Ridgetop Church Sermons

Ordinary Church :: Go Acts 11:19-26; 13:1-3 By Robert Krumrey As persecution continues to increase so does the witness of the church. Christians end up in places they’ve never been talking to people they never dreamed of speaking to. A few decide to cross culture and share the message of Jesus. The result is an extraordinary work of God among ordinary people that becomes the most influential churc...

Ordinary Church :: Providence Acts 12:1-25 By James Torrey Bad things happen to the church and they happen at the hands of those who are supposed to be protecting the people under their authority. While Luke (the writer of Acts) pulls no punches describing the terror of state-sponsored persecution, he also reveals to the reader that God’s power is unrivaled. Find out more in this sermon about what...

Ordinary Church :: Other Acts 10:34-48 By Robert Krumrey While Peter is still musing on God’s invite to a non-Kosher dinner, he gets a knock on the door from some non-Kosher people. He winds up telling them the gospel and witnesses a group he never dreamed he’d be in the same room with become his brothers and sisters in Christ. The experience is mind blowing for Peter and his posse and sets the st...

Ordinary Church :: Eat Acts 10:1-33 By Christian Hogan The people of God are branching out from Jerusalem to Judea to Samaria to who knows where else. It’s an exciting time, but not without a few growing pains. Jewish laws about food and sabbath had kept God’s people set apart from all others for millenia. Now a people that once showed God’s glory and goodness with a come and see approach were now...

Ordinary Church :: Saul Acts 9:1-22 By Robert Krumrey In one of the darkest moments in the book of Acts, we read of wide-scale, state-sponsored persecution that’s being spearheaded by a man named Saul. This darkest of experiences gives way to a dawning of light that turns out to be a pivotal story in the book of Acts. Learn more in this sermon about how one man’s darkness is flooded by gospel ligh...

Acts 8:1-8; 8:26-40 By Robert Krumrey Persecution continues to increase and the church scatters. Ordinary Christians encounter people in their path who have never heard the good news about Jesus. What will these recently converted Christ followers do? Philip, one of the seven who were asked to feed widows back in Acts 6, tells the gospel to anyone who will listen - including Samaritans and an Ethi...

Ordinary Church :: Stephen Acts 6:8-15; 7:54-8:3 By Robert Krumrey Persecution of the church in Acts is heating up. Leaders are being taken into custody and flogged. Then the unthinkable happens. A treasured church member, and one of the first deacons, is dragged into court, falsely accused, and stoned to death. What happens after the tragedy of the first Christian martyr is one of the most import...

Ordinary Church :: Problem Acts 6:1-7 By Robert Krumrey The church of Acts is growing and experiencing growing pains. Certain widows are being overlooked in the church food distribution and it looks like some kind of preferential treatment toward widows who are culturally Jewish. In this sermon we look at one of the first congregational problems faced by church leadership, how the problem was solv...

Ordinary Church :: Holy Acts 4:32-5:11 By James Torrey The newly birthed church in Acts is not without its problems - persecution from some outside the church and self-promotion by some inside the church. Ananias and Sapphira see an opportunity to look like religious rock stars without all the sacrifice that many in the church were embracing. They lie to church leaders and to God and drop dead in...

Ordinary Church :: Persecution Acts 4:1-22 By Robert Krumrey The church in Acts is booming! The Spirit has arrived and the church is functioning as a community of missionaries who are seeing the Lord add to their number daily those who are being saved. What will move the needle toward the accomplishment of a world-wide mission to get the gospel to the ends of the earth? In a word, persecution. Thi...

The Spirit has supernaturally converted 3000 people and supernaturally gathered them into a new community. Now what? Next, we see that community on mission as they begin to spread the gospel within the city limits of Jerusalem. See how these first Christians go about engaging those outside the church in order to see them affected with gospel truth.

Ordinary Church :: Tribe Acts 2:14-47 By Robert Krumrey The gospel is preached in the power of the Spirit and something amazing happens - 3000 people become Christians. More than this, 3000 people rally around the good news of Jesus in a community of Christ followers that is so compelling many others place their faith in Jesus and join his church. The Jerusalem church of Acts 2 is not perfect, but...

Ordinary Church :: Spirit Acts 2:1-18 By Noah Galloso Jesus instructs his disciples to wait for the Spirit. They do and when the Spirit shows up it’s in the middle of the Jewish festival of Pentecost. Jewish pilgrims from all over the world hear the good news about Jesus in their heart language and respond with saving faith. The church is born! Find out in this sermon what the Spirit does to inaug...

Ordinary Church :: Wait Acts 1:1-11 By Robert Krumrey The expansive growth of the early Christianity is an amazing part of church history. What was it about those early believers that resulted in a small band of powerless uneducated people becoming a movement of over 6 million all while suffering tremendous persecution? Find out in this sermon and sermon series as we explore how ordinary people be...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Identity Matthew 7:12-29 By Robert Krumrey Jesus finishes up the Sermon on the Mount by going deeper. Deep into our very identities. He reveals that we will exemplify the teachings of the sermon by receiving a new identity. Find out in this sermon how the thorny fruit and shoddy contruction of a life lived apart from God can become a fruitful tree and a house built on rock.

Matthew 7:7-11 By Robert Krumrey The resources required to live out the sermon on the mount are beyond natural. They are supernatural. Which means we will have to get those resources from somewhere outside ourselves. Jesus assures us that we can ASK for whatever we need, SEEK what we have yet to find, and should KNOCK until whatever we are facing gets handled by God. Find out in this sermon, what...

Secret Life of Jesus :: See Matthew 7:1-6 By Christian Hogan Don’t Judge but do get the speck out of your “brother’s” eye. Jesus’ teaching on one of the dangers of the spiritual life (judgmentalism) and the necessity of loving sin discernment within the church find themselves side by side in this very famous section of Scripture. Find out in this sermon how one can reject judgmentalism and at the...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Easter Sunday Matthew 27:57-28:10 By Robert Krumrey Jesus is Risen! At least this is what the gospel writer Matthew reports to us. What about Matthew’s account of Jesus’ resurrection would lead us to believe it’s true and why does it matter? Find out in this sermon from Matthew 27 and 28.

Secret Life of Jesus :: Palm Sunday Matthew 20:29-21:17 By Robert Krumrey Palm Sunday is the pivotal moment in all four Gospels where Jesus stirs Jerusalem to its boiling point. The stage is set for a massive collision between the Divine Son of God and those who hold both governmental and religious authority. Find out in this sermon about the meaning of Palm Sunday and why it matters.

Secret Life of Jesus :: Believe Matthew 6:25-34 By Robert Krumrey Treasuring God above all else affects the way we interact with the outside world. Treasures that once seemed ultimate now become a means to bring about higher purposes (last week’s sermon). Not only this but being heavenly hearted allows us to rely on God our Father for what we need here on earth. This enables us not only to be gene...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Treasure Matthew 6:19-24 By Cooper Krumrey The Sermon on the Mount is full of profound teaching regarding the inward condition of human beings and the congruence (or incongruence) of that inward condition with outward action. How do we know if we are truly “getting it” instead of falling for another version of false pretense. Find out in this sermon on Jesus’ ultimate test...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Fasting Matthew 6:16-18 By Anse Kwak Breaking through to a secret life with God always includes the use of spiritual practices like prayer and Bible reading. One practice that is often ignored it that of fasting. Find out more in this sermon how fasting can be a means for God’s Spirit to do a new work in your life and how the hungriness of your stomach can be the gateway to...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Pray 2 Matthew 6:9-15 By Robert Krumrey In our sermon from last week (pray 1) we learned from Jesus how to pray. This week we hear from Jesus what to pray. The Lord’s prayer or model prayer is the most significant teaching on prayer in the Bible. Find out more in this sermon as we learn from the Master of prayer, Jesus himself.

*WARNING! DUE TO TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES WITH THE MICROPHONE DURING RECORDING, THERE ARE SEVERAL LOUD AND SUDDEN POPS THAT MAY BE STARTLING TO LISTENERS.* Secret Life of Jesus :: Pray 1 Matthew 6:5-8 By Robert Krumrey Ask any Christian whether prayer is important and you will get a 100% “yes”. Ask any Christian if they pray as much as they think they should and you’ll probably get a 100% “no”. We a...

Secret Life of Jesus :: Give Matthew 6:1-4 By Robert Krumrey In our previous sermon series on Matthew chapter 5, we learn about Jesus’ vision for Becoming Human. A comprehensive transformation into a whole person inside and out. Matthew chapter 6 gives us the means of this massive transformation which are the spiritual practices of the Christian life. Check out this sermon for teaching on spiritua...