Intro America was built with this idea of rugged individualism. We are a group of tough people… or were. Many of us grew up with the idea that no matter what was going on, you didn’t cry, certainly not in front of people. The trouble is that this has followed us into the church. No matter what is going…

Intro 9 years today. Week 3 of a series called World Outside of Our Window. We don’t just build church for us. We believe we are on a mission to be better ourselves, but to touch the world outside of us. There is a natural gravitational pull towards selfishness so we have to intentionally focus outside…

Intro Welcome to River Church tonight… we will continue the series, How God Turns Setback into Comebacks . How many of you have needed a comeback before? LW we looked at What to do when you have a work setback. We looked a Peter, who made a living fishing, but spent all night fishing and caught nothing.…

Intro We have a Serve Day coming up … it’s called Fall Festival . At the Fall Festival, the World outside our window will come to us and we have an opportunity to serve them, provide a safe place for their families to eat, have fun and take home some candy… all the while showing them the love of Jesus.…

Intro Welcome to River church this evening. It is so good to be back with you. PK and I had a great time on our vacation, but it’s always good to get back home. Tonight, I want to begin a series I will call, How God Turns Setbacks into Comebacks. We live on a broken planet, everybody has problems, trials,…

Introduction . Flourish and Thrive in spiritual life, our Vocation, our finances, our health, our relationships, and our character. Today we will talk about happiness… or really joy which goes beyond happiness. We have been having VBS all week and some of the kids have been doing this seated wall thing…

Intro We are coming into Fall, my favorite season, and we have some great stuff coming up. We have the 9 year anniversary, Back To Church Sunday, and Fall Festival coming up in the Fall. People are hungry for something. They may not know it, but they are hungry for God. People are searching for spiritual…

Tonight we are going to look at human kinds oldest problem… temptation. It goes all the way back to Adam. We all will face it. Jesus faced it. And here’s the thing. Sometimes eventhough you know it’s wrong, you are tempted to say yes to it instead of no. It’s difficult. Someone once said, I can resist…