Real Life Community Church Richmond, KY

Message Us! Perfect Christians only exist on carefully curated feeds. We open Genesis 12 and 13 and sit with the unfiltered life of Abraham, where faith looks less like a highlight reel and more like a real photo album: a new beginning, a brutal trial, a fear-driven failure, and a stunning moment where God steps in anyway. If you’ve ever thought you’re the only believer who struggles, this story t...

Message Us! God’s call can feel mysterious, but Genesis 12 makes it painfully clear and strangely hopeful: God speaks, and everything changes. We start with Abraham, a man with no impressive spiritual pedigree, coming out of an idol-worshipping background, and we watch God initiate a relationship by sheer grace. That same pattern reframes how we think about salvation, purpose, and identity today....

Message Us! The people of Babel were united, ambitious, and productive, but they built in disobedience to God, seeking security and a great name for themselves. God scattered them, frustrating their plans and restraining what their rebellion could become. At Pentecost, God began gathering people from many nations through the good news of Jesus. The question for us is not whether we will build some...

Message Us! We all love the idea of a fresh start—a new year, a new job, a new relationship, or a new beginning. But fresh starts can change our circumstances without changing our hearts. That’s exactly what we see in the story of Noah. After the flood, Noah steps into a new world with a fresh start, but it quickly becomes a familiar story of human sin and brokenness. Genesis 8–9 ultimately points...

Message Us! In a generation marked by rebellion and wickedness, Noah stood apart as a man who walked with God. He was not sinless, but by God’s grace he lived by faith, with integrity and obedience. Noah listened to God’s Word, trusted His warnings and His plan of salvation, proclaimed righteousness, and responded to God’s grace with worship. Like Noah, Christians are called to resist the pressure...

Message Us! We talk about why a holiday, a Sabbath, or even a vacation can leave you worn out when your heart still feels restless. We open Jesus’ invitation to “come to me” and show how grace lifts the yoke of legalism, shame, and performance so you can finally breathe.  • Labor Day irony and the difference between physical rest and soul rest  • How Sabbath keeping can still feel crushing when th...

Message Us! The flood account confronts us with both the seriousness of human sin and the holiness of God. Genesis 6 reveals that human wickedness is widespread, deeply rooted in the heart, and expressed through sexual immorality and violence. Yet God does not respond impulsively. He is patient with sinners, grieved by their rebellion, and just in His judgment. But judgment is not the only thing w...

Message Us! Genesis 4–5 presents two families moving in two very different directions. Cain chooses a path of self-exaltation, violence, and rebellion against God, and those patterns intensify in the generations that follow him. Seth’s line, by contrast, becomes associated with calling upon the name of the Lord, walking with God, and ultimately hoping in God’s promise of deliverance. These two pat...

Message Us! Genesis 4 shows that Cain is not merely a villain to condemn, but a mirror in which we should see our own sinful tendencies. Cain’s offering reveals a heart that lacks the faith and devotion seen in Abel. Yet God graciously confronts Cain, calling him to take responsibility and warning him that “sin is crouching at the door.” Sin is both subtle and predatory: what begins as anger, prid...

Message Us! We open Habakkuk and let the Bible say the uncomfortable part out loud: God can handle our holy complaints when life feels violent, unfair, and ignored. We follow God’s response through discipline, justice, and the cross, landing on a steady hope that suffering is not meaningless and God truly cares.  • Why Habakkuk is the book for hard questions  • Habakkuk’s first complaint about vio...

Message Us! We trace the Exodus as a map for our lives, from being delivered out of bondage to learning how to walk into God’s promises with real trust. We talk about why comfort can still be a wilderness, why obedience often comes before understanding, and why purpose matters more than ease.  • appreciating faithful Bible teaching and the privilege of hearing Scripture explained clearly  • Exodus...

Message Us! In this sermon, Pastor Chris shows us why Genesis 3 is not just the story of Adam and Eve’s sin—it’s the story of ours. We see how temptation works, why we hide and blame when we sin, and the devastating consequences sin brings into our lives. But Genesis 3 is not only a story of rebellion and ruin. It is also a story of God’s mercy and the first promise of redemption. Watch as we disc...

Message Us! If you’ve ever wondered why human life should matter in a world that often feels cold, competitive, and disposable, Genesis has a sharper answer than most of our modern slogans. We start with a hard contrast: if reality is truly purposeless, then moral absolutes, human rights, and even the idea of “dignity” become impossible to ground. From there, we build a positive case for meaning b...

Message Us! Genesis 1:1-27 reveals that the eternal, triune God is the Creator and center of all things. He brought the world into existence by His word and formed it with order, precision, and purpose. Creation was made good, designed to display God's glory, and humanity was created in His image to represent Him within the world. Although sin has corrupted creation and fractured our relation...

Message Us! A kids’ church skit told a room full of children to “shoot the devil” and it lit up the internet. We use that moment to ask a sharper question: what does the Bible actually tell Christians to do about Satan and spiritual warfare? We open 1 Peter 5:8-9 and slow down on Peter’s commands to be sober-minded, be watchful, and resist. That leads to a balanced view that takes the devil seriou...

Message Us! In Mark 5, Jesus encounters a man whose life has been completely devastated by demonic oppression. He is isolated, tormented, hopeless, and unable to free himself. Yet with a simple command, Jesus demonstrates His absolute authority over the powers of darkness and completely transforms the man. This story reminds us that while our bondage may look different, every person apart from Chr...

Message Us! We challenge the noisy cultural stories about masculinity with Psalm 1 and a clear definition of biblical manhood rooted in following Jesus. We lay out three marks of a real man and end at the cross, because we need a Savior before we can live with courage, contentment, and consistency.  • cultural extremes around masculinity and why misogyny is toxic  • a Bible-shaped definition of ma...

Message Us! Sermon on Psalm 1  1 Blessed is the man  who walks not in the counsel of the wicked,  nor stands in the way of sinners,  nor sits in the seat of scoffers;  2 but his delight is in the law of the LORD,  and on his law he meditates day and night. 3 He is like a tree  planted by streams of water  that yields its fruit in its season,  and its leaf does not wither.  In all that he does, he...

Message Us! Dressing the part can be exhausting when you’re trying to prove you belong. Paul flips that pressure on its head in Colossians 2 and 3: in Jesus, you already belong, and he has already clothed you with righteousness. We start with a simple image, a strict workplace dress code, then trace a bigger biblical theme: salvation changes what you wear because it changes who you are. From there...

Message Us! In this passage, Paul reminds believers of the dramatic transformation that has taken place through Jesus Christ. Once they were alienated from God, hostile toward Him in their thinking, and characterized by sinful behavior. But through Christ's physical death on the cross, they have been reconciled to God and brought near. God's purpose in this reconciliation is not only to...

Message Us! In Colossians 1:15–20, Paul breaks into what many scholars believe was an early Christian hymn or poem celebrating the glory of Jesus Christ. Through rich, worshipful language, the passage exalts Jesus as the visible image of God, the Creator and Sustainer of all things, and the King of both creation and new creation. More than a theological statement, this hymn was meant to awaken awe...

Message Us! The book of Acts tells the story of the birth and expansion of the early church after the resurrection and ascension of Jesus. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, ordinary believers boldly proclaimed the Gospel, devoted themselves to God’s Word and prayer, lived in unity, and carried the message of Christ from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth. Acts reminds us that the same God who worked t...

Message Us! In Luke 7, Jesus is invited to dine at the home of Simon the Pharisee when an uninvited woman—known publicly only as “a sinner”—enters the gathering. Though rejected and labeled by religious society, she boldly approaches Jesus with tears, worship, humility, and costly perfume. While the Pharisees see her only through the lens of her past, Jesus sees a repentant sinner in need of grace...

Message Us! We open up John 3:16 as more than a memory verse and show how it reveals God’s heart for every person. We walk through seven fundamental questions and land on a clear invitation to respond to Jesus with real heart-belief that leads to everlasting life.  • John 3:16 as the heart of the gospel and a personal picture of God’s love  • Nicodemus as the religious sinner and the woman at the...

Message Us! See the sermon study guide: https://myrealchurch.org/teaching/stand-alone/the-abiding-life-of-christ-acts-2811-31/ John 15:1-11 1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. 2 Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. 3 Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken t...