Churches in Nashville

Active churches in Nashville

4806 Trousdale Drive, Nashville
CrieveHall.org
13 sermons · 4 days ago
5434 Bell Forge Ln E, Antioch
lakeshorechristian.com
150 sermons · 4 days ago
123 White Bridge Rd, Nashville
westendcc.org
21 sermons
299 Cowan St, Nashville
crosspointelpaso.com
4 sermons
201 1st Ave, Nashville
thvn.cc
16 sermons
3325 Anderson Rd, Antioch
priestlakechurch.org
3 sermons
2846 Lebanon Pike, Nashville
connectionumc.org
3 sermons
240 Tusculum Rd, Antioch
koreanunity.org
3 sermons
2708 Jefferson Street, Nashville
jsmbc.org
1 sermon
2417 Nolensville Pk, Nashville
unaesperanzaviva.org
2 sermons
5200 Franklin Pike, Nashville
oakhillassembly.com
4 sermons
3183 Hamilton Church Rd, Antioch
saintpishoy.org
1 sermon
5970 Mt View Rd, Antioch
faithhopelovefellowship.com
1 sermon
2255 Hobson Pike, Antioch
stmacariustn.org
1 sermon
5988 Cane Ridge Rd, Antioch
suscopts.org
1 sermon
2601 Una Antioch Pike, Antioch
antiochfirstbaptist.org
1 sermon
4926 Ottenville Ave, Antioch
stjohnmissionarybaptistchurch.org
1 sermon
Hamilton United Methodist Church, Antioch
hamilton-umc.org
1 sermon
7224 Old Burkitt Rd, Antioch
thevillagechurch.com
1 sermon
3105 Hamilton Church Rd, Antioch
unitedfamilyfellowship.org
1 sermon
12545 Old Hickory Blvd, Antioch
mtviewbaptist.net
1 sermon
2142 Antioch Pike, Antioch
antiochcofc.org
1 sermon
6065 Mt View Rd, Antioch
thechurchofgod.org
1 sermon
244 Tusculum Rd, Antioch
southnashvillesda.org
1 sermon
5383 Mt View Rd, Antioch
tnvictory.com
1 sermon
248 Tusculum Rd, Antioch
sites.google.com
1 sermon
106 Gallatin Pike North, Madison
madisonchurchtn.org
15 sermons
6801 Charlotte Pike, Nashville
tabnashville.net
2 sermons
1586 McGavock Pike, Nashville
dalewoodchurchnashville.com
1 sermon

Types of churches in Nashville

Modern Nashville Churches

These congregations emphasize contemporary worship, practical teaching, and high-quality production that fits Music City’s creative scene. You’ll find them meeting in repurposed venues and new builds from The Nations to Berry Hill, with strong online streaming and volunteer teams. Many draw musicians and tech professionals tied to nearby studios and venues.

Nashville Churches for Young Adults

Centered around campuses like Vanderbilt, Belmont, and Lipscomb, these churches offer late-morning services, weeknight gatherings, and mentoring for students and recent grads. Small groups often meet in coffee shops across Midtown, 12South, and East Nashville, with service projects focused on urban needs downtown. Expect a casual vibe, networking events, and an emphasis on community over formality.

Historic & Liturgical

Rooted in Nashville’s older neighborhoods, these congregations worship with formal liturgy, pipe organ or choral music, and time-honored rituals. Many gather in stone sanctuaries along West End and downtown near the Capitol, serving multi-generational families from Sylvan Park, Germantown, and nearby districts. They appeal to worshipers seeking reverence, tradition, and theological depth.

Multicultural & Spanish-Language Churches

This category reflects Nashville’s international growth, with bilingual services and Spanish-language congregations prominent in Antioch, along Nolensville Pike, and the Harding Place corridor. Ministries often include ESL classes, family support, and cultural celebrations that connect newcomers with long‑time residents. Worship blends Latin American styles with contemporary gospel and global influences.

Sermon clips from Nashville churches

37s
#UseYourGifts
“Here's a hard question, and I want you to answer it for yourself. Who's being served by your gift? Who is being blessed by your gift right now in all of that? If the answer is nobody, then that gift's sitting in your garage and the world is poorer for it. You got a gift. It was meant to be used. It was meant to be experienced, and it's given to you by God's varied grace. That word varied means multicolored or multifaceted grace, a prism. Everybody has different kinds of gifts. You really do.”
54s
#WitnessWhereYouAre
“Right. Start right where you are. Wherever you are, be my witness in that place. The ends of the earth are awesome. Judea and Samaria, they're great, but Jesus gave us the charge to go to Jerusalem first and our Jerusalem is right where you are right now with your life. It starts in your home. Be the witness god's called you to be in your home. Start right there. And then if you're going to... Anything connected with your neighborhood, be a witness in your neighborhood. And if you're going to work somewhere, be a witness for Jesus in that workplace. Now I know there are workplace rules you gotta follow, but there's still ways just to have conversation with people.”
48s
#SurrenderToJesus
“That he has done everything, and I bring nothing to the table but the mess, but the junk, but the debt. I mean, look at what we're look at what is being offered to us. Look at what we are being told to believe. To believe into him is to let him have me. That's what this is calling us for. To believe into the son of God is to let him have me so that what? Verse 12. What happens if I let him have me? What? I have him. I have him.”
50s
“Some Sundays worship moves you and you you feel it and you feel and you feel the anointing, you feel on fire. And some days you're tired or you're angry or you're distracted or you're broken. And you can have a week where you don't feel like a very impressive Christian. I've had weeks where I feel like I must be the worst pastor in the whole world. But the beauty of God's grace is that God gives you something outside of yourself to anchor yourself He put his name on you. He put his work on you. He sealed you with his spirit, not your own. And so your emotions can change and your circumstance can change, but God's promise on your life does not. If he sealed it, you can't break it.”
59s
“``What does it mean for god to do something unto you? A lot of these translated as for you, with you, through you, but instead, there's something that is this god will move upon you. God will move with you. That there is this action of a connection and something happening between you and the lord that is different than just, god, will you be my piggy bank? There was a belief, and I don't think it was a wrong one that when this was translated into the the the King James version, there was this understanding that god was going to work through people and that his spirit was going to do a work in you, through you, on you, and that you would not be the same because of it.”
41s
“Because in your mind, you there's nothing that's going to keep you. Nothing and no one can keep you. Only Jesus. Only can keep you. He can keep and and and once sometime whenever whenever you're preaching, have you I'll be I'll be doing all this right because he kept me. He that's the reason why I'm loud. My voice oh, god. Right? It's loud because god kept me. He said to whom much is given, much is required. I will run this whole house. Right?”
49s
“Sabbath is counter cultural in a way that almost nothing else in the Christian life is right now. You can be a person of prayer and nobody in your workplace is really gonna notice or care. You can be generous and the culture will cheer you on. You can volunteer and people will call you admirable. But if you actually practice Sabbath, if you set boundaries, if you turn off your phone for a full day, if you refuse to answer emails on weekends, if you let things be undone, if you stop grinding, people will think something is wrong with you. Or worse, they'll think you're lazy and you're falling behind.”
42s
“여러분들 인생길을 험한 인생길 살아가시면서 오늘도 우리가 하루를 버티고 살아가지 않습니까? 힘들 때마다 여러분들이 넘어지지 않고, 정말 힘들지만 그래도 그 힘듦에도 불구하고 또 그 힘듦을 이겨 넘어 나가는 그 근본적인 이유가 여러분 무엇입니까? 어디 어떤 힘을 근거로 여러분 어려움 가운데서 또 마음의 많은 고통 가운데 그것을 하나하나 이겨 나갑니까? 알고 보면은 그 근본적인 이유는 한 가지 밖에 없다는 것입니다. 무엇인가 하면은 바로 소망이 있기 때문이다. 라는 것입니다. 소망이 있는 사람들은 결코 쓰러지고 넘어지지 않습니다.”
52s
“``Use what you have. Use what you have. You an open heaven. You have a spirit that rests and you have a god that affirms. Stop worrying about what you ain't got. Because what you do have is more than the world against you. Pentecost is not just about a shout. not just about speaking in tongue. It's not just about a powerful worship experience. Pentecost is about the believer's recognition to live with what we got.”
44s
“viene a la cruz del calvario, con un corazón humillado y contrito, quebran espíritu entonces Satanás no lo puede tocar solo el espíritu santo está autorizado para tocar esa vida solo el espíritu santo puede tocar esa vida para levantarlo para restaurarlo solo el espíritu santo puede revertir todo daño que te han hecho Padre, gracias, gracias por esta noche, hay una presencia del espíritu de dios en este lugar.”

Why Nashville churches are unique

As Music City, churches in Nashville often reflect the city’s creative heartbeat, blending skilled musicianship with a range of worship traditions—from polished contemporary sets to rootsy hymn-singing. Many congregations value modern worship with contemporary band, songwriting and original worship, and choirs and traditional hymns, creating services that feel both professional and heartfelt.
With numerous universities and a steady influx of new residents, Nashville churches prioritize discipleship, mentorship, and community for a young, mobile population. Expect strong small groups, weekday gatherings near campus and downtown, and volunteer opportunities that fit busy schedules, including college student ministries, young adults and professionals, and small group culture.
Nashville’s neighborhoods—and its role as a hub for immigrants and refugees—foster congregations that are multiethnic and service-oriented. From East to South Nashville, many churches offer bilingual worship, practical help after storms, and partnerships addressing housing and food insecurity, often expressed through bilingual and multicultural services, community outreach and food relief, and recovery and counseling ministries.

Recent sermons from Nashville churches

Nearby cities: 18 churches in Brentwood 18 churches in Antioch 28 churches in Franklin 6 churches in Murfreesboro 20 churches in Columbia