Who gets to tell you who you are? What your identity is? There are three ways people find identity. They look inside themselves in individual expressionism, they look around them in traditional collectivism, or we can look up in Biblical Christianity to find their identity from God. Learn what it means to know yourself so that you may know God from Psalm 139 this week.

Pastor Kyle Van Tine

Oct 11, 2020

The Church in the midst a Crisis. WE’VE SETTLED FOR A SHALLOW CHRISTIANITY WHERE: We pretend to be something on the outside that they are not on the inside. We remain emotionally and spiritually immature. We allow a lack of self-awareness to harm our relationships.We are unable to process sadness, anger, grief, and other emotions. When you ignore the emotional component of your life, behavioral patterns from your past can continue to hinder you from an authentic life of maturity in Christ. You cannot be spiritually mature without being emotionally mature. Let's learn what it means to grow in emotional maturity as we look to Jesus' example in Matthew 26.

Pastor Kyle Van Tine

Oct 4, 2020

Special Guest Speaker: Pastor Harvey Drake
"This is War" (Ephesians 6:10-20)
Enjoy this Sunday's special message from Pastor Harvey Drake.

Pastor Harvey unpacks the importance of spiritual warfare from Ephesians 6:10-20.

Pastor Harvey entitled his sermon message "This is War" from this Sunday at Rainier Valley Church.

Ephesians 6:10-24 - Pastor Harvey Drake - Sept 27, 2020

The Coronavirus has drained our health, paychecks and our marriages. I don’t know a single marriage that hasn’t experienced difficulties and strains from COViD burnout, pessimism, exhaustion, and fatigue. Let's take our marriages and our singleness to the Word of God for a check-up. 

Ephesians 5:22-33 - Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Sept 13, 2020

Students want to be like their favorite professor so they'll talk and teach like them. Players want to be like their favorite all-star athlete so they'll wear their jersey or number. Musicians sing their favorite artists' songs to sound like them. Kids imitate their parents to be like them. The most powerful way kids grow is imitation. We need models to look to and learn from. It’s in pretending, trying, practicing, and imitating that we grow up and become mature. As Christians, we want to imitate Jesus as we 1.walk in Love (5:2-7) walk in Light (5:8-14) and walk in Wisdom (5:15-21)

Ephesians 5:1-21 - Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Sept 6, 2020

What are you wearing and why does it matter? The clothes we put on tell others about us but what does it mean to put on Christ?Trusting in Christ brings a new identity, we become a new creation, and replace the old ways of life with the new ways of the Spirit. A new identity brings new activity but to truly change, we must put off the old and put on the new.

Ephesians 4:17-32

Pastor Kyle Van Tine

Aug 30, 2020

Pastor Steve shares what it means to pray for strength from Ephesians 3:14-21

Pastor Steve Pratt - Sunday, August 16, 2020

People love mystery stories, from Stranger Things on Netflix to the dozens of CSI-like investigative shows, from Scooby Doo cartoons to the Serial podcast, we want to find the clues and solve the mystery. There is a mystery in the Bible, a mystery that once solved, will utterly change our lives. Grab a Bible and a Notebook as we learn about the mystery of the Gospel in Ephesians 3:1-13.

Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Sunday, August 9, 2020

Timeless truths in a timely manner. Learn how the Gospel moves us from alienation to reconciliation with God and one another. Jesus is forming a new humanity under the Lordship of the Messiah.

Ephesians 2:11-22 by Pastor Kyle Van Tine

Sunday, August 2, 2020

What does it mean that Jesus saves and why does it matter? Save us from what? Saves us for what? Come study Ephesians 2:1-10 with us and learn how Jesus saves us from spiritual death, the world, the devil, and ourselves. Jesus saves us for spiritual life, amazement, humility, and good works.