Riverside Friends Church: Recent Episodes
Riverside Friends Church
Today, Evan covers prayer and scripture in light of the tragedy this week in our church.
Today, Evan preaches about children and parents and the obedience we all need as Christians to Christ.
Today, Pastor Robert reexamines the text on submission. He presents the idea that submission is the role for both husbands and wives.
Today, Evan walks us through the scriptures that tell us to put off the old self, put on the new self, and put away the old things.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches through Paul's prayer for the church in Eph 3. He tries to give us a fresh experience of God through these verses.
Today, Evan continues our look at Ephesians 3 and the look at the mystery of the gentiles.
Today pastor Robert teaches about the election of the Father, the redemption of the Son, and the Sealing of the Holy Spirit.
Today Evan answers three questions: Why did Jesus have to die? What does this mean for us? Finally, How do we apply this now?
Today, Pastor Paul preaches on change. Through the lens on Mary anointing Jesus, Paul shares about a coming change in the church.
Today, Pastor Robert gives a quick overview of what he sees as the misunderstandings of modern-day protestants about the end times. He challenges ideas on dispensationalism and the rapture.
Today Evan shares some of his story as he teaches through James and John asking Jesus to sit at his right and left hand in eternity.
Today pastor Robert teaches about Lent and provides a history. The ultimate question is, who is Jesus?
Today, Evan preaches about Jarius' daughter and the woman with the bleeding issue. He covers these in the context of needing to be touched by Jesus.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches about the sabbath. Robert sees the sabbath as an act of resistance against a culture that demands more productivity and consumption.
Today, Evan preaches his first sermon with us. He covers the men bringing their friend on a mat, how we need to get people to Jesus, and how we were also brought to Jesus.
Today Pastor Robert teaches on Joy. Joy comes from Grace, Unexpectedly, and in Community.
Today, Pastor Robert walks us through the desire of the people of Israel to install a king and then shows that fulfillment in Jesus Christ as the hope for the people. He also says hope is not optimism but a gritty protest against a world that seems not to get better.
Today, in continuing our series on Missions, Paul shares some of his short term missions stories.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches about the missions and ministry in the context of John 10 and Robert's missionary stories.
Today, Pastor Robert walks us through the Old Testament and into the New showing how the Bible points towards a worldwide missional movement.
Today, pastor Robert finishes the book of 1 Corinthians after six months. He walks us through Paul's final exultation to the church to love one another.
Today Pastor Robert looks at the implications that Christ has actually been raised from the dead.
Today Pastor Robert walks us through the difficult verses in 1 Cor 14 that say a woman should not speak in Church. Robert presents a hermeneutical challenge to the plain reading of these verses grounded in the scripture's context and within the text itself.
Today, Pastor Paul looks at 1 Corinthians 13 in the larger context of 1 Corinthians 12-14.
Pastor Robert teaches on the unit of scripture which is 1 Cor 12-14. He shows how this is one big unit of scripture and then shows how the gifts fit into this unit.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches about singleness in the church. You will learn a theology of singleness as a reflection of the sufficiency of Christ. You will also learn about how a single person can better live in the community of the church and how the church must do a better job of welcoming single people.
Today Pastor Robert defines marriage and discusses how we as Church might respond to our LGBTQ neighbors. Next week Paul will preach on how married people can live. The week after, Robert talks about how single people can live.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches Biblical sexual ethics and how to define sexual immorality.
Today Pastor Robert walks us through 1 Cor 3, revealing the quarreling over leaders and pointing us toward our ultimate head, Jesus Christ.
Today, Pastor Robert introduces our next sermon series, 1 Corinthians. He also presents Paul's call to unity as a call for our church to be unified. Robert borrows heavily from Andy Crouch's book Strong and Weak to discuss how unity can be achieved in our church.
Today Pastor Robert talks about the tension in Palm Sunday between the celebration of the people who were yet to be victorious. He reflects on how we might enter into that tension as well.
Today, Pastor Robert talks us through the fall of Jerusalem. In starting to close the Jeremiah series, Robert reflects on the need to tell the truth and grieve when all is not well in the world.
Today Paul looks at a plethora of scriptures all pointing to Jesus as the Branch of David here in Jeremiah.
Today, pastor Robert talks about the potter in Jeremiah 18. He goes through the passages and explore God's intent and plan for goodness in our lives.
Today, Pastor Robert speaks about the name of God and how we can abuse and misuse his name. He shows this in the drought narrative of Jeremiah 14.
Today Pastor Robert contextualizes Jeremiah's sermon about the temple to our culture today.
Today, Pastor Robert talks about Narratives. Narratives shape our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. In this introduction to Jeremiah, Robert teaches about the false narratives of the Israelite people and our false narratives today.
Pastor Paul identifies the need for warming signals in your life to remind you that you may need to turn back.
Today, Pastor Robert talks about the origin of celebrating Christmas on December 25th and what it means for us today.
Today, Pastor Robert teaches about the origin of Joy, and he answers the question if Joy is not found externally in stuff or circumstances, nor internally as a choice, where can Joy be found?