Ridgedale Students

Check out the post-teaching Question and Response time from week 1 of our series, Life!

We all want peace, and we all feel as though we lack it. So is there a place we can run to and find that we peace and healing are present and with us?

Provider. The name Jireh has become familiar with people in the wake of the Maverick City Music song. God is our provider. He is enough. We can be content because He has and is all we need. But what is the deeper meaning and context behind God being called Jehovah Jireh? Is He like a cosmic Walmart stocked with all the goods we need for each week that we visit on Sundays to stock up? Or is there a...

All of us can relate to feeling vulnerable or exposed as we navigate a world affected by sin. Things are not as they are meant to be and that can lead to all kinds of disorientation, fear, anxiety, and everything in between. In the midst of it we simply want someone, anything, to care enough to shield us from the storm. In the Bible God is called four names; El Roi, El Shaddai, Jehovah Tsuri, and...

What do we do with a God who shows Himself to be both Master and Father in a world of deep desire for freedom from mastery due to bad images of fathers? God's self-existent and eternal view lends itself to a view to power, but God desires us to understand His power in the context of a deeper, more fleshy, relationship. He wants us to know that the one who commands your steps also wants to know...

What does it mean for God to be the "Alpha & Omega?" As we start to look at the names of God, we begin by looking at the scope of God revealed in His name. He is pre-existent and will be existent forever. He is Elohim of Elohim. He is Jehovah, the self-existent God; I AM. Ego Emi. This has much to say to every follower of Jesus.

As we wrap up our study of John we take a look at the experience of Thomas and the story overlayed onto that experience in John 18-20.

Jesus in John 16 & 17 presents so much information it can be hard to keep up. But embedded right in the midst of this is a word to all those who feel as though God has stepped away; “I am not alone, the Father is with me.” Join us for a look at the tail end of the upper room discourse as Josh Powell leads us through what it means for God to be present to us and for us to be present to Him.

The Upper Room Discourse is more than just Jesus’ last words to His disciples and a collection of some of His most profound teachings. It’s a story being told in Jesus’ words and actions. It’s the Most Unbelievable Story in Human History. But if it’s believed, it will change everything about the way we think, act and live. Join us for our first of two teachings through the Upper Room Discourse as...

Listen in as we wrap up our series GOOD, looking at John 11 and the story of Lazarus’ resurrection.

Listen in for our second teaching from our first Family Worship Night as Chris opens up John 8 to see how Jesus is the light of the world that shines to show us where life is truly found.

Listen in to the first teaching from our Family Worship Night looking at John 7 and Jesus’ word to his brothers before the Feast of Booths with Ryan McBride, Pastor of Missions and Discipleship at Ridgedale and former Ridgedale Student Pastor.

Jesus has fed the multitudes with bread, but when a crowd comes back to Him for more, He enters into one of the most confusing, difficult, and controversial teachings of His entire ministry. He finishes that teaching with hundreds, if not thousands, fewer disciples than before He gave it. What is meant by Jesus being the Bread of Life, why must we eat His flesh and drink His blood, and why couldn'...

Tonight we look at John 6 part 1 with AnnaKate Potter focusing on seeing the real Jesus who sees us, knows us and provides for us.

What do we do with the healing miracles (or signs) of Jesus in John? The signs and wonders of John are meant to be understood as inbreakings of the Kingdom of God that reveal certain realities about life in the here and now as well as life in eternity to come. As Jesus heals people of sickness and disease (an action that comprises 1/5 of all miracles in the gospels), Jesus is declaring that the Ki...

John 3 is packed with theological weight and memorable scripture, but even more it offers us the story of a man who knew his life was out of sync but couldn’t figure out how to change. In steps Jesus with a gentle but direct word to Nicodemus on how real change occurs.

As we continue in our series, Presence, we see Jesus calling the first of His disciples in John 1:35-51. Something that jumps out immediately upon entering our text is the second proclamation in John of, "Behold the Lamb of God." There's a unique flavoring of presence in this passage in the way that Jesus calls these disciples and reveals Himself to them. It tells us something unique about our dis...

What does a house that honors all do? It eventually becomes a place of great blessing.

What drives thriving culture? For many churches, organizations, even friend groups, the driving force behind much of the culture in these modern spaces is a sense of superiority, selfishness, and a desire to be "the best." But is this the way the Church is meant to function? Paul makes the statement, multiple times throughout his epistles, that we are to live in such a way that we bestow excessive...

What do we do when the tiger gets in? Resisting temptation is often approached from the perspective of formulas and three step processes but what if there’s something deeper? What if we can not only resist temptation but can find rest for our souls in the midst of it? What if resisting temptation boils down to something as simple as trust?

Last week we examined a broad overview of temptation to start our series, but tonight we begin looking deeper at the nature of temptation. We start with how temptation enters our lives.

What is the nature of temptation? How are we most often tempted? Why is it so easy for us to step into temptation? To begin talking about how we deal with temptation we need to get a grasp on how temptation is so pervasive in our lives. We know we shouldn't do certain things and yet it always finds a way to seep into the fabric of our lives to destructive effect. Before the war begins, we need a p...

The second message from Fall Retreat 23 around Romans 12:1-2 and the nature of sacrifice.

Message one from Fall Retreat 2023 from 2 Chronicles 33:21-34:7.

How do we rationalize the image of God having value with a world so full of violence and destruction? When we pull up news articles, social media feeds, or turn on the tv we’re consistently confronted with a world saturated in violence. How did we get here? How do we resist apathy on one hand and skepticism on the other? If we’re going to live as faithful image bearers we have to reclaim a vision...