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Our audio wasn’t working for the first two teachings from HouseCamp, but we were able to get the third! In our final teaching from the week, we wrap up Psalm 27 after hearing night 1 about our need to seek out God as light, and night 2 on how we see God properly. In this final teaching we look to the hope of Jesus available to us all here and now and David’s confidence in claiming that hope for hi...

How do we respond to God’s answer in prayer? Through the posture of yielding we learn to listen and respond in a way that honors God and leads to our flourishing.

Asking is uncomfortable, isn’t it? We fear asking for a variety of reasons. We believe it reveals weakness in us in a society that prizes strength. We believe it shows us to be needy in a culture of self-sufficiency. What we find in the Scriptures is a very different vision of going to God with our need in prayer. Charles Spurgeon informs us that asking is the currency of the Kingdom of God. That...

Walter Wangerin once said, “Praise and thanksgiving require more than our brains. They want our laughter, our capering bodies, our trembling delight, smiles and the sweet flush of delight-and song. Praise must be sung.” This is the truth we come to in prayer; that God asks for all of us in an expression of joy. Prayer isn’t robotic. It isn’t simply us asking, or confessing, or adoring God. It’s a...

What do we do with our sin? David was familiar with not meeting the expectations of God and so he writes to us about it in the Psalms. Tonight we look to Psalm 32, 139 and 52 to see how sin works, what God thinks of us in our sin and what we experience in our moment of confession to hopefully move us from a place of fearing confession to freedom in confession.

In our final series of the year we look at prayer as a regular rhythm patterned for us in the Psalms. Tonight we look at the practice of pausing and adoration in prayer from Psalm 8 and many other passages throughout the Scriptures.

In the final week of our series we look at our relationship to the most essential element in supporting life there is; food. How are our meals, not only spiritual in nature, but also meant to form our communities and our joy in a God-ward direction?

We spend a large majority of our lives completely incapacitated by this thing called sleep. Not just this, but we spend a great portion of our waking hours longing for the rest that sleep brings. With so much of our lives wrapped up in rest the obvious question is what is God trying to teach us through the necessity of rest? Join us for week 3 of our series w(HOL)l(Y) Ordinary as we examine the sp...

Join us for week 2 of our series examining the holiness of every day moments as we discuss the spirituality of work.

Join us for a new series examining the holes in the idea of the sacred/secular divide and exploring the ways we can find God at work in the things of everyday life.

Join us for a concluding Q&R with Chris as we conclude our SEEDS series on relational evangelism.

Is life found in God’s Law or does it actually choke out our life in following it? Tonight we look at our relationship to the Law and life as we seek to dig out the weeds to a thriving faith.

(Note, our recording stopped earlier than the end of the message by about 7 minutes. So sorry for the missing audio!) Why am I still continuing to sin even though I’ve committed to Jesus? Hear from Josh Powell on this difficult subject for apprentices of Jesus as we walk the way of Jesus together.

In this series we look at the nagging questions that impede our growth in discipleship when they go unaddressed. In week 1 we look at God’s wrath and how it isn’t an attribute to be avoided but actually reveals God’s love in a deeper way.

What does real religion look like lived out? In Isaiah 58, Israel comes to God asking why all their religious work isn’t resulting in deeper intimacy. The response? True religion must be converted into lived righteousness. In session 2 we look at the requirements of true religion and our call to convert our work into lived righteousness.

What is God up to at the beginning of His story? In Genesis 1 we see creation, a garden and a people made in God’s image. But what does this image and garden mean for the way we live? As we begin Fall Retreat around the theme of Garden we look at how our lives intersect with the Biblical theme of garden giving us purpose, calling and commissioning to go with God making a world full of His life, be...

We end our series with a teaching from Pastor Chris on Ezekiel 37 and the Valley of Dry Bones.

Week 2 of our series features a teaching on Ezekiel 36 from our newest Ridgedale staff member, Danny Hesterly.

Join us for week 1 of a new series walking through the book of Ezekiel and the hope that fills us up as we go to pour out the love of God on a world in need.

In our final week of Messiology we want to take all we've learned and put it into real tangible, missional steps we can live out as a community for the good of others. How do we take a Gospel-fluent message into a culture opposed to it with the nagging fear of rejection and doubts in the back of our mind? This is our focus in week 3 of our series; Messiology.

In week 1 we culturally exegeted the world that we live in missionally, but what is going on in our own hearts that keeps us from taking what we know and converting it into missiological practice? At the heart of apprehension is the issue of ACCEPTANCE. In a flattened, polarized, consumeristic world, the worst thing you can be is different, counter-cultural, concerned with formation over consumpti...

In this opening teaching we will dive into the mess of the world that we have been missionally called to. What is the culture and who are the people we've been called to? When we look at the world today we see a place that is jammed up with polarization, "You're either with me or against me..." It is growing more and more relativistic, flattening all worldviews into one placid view of the world. I...

For House Night 1 we’re examining a process for life and community that maximizes our potential in partnering God to see a move of God in our midst in this new school year. When we Pray Hard, Work Hard, Play Hard, and Rest Hard we set ourselves up to see God do what only He can do, and find ourselves refreshed along the way.

Where has God brought us and what is He bringing us into in the coming here? Check it out here as we wrapped up our final House Night of the school year.

In our final teaching of the semester we look at what the way of Jesus looks like as a community practice.