River of Life Church - St Joseph

This week we discuss the villain of the Christmas Story, King Herod, and discover what not to do with Christ when we encounter him in our lives. 

This week we hear from one of our amazing church members, Jackie Leedahl, as she shares about the shepherds in the Christmas story. 

We begin our Christmas series where we will highlight different characters and see what we can learn from each one. This week we cover Mary, the mother of Jesus. 

This week we talk about how God has put the Church on mission and that by giving to Kingdom Builders (missions work), we are able to help fulfill that mission wherever God has placed us. 

This week we talk about the blessing of tithing and what that looks like in our lives. Tithing is not meant to be a burden. It's meant to be a gift in your life. 

This week we kick of a new mini-series called Blessed where we discuss the topics of generosity, greed, and giving. This sermon keys in on the idea of our hearts being set on God rather than on greed. 

This week we get to hear from the Lead Pastor of all of our River of Life Churches, Kyle Peterson. He shares a great sermon on how comfort is the enemy of spiritual growth and how we need to embrace being uncomfortable in our faith journeys. 

In this week, we cover the topics of Regeneration and Sanctification. God makes us new and makes us holy when we accept Jesus! 

This week starts a new series covering what God does in our lives when we get saved. We are going to cover salvation, justification, regeneration, sanctification, and glorification. These "big words" are simply theological terms that quickly describe the profound work God does in our lives. We are going to talk about what these words mean so that we can understand better what God does in our lives...

In this sermon, we bring the Practicing the Way series to a close by talking about how to practically live out our apprenticeship to Jesus through implementing the practices of our faith. 

This week we cover the idea of Doing as Jesus Did and carrying the mission of God forward in our lives. 

In week 3 of our Practicing the Way series we cover the idea of becoming like Jesus. Our faith has to lead to us becoming like Jesus for it to truly be discipleship. 

We continue our Practicing the Way series talking about the first and foremost call of a disciple: to be with their rabbi. For us today, that means we need to abide in Jesus. This is the start of growing in our faith. 

This week we begin a new series about what it means to be a Christian and what it means to grow in our faith. This series is inspired by the concepts of the book Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer.  

This is a stand alone series where we discuss that if Jesus is really who he says that he is, then that should have a massive impact on how we live our lives. 

This week we discuss the truth that life has seasons -- both good and bad -- that we get to navigate through. God is working in every season of our lives and we have a role to play no matter what season we are going through. We take five truths out of Ecclesiastes 3:1-13 that apply deeply to our lives. 

This week we continue the Slow Down series and turn our attention to our inner lives. Pastor Tyler talks about the idea of God's peace and how this is a strong contrast to the inner turmoil and anxiety that plagues many of our lives.  **The song that was used at the end of the sermon is Peace by Anaiah Nikole. We cut the audio from the recording so we did not infringe on copyright, but we encourag...

This week we continue our series Slow Down and focus in on John 15 where Jesus explains the concept that if we are to bear good fruit in our lives, it starts by abiding in God. 

This week we begin a new series called "Slow Down" where we talk about how to cease living in a constant state of rushing and anxiety--both internally and externally. This sermon lays the foundation for the series and covers the important concept of being Sabbath people. 

This week we continue our Wisdom series by jumping to the New Testament and discussing the Sermon on the Mount. This famous sermon by Jesus is the foundation for Christian wisdom in the New Testament. The principles that Jesus lays out for us in the sermon have influenced Christians for over 2000 years. 

This week we continue our Wisdom series with our final Old Testament book we will cover in this series: the book of Ruth. While not usually considered a "wisdom" book, this book has incredible truths to share with us today. 

This week we cover the book of Song of Songs in the Bible. This book offers God's wisdom in the areas of love and sexuality. 

This week we take a look at the book of Ecclesiastes. Although the book can seem depressing and even disturbing at times, it offers a powerful hope in the end that can affect our lives deeply if we understand it. 

This week we had a guest speaker Jake Hemmesch who is a pastor at The Waters Church in Sartell. Jake speaks a great message about being revived by God and the power of God changing our story. 

The sermon this week covers the book of Job. Job asks the question "How do God's wisdom and justice work in a world where suffering happens?" We explore the idea of what this book teaches us about God, suffering, and how to respond to it.