PENTECOST/ORDINARY TIME
Prepare Him Room - Ordinary Time 2025
Ordinary Time marks the weeks between Easter and Advent, beginning with Pentecost Sunday. On Pentecost we remember the pouring out of the Holy Spirit on the early Church, fulfilling Jesus' promise to send the Counselor and launching disciples into the far reaches of the world, joining Jesus in His mission to make all things new. Despite its name, Ordinary Time can be a season of extraordinary spiritual growth and depth without the distractions of major holidays. During this liturgical year we have adopted the theme - Prepare Him Room. Our desire is that each of us would make room in our lives and hearts for Jesus to do his transforming work.
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Throughout the liturgical year, we have the opportunity to see this formation take place. As we live out the story of Jesus, we invite you to participate in a personal discipline for each season change. We are constantly being [de]formed by the world around us. Instead, consider stepping into these intentional rhythms that are designed to form us into the image of Jesus.
For Ordinary Time, our personal discipline will be Sabbath. ​
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We define spiritual disciplines as practices we perform in order to place ourselves in a position for God’s transforming grace to form us into the image of Jesus. Sabbath is a particularly fitting practice to highlight during the liturgical season of Ordinary Time because it aligns beautifully with the purpose of the season: cultivating slow, steady, faithful growth in Christ over the long stretch of ordinary days.
SABBATH
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES : ORDINARY TIME 2025
​​​GROWN-UP RESOURCE
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Author Tish Harrison Warren offers an invitation for the reader to "Come and discover the holiness of your every day" as she draws attention to the mundane and overlooked elements of daily life. Everything can help draw our attention to the presence of God in our lives, even brushing our teeth.​​
KIDS & FAMILY RESOURCE
“Each book in the Big Theology for Little Hearts series introduces a big idea from the Bible with concise definitions and engaging illustrations to help young minds gain a foundational understanding of God's word.
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This book helps kids understand and love the third person of the Trinity with a fun, illustrated board book that clearly explains the nature of the Holy Spirit. With colorful, modern illustrations and words that are simple for little ones to understand, this book helps us teach kids important truths about Pentecost, the gifts of the Spirit, sanctification, and more.”
YEAR-ROUND RESOURCE
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Prayer & Practice Book - A City Church book of common prayer.
With short daily liturgies, planner pages, and collections of breath prayers, blessings, and more, this is intended to be a daily resource to help us integrate the many pieces of our lives.
Download PDF here or email us for a printed copy.
LITURGICAL YEAR
The liturgical calendar follows the life of Christ and, in its cyclical rhythm, invites us to enter the movement of his life on a yearly basis. As we observe each season, we can observe Christ. We pray that as you allow the seasons of the church year and anchor your life to the life of Christ, you’ll discover that a fuller joy and vitality marks your days.
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Lesslie Newbign writes, “the business of the Church is to tell and to embody a story, the story of God’s mighty acts in creation and redemption and of God’s promises concerning what will be in the end. The Church affirms the truth of this story by celebrating it, interpreting it, and enacting it in the life of the contemporary world.”
Each Sunday we see the arc of God’s story rehearsed and embodied (God is Holy, We are Broken, Jesus Saves Us, Jesus Sends Us)... but how do we “enact it in the contemporary world” of our homes, where we can create culture and habits that form us.
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The church calendar, much like Sunday Service, moves us through a story. Specifically the story of Jesus with his incarnation in Advent all the way through the sending of the church in Pentecost.
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ADVENT - the future hope of Christ
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CHRISTMAS - the joyful birth of Christ
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EPIPHANY - the perfect manifestation of Christ
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LENT - the temptation and death of Christ
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EASTER - the world-changing resurrection of Christ
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PENTECOST/ORDINARY TIME - the renewing Spirit of Christ