Poplar Ridge Christian Church: Recent Episodes
Poplar Ridge Christian Church
Poplar Ridge Christian Church is located in Piney Flats, Tennessee! Our mission is to Love God and Love People and to be a place that you can call home for your family.
We discuss how true leadership goes beyond just completing tasks—it's about genuinely loving and investing in others. Simply "checking the boxes" isn't enough if we're not also spending meaningful time with those we care about. Through passages from Exodus 20, Matthew 22, and 1 Corinthians 13, we'll see how Jesus and others in scripture demonstrated leadership by prioritizing love above all else. We encourage our students to focus on what God says matters most: loving Him, loving others, and sharing good things with those they lead.
David prayed, "Search me, oh God." He wanted to invite God in to show Him where he was missing the mark and allow God to lead in those areas.
Great leaders follow through. We want to be a person worth following. In order to do that we have to follow the One who is worth following in Jesus.
The early church made dangerous prayers and God showed up. Peter and John prayer for God to make them bold to preach the gospel even when they were facing persecution.
On Sunday we talked about becoming like Jesus is becoming a person of love. You can't become like Jesus without Jesus.
In this series, we are discussing the process of being in an intimate relationship with Jesus and following Him in our daily life.
This week we discussed the importance of being in community and how we must choose to be in it!
This week we discussed the importance of having an intimate relationship with Jesus and consistently being in conversation with Him!
We kicked off a new sermon series talking about spiritual disciplines. Spiritual disciplines are not something we have to do but something we have the opportunity to do.
If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy! When we live hurried lives we can often miss what's most important. God has created us to rest and delight in Him and get rid of distractions.
God has given us what we need but Satan often attacks us with the idea that we need more than we have. Adam and Eve had all they needed but Satan was able to deceive them to make them think they needed something they didn't truly need.
Satan is always going to attack. We must be on guard because he always seems to attack after we've been on the mountaintop. Even in the valley we can be confident in God, no matter what's next.
On Sunday we discussed how we can't be perfect. We always believe the lie from Satan where he says we must be perfect all the time. But Jesus, who is perfect, offers us grace when we fail.
We finished our series talking about how Jesus sends out the twelve. He sends us out boldly!
This week we looked at the lie, "You have no purpose" and discussed what God says about us. He gives us all a purpose because He created us all to be unique.
We don't have to do this alone. God has given us all a voice and He wants us to do it together.
We kicked off a new series called Lies Satan Tells. We forget sometimes that we are being attacked and that we have to go on the offense. He is looking for ways to make us lose focus but we must stay focused on God.
Jesus asks Peter if he loves Him after Peter had denied Jesus 3 times. Even though he denied Jesus, He still welcomed him back. Jesus does that for us. But if we truly love Him, then we must also answer the question, "Then how will people know?"
Today we look at the moment on the cross where Jesus asks the question, "My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?"
As we continue the Questions Jesus Asked series we dive into John 11 where Jesus asks, "Are there not twelve hours of daylight?" He calls us to go to work. He tells us to not waste our life.
This week we looked in John 3 where Jesus asked Nicodemus "do you not understand?" We all must believe and be born again.
This week we started our series through the book of John called Questions Jesus Asked. We kicked it off with Jesus asking "What do you want?" What are we truly seeking? Are you looking for a savior?
Today we talked about how to disciple our neighbors. We must 1. Be with Jesus. 2. Become like Him. 3. Do as He did. And as we go about our life we must invite other to follow the way of Jesus.
"1 Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. 2 Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." - Hebrews 13:1-2
When we think of our neighbors we must look at how we can become good neighbors! We are called to "keep on" loving our Christian community but to "not forget" the strangers and show them hospitality.
We must be intentional with our neighbors! If we want to have good neighbors then we must start by looking inward.
This Sunday, we talk about how the church is a family and how it is for everyone!
| October 23, 2022 |
Today we discuss how the Church is to be led by the Holy Spirit and how the Holy Spirit is to lead our lives!
| October 9, 2022 |
We are starting a new series called The Church Is... where we discuss how the church is to be and how we play a role in it! Today we talk about how how The Church is Focused on Jesus!
| October 2, 2022 |
On September 25th we celebrated Poplar Ridge's 180th year of ministry! Bob Russell talks about why he loves the church!
| September 25, 2022 |
Today we talked about how we are called to live in a grace filled community!
| September 11, 2022 |
On Sunday, we talked about how we are supposed to live out our faith through how we love one another. \
| September 4, 2022 |
This Sunday we discussed how the Gospel shapes our community and shapes our lives.
| August 28, 2022 |
In Sunday's message we kicked off a series called Created For Community! We looked at how community is built into our DNA because God Himself is community!
| August 22, 2022 |
Johnson University President, Tommy Smith, joins us today as he teaches us about the Holy Spirit and how we are called to be set apart.
| August 14, 2022 |
Today we talked about how we are supposed to use our marriages to lead people to Jesus and how we are submit to one another!
| July 24, 2022 |
In today's message we dive into 1 Peter 2:11-25! Peter tells his audience they need to look to Jesus in order to know how to live faithfully in a world full of sin!
| July 17, 2022 |
In today's message we dive in to 1 Peter 2:4-10. Peter tells his audience that they have to build their lives on the foundation of Christ!
| July 10, 2022 |
We are kicking off a new series through 1 Peter! Today we talk about the living hope that God gives. It should inspire us to live different in a world that is hopeless.
| July 3, 2022 |
This week we finish our series, "What if Jesus is serious?" Jesus tells us that what we do in our daily lives really matters.
| June 26, 2022 |
Today we look at Matthew 7:13-23. Up to this point in the Sermon on the Mount Jesus has given us instruction on how to live. At this moment He tells us to make a choice if we are going to go down the wide path to destruction or the narrow path that leads to life. Jesus challenges us to be with Him, become like Him, and do what He says.
| June 19, 2022 |
Today we discuss what Jesus says about judging others. He tells us to look at ourselves before we judge another. We are not called to point fingers but to extend a hand.
| June 12, 2022 |
There are so many things to worry about in our world but Jesus tells His people to not worry because God has a plan. God is so big and has created the world. He has a plan for you. In this message, we talk about how to deal with worry and help us understand that we can trust God whenever it comes our way.
| June 5, 2022 |
Today we discuss Jesus' words in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 6:19-24. He says we are to put our identity in Heaven, fix our eyes on Him, and to serve God only. Wherever you put your identity and treasure is what will define the way they you live!
| May 29, 2022 |
Today we pick up our in our series What If Jesus was Serious? and discuss the importance of loving our enemies and not take revenge on those who hurt us. Jesus tells his audience in the Sermon on the Mount that they are to go the second mile for everyone no matter what!
| May 22, 2022 |
In this message, we talk about what it looks like to empower generations. Paul gives Timothy a lot of lessons in 2 Timothy 1:1-14 that we can pull from today! We all have something to bring something to the table and we all have something to learn.