Rivercrest Presbyterian Church - Sermons

This Psalm of Ascent reminds us that worship begins before we ever reach the mountain, before we ever walk through the door of a church building. It begins when we cry out to the Lord is who is mighty to save, faithful to provide, and steadfast in His love for His children.

Arriving at the end of the journey, we look back and ask what it is that God is leaving with us as we press on, and we see it through the eyes of Faith, Hope, and Love.

Perhaps the greatest gift of Daniel 11 is that it reminds us that apart from God we can do nothing...and that by the grace of God, we'll never have to know that fear ever again.

In this passage we see God meeting Daniel in preparation for what is to come, and we're reminded that before Jesus ever said, "Come to me," He first came to us. That's His kindness and grace to His new creation sons and daughters.

In all the chaos that is Daniel 9, and all the mystery that we're called to embrace as created things, subject to our Creator God, there are two things that really stand out; we see an honest prayer, and we're given a holy hope. Those two things are certain.

In Daniel 9, we see the Priority, the Posture, and the Petition of prayer, as Daniel demonstrates what it looks like to come to the Lord and call upon His name.

Knowing what's coming doesn't change the course, but it gives us clarity and confidence to keep us going, knowing and trusting the One who works all things according to the counsel of His will.

Daniel 7 makes it clear that the sadness of the fallen world is real, that it is painful, and that there is no hope outside of heaven for the renewal that we all need.

Hearing Daniel's story, and seeing his deliverance in this chapter, begs us to ask the question, " Who is worthy of our worship ?" It's not Darius, his king who would rather let him die than lose a little status. It's not Daniel, who, even though he shows great fidelity and spiritual discipline in the face of great personal danger, is nevertheless powerless to save himself...

Continuing our series in Daniel, we see how God comes in power to remind us who He is, and how in grace He makes Himself known.

God comes and meets Nebuchadnezzar in the peak of his own sinful mythology, and He brings him low, in grace, to restore him to a new understanding of who God is, and what that means for the earthly king.

As the world stands untethered from the Lord, His people will find themselves caught in the chaos, subject to criticism and even conflict, but found confident in the community of God's people.

As Daniel interprets the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar, what we see is nothing less than a total reframing of all of human history, and our place, regardless of our circumstances, in it all. God gives us a New Way, a New Reality, and a New Kingdom, one not made with hands, but purchased by and established in Christ, the stone the builders rejected.

Continuing in our study of Daniel, we find that the king of Babylon, who is said to reign, doesn't even have control over his own dreams. We're challenged to remember and rest in our ruling and reigning God, who is living and active in the world today, even when we tend to forget it.

Our first message in our study of the Book of Daniel, seeing how God is both present and at work in the mess of Babylon, ruling in sovereign authority, sovereign supply, and sovereign deliverance.

Closing out our series looking at the Missio Dei, we were reminded that " God does not have a mission for the church. He has a church for the mission ." And He has given His church ascension power for the mission.

Continuing our look at the Missio Dei in Acts 1:8, we consider how Jesus is commissioning and sending out His people into the Judea and Samaria around us, to the people we are naturally drawn to, and to the people we might be tempted to avoid, with the hope of God's mercy and grace that's found for sinners in the Gospel.

In this, the first of three messages looking specifically at the mission of God and out place in it, we are challenged not just by the geographical, but also the relational proximity of what Jesus says in Acts 1:8. As we consider our Jerusalem today, and our hesitation to bring gospel proclamation into it, we're reminded that Jesus not only commissions, but He empowers.

Closing out our series in Paul's Letter to the Ephesians, we're reminded that for those who are in Christ there is an enemy, that there is a spiritual battle, that we are in it, and that Jesus will carry us through in the strength of His might.

Continuing in Ephesians 6, looking at God's vision for His people in every relationship, we're reminded that all of His people are members of His body, male and female, young and old, and slave and free. 

In this message we take a look at God's design for the family, and recognize that God sees all of the members of His family, or His church, from the youngest to the oldest, as vital members of His body.

In this message we took a  look at the calling on the Christian wife to submit, but we see it within the context of the call on all believers to submit to one another out of reverence for Christ .

Taking a look at this passage for Christian husbands, and considering that Christlike authority looks a lot more like sacrifice than control or dominion, we see Paul painting a picture of Christ and the Church.

As we step into the new year together, our desire and our prayer is that God would form in us a true, Great Commission Church. We want to be found faithful to the commission of Christ to go and make disciples of Jesus Christ of every nation. Our verse for the year not only calls us to action, but gives us a spirit to walk in as we go.

In this message, we take another look at our Verses of the Year for 2021, Jude 20-21, considering what it means to truly contend for the faith in Christ.