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Join is this week with guest speaker Dr. Rob Remeir as he talks about living out the Great Commission from Jesus to heal the sick, raise the dead, and set the captives free.
Join us this week as hear from Pastor Anna and learn that with the authority of Jesus, we live our lives having been made new in his power and will see the Kingdom grow.
Join us this week as hear from Pastor Anna and learn that because we are living in His life, we must move in His power.
Join us this week with guest speaker Dr. Rob Reimer as he talks about what it means to become unmoored from the temporal things of life so that we can become moored to Jesus.
Join us as we kick off our new series with Pastor Anna and learn that because we are sent by Jesus, we must answer the call to Go.
Tune in to Anna Shuman as she closes the Make Him Known Series!
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We have returned with podcasting our sermons. Tune in as Pastor Tim Binkele starts a new series of Make Him Known!
Tune in as Pastor Anna Shuman goes continues the series "Yes: Adventures in obedience to God"!
Tune in and listen to Pastor Tim Binkele as he shares his sermon “Yes: Adventures in Obedience to God.”
Tune in to our podcast as Anna Shuman continues our series on Together: Engaging in the Simplicity of Community!
Though we are apart there has never been a greater need to come together. Join us as Pastor Tim helps us look back to see how a devoted community made the difference in the faith of many.
Tune in as Anna Shuman preaches in John 14 on Jesus’ second “I Am” statement, “I Am the Way, the Truth and the Life.”
In this message, Anna Shuman preaches from John 8:48-69 and talks about the first “I AM” statement of Jesus.
Listen to the start of our new series called “I AM” as Pastor Tim talks about what it means to operate out of our primary identity as a children of God.
Anna Shuman continues The Deeper Life series and talks about the importance of being honest in the process of caring for souls.
Pastor Tim Binkele begins a series on The Deeper Life as we learn how to encounter Jesus in the care of our souls.
Pastor Tim concludes the New Beginnings series by talking about how Jesus invites us into a ‘new day’ and presents us with three ways we can embrace this invitation.
Pastor starts out the new year with a new series called New Beginnings.
Please note, due to a technical issue a portion of the message in the middle of the sermon was lost. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Danielle Conway continues with the prayer series on what it means to be a praying community.
Pastor Tim shares the Story of God, by Caesar Kalinowski, through the lens of creation, the fall, redemption and restoration.
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Stephen Bailey shares on how we are to approach the Bible in our study of Scripture.
Please note, due to a technical issue a portion of the message near the end was lost. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please refer to the powerpoint for any missing parts of the teaching.
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Anna Shuman closes the Intimacy Series on Pathways to Intimacy.
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Pastor Tim's share about vision, values and our new discipleship plan and the fall launch of River Communities!
Anna Shuman teaches from Matthew 6 on how worry gets in the way of trusting God for our provision.
Pastor Tim continues our summer series from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7 looking at prayer and its connection to forgiveness.
We had some technical difficulties, but we are BACK! Week 5 of Summer on the Mount is here as Danielle Conway talks about Jesus’ teaching on giving, prayer and fasting from Matthew 6 and challenged us to seek our heavenly Father’s reward instead of the reward of people’s recognition.
Pastor Andrew teaches from Matthew 5:27-32 about Jesus giving us his new kingdom vision for our sexuality, redemption from our sexuality and formation in our sexuality.
Pastor Andrew teaches Week 2 of Summer on the Mount with a look at Matthew 5:17-26 as we learn what it means to live by Jesus' deeper meaning of the laws.
Pastor Tim kicks off our summer teaching series on Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5-7.
Pastor Andrew continues our series ‘Lord Teach Us To Pray’ with a teaching on the Manifest Presence of Jesus from Exodus 33. What is it? And why is it important for us to become a praying church?
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This week we unpack how to hear God's voice and the many challenges this has specifically for us in Western Culture.
We begin our series 'Lord Teach Us To Pray' by talking about our hunger for more of God.
We were grateful to have Doug Bortner, our Assistant District Superintendent with us to talk about building a legacy. What does the story of Esther teach us about leveraging our current circumstances for the Kingdom?
Pastor Tim shares good news for everyone and the reality of the resurrection that we now live in!
Pastor Andrew closes out our series 'No Filter' by inviting us to rethink how and if happiness is to be pursued by followers of Jesus.
Pastor Tim talks about comfort as we generally think about it and frames it in Jesus teaching on following him.
Due to a technical issue, the last part of Pastor Tim's message was unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Anna Shuman talks about laying down the filter of our Individualism. NOTE: Apologies for the technical difficulties on this weeks recording.
Is our vision of a prosperous life leaving us fulfilled or exhausted? Danielle Conway teaches from John 9 as learn what Jesus believe counts for a prosperous life and what we need to do to shift our perspective.
In week two of our Lent series, we dive into a conversation on our possessions and Pastor Tim asks: are we being possessed by our possessions?
Pastor Tim begins our new series by discussing what Jesus says about wealth, how easily we believe it will solve our problems, and how it quite often, isn't all it's cracked up to be. When we need money, how can we truly find fulfillment?
Pastor Tim completes our series “Light of the World” teaching us to be light in the world to others.
Week two of our vision series continues with a look at what it means to let "the light shine in the house". How do we let the light of Jesus shine to each other as a family?
Jesus says that we are the light of the world if we follow him. What does that mean? How do we become light? Pastor Tim kicks off our annual vision series talking about how to become filled with light by practicing the presence of God.
Pastor Andrew wraps up our series studying the book of Joel as we learn how it describes God’s ultimate restoration, judgement and renewal.
Pastor Tim teaches on Joel 2:28-32, connecting it to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in Acts 2 and what that means for all people. (Due to a technical difficulty we were not able to provide a quality audio recording for Part 3, we apologize for the inconvenience!).
As we kick off the new year, Pastor Tim introduces our study in the book of Joel the prophet.
Dr. Amy Davis Abdallah joins us in our Unwrapping Christmas series as we talk about the loneliness that seems all too common. The reality is, we all experience loneliness. The question is, why are we experiencing loneliness and how can we experience true connection?
We start our “Unwrapping Christmas” series with Pastor Tim talking about family dysfunction. It can be a challenging thing to handle and engage during the holidays. Thankfully, Jesus himself has a dysfunction family tree but showed us a way to redemption.
Pastor Tim closes out our series, 'The Way of Jesus' by talking about how Jesus has called us to live in fruit bearing community. Not for ourselves but for others.
Pastor Tim teaches us how to walk in the authority of Jesus that has been given to us as we "go into all the world..."
Pastor Andrew teaches from Matthew 11 & 12 on what Jesus actually teaches about rest and the practice of “Sabbath”.
Pastor Tim teaches on the way of identity shown to us by Jesus. Jesus’ way of identity teaches us to answer the big question of “Who Am I?” through the lens of being a child of God.
Danielle Conway teaches from Matthew 16:24-27 about what Jesus says about his way of surrender.
Pastor Tim kicks off our new series The Way Of Jesus by talking about Jesus’ way of Salvation.
Guest Speaker, Dave Janssen, joins us as we celebrate 8 years as a church and talks to us about Jesus' sending out of his disciples in Matthew 10. The Church of the future will be built in local, very unique ways, how will you use your gifts to be a part of it?
Pastor Tim teaches out of James 4 as we learn how to be content with today instead of worrying or focusing on the past and future. Could we choose to reframe each part of our life as something we are doing for Jesus?
Guest speaker Paul Keidel teaches from John 6 and asks us a critical question: Why do you follow Jesus? Is it for what He can give? Or is there something more that is possible?
Pastor Tim begins the series "Instead" as we begin to learn about replacing our old way for the new way of Jesus in Ephesians 4.
Pastor Tim is back! Hear a great story about Jesus changing kids lives from our Kids Camp and Pastor Tim continues our series, Profiles of Faith with a look at the story of Jephthah.
Pastor Andrew looks at the example of faith that the prophets provide through the story of Elijah and asks where we are placing our faith in an ever changing culture.
We continue our series, Profiles of Faith, by learning about the story of Gideon and how God invites us to have faith in the midst of a seemingly hopeless future.
It's All Age Worship Sunday! Pastor Tim got everyone involved in a reenactment of the story of Joshua and the walls of Jericho and teaches some lessons on faith and obedience in the midst of challenging circumstances.
Jill Constantinou talks about the story of Sarah in Genesis through the lenses of Hebrews 11 and the pronouncement of the author that she showed faith in her life. How does a person who had so much doubt about what God said come to be listed as a person of great faith?
This week in our series "More: Experiencing Life with the Holy Spirit" we look at how the Holy Spirit gives us a heart for and empowerment to complete the mission that Jesus assigned us when He said "Go into all the world..." Listen to this conversation that Pastor Tim has with one of our elder's Marco Pazmino from this past Sunday's Gathering.
Pastor Tim talks about the spiritual gifts the Holy Spirit gives every person in that follows Jesus.
Pastor Tim talks about the how the Holy Spirit works in us to sanctify us. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 reminds us that God's will is that we become sanctified. So how do we work with the Holy Spirit to become sanctified?
Andrew Meher talks about Encountering the Holy Spirit and how living life with relationship in and experience of the Holy Spirit’s presence is the context through which we are to live the life Jesus gave to us.
Pastor Tim talks to us about who the person of the Holy Spirit is as we continue our series “More: Experiencing life with the Holy Spirit.” (note: due to a technical issue, part 1 is unavailable for podcast.)
Pastor Tim shares an Easter Sunday message about the victorious love of God to finish our study in 1 John, "What is Love?"
Jill Constantinou challenges us to be truly transformed by the love of Jesus, not living in our former ways and not loving in a non committed way as we once did.
Pastor Tim continues our series "What Is Love?" by teaching us on forgiveness from 1 John 2. Jesus set a high standard for radical forgiveness. Are you ready to embrace it?
Pastor Tim begins our Lent Series "What Is Love?" by reminding us of the person of Jesus. Studying 1 John, Tim reminds us that Jesus was and is real and came in the flesh and because of that His love has real power for us.
Pastor Tim gives part 2 of vision for the next year by challenging us to consider our definition of hospitality and to relearn what biblical hospitality looks like and how we do that with every person we meet.
Pastor Tim shares vision for The River as we look ahead to the next year. *Note: we are experiencing some technical recording issues and are working to eliminate the issues with our recording quality. Thank you for your patience!
Pastor Andrew concludes our series "The Exchange" by teaching from Matthew 25:14-30. Everyone is given money, time and talents from God to complete a unique purpose. When we use these well, despite our perceived limitations, we can begin to create our unique masterpiece.
Pastor Andrew teaches from Matthew 6 how God the Father will always provide for us so that we do not need to be anxious about our worth or our future. He and his wife, Jillian share some tips at the end that they've used to overcome anxiety about finances.
Why give? Is it necessary? Jill Constantinou talks about giving and how it isn't as much for God as it is for us.