Riverbend Youth

BOTTOM LINE: Who you date may be temporary, but who you become is lasting. GOAL: To encourage students to see the potential of who they can become, both for themselves and for future dating and relationships. SCRIPTCH: Proverbs 24:27 NIV, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 NLT

Brought to you by Pastor Sage Olszewski! BOTTOM LINE: Jesus is with us in our grief. GOAL: Really encourage students to look for how God and the people who care about them show up in the middle of their grief. And maybe even how, through people who really care, God is with them in their grief more than they realize. SCRIPTCH: John 11:1-3, 17-20, 21, 33-36 NLT, Isaiah 46:4-5 NIV, John 16:33 NIV, Ma...

BOTTOM LINE: Feelings aren't forever. GOAL: To show students the connection between their thoughts and feelings and to help them recognize that feelings can (and will) change over time. SCRIPTCH: Ecclesiastes 3:1, 4-8 NIV, Psalm 16:8 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: Quiet the critic. GOAL: To encourage students to recognize the critical thoughts in their minds and to give them practical, healthy ways to quiet them. SCRIPTCH: Luke 4:21 NIV, Mark 6:3 NIV, Psalm 37:5 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: Fear is loud, but it is a liar. GOAL: To give students tools that will help them turn the volume down on fear in their lives. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 8:24-25, 26-27 NIV, Psalm 23:4 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: You are enough. GOAL: To help students find their value and worth in God, who always sees them as enough. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 10:29-31, Psalm 139:14 NIV

BOTTOM LINE: You create your playlist. GOAL: To encourage students to see the power they have to recognize and change the thoughts running through their minds. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 6:34 NLT, Matthew 11:28-30 NIV, Psalm 94:19 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: When your family goes through rough waters, your MINDSET can see you through. GOAL: To help students understand that change is inevitable, but God is constant and God’s presence can comfort us in uncertain times. SCRIPTCH: Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 NIV, Isaiah 43:2 NIV Follow us on IG: http://instagram.com/rbyouth/

BOTTOM LINE: Your family’s story isn’t finished. GOAL: To help students understand that problems or pain in their family story doesn’t discount their family from being part of God’s story SCRIPTCH: (Genesis 25:27-34 NIV) , (Hebrews 11:20 NIV) Follow us on INSTAGRAM

Session 1 of 4 in our series about FAMILY called, "Thicker Than Water." BOTTOM LINE: When it comes to our relationships that are thicker than water, love is more important than anything. GOAL: To help students discover the way God sees them and to point them toward taking steps to see themselves in a similar way. SCRIPTCH: John 13:1 NIV, John 13:3-5 NIV, John 13:34-35 NIV

Reyn joins Marc to respond to questions from students, adults, and podcast listeners that came out of our recent series on Hell. Also...follow us on INSTAGRAM if you're cool ;)

Session 2: What it is. Join us as we listen to guest speaker  Marc Lynch  teach about the Biblical view of hell. This series will teach students (and their parents!) what hell is, what it isn't, and address some common misunderstandings that many people have around the concept of hell.  Marc Lynch has studied theology, the Biblical texts, and the Biblical languages for many years and is consid...

Session 1: What it isn't. Join us as we listen to guest speaker Marc Lynch teach about the Biblical view of hell. This series will teach students (and their parents!) what hell is, what it isn't, and address some common misunderstandings that many people have around the concept of hell. Marc Lynch has studied theology, the Biblical texts, and the Biblical languages for many years and is co...

This episode concludes our 3 week series titled "Thief of Everything." God made you on purpose for a purpose. Let's discover together who God made you to be! BOTTOM LINE: Choose to see yourself the way God does. GOAL: To help students discover the way God sees them and to point them toward taking steps to see themselves in a similar way. SCRIPTCH: Romans 12:2 NLT, Romans 12:6 MSG

This episode continues week 2 of our 3 week series titled "Thief of Everything." How do we win over the thief of everything? Join us as we discuss the cure to comparison! BOTTOM LINE: Celebrating is better than comparing GOAL: To help students choose celebration over comparison and to encourage them to find ways to celebrate themselves and others. SCRIPTCH: 1 Samuel 18:5-7,9 NIV, Proverb...

This episode begins our new series, titled "Thief of Everything." Listen along as we discuss comparison from a faith-based perspective. BOTTOM LINE: God doesn't compare you to others. GOAL: To encourage students to trade comparison for a focus on who God made them to be. SCRIPTCH: 2 Corinthians 10:12 NLT, 2 Corinthians 10:18 NLT, Proverbs 4:23 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: A Party Starter Uses what they Have for the Good of Others GOAL: To help students discover the ways they can meet the needs of the people around them and to encourage them to take steps to do that this week. SCRIPTCH: “Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him” (Luke 10:33 NLT)

BOTTOM LINE: : A party starter walks with other people in their pain. GOAL: To encourage students to practice empathy and show up for others who are struggling. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 1:23 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: A party starter does more than what is asked of them. GOAL: To encourage students to be the kind of people who do more than the minimum to meet the needs they see around them. SCRIPTCH: “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 NIV). “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles” (Matthew 5:41 NIV).

BOTTOM LINE: You have what it takes to be a party starter GOAL: To show students what it means to live the full life Jesus came to give us and to encourage them to see they can start living that life right now. SCRIPTCH: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10 NIV).

In this stand-alone message, Pastor Reyn shares a personal message from some Scriptures that have impacted his life, in hopes they will encourage YOU :)

BOTTOM LINE: Boundaries are Good and Boundaries are Powerful GOAL: Being able to articulate what makes a good boundary, what makes a weak boundary, how you know if you have a boundary, and how do you know where to put one and not to put one. SCRIPTCH: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 & 10:13, "13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let y...

INSTAGRAM || YouTube BOTTOM LINE: Confession is good and confession is powerful. GOAL: To encourage students toward opening up and asking for help, and to guide them in defining the criteria they have for determining who a safe person to confess to might be. SCRIPTCH: "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim...

BOTTOM LINE: Technology is Good and Technology is Powerful GOAL: For students to be able to define what sexual integrity looks like for them as they engage with technology and to identify at what point along the way they need to “flee” in a different direction. SCRIPTCH: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Instagram: http://instagram.com/rbyouth/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rbyouth9120

BOTTOM LINE: Sex is good and sex is powerful. GOAL: To help students make decisions with sexual integrity as the goal. SCRIPTCH: Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” So God created human beings in his...