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How do we actually live the way of Jesus? In the first of a two part teaching we will look at what following Jesus looks like in a personal sense through a look at Jesus’ own practice of what we call “spiritual disciplines.”

We live in an age of disconnected spirituality. For many people, spirituality can me anything or nothing at all. We can live deeply "spiritual" lives, but have no evident difference in our life from that of non-religious people. We tend toward a surface-level faith that just adds church attendance to the practices we participate in alongside everyone else. This works up to a point, but it falls ap...

What comes from following the Way of Jesus? In a world where we’re constantly looking to the next thing and the potential of a new season we have to ask ourselves the question, “What is the potential in following Jesus’ Way?” Tonight we begin our final series of the school year looking at that exact thought.

Check out this stand alone teaching from our friend Ladarion Simpson!

How are Christians meant to handle disagreements and offense? In this stand alone teaching we will hear from one of our own Zack Naessig on the topic of forgiveness.

In our final week of Life Together we look at the life of the church outside of its community. As the church is deeply formed, what is it formed into and how do we live out this formation-fueled missional life?

What is our life together meant to look like within the Church? Part 1 of 2 will explore this question on ecclesiology.

"I wish we never had to leave (insert student ministry big event here)." Why is there so much hype behind the big events of ministry and so much apprehension about returning to the normal rhythms of our lives? We run toward deep conversations, vulnerability, and unrestrained worship at a camp, retreat or other event, but we withhold ourselves from all of these things in a regular Sunday service or...

Major apologies but our recording cut out halfway through the second point. We will be happy to email notes for the remaining section if you email chrisf@ridgedalebaptist.org. If you’d like a print out of the Rule of Life builder we developed you can email the same address!

What is life all about? This question has been asked by innumerable people of thousands of years all in the hope of an answer coming that can make sense of life here and now and lead to deeper flourishing. The answer the Bible offers; “This is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God.” How can we know a God who is also described as indescribable? In week 3 of Rooted, we’ll look at the p...

Does God speak? Most people would say yes, but without a great deal of confidence that He would speak to them. Hearing from God is an essential part of our spiritual life but often goes overlooked because it seems too hard to discern or too rare to expect. But what if that wasn’t the case? Tonight in week 2 of Rooted we will look at the practice of hearing from God through the story of Luke 24:13-...

How do we start a new year well? For many the answer is resolutions and for others it’s rhythms but when we look to Christian history there are certain practices that deeply root our identity and daily life in the life of Jesus. Tonight we begin by looking to the promise of Matthew 5:8 and the hope found in Exodus 33 and Psalm 37:4 that God does in fact reveal Himself to those who want Him and see...

Tonight we wrap up our final teaching in the Life series looking at the most important church doctrine that most people have never heard mentioned; union with Christ.

We were made for life in God, but that life comes only as our belief is formed through proximity to Jesus and obedience to God’s commands. In our next to last teaching of the series we look at the journey toward Jesus and the moment the rubber meets the road.

If you’ve ever kept an article of clothing too long or not been able to shake a bad habit, you can identify with the difficulty felt by all followers of Jesus with change and growth. We need to change, we must change, and yet something feels like it stands between us and that desire. Tonight we talk about what theologians have called purgation, what Paul called, “working out our faith,” but what w...

As we enter the second half of our series we begin by looking at the practical application of our seeking out life in and with Jesus. He has given us a pathway toward life in what the New Testament calls discipleship.

Our Fall 2024 mid-semester Worship Night on the theme Better. We are blessed to have our good friend Steven Arce teaching with us. Steven and his family are missionaries to Venezuela and have been partnered with Ridgedale for several years.

Our final mini session of Fall Retreat comes from 2 Peter 1:1-4 on who we are, what we’ve been given in Christ and what that means when we return from the retreat.

"What's in this?" It's the logical question we should ask when presented with something new that we're interested in but uncertain of. "What's in the life of Saint?" Tonight in our final full session of Fall Retreat we answer this question by looking at the life of Peter.

What happens when people of uncommon goodness gather together to form a community of uncommon blessing? Check out the Saturday morning session for the answer!

Check out message 1 from RSM Fall Retreat 2024. Our theme is Saints and we begin with a call to live into what God has already said we are.

If Jesus defined His Gospel as the "Kingdom come near," then what does living in the Kingdom entail? He starts His sermon on the mount by clarifying the WHO, but He finishes it with the HOW. Check it out on this week's episode.

Jesus came teaching and preaching, "Behold, the Kingdom has come near. Repent and believe." When we talk about life, we have to look towards its source and what Jesus saw as life and the good news of life is that the Kingdom of God had arrived on the scene. For us to understand life, we must understand the Kingdom of God and its implications on our lives. This is part 1 of 2 looking at the Kingdom...

How do we begin to live into the new quality of life that Jesus offers us? We must begin to see a re-enchanted world all around us with Him at the center.

All of us want to live a good life. But do we go about living the life we have in a way that will lead to our greatest good? In this series we'll begin looking at what life looks like according to the way of Jesus. The first step in that is realizing that eternal life doesn't have to wait til eternity.