Ridgedale Students

We were made for life in God, but that life comes only as our belief is formed through proximity to Jesus and obedience to God’s commands. In our next to last teaching of the series we look at the journey toward Jesus and the moment the rubber meets the road.

If you’ve ever kept an article of clothing too long or not been able to shake a bad habit, you can identify with the difficulty felt by all followers of Jesus with change and growth. We need to change, we must change, and yet something feels like it stands between us and that desire. Tonight we talk about what theologians have called purgation, what Paul called, “working out our faith,” but what w...

As we enter the second half of our series we begin by looking at the practical application of our seeking out life in and with Jesus. He has given us a pathway toward life in what the New Testament calls discipleship.

Our Fall 2024 mid-semester Worship Night on the theme Better. We are blessed to have our good friend Steven Arce teaching with us. Steven and his family are missionaries to Venezuela and have been partnered with Ridgedale for several years.

Our final mini session of Fall Retreat comes from 2 Peter 1:1-4 on who we are, what we’ve been given in Christ and what that means when we return from the retreat.

"What's in this?" It's the logical question we should ask when presented with something new that we're interested in but uncertain of. "What's in the life of Saint?" Tonight in our final full session of Fall Retreat we answer this question by looking at the life of Peter.

What happens when people of uncommon goodness gather together to form a community of uncommon blessing? Check out the Saturday morning session for the answer!

Check out message 1 from RSM Fall Retreat 2024. Our theme is Saints and we begin with a call to live into what God has already said we are.

If Jesus defined His Gospel as the "Kingdom come near," then what does living in the Kingdom entail? He starts His sermon on the mount by clarifying the WHO, but He finishes it with the HOW. Check it out on this week's episode.

Jesus came teaching and preaching, "Behold, the Kingdom has come near. Repent and believe." When we talk about life, we have to look towards its source and what Jesus saw as life and the good news of life is that the Kingdom of God had arrived on the scene. For us to understand life, we must understand the Kingdom of God and its implications on our lives. This is part 1 of 2 looking at the Kingdom...

How do we begin to live into the new quality of life that Jesus offers us? We must begin to see a re-enchanted world all around us with Him at the center.

All of us want to live a good life. But do we go about living the life we have in a way that will lead to our greatest good? In this series we'll begin looking at what life looks like according to the way of Jesus. The first step in that is realizing that eternal life doesn't have to wait til eternity.

Check out the post-teaching Question and Response time from week 1 of our series, Life!

We all want peace, and we all feel as though we lack it. So is there a place we can run to and find that we peace and healing are present and with us?

Provider. The name Jireh has become familiar with people in the wake of the Maverick City Music song. God is our provider. He is enough. We can be content because He has and is all we need. But what is the deeper meaning and context behind God being called Jehovah Jireh? Is He like a cosmic Walmart stocked with all the goods we need for each week that we visit on Sundays to stock up? Or is there a...

All of us can relate to feeling vulnerable or exposed as we navigate a world affected by sin. Things are not as they are meant to be and that can lead to all kinds of disorientation, fear, anxiety, and everything in between. In the midst of it we simply want someone, anything, to care enough to shield us from the storm. In the Bible God is called four names; El Roi, El Shaddai, Jehovah Tsuri, and...

What do we do with a God who shows Himself to be both Master and Father in a world of deep desire for freedom from mastery due to bad images of fathers? God's self-existent and eternal view lends itself to a view to power, but God desires us to understand His power in the context of a deeper, more fleshy, relationship. He wants us to know that the one who commands your steps also wants to know...

What does it mean for God to be the "Alpha & Omega?" As we start to look at the names of God, we begin by looking at the scope of God revealed in His name. He is pre-existent and will be existent forever. He is Elohim of Elohim. He is Jehovah, the self-existent God; I AM. Ego Emi. This has much to say to every follower of Jesus.

As we wrap up our study of John we take a look at the experience of Thomas and the story overlayed onto that experience in John 18-20.

Jesus in John 16 & 17 presents so much information it can be hard to keep up. But embedded right in the midst of this is a word to all those who feel as though God has stepped away; “I am not alone, the Father is with me.” Join us for a look at the tail end of the upper room discourse as Josh Powell leads us through what it means for God to be present to us and for us to be present to Him.

The Upper Room Discourse is more than just Jesus’ last words to His disciples and a collection of some of His most profound teachings. It’s a story being told in Jesus’ words and actions. It’s the Most Unbelievable Story in Human History. But if it’s believed, it will change everything about the way we think, act and live. Join us for our first of two teachings through the Upper Room Discourse as...

Listen in as we wrap up our series GOOD, looking at John 11 and the story of Lazarus’ resurrection.

Listen in for our second teaching from our first Family Worship Night as Chris opens up John 8 to see how Jesus is the light of the world that shines to show us where life is truly found.

Listen in to the first teaching from our Family Worship Night looking at John 7 and Jesus’ word to his brothers before the Feast of Booths with Ryan McBride, Pastor of Missions and Discipleship at Ridgedale and former Ridgedale Student Pastor.

Jesus has fed the multitudes with bread, but when a crowd comes back to Him for more, He enters into one of the most confusing, difficult, and controversial teachings of His entire ministry. He finishes that teaching with hundreds, if not thousands, fewer disciples than before He gave it. What is meant by Jesus being the Bread of Life, why must we eat His flesh and drink His blood, and why couldn'...