Apocalypse. And they read it. Do you know that they didn't study it to predict Jesus' return? When they read Revelation, that was not what they did. They didn't sit there and go, "Okay, we're going to figure out the timeline. We're going to figure out when it is." No, no, no. The book of Revelation for them was a book of worship. You're like, "Really? Like the four horsemen and the dragon and the…" I mean, right? Yeah, it was a book of worship because the book of Revelation draws a clear contrast between worshiping God and Jesus, who's the lamb, and giving our allegiance to this world. They saw it as a book of worship. They saw it as this is a, "We give our allegiance to God and not our allegiance to this culture." See, for church, worship is more than a song. It's actually a declaration of loyalty to Jesus. And I love what Melissa Archer, who's a doctor, who's studied the book of Revelation her whole life, she wrote this in 2022. She said, "Worship is the language of resistance against anything opposed to God's kingdom." Do you know, every time you worship, either by song or by lifestyle, you are living in resistance against the world's culture. You're living in resistance against its idols and its priorities. See, the early church was under great persecution for the first 300 years. And when they read the book of Revelation, they believed this. Jesus could come back

any moment. And when he does, we want him to find a church that's fully devoted, totally sold out, and worshiping him. And so they live that way. See, living ready for Jesus' return means resisting the temptation to give ultimate allegiance to things that cannot ultimately save us. That's what it really means. So as we close in the last two minutes of my message here, this is a very important question I need to ask, because Jesus is coming back. We know he's coming back. We just don't know when. Something inside of our spirit feels like, "Wow, it could be sooner rather than later, right?" So here's the question. Are you ready for Jesus' return? That's really the question. And really, there's two ways to know you're ready. Two ways. All of us need to answer that. We need to think, "Am I ready? Am I ready if Jesus were to come back this afternoon? Am I ready?" Well, there's two ways to know you're ready. The first way is the most important. And the second way is it hinges on the first way, okay? The first way, the most important way to know that you're ready for Jesus' return is this. If Jesus is truly the leader, Bible word is Lord, and forgiver, Bible word is Savior of your life, then you'll be ready. If Jesus is truly the leader and the forgiver, Lord and Savior, then you're ready. Then you're ready when he comes back. This is not about how many Christmas and Easter services you've been to. It's not about how many Bible verses you know or recognize. That doesn't make you ready. It's not about how much money you give to the church. That doesn't make you ready. It's not about how good you are or how many random acts of kindness you've done in your lifetime. That doesn't make you ready. The only thing that makes you ready is that Jesus is Lord and Savior. In fact, in Romans chapter 10 verse 9, it says this, it says, "If you declare with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved." That's the only way that you're ready if Jesus comes back. That's it. Right there. He has to be the leader and the forgiver of your life. It's not just about knowing about Jesus. It's knowing Jesus. That is the most important way to know that you are ready for Christ's return. And then the second way, which again hinges on the first. Are you attempting with the help of the Holy Spirit to live the kind of life that God wants you to live? That's how after you're saved, you know you're ready.

That you are living in such a way that you're like, God, I'm ready for you to return, 'cause I'm doing the best that I can with the Holy Spirit's help to live your way. I love what it says in 1 John. It says this, but when we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like Him. You hear what it says? When Christ appears, we shall be like Him. For we shall see Him as He is. All who have this hope in Him purify themselves just as He is pure. What does it mean to purify yourself? It means that you try to live holy. It doesn't mean you're perfect. It doesn't mean that you never make a mistake. In fact, readiness does not mean perfect. It means faithful. That you just say, I am trying to live as faithfully as I can according to God's plan, according to God's word. So is Jesus coming back? Yes. When is He coming back? I don't know. It could be tomorrow. It could be in a thousand years. The timeframe does not matter. What matters is that we are ready. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, I pray

that we would ask ourselves that question. Am I ready for your return? That's not sensational. It's not a threat. It's not something that makes us have fear, but it should make us be sober and think to ourselves, am I ready? Lord, I pray that all of us would be ready. The two ways that we'll be ready is first by making you the leader and the forgiver of our life. And second, to be faithful, to try to the best of our ability to live according to your way of living, according to your word. So Lord, as we leave today, may those things rattle in our spirit. Lord, we have anticipation, we have hope. We are excited that you are coming back. And Lord, we wanna be ready. We wanna be ready in our heart, and we wanna be ready in our life. With every head bowed and ever I close, I know some of you today are listening to this. You're like, oh, and I'm not ready. And I actually appreciate that honesty. But you're like, I'm not ready. I have not made Jesus the Lord and the forgiver, the leader and the savior of my life. Or maybe at one point you did, but you've walked away from God. And you're like, you know what?

I need to come back 'cause I wanna be ready. If that's you today, I wanna give you an opportunity to be ready. Whether Jesus comes back in our lifetime or not, it doesn't matter. Some day we will all see him, the Bible says. Every knee will bow. And so here's what we are going to do. If you say, I wanna be ready, then I wanna pray a prayer with you. So if you say, I wanna pray this prayer, I'm not ready and I wanna be ready. Just raise your hand real quickly. I'm looking, no one else is. Yeah, hands are up everywhere. I guarantee you at every location, you can put your hands down. Let's all say this prayer together. And I will tell you, after you say this prayer, you will be ready because the Bible says if we believe in our heart and confess with our mouth, that's what we're doing right now. This is what we're gonna do, okay? So let's all say this prayer together. Jesus, I come to you today and I wanna be ready. I wanna make you my Lord and savior. Thank you for dying for me so that I can live. So forgive me for all my sin, come into my heart and be the leader of my life. Thank you, Jesus, for loving me with an unconditional love

in Jesus' name and everybody said, amen, amen. Come on, can we give God a huge round of applause, all right? - If you prayed that prayer for the very first time, we just wanna let you know that we are celebrating with you. It's the best decision that you could ever make and we just wanna let you know that you don't have to figure your faith out alone. So we have a couple next steps for you that I wanna tell you about. So the first one is just tell somebody about the decision that you made. Faith isn't meant to be lived alone. People wanna know that you made that decision. Second is this. We have a resource for you called New Beginning. It's a free 14-day devotional and it's gonna help you to start to grow your relationship with Jesus and explain the decision that you just made. - That's right and when you sign up teach you how to pray, how to read the Bible and have a Christ-centered friendships. And if you have any questions whatsoever, take a moment, drop them in the chat or DM us, and we would love to get back to you. You know, when I said we were not meant to do faith alone, we always have next steps for you here at City First Church. And one that I want to encourage you to take a next step in is by attending GrowthTrack. It's the first Sunday of every month. It's going to help you discover your purpose, your God-given design. You can join us in person or online. So go ahead and check it out on the City First app or even the QR code scan that. Sign up for it. You won't regret it. Yes. And if you need prayer for anything, and I mean absolutely anything, we have a team of prayer warriors who would love to join beside you and pray with you and for you. Take a moment, head to the City First app right now and let us know what you need prayer for.

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