Ridgedale Students

Where has God brought us and what is He bringing us into in the coming here? Check it out here as we wrapped up our final House Night of the school year.

In our final teaching of the semester we look at what the way of Jesus looks like as a community practice.

How do we actually live the way of Jesus? In the first of a two part teaching we will look at what following Jesus looks like in a personal sense through a look at Jesus’ own practice of what we call “spiritual disciplines.”

We live in an age of disconnected spirituality.

For many people, spirituality can me anything or nothing at all. We can live deeply "spiritual" lives, but have no evident difference in our life from that of non-religious people. We tend toward a surface-level faith that just adds church attendance to the practices we participate in alongside everyone else. This works up to a point, but it falls apart when we get to a stage in life where the questions we're asking can't be answered by the answers we've sought or been provided. What does following Jesus look like then?

Tonight we diagnose the disconnect in our following Jesus by looking at the insufficiencies in our discipleship and the ways we mirror the life of the world knowingly or unknowingly.

What comes from following the Way of Jesus?

In a world where we’re constantly looking to the next thing and the potential of a new season we have to ask ourselves the question, “What is the potential in following Jesus’ Way?”

Tonight we begin our final series of the school year looking at that exact thought.

Check out this stand alone teaching from our friend Ladarion Simpson!

How are Christians meant to handle disagreements and offense? In this stand alone teaching we will hear from one of our own Zack Naessig on the topic of forgiveness.

In our final week of Life Together we look at the life of the church outside of its community. As the church is deeply formed, what is it formed into and how do we live out this formation-fueled missional life?

What is our life together meant to look like within the Church? Part 1 of 2 will explore this question on ecclesiology.

"I wish we never had to leave (insert student ministry big event here)."

Why is there so much hype behind the big events of ministry and so much apprehension about returning to the normal rhythms of our lives? We run toward deep conversations, vulnerability, and unrestrained worship at a camp, retreat or other event, but we withhold ourselves from all of these things in a regular Sunday service or a Wednesday night. Is it because camps are that much better than normal life? What is it?

What if it's a fundamental misunderstanding of what "normal life" is meant to look like?