River City Sunday on the Lochsa was a huge success! In case you didn’t know, we canceled church as usual and instead we went up camping on the Lochsa River in Idaho.
We had 61 people either camp with us or come up for the service. That’s more people than we had each of the last several weeks!
Maybe we need to think about how we do church for the rest of this summer. Rumor has it we may be doing church outside at least once a month! Rumor also has it that we might be resurrecting communion meals on those days as well!
We had a great time camping with everyone even though it rained every night. At least Sat and Sun were nice.
We pulled off the 1st pig roast in the new smoker trailer. It turned out perfect! Couldn’t have asked for a better maiden voyage. Can’t wait to fire it up for 4th of July and tailgates this fall.
We did the service in an amphitheater at the campground. Couldn’t have been a better place to worship our Creator.
We did an acoustic worship set with guitars and drums.
Kevin Beeson came up from RCC Lewiston and brought a great message on the balance between sitting and waiting, and getting up and going.
We’ve got to know when to sit and wait on the Lord, and we’ve got to know when it’s time to get ‘er done!
The analogy he used was that the 2 greatest commandments are to love God (sitting and waiting on God), and to love your neighbor (getting up and going to serve people).
We actually had some visitors at the service and also camping with us. We even had 2 strangers show up for the service! Good stuff!
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:
Just want to remind everyone that we’re not having church as usual this Memorial Day weekend. Instead we’re going camping up on the Lochsa River in Powell, Idaho. It’s about an hour drive from Missoula and we’d encourage everyone who doesn’t want to camp to at least come up on Sunday. We’re having a pig roast at 2pm Sunday, and then a church service outside at 4pm with guest speaker Kevin Beeson from River City Church in Lewiston, Idaho. We’ve got 54 people confirmed so far! Don’t miss it!
Sorry for the short post last week. I was busy, and in a bit of a funk to be honest.
This week is different. God is moving so big in people’s lives that it’s hard not to be excited!
I’m reminded that if 1 person enters the Kingdom of God, that all of the angels rejoice. It’s all worth it.
We got a new drummer this week. I put out a call on Facebook for a drummer, and one of our own, Kelly Indreland, texted me within minutes saying he used to play all the time.
So we went to the church yesterday for a couple hours and practiced. He can drum!
Worship went awesome tonight, except that I broke a string on the first song. Of course I’m the only one that noticed. How can that be? I didn’t even finish the first song!
I feel like we’re in this season right now where it doesn’t even matter what our talent level is. It’s more about the heart. Even so, I think worship has moved up a notch in the last month.
Preached on grace again. Big surprise. I think we’ve preached on that the last 4 weeks. Doesn’t get old.
In fact, it’s causing some serious life change for people. I’ll preach it for the next 80 yrs if people’s lives are being changed. Billy Graham did it. If you listen, his message didn’t change for all the years that he preached.
He preached Christ and Him crucified. That’s all. The greatest preacher of all time.
Oh, btw, if you want to know the real driving force behind all the life change, that would be prayer. God is moving RCC to pray more, and it’s working.
Here are some lyrics from David Crowder’s song, How He Loves Us:
“When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory”
“If His grace is an ocean, we’re all sinking”
“And heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss”
The original says, “And heaven meets earth like sloppy wet kiss”. I like that better.
“I don’t have time to maintain these regrets when I think about, the way, He loves us…”