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Life can be seriously difficult, even when you're a follower of Jesus. Paul reminds us that endurance is part of the story each of us lives.
Love believes God will come to the rescue. We don't have to have all the answers, but hope floats while much in life tends to sink. We are called to place our hope in Jesus.
Through the storms of life, it's a grounding in Jesus, his person and work, that keeps us firm through the difficulty.
Even when the storms of life arrive, the words of Jesus allow us to hold on to the strength he offers through his gift of salvation.
The process of sanctification isn't like flipping a light switch; its a life-long process of growing to be more like Jesus.
We struggle to be the best people we can be, but grace means we don't have to strive to be good enough.
Hope from Jesus' resurrection gives us life after death through the hope in our own resurrection to new life.
When we choose to follow Jesus, we begin to understand that some of the things we have held tightly to in the past are less important than things of eternal significance.
Paul addresses the Roman church and reminds them that baptism is more than tradition, it symbolizes spiritual death and resurrection.
The years between childhood and adulthood are critical for connecting with adults who can help connect teens with Jesus in meaningful ways.
The gift of being a Hero Maker is investing in others then releasing them to bless others. It's how we become a blessing ourselves.
By most human metrics, Jesus' ministry was a failure. But he turned the world around by investing deeply with 12 individuals who ended up changing the world.
We often think Heroes are only those with the right qualifications, but Jesus taught us that seeing a spark in someone is enough to let them know that he saw potential.
Jesus had all authority in heaven and on earth, yet he chose to allow others to lead and grow the Kingdom instead of using a show of force.
Israel had lost hope in their Messiah, but God spoke through Malachi to let them know that love would be reaching down to be with them.
As we look back at 2020, we reflect on the hope we have been given through Jesus and how Mary, mother of Jesus, pondered the amazing gift of carrying the Messiah.
When all seemed lost to the Israelites, God sent a message through Jeremiah that hope had not died.
Peace is something that we all long for, but with the world spinning around us, quite hard to find. God sent a message of peace to his prophet, Micah.
So what would you do if you had the "more" that you desired in your life? Would having more make you happier?
What did the church at Laodicea need most? A heart willing to listen and be taught truth.
When we don't have all of the answers and things don't go the way we anticipate, we are often being deepened in trusting God.
It's easy to live a life that lacks...life. But Jesus calls us to be vibrant by remembering the hope we have through his gift of life through the cross.
It's easy to go on about life and begin to let go of our strong desire for God. Jesus told the church at Smyrna, "Be Faithful" and continue to hold on to the promises of God.
Life can be challenging and confusing, but it's times like shared meals that remind us that something greater is yet to come.
Communion, the Lord's Supper, and Eucharist are just a few of the names for what is celebrated weekly at our church. This meal goes back thousands of years to the Passover.
What happens when your invitation is rejected? Be persistent and continue to make invitation even through invitations that have been turned down.
Jesus knew that meals were a great time for people to learn about the kingdom. He was able to interact with a woman deeply desiring grace at just such a meal.
Being accepted by God isn't about the number of good things you do, but by the grace offered to you by trusting in Jesus.
Healing is more difficult than just moving past an event. Often we skip the part of lamenting, or giving time for our souls to deal with the difficulty of what we have experienced.
This season has been difficult individually and as a society. We have a conversation with Beth about how we can seek wholeness through difficulty.
During this season, we have felt lots of relational friction. This week, we discuss what it looks like to realize when we have hurt someone else and make it right by asking for forgiveness.
Sometimes we need a moment to step back and reset our being; to investigate how we're living, and decide if that's how we want to be living.
What does it look like for God to be our shepherd and lead our lives? The Psalmist describes what a life under God looks.
One of our deepest needs is the the meaning of life. Are we living a worthy life? Does what we do mean?
Jesus often taught using parables. They were stories that conveyed a deeper meaning, like the deep love God has for people.
There are a lot of things we can have faith in, but a lot of the most common for us have potential to fail. Jesus is the best place to place our trust.
What is the best way to hear from God? Spending time in the Bible is the best way to know how God is leading you.
What is the Bible? How do we know it's not just made up? And what did Jesus have to say about the Bible?
Even when we face difficulty, we can have hope because Jesus has made a way for us to find it through his work on the cross for us.
Jesus has made a way for us to approach his presence boldly. He has become the high priest forever and offered himself as the perfect, once-for-all sacrifice.
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The Church is not a building, in fact, early Christians had no facilities to worship, so they would meet in homes to share their faith.
How do you worship when worshipping is illegal? How do you find hope when life gets difficult? Peter says we can hope even in the face of adversity.
The Journey carries us away from the building where we meet weekly. That can be partnering with local organizations, planting churches regionally, or even traveling to distant parts of the world
With the pace of life, we can sometimes live like a jar of river water all shaken up. The sediment of our activities cloud our lives, and we need sometimes need to pause long enough to have clarity.
Mission gives direction, alignment, and a scoreboard to check your progress on the Journey
We all have changes in life, and asking God to help us move past those changes can be the best thing for us.
Sometimes there are parts of our lives we need to give to God so that we can become closer to Him.
Sometimes beginning a prayer life can seem daunting, but Jesus gave us a structure to prayer and encourages us to step into a relationship with him through prayer.
We live in a very busy world, and being still with Jesus can be difficult. But He tells us that choosing to be close to him is the best thing we can do with our lives
When no hope could be found on our own, Jesus fulfilled the words of prophesy and came to walk among us and give us all Hope.
God showed His hope was for everyone by including members of the first century society that would have been considered outcasts from Jewish culture
What do we do when Plan A turns in to Plan B? Mary had a dramatic shift to Plan B when she was visited by an angel.
We are faced with disappointment often, but what if hope can be found in the midst of that disappointment?
We spent this Sunday discussing how generosity shapes us and how people who call Rockingham Christian Church home have grown over the past few months.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on Jesus. Who he was, if he was, and if he was, what he means to us today. Sometimes it's best to go to the source and see what Jesus had to say about himself.
There are lots of questions surrounding the historical basis for the Bible, but in this message we examine how it stands up to other widely-accepted works of literature.
It seems like Christianity is too exclusive. Why would it be that an infinite God not have an infinite number of paths to reach him?
At some point in life, we all have to face the question of why there is pain and suffering. Thought we might never find the answers we seek, we can find peace in the unknown and purpose as we continue on.
Is there a deeper purpose to our lives? Can we manufacture purpose or does it need to be found from a source outside of us?
When we are standing in front of friends and family saying, “I do,” we do not think this commitment will be just OK. ‘Cause when it comes to marriage, “Just OK, is not OK!”
Listening should be our default response, what happens quickly and naturally; but so often that’s just not the case. We are so much faster at speaking.
We’d all agree that nothing matters more than relationships. We all long for strong, stable, solid relationships. This week, we’re talking about conflict goals.
Maybe you know what your relationship goals are or maybe you’ve never given them much thought – either way, during this series, we want you to think about the people you are close to or the people you wish you were close to because the single most important thing in our lives are relationships.
We know that Jesus is a generous God. We know that he died for us. What is also coming true is what he is revealing to us through His generosity as we own and step into our generosity towards others.
It’s incredible what a group of one can do together. While it’s great to be the underdog in a March Madness tourney beating Jordan and Ewing, The church was set in motion to take much more ground that a college championship.
We're all wired for generosity, but we express it in various ways. Survey can be found at www.mygenprofile.com
When we see generosity, we instinctively know it’s beautiful. It moves something deep down inside of us. And why? Because we’re wired to be generous! It’s part of who we are.
Jacqueline's Generosity Story - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgbgbrYXW8U
Thai Commercial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVrQqWIs6ZE
Jesus is not a religion to practice in the morning and the evening before we go to bed. He is a relationship to be experienced.
We are going discover together a young man’s desire to have everything he could ever want and more. You’ll see the highs and lows of his life. You’ll see the success and failures too. You’ll see yourself in his story.
Do your friends know that they’ve been invited into experience this beautiful journey Jesus invites us into? Do they know they don’t have to live as thought they have to fight for parking spots, significance among co-workers, purpose through people pleasing?
For many of us there is an image that comes to mind when we think of the word hospitality. We think of having a neighbor over for dinner. A backyard cookout. A super bowl party. Generally it’s a party type atmosphere and it pretty much always involves food.
Jesus is the rest to the new song God is playing. He longs for us to hear that song. To play that tune and to enjoy that relationship.
We were built to need rest. It is critical to our mental, physical, and spiritual well-being to retreat from every day life to be alone with God.
Jesus used parables to share the deepest truths about the world. In the Parable of the Sower, Jesus helped us understand that our personality effects how we hear and react to the Jesus' message of salvation
What does it look like to be a true friend to someone else? Who does God want to draw you closer to so they can be drawn closer to Him?
Jesus is clear that in there is more than meets the eye in this world. There are powers great than us at war, waging against our very souls. Understanding our opponent and the weapons God has given us will help win that war.
The Way of God's kingdom is both close and far-reaching. Since everyone with a heartbeat is precious to Jesus, ministry begins in your home and stretches to the farther parts of the world.
The way of the Kingdom begins with an announcement, and the announcement is also an invitation.
Beginnings matter. Jesus made this clear to us in his own commissioning to ministry through baptism. It was the beginning of his public ministry and a critical step in all of our lives in beginning our journey with Jesus.
Loving another person for decades requires daily choosing love over always feeling love. The secret of a long marriage is to always choose to believe the best of your significant other.
Some of the first steps to becoming a happy couple is throwing our unrealistic expectations for our partner out the window and begin loving them in a more selflessly.
How do happy couples avoid turning Hopes, Dreams, and Desires into expectations? Happy Couples owe each other everything and are owed nothing in return. Happy Couples knows that it’s mutual.
When it comes to relationships, all of us have a box, an invisible box of hopes, dreams, and desires. If you're single and not dating anybody, this a very undefined box.
If you were given a key to free yourself, to live the life you'd like to live, would you use it to free yourself? Jesus has provided you with a key. That key is the sacrifice he offered 2000 years ago for you!
The words relax and relaxation are even in the Bible. But the idea of relaxing in Jesus is all over it. It’s found in words like trust, peace, and especially rest. And it has more to do with rest for the soul than for the body.
How do we know we are actually free? Is it just a cognitive idea? Is it something you can feel? Can you bottle it up and keep forever? Is freedom just a pipe dream we spend most of our lives chasing after or can we actually enjoy it.
The world often wants to define us by the titles we wear, but God wants us to be defined as heirs according to the promise, clothed in Jesus Christ.
Religion can be and has been used to keep people in line. Galatians is a letter not interested in keeping people in line, but rather motive people to live like Jesus because of grace.
A world of choice can make us feel elated … but only temporarily. As you collect more information and start to weigh your options, you grow overwhelmed. Does choice really give us greater freedom?
Baptism is symbolic of moving from death to life! You can see it on the faces of the people as they come up out of the water. You can see it on our faces as we celebrate with them. We'd like moments like that to never end!
The Gospel doesn’t call us to go beyond the cross, but deeper into it. It’s in the depth of the love of God we awaken to our true selves and unlearn all the bad narratives we’ve been writing before and after coming to Christ.
Maybe today you’re tired of pulling on a door that just won’t open. Maybe today you’re ready to break free from the “Sorry Cycle.” It’s in the third awakening where we can find new direction. The third awakening can change the course of our future. The third awakening is Awakening to Help
Have you ever been there? At a place in life where you wish you could start over? Wouldn’t it be great if we could just have a do-over? Go back to that moment where we made that ridiculous decision, take it all back, and begin again?
That feeling, “there’s got to be more,” awakens in us longings that lie deep within each of our souls. These longings are so universal that they show up almost everywhere. In the stories we write, in the art we create, and the songs that sing.
The best gift you can receive is the one you don't already have. RCC could not do what it does without the selfless dedication of the many volunteers who make our ministry teams run smoothly. Might today be when you Get in the Game?
Now that we know why community is important, we learn why allowing that community to grow beyond a small circle is so very vital.
Why do we gather together as a church? Why Sunday morning? What sets the church's gatherings apart from others?
Sacrificial Giving Video - http://www.worshiphousemedia.com/mini-movies/46783/sacrificial-giving
There were technical difficulties with our regular recording process, so we apologize for the recording quality.
Lead church planter from Restore Christian Church (Quincy, MA) joins us to talk about the importance of outreach.