Ridgedale Students

Major apologies but our recording cut out halfway through the second point. We will be happy to email notes for the remaining section if you email [email protected].

If you’d like a print out of the Rule of Life builder we developed you can email the same address!

What is life all about? This question has been asked by innumerable people of thousands of years all in the hope of an answer coming that can make sense of life here and now and lead to deeper flourishing. The answer the Bible offers; “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God.”

How can we know a God who is also described as indescribable? In week 3 of Rooted, we’ll look at the practice of Knowing God.

Does God speak?

Most people would say yes, but without a great deal of confidence that He would speak to them. Hearing from God is an essential part of our spiritual life but often goes overlooked because it seems too hard to discern or too rare to expect. But what if that wasn’t the case?

Tonight in week 2 of Rooted we will look at the practice of hearing from God through the story of Luke 24:13-35.

How do we start a new year well? For many the answer is resolutions and for others it’s rhythms but when we look to Christian history there are certain practices that deeply root our identity and daily life in the life of Jesus.

Tonight we begin by looking to the promise of Matthew 5:8 and the hope found in Exodus 33 and Psalm 37:4 that God does in fact reveal Himself to those who want Him and seek Him out.

Tonight we wrap up our final teaching in the Life series looking at the most important church doctrine that most people have never heard mentioned; union with Christ.

We were made for life in God, but that life comes only as our belief is formed through proximity to Jesus and obedience to God’s commands. In our next to last teaching of the series we look at the journey toward Jesus and the moment the rubber meets the road.

If you’ve ever kept an article of clothing too long or not been able to shake a bad habit, you can identify with the difficulty felt by all followers of Jesus with change and growth. We need to change, we must change, and yet something feels like it stands between us and that desire.

Tonight we talk about what theologians have called purgation, what Paul called, “working out our faith,” but what we might call throwing out the old shorts.

As we enter the second half of our series we begin by looking at the practical application of our seeking out life in and with Jesus. He has given us a pathway toward life in what the New Testament calls discipleship.

Our Fall 2024 mid-semester Worship Night on the theme Better. We are blessed to have our good friend Steven Arce teaching with us. Steven and his family are missionaries to Venezuela and have been partnered with Ridgedale for several years.

Our final mini session of Fall Retreat comes from 2 Peter 1:1-4 on who we are, what we’ve been given in Christ and what that means when we return from the retreat.