Riverside Church

Riverside Church

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Riverside Church episodes

  • The LORD’s Question and Elijah’s Complaint

    Read: 1 Kings 19:1-10
    Text: 1 Kings 19:9-10

    “So we have Moses asking for mercy and minimizing justice. And we have Elijah speaking of justice and saying nothing of mercy. This points to a tension in the Old Testament between the mercy and the justice of God. There is an awful lot in the Old Testament of the wrath of God against the sins of his people. But there is also the theme of God’s mercy that runs through the story. And these two aspects of God’s character are in tension with one another at least from a human perspective.”
    — Rev. Jerry Hamstra

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    Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah

    35 min
  • God Begins to Restore Elijah’s Soul

    Read: 1 Kings 19:1-8
    Text: 1 Kings 19:5-8

    “So while the journey itself was not authorized by God, God was guiding it because he was going to use it to teach Elijah and renew him to his calling. This teaches us that even when we sin God can be directing events so as to teach us things that we need to know from our sins. It is not that God is ever responsible for our sin. But God is able to orchestrate things in such a way that we learn lessons from our sins.”
    — Rev. Jerry Hamstra

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    Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah

    38 min
  • Reviewing the Basics (3) “What Does it Mean to be a Sinner?”

    Read: Romans 3:9-20
    Romans 5:12-21
    Ephesians 2:1-7

    “Our status needs to be changed. In order to be saved our status needs to be changed from guilty to not guilty – from guilty to righteous. But we need more than a change in status before God’s law. The kind of people we are needs to be changed. Our nature needs to be changed. We need to be changed from people who are inclined towards evil to people who are inclined towards obedience.”
    — Rev. Jerry Hamstra

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    Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics

    39 min

About Riverside Church

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This podcast includes sermons delivered at Riverside Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, Ontario. Join us for morning and evening worship services each Sunday. Visit Riverside online at…