River City Church - Cambridge, ON

This is the introductory talk to set the stage for our new series. If you have questions about what this new series is going to address, this overview may give you the answers you are seeking.

God is glorious, God is worthy of honor, and God is worth of thanks. Join us as we study a glimpse of heaven as depicted in Revelation 4.

Melissa Burmaster delves into the mystery of WHERE and WHO is Jesus

Listen to the fourth message in our Advent series, A Weary World Rejoices: The Promise of Justice

Listen to the third week of our Advent series: A Weary World Rejoices

Listen to the second message in our Christmas series, A Weary World Rejoices.

Listen to the first message in our new Series for Christmas: A Weary World Rejoices

The third of three messages in our series "Finding Meaning when everything seems meaningless". Discover why Satisfaction is sold separately.

Listen to Week 2 of our series Finding Meaning when it all feels meaningless less

Week one of Finding Meaning when all seem meaningless

Working with mental health in the Church and an introduction to the new counselling program (CAP) from the Shalem Network.

This week we wrapped up our series on the Habits of the Household with Greg Bowering unpacking how you can set your self up for success and avoid some of the pitfalls of trying to change your habits.

This week Darrell reveals the bonus habit, not mentioned in the book - one that we found surprisingly absent! Listen to find out what it is as we continue to look into Habits of the Household.

In this week's message Pastor Darrell zooms out to look at the bigger picture of all the habits and how the impact both our personal and faith life. How do you consider your faith? Is it integral to your everyday life and activities, or is it simply one of the many 'pieces' along side the others that make up your life?

This week's message focuses on the habits around Marriage with tips and practices to help strengthen relationships.

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. Read Romans 6:1-13

I am Lifting The Fallen 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! 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 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 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 River City Jingle by Pat Chan

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 River City Jingle by Pat Chan

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

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 Darrell Bierman. In Paul's day, Judaizers were calling newly converted Christians to do certain things (e.g., get circumcised) and live a certain way (e.g., keep the whole law of God) in order to be accepted – or, in order to receive God's acceptance. Paul flat-out confronts that heresy & declares instead that in the life of amazing grace we have freedom from legalism (which is the futile attempt to please God by our performance); indeed, history shows even God's people of old could not keep the whole law of God (see Acts 15:10-11). Beware: Churches and Christians sometimes do the same as these Judaizers did (I'll give examples). Knowing that Christ has “covered” us (all our sins) – and has made us entirely acceptable to God, we are free to love; indeed, “the only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” (Gal. 5:6). Instead of focusing on all of God's individual commands (and keeping score) focus on love. Why? Because love is the fulfilling of the commands. (Gal. 5:14) 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

River City Church - Discover - Connect - Grow Welcome to River City Church Online. Thank you for joining us today for the start of a new summer series called Living In God's Amazing Grace. Today's message has been presented by Pastor Darrell Bierman. This summer, we're going to look at, talk about, and reflect on God's Amazing Grace – so that, hopefully, we'll all more fully live in God's amazing grace! Series Truth: We are redeemed by grace alone, through faith alone, in Jesus Christ alone – to possess a freedom unlike any known to humankind. I'll unpack faulty understandings of grace (I'll share how this word is used & understood popularly). Then, I'll teach how God uses it – so what it means biblically (and why it is so important). Grace is a gift from God. We cannot buy it. We cannot earn it. We cannot pay it back. Grace understood (& lived) is life-changing [this what I hope this series will accomplish for our people]! We all start at the same point – in desperate need of God's grace in Christ (it doesn't matter how ‘good' we were or tried to be; the reverse is true too). Everyone starts at the same point; namely, in absolute and desperate need of God's Amazing Grace. 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