River Park Church Sermons

August 14, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | 1 Timothy 1:12-20 | When we pause and take time to reflect on ourselves as we truly are, we begin to gain a deeper appreciation for God's love for us. We see our strengths and abilities and celebrate God's gifts to us more fully. We also see our weaknesses and our pain, and celebrate God's grace to us and his love for us more fully. As we look at ourselve...

August 7, 2022 | Pastor Harrison Cho | Colossians 3:1-15

July 31, 2022 | Pastor Harrison Cho | Hebrews 4:9-11

July 24 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | John 14:22-27 | In this introduction to a series on "Rest for the Rest of Us", we're looking at a Biblical picture of rest, why we don't normally rest, and why rest is so important.

If you give your life to God… 1. You will be humbled (see yourself as you truly are!) 2. You will experience amazing grace! (receive far more than you deserve) 3. You will begin to want what God wants MORE than what you want (love what God loves, hate what God hates…) 4. You will continue to grow!

July 03,2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Romans 12:9-21 | This week’s question from RPC Youth is about the problem of evil in our world: God seems to prioritize free will (“You can do whatever you like!”) But this is also part of why bad things still happen. Why does God do it this way—and how should Christians respond?

June 19, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange

June 12, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange |

June 05, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Ephesians 4:7-24 | Spirit-filled faith is about complete transformation: becoming “in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is, Christ”. Any area where you are not relying on God’s strength rather than your own, that is sin. Not sin primarily as wrongdoing; but sin as separation from God (cf. May 15). We cannot follow God in our own str...

May 29, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Luke 24:44-53 | Christians are first witnesses to who Jesus is and what he has done in our lives. We are not about changing other people or convincing other people. We are simply witnesses! (cf. Myron Penner “End of Apologetics”)

May 22, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Luke 23:32-43 | The question, “Who is Jesus” has captivated people ever since he lived. But each of us see Jesus in different ways because we are distinct individuals. Jesus gathered people around him by loving them and challenging them. He invites all he loves to join him in paradise—eternally and presently. How are we receiving Christ’s love? How are we re...

May 15, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Ephesians 2:11-22 | Sin is a biblical category about separation from God. We cannot be transformed by God when we are apart from him. WE cannot be transformed by God individually or (only) as individuals. Transformation (Sanctification), where we become more like God, is a relationship practice, not an intellectual argument. Shallow relationships will transf...

April 3, 2022 | Resonate missionary Gary T

May 08, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | John 19:25-27 | Johnny Cash’s song “When the Man Comes Around” mistakes Jesus’ words in this text; betraying a macho version of Christianity that has too often been afraid of feminism and femininity. Jesus surrounded himself with women and men; not as a harem, but as a family. Jesus shows us what the love of a mother is for children; what the care of a mothe...

May 01,2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Elected from the Beginning | The Reformed Doctrine of Election is not first about our position ; but about our role. God has predestined us in love to join him in his good purposes—both now and forever. But he has definitely elected us to join him now ! Transformation is about stepping out of our old selves and our own strength and stepping into our God-given...

April 24, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Luke 24:13-35 | God does not reveal his whole self to us; God does not love us because he needs us for some purpose or to complete himself. God’s love is fully devoted to the other—attending to our needs, meeting us where we are, inviting us further into relationship with him. This is our example to follow. The very act of following God’s example is transf...

April 17, 2022 | Pastor Adrian de Lange | Luke 24:1-12 | This Sunday, we join the church around the world in celebrating our Risen Lord and we look eagerly for his transforming work in our hearts, in our community, and in our world

April 14, 2022 Pastor Adrian de Lange : Lamentations 2:15-17; Mark 15:21-39

Pastor Adrian de Lange Lamentations 5:11-22 April 10, 2022

Pastor Adrian de Lange March 27, 2022 Lamentations 4:1-17 This chapter better helps us to see God’s value system. God doesn’t respect what we respect; his ways are not our ways. But Lamentation necessitates us to struggle and find liberation in honesty before God: we fall short and we will continue to do so; thus we can never hope in ourselves: we hope only in God’s restoration and his righteousne...

March 20, 2022 Pastor Adrian de Lange Lamentations 3: 19-33 The justice of God move us from third-person speech ("racism is a problem") to first-person repentance ("how can I live differently?"); from the abstract to the personal.

Pastor Adrian de Lange March 11, 2022 Lamentations 3:19-42 The book of Lamentations comes to a climax in chapter 3, with an acrostic poem, which brings order to the chaos that the words of ch. 3 express. “Lament presents the possibility of an order ordained by God in the midst of a broken reality”. Jeremiah’s personal experience of suffering reflects takes sin and suffering from the abstract to th...

March 06, 2022 Pastor de Lange Lamentations 1:1-11 Our community is growing in our need for and value of lament. We have moved from a “celebration” culture (where most our lives are in a good place) to a reality in which it is difficult for us to rejoice. Yet in pain, God desires to bring us together—close to one another and closer to himself. We cannot return to our old ways, we cannot find simpl...

Sunday, February 27, 2022. Pastor de Lange. 1 Thessalonians 5:8-24 Scripture consistently pictures Satan as the accuser of God’s people. When we gossip and accuse one another, we do the devil’s work for him and tear down the body of Christ. Instead, we should “encourage one another and build each other up!” (1 Thess 5:11). This is what scripture calls edification: seeing the good and saying the go...

February 20,2022 Pastor Adrian de Lange Luke 18:18-30; Luke 19:1-10 Imagine the conflict if the rich young ruler and Zacchaeus joined the same church! The first wants to hold onto what he has and follow Jesus; the second gives up everything. Do we love the dream of community (as the rich young ruler) or its reality (as Zacchaeus)?