Resurrection City Church - St. Paul Minnesota

John the Baptist had a unique calling. He came not to give people what they’d always wanted—the good news of Jesus—but to help people wait well for it. Which, if we’re honest, is kind of weird. Why wait? What good would that be? That’s probably what we think when we hear that. But if we can understand God’s intention, we can begin to understand how necessary waiting actually is. John’s ministry sh...

Waiting is something nobody enjoys, but it’s the essence of advent, and God works through it when we’re intentional. In this message, Pastor Julie shares from the story of Abraham and Sarah. She talks about their long wait for a child and presents some takeaways for us to consider in our own seasons of waitings, both in this advent, and in any other time of waiting we might encounter.

When we go through trials and uncertainty, it can be easy to just focus on ourselves and the problems we face. But there can be and is more going on in these situations than we realize, and in 1 Peter 5, Peter, the apostle and friend of Jesus, wants to help us understand the bigger picture. The reality is, in the middle of our uncertainty and troubles there are two other important factors to consi...

Throughout this series we’ve been discussing what is reliable and can give us hope in an uncertain world. When we dig into the reasons Peter wrote this beautiful letter to the different churches who initially received it, what’s clear is that pressure and persecution were the main source of the uncertainty they faced and why Peter wrote them. We may or may not experience pressure such as they did,...

We all are seeking “the good life,” whatever we mean by it. It might come as a surprise to us, but the Bible actually has quite a bit to say about the good life, and in this message we’ll explore how Jesus defines “the good life” and how Peter expands on it in this passage.

In this message, Res City Leadership team member Krista Schroeder shares what God has been teaching her about how we can live as disciples in an uncertain world, especially in the middle of tragedy.

In this message from guest preacher Pastor Adaobi Nduka, we consider how God partners with or “uses” us, and asks us if God might want to do so right now in ways we might not expect!

In this message from guest preacher Pastor Adaobi Nduka, we discuss the importance of the names of God given in Scripture. Pastor Adaobi walks through the name El Roi, “the God who sees” and explains how this name gives us comfort when we need know God sees us.

In this message from guest preacher Joel Nelson, we study the little known but timeless story of Leah, someone who was not thought of very highly by the people around her—including her husband—for reasons that are all too common today, but who God saw and who was important to him. Joel explains how this passage comforts us by letting us know what God values even if we feel unimportant and unseen t...

In this message, Res City Leadership Team member Miles Trump talks about how, surprisingly, in uncertain times obedience can actually lead to us to find hope.

The letter of 1 Peter offers God’s response to how to live and what to trust when the world feels uncertain. But sometimes even the word of God, which is what 1 Peter is, seems unreliable because of tricky passages. That’s exactly what we study in today’s message. Pastor Julie explains how to handle passages that seem uncomfortable to us by staying curious and trying to understand it according to...

Peter starts his letter to the scattered exiles in ancient Turkey by giving a dependable identity. Identity helps people in the midst of their uncertainty and hopelessness. In the next part of the letter, Peter expands on their identity, telling them that they are holy, and out of their holy identity they are to live holy. Holy living honors Jesus, but it is dependable, too, able to see us through...

The world we live in is full of uncertainty, whether in current events casting a shadow over our politics, the people in our lives who let us down, and more. For some, the hopelessness leads them to just focus on the present and try to have some fun to help them forget how hard it is. But simply numbing the pain is not the way of Jesus. In this series, we’re going to study a letter written to a gr...

When people talk about TV shows that have well regarded and satisfying endings, they often cite things like finishing off character arcs well, linking up to themes introduced throughout the series, and ending one story—even if another story could be beginning in a spin-off show. As Acts comes to a close, we find all of these elements to a satisfying end of a story be fulfilled. In this message, Pa...

Court appearances, prison stays, riots, speeches full of biographical details, and lots of waiting. The end of the book of Acts can be hard to follow, but when we understand the big picture it all falls into place. The key to understanding the end of Acts is something God impresses into Paul’s heart in Acts 19. Paul is going to take an up and down pathway to the great city of Rome, which is all pa...

In Acts 17:6, some nonbelievers plainly state the perception of Christians in their time: “These people turn the world upside down!” What a statement! And what a far cry from how the good news is experienced today. In this message, Pastor Joel examines a story from Acts 19 about how Paul, preaching the good news in a city called Ephesus, disrupted two of the main things that people relied on in th...

Acts is filled with amazing stories of the kingdom spreading. There are stories where people miraculously speak other languages for cross cultural ministry. There are stories about dangerous sea travel, giant storms and shipwreck. There are stories of dramatic confrontations with corrupt, villainous authorities and unjust imprisonment. Stories of earthquakes, riots, and journeying around the world...

In the last hours before he was crucified, Jesus prayed to God for togetherness among his disciples that would make us effective in pursuing the tasks he has assigned to us. We all will have opportunities to make this prayer a reality—whether in our church, at our workplaces, our neighborhoods or apartment buildings, on our campuses, and more—with the other believers God brings into our lives. It’...

This past weekend we had our inaugural Together Weekend--an all weekend long church event with multiple opportunities for fun and growth meant to increase our Togetherness as a church. Instead of our normal message on Sunday, we had multiple breakouts hosted throughout the building and recorded them for people to listen to later on.  In this breakout, Elli Van Zee shares about how we learn about G...

This past weekend we had our inaugural Together Weekend--an all weekend long church event with multiple opportunities for fun and growth meant to increase our Togetherness as a church. Instead of our normal message on Sunday, we had multiple breakouts hosted throughout the building and recorded them for people to listen to later on.  In this breakout, Miles and Lisa Trump share about their own exp...

This past weekend we had our inaugural Together Weekend--an all weekend long church event with multiple opportunities for fun and growth meant to increase our Togetherness as a church. Instead of our normal message on Sunday, we had multiple breakouts hosted throughout the building and recorded them for people to listen to later on.  In this breakout, Pastor Julie Stegman shares a few stories of w...

At Res City, we want to relentlessly pursue four key values that we think lead someone to discipleship: Knowing Jesus through abiding and learning, Growing more like him and bearing his fruit, Going in service and invitation, doing it all Together. Sometimes, we like to be clear in a message about those values and specifically highlight some of them when we see them in our passage. And when we see...

The author of the book of Acts, Luke, would make a lot of high school English teachers happy. He introduces his main idea of the book in the beginning, and traces it through the whole story from there. The big idea is that the power of the Spirit has come and will take the gospel to new places. But, no one ever said it would be easy. In this story, we see how the good news of Jesus begins to brush...

You often hear of someone having a “Damascus Road” moment, where something new is revealed to them and their whole life changes. The phrase comes from this passage in Acts (chapter 9), where a man named Saul, better known as Paul the Apostle—who at first seems like the main villain in the story—suddenly has his whole life change when Jesus interrupts his plans to stop the growth of the church dead...