The River

Paul Oakley is an old friend of The River. He is a Christian gospel singer, worship leader, and songwriter. Some of his songs include “It’s All About You”, “Because of You”, “Jesus Friend of Sinners”, “Who is there Like You”, “Be Lifted Up”, and more recently “Father Me and “Crimson Stream”.

At our Encounter Evening, Sarah shared some testimonies of how God is with us wherever we go and whatever we do...

Through the story of Abraham in Genesis 12-17 Pete unpacks the subject of covenant in this latest instalment of our Creation to Christ series.

Steve looks at how Isaac not only foreshadows Jesus' sacrifice, but also our own position as believers by faith to Isaac”s inheritance.

Raj shows us ways we can be a living sacrifice by not conforming to the pattern of the world and having a renewed mind. Romans 12:2

Greg Odell leads Church25 in Secunda, South Africa with his wife Candice. Greg has a passion for the church to walk in a supernatural lifestyle and impact the local community for Christ.

How do we reconcile an outrageous story of death & destruction with a good, kind, loving God with a plan for salvation? Ruth helps us see Jesus in every part of this story & leads us deeper into the Father’s goodness & grace. This is the third in our Creation to Christ series.

A human is primarily a spirit being. There's constant interface between the spiritual and physical realm. Not every physical manifestation has a scientific explanation. Clint gives us understanding of how the spiritual works that can give you a victorious edge over your challenges. Now, you need the right suit and knowledge to engage! Listen to this knowledge enriching, faith building strategy...

Leif Hetland is the founder and president of Global Mission Awareness. He ministers globally bringing an impartation of God’s love, healing, and apostolic authority through a paradigm of kingdom family. A forerunner in modern-day missions, Leif has brought the gospel into some of the most spiritually dark areas of the world. Over one million names have been added to the Lamb’s book of life through...

The Spirit of God will use the word of God to transform the child of God. 1 Corinthians 2:12-13. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.  Simon...

In the second of our preaching series: "Creation to Christ", Lawrence takes us from the Fall to the Glory.

We launch a new preaching series ‘Creation to Christ’ exploring how the conversation from Luke 24 between Jesus and the two disciples on the road to Emmaus may have gone which caused them to express :- “were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road…”

The River welcomes the Right Reverend Bishop Adam Atkinson to share with us a timely message about friendship with Jesus from John 21:1-14.

Do you want to be equipped in bringing Heaven to Earth? To learn more about your Supernatural identity as a dearly loved child of God? To connect and build relationships with others? This training session utilises the STOP; LOOK; LISTEN and GO approach to evangelism.

Every time your heart tries to have faith your mind will try to make sense? The two will often be in contradiction. Alan uses the story of Mary and the jar of Nard to try to make sense of sacrifice. Perhaps we should call it 'Opportunity'? We owe Jesus everything ...

Andy helps us to see that spiritual disciplines are His grace to us to help us see him and connect with him (Bible references Phil 4:9 and 1 Tim 4:7-8)

on Easter Sunday, Martin talks about how we are loved by God and how Jesus invites us to be His apprentices and do life with Him.

Christianity is deeply personal but it should never be self centred.  Pete challenges 2000 years of Greek-western thinking which seeks to convince us that ‘I’ am more important than ‘we’.

Ruth considers the discipline of serving as an overflow from a heart of love & worship. The healthy diet of a disciple is a spirit led, bespoke mix of: Personal With Others Prayer Generosity Fasting Worship Study (of God's Word) Celebration (feasting) Meditation Confession Solitude Fellowship Silence Witnessing Simplicity Serving

Remember you will only hear what is spoken directly into the mic.

In this sermon Nathan talks about the biblical context for sacrifice and the real cost of taking up your cross in day to day life.

It has always been God's desire to dwell with his people. The Holy Spirit within us makes our hearts His dwelling place.

Remember, you will only hear what is spoken into the microphone. Any comments from the room will not be picked up.

This quote from Kathryn Kuhlman echoes Eph 4:30, but what does it mean and why is it relevant to us today?

Jesus believes in the work He did on the cross for us. Staying free in Him is worth it.