Ridgedale Students

Listen in to our second Worship Night teaching on the theme Jesus as the Servant King from one of the original RSM interns, Bailey Biddle!

Listen in to our first Worship Night teaching around the theme of fearing King Jesus from former RSM’er and current UTC freshman, Hannah Plumlee!

The dead don't stay dead! When we have died to our sin in Christ we are raised to life, and a life that is totally different from the life we lived before. The hard thing for many of us is that this new life is never really presented to us. We're told to be baptized but the follow up of discipleship and having the way of Jesus modeled to us has been a gaping void in the church for decades. What is...

What is baptism? Why do we do it? What does it symbolize? Why do we repeat the same phrase each time we do it? “Buried with Christ in His death, raised to walk in newness of life.” Tonight we begin a two-week series looking at that very phrase to expand our understanding of a very misunderstood practice. What do we mean when we say that we are buried with Christ in death? What does that mean for h...

At the heart of our fight to trust in trouble is doubt. Like we mentioned in week 1, doubt is present in the introduction of trouble to the world in Genesis 3 and it plays a pivotal role in all trouble thereafter. We must trust when we're confronted with trouble, but before we can reach trust, we have to confront our doubts. What lies at the heart of them? What does Scripture say in response? And...

We are called to reach...but we also live in a world that conditions us to reach for nothing and no one. We lack trust, but trust is the thing we need most when trouble comes. Trust and trouble walk hand in hand but we have to be clear on who we trust and why before we enter into our times of trouble. Tonight we look into why Jesus is worthy of our trust so that we can prepare our hearts before we...

Jesus promises us that in this world we will encounter trouble, but do we really believe Him? Most often when trouble comes our way we respond by questioning God or thinking that maybe His promises were too good to be true. In this series, we'll try to uncover the hidden assumptions of our hearts and work through how we as followers of Jesus walk through seasons of trouble.

God has made us for more. In Session 1 we looked at the call to Kingdom living. In Session 2 we heard from Josh Powell that the pace of the Kingdom is a pace of peace and rest. In Session 3 we close out the weekend looking at what the work of the Kingdom is. From Genesis 1 to Revelation 21 we see a consistent theme pointing us toward the Kingdom being a Kingdom of justice and mercy.

What is the pace of Kingdom living? In session 2 of DNow 2023 we got a word from Josh Powell, director of Ridgedale's Young Professionals ministry on the pace of Kingdom living. From Matthew 11 we see that Jesus is gentle and lowly and His pace is a pace of peace and rest. 

What does it mean to live, "On earth AS IT IS in heaven?" This is the focus of DNow 2023. In our first message we hear the truth that there is more to life in Jesus than what we may experience currently. That we have been made to be worshippers and our worship is meant to be directed toward heaven. 

Confession is treated as a dirty word in many Christian circles today. When we confess, we are reminded of the sin that God has separated us from, but we are also ushered into the joyous remembrance of Jesus' sacrifice! Sin is crafty. It hides in the depths of our hearts, disguises itself within our greatest desires, and masks itself behind just causes. It takes the searching work of God to reveal...

Request, petition, supplication, asking. These are all words we often associate with the work of prayer. But are all of our times of prayer meant to be times of us leading the conversation? Was David somehow incorrect when he told us to, "be still and know," or was Elijah off base when He silently waited on the Lord's whisper? Was it purely punishment that Zechariah was silenced after his doubt in...

In 1 Thessalonians 5:17, Paul tells the church at Thessalonica to, "pray without ceasing." This can be a confusing proposition for people in any era. As Christians are we to forgo jobs for a life of constant prayer? Are we to give up friendly acquaintances to be on our knees every waking hour of the day? Or is there something else, something larger at work? Could it be that we aren't supposed to c...

In the Lord's prayer we're instructed to pray, "Our Father in Heaven, HALLOWED BE YOUR NAME." Do we hallow the name of God by praying to Him? Do we give Him something He doesn't already possess? In week 2 of Teach Us to Pray we'll look at what it means to pray to a God who loves us. Is it our "doing our religious duty," or is prayer meant to work something into our hearts that is constantly seekin...

What is the greatest obstacle to a life of prayer? We doubt that the God we pray to actually loves us. In week 1 of our series “Teach Us to Pray,” we look into Psalm 23:1-3 to see the heart of a God who loves us.