Ridge Life Podcast

Tom Konopinski was our guest speaker for our Missions Moment update

Jesse Maurer our worship pastor is speaking out of I Corinthians 13

Paul begins this new part of the letter with the words "Finally my brothers rejoice in the Lord" and then he spends some time warning them and reminding them to be on the look out for the counterfeits in the church. What do these counterfeits look like? How can we protect ourselves and others from these counterfeits?

As we sum up all of the prophecies concerning the virgin birth, we are faced with a decision of what are we to do with the doctrinal truth of Christ being manifested in the flesh. How does that change us? Paul gives us a interesting topic to discuss in I Timothy 3:16 with the "mystery of godliness" What is this mystery? The mystery is Christ being manifested in the flesh. But what is interesting i...

What do we know about the virgin birth? Did it really happen? How do we know? No doubt a virgin birth is a miracle and unusual. There are over 400 prophecies about Jesus that we find in the Old Testament alone. In fact Jesus Christ, fulfilled numerous predictions that were given of his birth. Micah predicted He would be born in Bethlehem, and He was. Hosea predicted He would be called out of Egypt...

Bethlehem was the birth of Jesus Christ. It was also the place where a redeemer would be predicted long before Christ took on flesh and dwelt among us.

Doctrine is very important for the life of the church. The truth is everyone has some form of doctrine that they believe , but the problem is that many of those things don’t line up with the truthfulness of God’s Word. It’s always important to go back to the source and make sure we are getting an accurate view of Who God is and what God says. Scripture teaches us some very important truths about t...

What do we learn from the lives of Timothy and Epaphroditus? These two men are a great example of Christians who followed the example of Jesus. What about their lives can we learn that will help us be joyful servants? We will finish up Philippians chapter 2 with this second part on "Joyful Servants".

Thanksgiving is a time that our nation has set aside a day that we observe a day of thanksgiving I thought it would be a great time to remind us what God’s Word teaches us about gratitude. Gratitude is a constant theme in the Bible. In fact it is mentioned over 150 times in Scripture and 33 times that we find that word gratitude it is tied with a command to be thankful. Are we a people of gratitud...

As we have been working through this letter to the Philippians we have seen that Paul stresses this idea of humility and unity to the church. We saw this first when Paul told us about unity in chapter 1 of vs 27. Then again in Ch 2 vs 2. Then we were given the great example of humility by showing us what Christ did for us 2:3-8. The last couple of weeks we looked at how we are to allow that humili...

Speaker Tom Obringer

Are you letting your light shine? This is the emphasis of the next two verses we will be looking at in Philippians 2:15-16. Paul says we are lights in this world. The world that we live in is dark and twisted and it's important that we are living up to our calling and purpose in Christ. How do we know if we're allowing our light to shine? What does having our light shine have to do with complainin...

Whining and complaining seem to be a favorite past time of the world that we live in today. In our text in Philippians 2 Paul commands those who know Christ to "Do all things without grumbling and disputing" Why shouldn't the Christian complain? What does God think of those who complain? Has complaining become a respectable sin? Never have we seen such a society that has so much and yet complain....

As we have been looking at Philippians we have already seen that God calls us to unity within the body of Christ (Philippians 1:27). The only way that we achieve unity is through humility. Paul has given us the greatest example of humility by reminding us about the humiliation of Christ and it is that same attitude that believers are suppose to have (Philippians 2:1-8). Now we come to vs 12-13 and...

We’ve been talking about unity and humility within the church and to show us what humility looks like Paul is giving us the greatest example of humility by teaching us who Christ is and what Christ did. It’s important to understand these doctrines because God sets forth the truth and it’s our responsibility to obey it. To know who Jesus is is extremely important because your eternal destiny depend...

As Paul stresses the importance of unity to the believers at Philippi his attention turns to promoting humility amongst each other by not allowing selfish ambition or conceit to be part of their lives (Philippians 2:1-4). In Philippians 2:5-11 we see a beautiful and powerful passage about Jesus modeling for us an example of humility. This passage is not only important doctrinally as it shows us wh...

Have you ever found yourself having a hard time getting along with other belivers? Who's right? Who's wrong? How can we learn how to get along? One of the major themes that is throughout the book of Philippians is unity. As we begin to look at chapter 2 it is one of Paul's desires that the believers at Philippi would "complete my (Paul's) joy" by being in unity. Unity within the body of Christ is...

As we continue to look at Paul's statement of "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain" We find Paul with a hard decision as he thinks about how leaving this world is far better because he will be with Christ, but he also recognizes by staying here in the flesh it would profit the believers at Philippi. What do we learn about our lives living here in the flesh? How can our lives be used to...

Does the life you live reflect the worthiness of the Gospel? Think about that. Since Christ saved me and resurrected me from death to life, does my life reflect the Gospel message? Paul's words here to the Philippian believers in 1:27-30 were a reminder to do just that. How do we make our manner of life worthy of the Gospel? What does that mean? What can we expect the outcome of living such a life...

What does death mean for the believer in Christ? Paul stated in Philippians "For to me to live is Christ and to die is gain" What was the gain that Paul was looking at? Do we view death as a gain? How should a believer view death? How can death be used to exalt Christ?

Paul in his letter to the church at Phillipi has just finished telling them about his circumstances in his life and how he knows God is going to use them for the furtherance of the Gospel and now we come to this passage here in Philippians 1:19-26 where Paul makes the statement "To live is Christ" What exactly does that mean? It's a rather interesting phrase, but Paul saw something intrinsic about...

Some of the most difficult circumstances Paul faced in life he met them with joy and looked at them as an opportunity for the advancement of the Gospel. How could imprisonment, beatings, hunger, peril, danger etc be used for the Gospel? Paul say's in his letter to the Philippians that what has happened to him was for the "advancement of the Gospel" How so? Furthermore how can we use our circumstan...

How have you been running the race so far? Tired? Full of energy? About to collapse? Steadily? The writer of Hebrews reminds us that we need to run the race and not loose heart. What will enable us to continue with patience and not get discouraged? How can we practically apply Hebrews 12:1-3 to our lives?

In Paul's letter to the Philippians in 1:12-18 he gives them a testimony of what the Lord has and is doing in his life. It’s interesting that when we read about the life of Paul as it is revealed through Scripture we see that Pauls life was a life that was marked with hardships, difficulties, let downs, depression, being abased, threatenings, danger, and discouragement. To say that Paul’s life was...