American River Community Church

In these verses the Apostle Paul describes himself as a drink offering being poured out. Pastor Jim talks about the links between this passage, the Old Testament and our celebration of Holy Communion. Holy Communion is included.

Does anyone know anyone who likes to complain?  If we are honest, we all grumble from time to time.   When you are complaining or grumbling or even having these low-level argumentative discussions, backbiting, nit-picking – how do you feel inside? Now for most of us, that's a bit of a complex question.  Let me see if I can hit the nail at least close to the head here. 

Dr. Pang is Executive Director of Great Commission International Partnerships. Please visit his website to see all that is being done by GCIP. As part of our international ministries outreach, ARCC helps to support Dr. Pang in his mission to bring Indonesians the gospel in all Indonesian language groups.  https://www.greatcommissioninternationalpartnerships.com

While Pastor Jim is away, Guest Pastor Paul Cherry shares how Hannah experienced more than one miracle the day she prayed in the tabernacle at Shiloh.

This week, we look at how to live in unity, in common unity, or community, with one purpose, striving together for the faith of the Gospel, because, after all, we actually want to do that, right? Includes Holy Communion

This week, we started actually stepping through the book of Philippians.  As you read the very first verse, would you see yourself in that greeting, “…all God's holy people”?  Why or why not?

A funny thing happened on the way to a church...

The overarching big idea of the series, the Gospel Gap, is that in life here on this earth, there's this gap we feel between us and God, and it touches all areas of life here, because both sin AND the gospel touch all areas of life here. This is the last sermon in the series.

3 Big Ideas about relationships and how God designed them to work.

Today's sermon is about the Gospel Gap hidden in the question the rich young ruler asked Jesus; "What must I do to inherit eternal life?"We want to apologize in advance about the quality of the sound.

Lessons from Vacation Bible School - God knows you, God hears you, God comforts you, God forgives you, God chooses you. God TREASURES YOU!

God will never give you more than you can handle: True or False

Today, we are going to talk about sin. Ever wonder where sin really comes from, and beyond the immediate moment, what you and I are trying to accomplish by sinning?

I want you to think about where you live as far as gospel freedom; are you constantly looking over your shoulder for the sin-slaver, Satan, to snatch you back up, or do you walk confidently in fellowship with Jesus at the point of His gospel goodness towards you? 

Final sermon of the series

We are going to be looking at the sometimes kinda scary part of this whole sharing thing as we consider the question, “Say what?”

Pastor Jim uses the familiar story of the Good Samaritan to help us understand and face our “Yes, but” objections.

Pastor Jim's inaugural sermon as our new pastor; Compassion unleashed begins with the cross, but it doesn't end there with just our salvation! An exploration of our Mission: Inviting All to Jesus and Following Him Together.

Guest Pastor Matt Real challenges us to carefully consider the ministry of a pastor and our own roles in that ministry as we prepare to welcome our new pastor, Jim Valentine, to American River Community Church.

Pastor Fred's last sermon as Interim Pastor of ARCC

Three Words to remember: Available, Worship and Submission

Matthew picks up the story where Mark ends.

Pastor Fred reviews the Gospel accounts of the Death & Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Paul Cherry describes 6 types of faces and the feelings reflected in them in the people found Jesus' Triumphal Entrance into Jerusalem

Guest Speaker Pastor Paul Cherry fills in today for Pastor Fred. 

Pastor Jim Valentine

Pastor Fred takes a break from the book of Mark to give us a Valentine's Day message on blessing people with words of affirmation.

The healing of a deaf and mute man.

We have a special guest speaker today, Pastor Gilbert Foster, Director of Recruitment and Development, from Growing Healthy Churches.

We were not able to have a pre-recorded or Live Streamed service this week but Pastor Fred has provided us with one of his recorded sermons from FBC Everett, WA. We combined this sermon with a worship set recorded here on Oct., 18, 2020. We hope you will find inspiration and encouragement in this Worship Service.

Due to circumstances, we were not able to Live Stream or pre-record a worship service for today. Instead, we are posting one of Pastor Fred’s sermons from FBC Everett, WA. It was recorded Aug. 16, 2020 and is also from the book of Mark.

The healing of a demon-possessed man, a dead girl and a sick woman.

The Christmas Story as told by Luke

Pastor Fred takes a break from his “Good News from Jerusalem” series from the Book of Mark to bring us this message on Giving Thanks in difficult times.