The last 6 weeks have been AMAZING!!! River City Church hasn’t grown this much (spiritually speaking) since we launched.
God has been using worship, prayer, preaching, and LifeGroups to bring about this change. I really feel that we’re on the right track.
God has been changing lives like we’ve never seen before. Individuals, relationships, and marriages restored.
I am going to miss the Fallen sermon series. The Book of Galatians has been life changing. Did I already mention that?
I preached for over an hour last night on sowing grace into our relationships. The bottom line is that the way we sow grace into others is through forgiveness.
The best way to work through forgiveness is first to take the plank out of our own eye so that we can see clearly.
Then and only then can we humbly approach others regarding forgiveness.
Too much to explain here. You better just have a listen below:
Happy Valentine’s Day! Lot’s of love floating around RCC tonight.
We continued our series Wild Goose Chase tonight and talked about the evidence of the Holy Spirit in your life.
Based on what we see in the New Testament, the evidence of the Holy Spirit comes is manifested in 3 ways:
1) The Power to Effectively Communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ
On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit came down on the disciples and the first thing that happened is that they all spoke in tongues proclaiming the miracles of God.
Then the most unlikely preacher of all stood up and boldly declared the gospel of Jesus Christ
2) The Power to Effectively Demonstrate the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Jesus worked miracles to confirm His Word and his disciples worked miracles to proclaim the gospel.
In fact, Paul told the Corinthians that he didn’t try to persuade them with wisdom or lofty words, but by the power of God.
3) The Power to Effectively Live Out the Gospel of Jesus Christ
Some of us have a form of godliness in our lives, but we don’t let God change our lives.
The fruit of the Spirit should be evident in our lives as a sign that we are filled with the Holy Spirit, and that we continually becoming more like Christ.
So much more to share, but you’ll just have to listen for yourself!
We had a very intimate gathering today. We changed our service time so that people could make it to church and still watch the Superbowl, but we still only had about 50% of our usual attendance.
That didn’t stop God from showing up! Worship was awesome today. Very simple acoustic set. Probably why it was so sweet!
It was great to have Eric and Jamie up there leading again. You’ll be seeing more of them in the weeks to come.
We continued our series “Wild Goose Chase”. I wanted to share what Jesus’ disciples experienced on the day of Pentecost in Acts 2.
I decided to show a video from a session at the Lifelinks leadership conference last October. Priscilla Reid did a great teaching on the power of the Holy Spirit, and she is also a very good storyteller. Her rendering of the day of Pentecost almost makes you feel like you were there!
I’m believing that the Holy Spirit is going to do a transforming work in the people of RCC over the next couple of months.
Here’s the daily reading for the week of Jan 24th:
Matthew 19-21 Sun, Jan 24
Matthew 22-24 Mon, Jan 25
Matthew 25-26 Tues, Jan 26
Matthew 27-28 Wed, Jan 27
Mark 1-3 Thur, Jan 28
Mark 4-5 Fri, Jan 29
Mark 6-8 Sat, Jan 30
I don’t know about you, but I’m loving the RCC Challenge sermon series!
But before that, Alex and crew stepped up tonight and did a great job with worship.
I’ve talked with a bunch of people who have been stepping up to the RCC Challenge each week. Even had someone take the tithe challenge for the first time!
This week I talked about spiritual drought. Sometimes we go through seasons when I believe that God wants to teach us something. Other times, we go unnecessarily through deserts because we don’t plant ourselves near the living water.
We need to find the well of living water and plant ourselves there.
The Bible is the living water that nourishes our soul.
We may be in a desert season because we haven’t planted our roots deep in God (Jeremiah 17:5-8), or because we haven’t been spending enough time at the well (John 4:4-15).
Perhaps we need to open up the wells that once nourished us (Genesis 26). Go back to the habits/disciplines that used to quench our thirsty souls.
Sorry, but had some technical difficulties and didn’t get the sermon recorded this week. But visit the 3 passages above and you’ll get it!
By the way, the Challenge this week is to read through the New Testament in the next 90 days.
We’re doing it together as a church, and I’m believing that God is going to transform RCC during this time!
Did I mention that LifeGroups are starting next week?!?!