River City Church - Cambridge, ON

Uncover the importance of the habits surrounding Family Devotions and how parents can deal with Discipline in a way that Disciples their children.

Continuing with our series on the Habits of the Household, Pastor Darrell focuses this week's message on how we use our time and how all the screens in our lives can distract us from what is most important.

A key take away is not that screens are 'bad', but they are powerful and we have to consider that when we decide how to use them.

Dig in to the benefits of good habits around Mealtimes as we continue our series on the 10 Habits of the Household.

Are you awake yet?

Listen to the first sermon in our new series "Habits of the Household" as Juliet explores the habits that can help us start our day off on the right foot.

You can’t think yourself out of a pattern you didn’t think yourself into. You practiced yourself into it, so you have to practice your way out.  This is the premise we'll be exploring together in our new series.

In order for our faith to survive, let alone thrive, in this high paced and complex era, filled with distractions, each believer must choose and practice certain habits in daily life.  That’s what this series will arm us with: practical habits for the everyday! 

For those of us who are parents or grandparents, the responsibility for vital faith goes well beyond ourselves – it includes our children, our grandchildren and in some instances even great-grandchildren!  Proverbs 22:6 speaks of the importance of intentionality where instruction and habits are concerned, “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.” 

As someone has said, “Because it is easier to raise strong children than to repair broken men and women.”  The Bible records how Daniel and his fellow Hebrew companions were able to serve in Babylon’s courts, while maintaining their faith and their witness.  It was their commitment to specific habits that allowed them to be “in the world, but not of it.” 

The habits we learn about in this series will enable us to do the same.  So whether its for you, or your whole family, this series has something practical and beneficial for everyone! 

As we continue exploring Living in God's Amazing Grace:

God’s Grace and God’s Spirit are not mere window dressing. Christians aren’t simply people who have put off one set of clothes and put on a new set of clothes; the “change” isn’t just outward. NO, we are entirely new creations! Much of this has been accomplished for us – by God this is what has been done to us by God, because of our faith in Christ Jesus we are raised with Christ; we are with Christ in heaven; we have taken off the old self; and v.10 we have put on our new

self.

That said, given what God has done to/for us – in Christ – we have a new calling [we’re to live as light/salt in this world as a result of what he has done]; how? By paying attention to the imperatives in our text/passage:

By setting our minds on things above; by putting to death practices that belon go our old earthly nature; by riding ourselves of practices that characterized the unregenerate self.

We are called to become in daily experience what we are in Christ.

In this week's message Pastor Darrell Bierman continues the summer series on Living in God's Amazing Grace.

Galatians chapter 5 defines the life of amazing grace, but chapter 6 describes what a grace-filled life does.

The first real-life application of a grace-filled Christian is how that person handles moral failure in someone else. Do we point fingers and judge? Do we avoid them – and focus instead on our own moral improvement (thereby leaving them far behind)? OR, do we reach out to them…lift them up…and work to restore them? 

Take some time to listen to the message and reflect on how you are living in God's amazing grace today!

River City Church is located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario and we host live services at 1 PM every Sunday.

God bless you today and we hope to see you in person next Sunday!  

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Welcome to River City Church Online.  Thank you for joining us today for our summer series called Living In God's Amazing Grace.

Today's message has been presented by Pastor Darrell Bierman.

Inside every Christian there is a spiritual war.

It is an all-out war for control between two sides: the sinful nature (the “flesh”) and the Spirit.

Galatians 5:17 unveils the conflict: “For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other, so that you are not to do whatever you want.”

The battle is between two opposites: the flesh and the Spirit.

On our own, we don’t stand a chance in this war.

However, anyone who has tasted the grace of God in Christ has the person of the Holy Spirit living within.

And, as we partner with the Spirit we can -and will experience daily victory!

Praise God that by his grace he provided us with the power of the Holy Spirit so that we no longer live under domination of defeating sins.

“Walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.” (Gal. 5:16)

Café will be open right after the service.

We are located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario. 

God bless you today and we hope to see you soon.  

Would you like to connect with us?

Visit us at https://rivercitychurch.org/lets-connect

If you were moved by today's message and would like to support our ministries in Cambridge, Ontario

Visit https://rivercitychurch.org/giving

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River City Church - Discover - Connect - Grow

Welcome to River City Church Online.  Thank you for joining us today for our summer series called Living In God's Amazing Grace.

Today's message has been presented by Juliet Hurst.

Do you ever wonder why God sometimes feels so far away, while other times He seems so near?

This isn't a new problem. King David encountered the same dilemma throughout his life too....even though this was over 3000 years ago.

We will look at why this happens, how David handled this and learn practical ways to draw closer to God despite the distance we might feel.

Café will be open right after the service.

We are located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario. 

God bless you today and we hope to see you soon.  

Would you like to connect with us?

Visit us at https://rivercitychurch.org/lets-connect

If you were moved by today's message and would like to support our ministries in Cambridge, Ontario

Visit https://rivercitychurch.org/giving

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River City Church - Discover - Connect - Grow

Welcome to River City Church Online.  Thank you for joining us today for our summer series called Living In God's Amazing Grace.

Today's message has been presented by Pastor Melissa Burmaster.

For many of us, we struggle in life to know, feel and experience a blessing through to our core. 

We keep trying and trying to get ahead and feel empty from the inside out.

So, we carry on with the idea that God helps those who help themselves and that is all there is to it.

What if that isn’t as true as it seems, everything you heard or maybe done for getting ahead isn't really all that it is cracked up to be.

Come hear about the grace of a blessing that transforms Jacob in the worst moment of his life and how you can be transformed by it too.

Café will be open right after the service.

We are located at 215 South Street, Cambridge, Ontario. 

God bless you today and we hope to see you soon.  

Would you like to connect with us?

Visit us at https://rivercitychurch.org/lets-connect

If you were moved by today's message and would like to support our ministries in Cambridge, Ontario

Visit https://rivercitychurch.org/giving

River City Jingle by Pat Chan