Riverside Community Church Sermons: Recent Episodes
Riverside Community Church Sermons
Keep up to date with Riverside Community Church sermons. Riverside is located in the South of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 2 June 2024. God's desire for us is to fulfil our God-given purpose in loving God and loving others. Sin prevents us from living these lives of loving God and neighbour. The gift of forgiveness is how God restores us to this right relationship.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 May 2024. Repentance is an invitation to keep on track with the life that God has available for us.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 19 May 2024. Craig teaches about how in Jesus we can have an unshakable confidence in Gods love for me. His work and the work of the Spirit means that nothing can separate me from His love.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 May 2024. Jesus says that he has loved us in the same way he has been loved by the Father. However, in order for us to receive this love, we need to allow God to deal with the obstacles that stand between us and his love such that we can remain in the love Jesus has for us.
Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 7 April 2024. This week Sizwe helps us understand how we can remain in the love that Jesus invites us to partake in.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 April 2024. Jesus says that his words are full of the Spirit and life. However, our experience of God's word is often a far cry from this life-giving vision. In today's message, Steve encourages us with practical ways to know and enjoy Jesus through his words, and thus begin to experience the life and Spirit of his words.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 21 April 2024. This week Craig helps us transition from LOVING the words of Jesus to LIVING the words of Jesus.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 14 April 2024. Words matter. Words are used in every relationship to get to know the person intimately. The motive is not data, but relational knowledge. The same is true of Jesus. If we love him, we will love his words.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 7 April 2024.
Faith is essential to the life of following Jesus. Today Steve helps us understand what faith is, and how we can grow our faith.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 31 March 2024. Today we learn about how the resurrection of Jesus gives me access to the eternal life of God, both for today as well as for eternity.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 29 March 2024. Jesus' death isn't just something that happened 2000 years ago. Today we learn what it means to be united with Jesus in his death.
Matthew 28:1-8. Consider the joy and the surprise of the resurrection. How does the resurrection give you hope in your situation?
Matthew 27:57-61. Consider the day where it seemed as if death had won and God was silent. Where does it seem as if evil has won in your life?
Matthew 27:32-56. Consider the public humiliation of Jesus, a picture of the ugliness of our sin he bore.
Matthew 27:11-28. Consider Jesus the truly innocent one, taking the place of the guilty, and how he does that for you.
Matthew 26:69-75. Consider Peter denying Jesus and the ways we do the same with our actions.
Matthew 26:47-56. Consider Jesus betrayed by Judas and deserted by his friends. Jesus can identify with how you've experienced betrayal and desertion.
Matthew 26:36-46. Consider Jesus wrestling with and then surrendering to the Father's will. Where are you struggling to surrender?
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 March 2024. The invite to follow Jesus includes the invite to be called his friend. In turn, we learn how community is where we live the friendship of Jesus out.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 17 March 2024. Community is not something we have to do, but something we get to do. By design, community is the place we experience transformation, life and love.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 10 March 2024. How we accept one another is based on how we believe Christ has accepted us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 March 2024. Today we learn that when Jesus calls us to follow him, his plan includes learning to follow him together with others who are following him. In other words, following Jesus is, by design, a groupwork exercise.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 February 2024. Jesus did not call us to be a Christian, nor did he call us to go to church. Rather, he called us to 'Follow him'. This is an invitation into a rich life of learning and transformation. This will be a year of learning what it means to take Jesus' invitation to follow him seriously.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 18 February 2024. As we begin our week of prayer and fasting we learn what it means to take on the ways of Jesus as learn from him.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 11 February 2024. Today gets to the heart of what it means to be a Christian as we are challenge around what it means to be a new creation in Christ.
Sermon given by Dr Martin Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 February 2024. He teaches about the new life available to us in Christ.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 January 2024. Today we learn about the compassionate nature of God and how his compassions for us are new every single day.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 21 January 2024. Steve kicks this series off by looking at how the New Covenant is the fulfilment of all God's promises to us through Jesus.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 14 January 2024. A practical look at a way Jesus commands us to live because of the love we receive from God.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 7 January 2024. Craig reminds us that the victory of Jesus is so complete that there is nothing that will come this year that can take away what we have in Jesus.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 31 December 2023. Craig encourages us to start the year by spending time in the Word and in prayer as we seek the Father.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 25 December 2023. In this Christmas Day message, we learn about Simeon and how he waited well to encounter the Presence of God in Christ.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 December 2023. The Shepherds were filled with great expectation when they encountered the Son of God. It is important we have our expectation set by God's story so that we too can have our expectation exceeded by the Presence of God this Christmas.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 10 December 2023. When Mary encounters God in the Christmas story, she responds with great joy, despite her challenging circumstances. Craig encourages us from God's word to adopt a posture of joy this Christmas.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 December 2023. Today we are encouraged by how the faithfulness of Zechariah prepared him for an supernatural encounter with God. The challenge for our own lives is to live in faithfulness as a response to the faithfulness of God.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 26 November 2023. The invitation to pray this prayer is the invitation for God to break those things in our lives which are opposed to the life he actually wants for us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 19 November 2023. When we pray this dangerous prayer we need to be willing and ready to respond to what God calls us to do.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 November 2023. If we are to be like God and be in the places God cares about, we need to trust him to break our hearts for a divine burden and passion that will move us into a kingdom purpose.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 5 November 2023. We are learning to pray dangerous prayers that are designed to take us out of our comfort zones and step out in faith. This week Craig encourages us to pray the dangerous prayer from Acts 4: "Make me bold".
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 29 October 2023. Today we start a series designed to help us pray prayers that will take us out of our comfort zone. By being willing to pray "Search Me", we are inviting God's transforming power into our hearts and lives.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 22 October 2023. We need to be willing to adjust our wineskins in order to best receive the new wine God wants to pour out among His people.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 October 2023. In this sermon, Steve shows how Jesus upgrades the reality of our family of faith and how we can better become this kind of family of faith.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 8 October 2023. One of the Spirit's roles is to enable us to worship in Spirit and truth.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 September 2023. Paul pleaded on three different occasions for God to remove the 'thorn from his flesh', and God's surprising answer is an invitation to every single one of us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 September 2023. Today we learn how to adopt the compassionate heart of Jesus with great faith.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 10 September 2023. In John 5 Jesus heals a man who had been lame for 38 years. As we see the story unfold and hear Jesus' explanation, we learn how the Father is still at work healing today.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 September 2023. 1 Thessalonians 5:20-21 challenges us to EMBRACE the voice of God and to DISCERN the voice of God.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 27 August. This week Craig encourages us to seek and desire to be believers who actively seek to hear the prophetic voice of God.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 20 August 2023. Moses was audacious enough to always want more of God's glory and presence. Today's encouragement is for us to adopt the same posture.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 13 August 2023. This week we look at how we can practically begin the journey into spiritual gifts, living lives empowered by God's Spirit for love and ministry.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 6 August 2023. God's plan has always been to do his work through human beings that he calls to participate in his empowered work. The main way he does this is through spiritual gifts. Today Steve looks at the What, the Why and the How of Spiritual Gifts.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 30 July 2023. This week Craig speaks about how God's Spirit is working in a transformational way within us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 23 July 2023. According to Galatians 5, the church is to be led by God's Spirit. Today Steve shares some of where God's Spirit is leading the church.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 16 July 2023. So often in the life of faith we know true things with our minds, but our hearts seem to still be unchanged by them. God's Spirit helps us move truths into the very core of our being.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 9 July 2023. The Scriptures use words of fullness to describe the life of the Spirit. Today looks at a biblical understanding of what God wants for us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 2 July 2023. Today Steve opens the Scriptures to show how all the threads in Scriptures concerning the Spirit of God converge in the person of Jesus. Jesus is the one to whom we come to receive God's Spirit.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 25 June 2023.
Craig journeys through the development of God's Presence among His people, culminating in the unstoppable reality of the New Testament Church.
Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 18 June 2023. Sizwe challenges us to Turn to the light, Live in the light and point to the light.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 11 June 2023. The Old Testament lays the foundation of how God's Spirit desires to work in and through His people, laying the foundation for how God wants to work in us today!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 June 2023. Steve kicks off a new series on the Holy Spirit called unstoppable. Starting on page 1 of Scripture, we learn so much about the life-giving person of the Holy Spirit.
Stephen Pohlmann's interview with Desirae Pillay held at Riverside Community Church on 28 May 2023. Steve and Desirae have a biblical and practical discussion about God's heart for people with disabilities and how the church can better enable that.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 21 May 2023. Today's message challenges us to think about those times we think God is not answering our prayers or doing anything in our lives.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 14 May 2023. Fear can be a gift from God or it can become a master that enslaves us. Jesus' desire is that his Presence, Love and Truth set us free from being ruled by fear.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 7 May 2023. Genesis 2 and 3 tell the universal story of how shame prevents us from experiencing so much of God's love and life. The Gospel shows how Jesus moves towards us in our shame, inviting us into his loving light.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 30 April 2023. Dealing with physical pain and challenges can deeply impact how we engage with God and life. In the Gospels we see Jesus responding with compassion to those with physical needs.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 23 April 2023. In order for Jesus to restore us, we need to allow him beneath the cultivated personas and masks we've accrued over our lifetimes. This requires great courage and vulnerability; but our Lord is so gracious and lovingly gentle as he encounters us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 16 April 2023. Our anger can be an indicator of the pain we have been caused, or the pain we have caused others. Can we trust God with our anger, our forgiveness and our pain?
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 9 April 2023. Sometimes God needs to help us see how the resurrected Jesus has always been with us, journeying with us in our stories.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 7 April 2023. Craig helps us understand how we can encounter the reality of the forgiveness that Christ purchased on our behalf on the cross. This is not only a forgiveness that can be received, but also graciously given.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 26 March 2023. If we want more of God's Presence and Power, the way God meets us in response is by his Holy Spirit. However, if we are resistant to God's Spirit, we have an opportunity to repent and turn towards God's Spirit with new trust.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 19 March 2023. 2 Chronicles 7:14 encourages us to come to God in humility and with a repentant spirit if we are to receive what he wants to freely give us.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 12 March 2023. If we are to receive what Jesus wants to give us, there are His Promises to Believe, and Postures to Embrace. Today Craig talks about coming expectantly, trustingly and persistently.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 5 March 2023. If we are to receive what Jesus wants to give us, there are His Promises to Believe, and Postures to Embrace. Today Steve talks about coming thirsty, desperate and dependent.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 26 February 2023. Listen to Steve share the vision of what we desire God to IGNITE in us this year!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 19 February 2023. This week, Psalm 46 helps us pray prayers of utter dependance on God to do what only God can do!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 February 2023. Today we are challenged to recognize that our generosity has the potential to reap a harvest of righteousness and the praise of God's name!
Sowing Seeds - Part 4 - Plant seeds of peace. Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 5 February 2023. In a world of so much disruption and challenge, we are all in deep need of peace in our lives. Today's challenge is to sow seeds of peace that will bear fruit and life in the year to come.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 29 January 2023. If we truly believe that life is ultimately found and experienced in Jesus, we need to consider how we can sow seeds of the kingdom in the life of others.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 22 January 2023. Every single one of us experiences time one second per second and one hour per hour. How we spend our time reflects our decisions and our values. Today we are challenged to plant seeds of life in the timeline of our lives, making the most of every opportunity.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 January 2023. Do we trust that ultimate life is ultimately to be found in Jesus? If we believe that Jesus is LIFE, then take the challenge of planting a seed that is going to connect you to life Himself!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 December 2022. If the story Christmas - the story of light defeating darkness is indeed true - then we need to learn how to RECEIVE and REFLECT this light in how we live our lives.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 18 December 2022. Jesus didn't only come to be seen, but to help us see. The light of Christmas that came into the darkness is a light that helps us see in the darkness more clearly.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 11 December 2022. John's Gospel opens up telling us about the light of the world that entered the darkness. Jesus, our light, is our true hope, light and life!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 December 2022. Paul ends of the book of Galatians highlighting the kinds of things we should see in a church that is truly living in the Gospel of Freedom and is Living by the Spirit.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 27 November 2022. The life of the Spirit is learning how to increasingly surrender to the influence of God's Personal Presence and Power. This is ultimately what guides us and transforms us for the life of freedom that God wants for us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 20 November 2022. In this chapter we learn that the reason for Christ's work in our life is for our freedom.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 13 November 2022. This week we are challenged concerning the dangerous slippery slopes that lead us towards legalism.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 6 November 2022. The Gospel establishes all people as adopted children of God. Where the world divides, the Gospel unites.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 30 October 2022. This week we learn how the Gospel is not about us earning God's pleasure by trying to be as good we we can be. Rather, it is based on the goodness of God in Christ. (Galatians chapter 3)
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 23 October 2022. What we believe to be true about the Gospel impacts how we live in light of the Gospel. In Galatians we learn how the Gospel changes who is at our table.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 16 October 2022. In Chapter 1 of Galatians, we learn how dangerous it is when we add or subtract anything from the Gospel.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 9 October 2022. God has chosen to use His people to be vehicles of his grace and goodness.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 2 October 2022. Jesus doesn't want us unnecessarily anxious over things of lesser value. By putting His Kingdom first, we are able to live in the freedom Jesus desires for us.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 25 September 2022. One of the most powerful gifts from God in our anxiety is when we approach God with thankfulness and gratitude.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 18 September 2022. It is in our weakness and our humility that we experience God's strength.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 11 September 2022. One of the ways that God wants to strengthen us in our anxiety is through strong relationships. Jesus' vision for his church should make it the safest, most gracious and loving place. This is exactly what all of our souls crave!
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 September 2022. Philippians 4 gives us divine wisdom for how we can positively move in prayer towards God's joy and peace AND how we can change the diet of our thoughts for greater peace.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 August 2022. Steve starts off this series looking at how acknowledging our own weakness helps us depend on the life of God within us.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 21 August 2022. As we fall and fail to live out our identity, we are given such great grace and mercy in our time of need.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 14 August 2022. Gender identity is THE conversation of our time. Jesus invites us to think about this with great clarity and great compassion.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 7 August 2022. Not only does God meet us personally and help us to live out our God intended identities, but we also get to reflect God's grace and love to one other. In this way, we are called to play an awesome role in peoples' lives with respect to their identity.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 31 July 2022. Many of us live a life dictated by a script of lies we have come to believe about ourselves. We need to ruthlessly face these lies and replace them with the truth of God's Word and who we are in Christ.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 July 2022. One of the biggest ideas in culture is 'Be you', 'Be true to you'. Only once we understand the the biblical picture of 'you' can we truly become who you were created to be!
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 10 July 2022. Craig preaches from Romans 8 helping us root our identity in our adoption as children of God.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 July 2022. In this final sermon in Exodus brings us to the climactic moment where God's Presence fills the tabernacle. God's Presence among His people has always been - and still is - the point of the whole story of Scripture. We should become those who seek His Presence in all we do.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 26 June 2022. The Sabbath is an invitation to experience God's grace and presence as we regularly orientate our lives around Him.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 19 June 2022. As much as Moses had experienced the Presence of God, he wanted to see and know more. Today is a challenge to have the same heart and desire as Moses in our own lives.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 June 2022. In Exodus 32 Moses intercedes on Israel's behalf, prepared even to lay his life down for them. This points us forward to Jesus our intercessor who did lay his life down for us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 5 June 2022. The story of the Israelites and the golden calf becomes a mirror to us, helping us understand how our own hearts are prone to put something or someone other than God at the centre of our lives.
Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 29 May 2022. Sizwe challenges us from the book of Exodus how every single one of us is called and equipped by God for ministry.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 22 May 2022. This week Steve looks at how God's heart for the tabernacle is to be among his people and how this is ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 May 2022. The Ten Commandments (Exodus 20) represent the heart of God's will for how we live, both in the new and Old Testament.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 8 May 2022. God's vision for his people was not for His Presence to mediated to the many through a select holy few, but rather as we all enter the presence of God in Jesus Christ, we all become priests to one another.
Sermon given by Martin Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 1 May 2022. All of God's people are gifted for ministry. What is the season God is leading you into?
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 April 2022.Today we look at the testing of the Israelites after leaving Egypt and how they responded through the tests.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 April 2022. Steve looks at the songs of Moses and Miriam in Exodus 15 to help encourage us to be worshippers of the victorious God.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 April 2022. See how God delivered the Israelites from the Egyptian army and led through the waters. In the same way, Christ's victory defeats our greatest enemies and we are delivered through the waters.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 April 2022. This Good Friday we look at the tenth and final plague in Exodus, and how the Passover meal was the means by which God saved his people. But that meal points forwards to the meal Jesus had with his disciples as Jesus embodied the greater saving work of God, the lamb that was slain for the sins of the world. And this Good Friday, we remember and enjoy the saving work of Christ by taking communion together.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 10 April 2022. We will be looking at the story of the Exodus and how it points forward to God's saving power in Easter. Today we look at how God displays his Name through his majestic power defeating evil in the plagues.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 April 2022. The last few years have seen a whole bunch of public pastors, authors and worship leaders walk away from Christian faith. Additionally, you or someone in your own life may be walking that same road.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 27 March 2022. How are Christians to navigate with wisdom the intersection between the Kingdom of God and politics?
Sermon given by Martin Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 20 March 2022. Do you ever feel too small to do anything for God? Listen to how God helps a small church with 'HIS' big vision.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 13 March 2022. How can we as Christians navigate an age of outrage.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 6 March 2022. This new series is designed to help us navigate the tricky world of culture and the world around us from e Kingdom perspective.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 27 February 2022. Steve speaks to us about how God wants us to embrace a process of discipleship as a church.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 20 February 2022. Steve kicks off our prayer and fasting week by looking at David's prayers in Psalm 51:10 and 12.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 13 February 2022. This week Craig reminds us that in the same way we have received mercy from God in Christ, so we are to show mercy to those who need it.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 6 February 2022. Craig challenges us that if we are to love like Jesus we are to love those who are not in the church with the good news of the Gospel.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 30 January 2022. This week we learn how to grow into the kind of love with which God loves us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 23 January 2022. Steve challenges us to understand the differences between hope and HOPE.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 16 January 2022. Steve challenges us to nurture a comeback faith within us if we are to remain faithful through the waves and storms of life.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 2 January 2022. As we start the new year Craig encourages us to lean in more by challenging us to think of how we can love God and love people in 2022.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 25 December 2021. Steve speaks about how Love Came Down to Save Us.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 24 December 2021. Craig speaks about how Love Came Down to Save Us.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 19 December 2021. Jesus, in the incarnation, reveals God to us and brings the character and nature of God down to us.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman online for Riverside Community Church, 12 December 2021. So many reject the central claims of Christmas because of a prior belief that miracles are not possible in a scientific age. However, if miracles become possible, then the reality of Christmas becomes possible.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman online for Riverside Community Church, 5 December 2021. In this first of our new Christmas series, we see how Jesus left the comfort and glory of heaven to the muck and mire of our human lives. This means that we can encounter Jesus in meaningful ways in the midst of all of our present challenges.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 28 November 2021. Money occupies such a large portion of our lives and God's Word has so much wisdom to offer so that we can live well and wisely in God's world.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 21 November 2021. We apologies for the audio and video breaks in streaming. The breaks are short and still worth learning about humility from the book of Proverbs!
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 14 November 2021. Taking advice can sometimes be very difficult. We can choose to be foolish or wise on the way we receive wisdom according to Proverbs.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 7 November 2021. Our words, according to the book of Proverbs, have the power of life and death. If we are to live well and wisely in God's world, that means we need to choose our words wisely.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 31 October 2021. Work is where we spend our greatest portion of our waking time and God has some incredible wisdom for us from the book of Proverbs.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 24 October 2021. God wants us to live well and wisely in his world. One of the greatest gifts from God is a good friend. This week Steve teaches from the book of Proverbs concerning how we can choose friends wisely.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 17 October 2021. In this new series entitled "The Way of Wisdom", we will be looking at different practical topics learning God's Ways and God's Wisdom from the book of Proverbs. In this opening message, Steve encourages us to Pursue Wisdom, to Pray for Wisdom and to Pursue the Wise One.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 10 October 2021. Both are monotheistic religions, both come from the line of Abraham, both believe in God as righteous, holy, One, ruler and judge. Does this mean that Christians and Muslims worship the same God? Steve addresses this question in the final part of the 'Glad You Asked' series.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 26 September 2021. In this very practical sermon, Steve helps us discern how to know what we should and shouldn't watch, whether it be movies, online or streaming TV.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 19 September 2021. This question has troubled many people: What happens to those who grew up in another culture and never had an opportunity to hear the Gospel? What if they're good people? What happens if they are sincere in their devotion to their gods?
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 12 September 2021. Jesus sometimes said some strange stuff about family. What did he mean when he treated his own family in dismissive ways, or when he said that if we want to be his disciple we must hate our own family? We can only answer these questions against the backdrop of the story of God's family. Here we discover that God is all about bring us all back into his family.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 5 September 2021. One of the most troubling questions for Christians concerns the violence in the Old Testament, particularly the violence concerning the elimination of the Canaanites in the book of Joshua. While this question has troubled many a Christian and a sceptic alike, Steve provides 5 biblical angles for how we can think about this story.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 29 August 2021. Craig tackles Part 2 of this series answering this controversial question.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 22 August 2021. These are the questions you've always been wanting to ask. Steve opens this series looking at this important question, "What happens when we die?"
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 15 August 2021. Join Steve for the final sermon on John 17. We'll be joining in communion after hearing how Jesus prays for us to grow in love and in his presence.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 8 August 2021. We can often look at the disunity between churches and different denominations and be discouraged by the fighting and lack of visible unity. Yet Jesus prays that despite our differences, that we would be able to display a powerful unity to the world.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 1 August 2021. In His High Priestly Prayer in John 17, Jesus prioritises praying for unity in those who believe in Him. The reason He prays for this is because He knows that our unity is a powerful witness to the world about who He is!
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 25 July 2021. Steve continues in John 17 looking at how God unites us as the church and he invites us to participate in His unity and community of love.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 18 July 2021. In part 2 of this series in John 17, Craig looks at how Jesus prays for his disciples. We are also all called to live as Jesus' disciples. We are not called to be of the world, but IN the world and FOR the world.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 11 July 2021. Steve opens up a new series on Jesus' high priestly prayer in John 17. As we see how Jesus prays and what he prioritises, we get to adjust our prayers and priorities accordingly.
In this first message, we see how Jesus prioritises the Glory of God.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 4 July 2021. Craig ends off this series with Psalm 23, encouraging us with the reality of God's protection and presence in all of life.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 27 June 2021. This week Steve looks at Psalm 18, a high point in David's life. How we process seasons of victory in our life is as important as how we process seasons of challenge.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 13 June 2021. This week Steve looks at how Psalm 40 can help us learn to place our trust in God in all circumstances.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 6 June 2021. Steve continues in this series looking at how David processes, prays and worships after having acted crazy in the presence of King Abimelech.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 16 May 2021. In this stand-alone message, Steve preaches from 1 Peter 3:15 about the Why, the When, the Where, the What and the How of sharing our faith.
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 9 May 2021. Today we look at the example Jesus set for us by his life and his embrace of the cross. (Apologies for the buzz in the audio)
Sermon given by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 25 April 2021. The story of the cross is set up against the backdrop of the Kingdom of God. Jesus' central claim is that he is the King who brings the kingdom of God. But why did the King have to go to the cross? In Part 3, Steve helps us see the powerful victory of the King as well as the cruciform shape of the Kingship of God.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 11 April 2021. Join us as Steve opens up this new series called 'Beautiful Collision'. The cross is not a simple single thing. Rather it is like a multi-faceted diamond that is appreciated more and more as you look at it from different angles. The Biblical authors help us look at the cross from different angles so we can appreciate the beauty of all that was accomplished by God on the cross. This week, we are looking at Jesus our Redemption.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 4 April 2021. Craig helps us see the fullness of Jesus' victory over sin, shame and all evil powers. Jesus' victory is not just something that happened 2000 years ago, but something that impacts our daily lives!
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 2 April 2021. Easter lies at the heart of the Christian faith, and for good reason. Yet Easter weekend starts with Good Friday. But how can celebrating death be Good News? How can a crucifixion become known as Good Friday? Steve speaks from Romans 5 where we see the incredible answer to these questions.
Sermon given by Craig Wilcock online for Riverside Community Church, 28 March 2021. Craig wraps up our series in Nehemiah with the challenge that we can so easily fall into old ways. We need to continue rebuilding and reorientating our lives around Christ if we are to grow in faith and maturity.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 21 March 2021. Repentance is one of the primary ways we participate in God's transformative power in our lives. God is wanting to rebuild us as His people, orientated around His will, His Word, and His ways. And we do this through repentance.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 14 March 2021. The first thing that God did with his people after the rebuilding of the wall was reform and reorientate their hearts around his Word. This week's message encourages us to establish our faith on the firm foundation of God's Word.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 7 March 2021. This week we get to the point where the wall is completed in such record time, everybody could see that it only could have happened with God's help. We too can pray for and celebrate such momentous victories in our life, when God's kingdom clearly breaks into the present. However, how does Christ's victory on the cross help us through some of the more challenging seasons of life as well?
Annual pastor's report given by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 28 February 2021
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 28 February 2021. These days it is so easy to share our opinions loudly and feel like we are making a difference. However, if we want to make a real difference, we would do well to learn from Nehemiah's passionate and courageous example.
Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 21 February 2021. This week Craig encourages us as we continue in the book of Nehemiah. Just because we follow God's direction doesn't mean we will not face opposition. If anything, we can count on opposition. Craig gives us practical handles on how we can trust God through opposition.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 14 February 2021. Nehemiah chapter 2 and 3 tells the story of Nehemiah sharing his God-given vision with his fellow Israelites. They all commit to doing whatever it takes to see the wall of Jerusalem go up. How can we Get Stuck In while we are in Lockdown? Steve provides 5 ideas that will keep us engaged.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 7 February 2021. We continue our series in the book of Nehemiah where we see that immediately after Nehemiah brings his kingdom burden to God in prayer, he is able to act with incredible courage and conviction.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 31 January 2021. We kick off our week of prayer and fasting by looking at Nehemiah's powerful prayer in Chapter 1. Today we learn how prayer and fasting become some of the greatest tools to help us grow into what God has for us!
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 24 January 2021. We begin this new series in the book of Nehemiah by seeing how Nehemiah's first response to hearing devastating news is to lament. The Scriptures depict lamenting as a healthy way to process grief and sorrow with God and with others.
Stephen & Bianca Pohlman reflect on the first 10 years at Riverside Community Church, 11 October 2020.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 20 September 2020.
Sermon given online by Stephen Pohlman for Riverside Community Church, 13 September 2020.
Annual Riverside Growth Ring meeting. Hosted by Stephen Pohlman at Riverside Community Church, 1 March 2020.