Riverbend Youth

This episode concludes our 3 week series titled "Thief of Everything." God made you on purpose for a purpose. Let's discover together who God made you to be! BOTTOM LINE: Choose to see yourself the way God does. GOAL: To help students discover the way God sees them and to point them toward taking steps to see themselves in a similar way. SCRIPTCH: Romans 12:2 NLT, Romans 12:6 MSG

This episode continues week 2 of our 3 week series titled "Thief of Everything." How do we win over the thief of everything? Join us as we discuss the cure to comparison! BOTTOM LINE: Celebrating is better than comparing GOAL: To help students choose celebration over comparison and to encourage them to find ways to celebrate themselves and others. SCRIPTCH: 1 Samuel 18:5-7,9 NIV, Proverb...

This episode begins our new series, titled "Thief of Everything." Listen along as we discuss comparison from a faith-based perspective. BOTTOM LINE: God doesn't compare you to others. GOAL: To encourage students to trade comparison for a focus on who God made them to be. SCRIPTCH: 2 Corinthians 10:12 NLT, 2 Corinthians 10:18 NLT, Proverbs 4:23 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: A Party Starter Uses what they Have for the Good of Others GOAL: To help students discover the ways they can meet the needs of the people around them and to encourage them to take steps to do that this week. SCRIPTCH: “Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him” (Luke 10:33 NLT)

BOTTOM LINE: : A party starter walks with other people in their pain. GOAL: To encourage students to practice empathy and show up for others who are struggling. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 1:23 NLT

BOTTOM LINE: A party starter does more than what is asked of them. GOAL: To encourage students to be the kind of people who do more than the minimum to meet the needs they see around them. SCRIPTCH: “God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8 NIV). “If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles” (Matthew 5:41 NIV).

BOTTOM LINE: You have what it takes to be a party starter GOAL: To show students what it means to live the full life Jesus came to give us and to encourage them to see they can start living that life right now. SCRIPTCH: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” (John 10:10 NIV).

In this stand-alone message, Pastor Reyn shares a personal message from some Scriptures that have impacted his life, in hopes they will encourage YOU :)

BOTTOM LINE: Boundaries are Good and Boundaries are Powerful GOAL: Being able to articulate what makes a good boundary, what makes a weak boundary, how you know if you have a boundary, and how do you know where to put one and not to put one. SCRIPTCH: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 & 10:13, "13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let y...

INSTAGRAM || YouTube BOTTOM LINE: Confession is good and confession is powerful. GOAL: To encourage students toward opening up and asking for help, and to guide them in defining the criteria they have for determining who a safe person to confess to might be. SCRIPTCH: "This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim...

BOTTOM LINE: Technology is Good and Technology is Powerful GOAL: For students to be able to define what sexual integrity looks like for them as they engage with technology and to identify at what point along the way they need to “flee” in a different direction. SCRIPTCH: 1 Corinthians 6:18-20 NIV Instagram: http://instagram.com/rbyouth/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rbyouth9120

BOTTOM LINE: Sex is good and sex is powerful. GOAL: To help students make decisions with sexual integrity as the goal. SCRIPTCH: Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” So God created human beings in his...

BOTTOM LINE: YOUnity GOAL: To encourage students to see that unity is something they can proactively be a part of creating and pursuing in the world around them. SCRIPTCH: John 17:20-23 NIV

In this new series called, "Before I Go," we'll look at some of the things Jesus said before He died. We begin with a new look at Communion. BOTTOM LINE: REMEMBERING Reminds Us Of What Jesus Has Done, Is Doing, And Will Continue To Do GOAL: To encourage students to build the muscle of remembering and to encourage them to practice that skill in order to remember what Jesus has done an...

Rodnei Williams brings an encouraging message, rooted in the book of Judges, about how God can use unlikely people to accomplish great things. BOTTOM LINE: God can use you even when you feel disqualified GOAL: To remind students that they are worthy SCRIPTCH: Judges 3:12-30

BOTTOM LINE: See people the way God sees people. GOAL: To help students take a step toward those who are different than they are and to encourage them to approach all people in their lives with the love of God. SCRIPTCH: John 4:7-9 NIV

BOTTOM LINE: Let GOD determine your view of you. GOAL: To point students toward finding their value in God and to encourage them to love themselves the way God loves them. SCRIPTCH: Luke 15:1-7 NIV YouTube  \\   Instagram

BOTTOM LINE: Knowing Jesus = Knowing GOD GOAL:  To encourage students to take a step toward loving God by getting to know Jesus and following His example in their lives. SCRIPTCH: John 14:9 NIV; 1 John 5:3 NIV Instagram   YouTube

New Series Alert! + A corresponding daily devotional (Se below for details:) BOTTOM LINE: Keep faith simple. GOAL: To help students focus their faith on what Jesus says matters most: loving God, loving others, and loving themselves. SCRIPTURE: Matthew 22:36-40 NIV To read the daily devotionals that go along with this series, download the YouVersion Bible app on iOS or Android, or visit Bible.com ....

We ended last Sunday on a cliffhanger, with the prophets proclaiming one day Heaven & Earth will be forever united. We learned that in the Bible Heaven & Earth are not always separate spaces, and can overlap in the same exact space; called a Temple. This Sunday our focus will shift to the New Testament and the good news which was proclaimed in Mark 1:15 "The time is fulfilled! God's kingdo...

Our very own Marc Lynch kicks off a new 2-part mini-series on the Biblical significance of a Temple. The overall style of this 2-week mini-series will be different than what we've historically been used to. The focus is more educational, with the goal of re-shaping the mental model most of us have of the function of the Jewish Temple. BOTTOM LINE: Reshape the cartoonish ideas we have of Heaven and...

BOTTOM LINE: You weren't meant to be the one who keeps it all together. GOAL: To point students toward shifting their focus to Jesus this Christmas. SCRIPTCH: Matthew 2:1-3, 8 NIV & Philippians 2:5b-7 NRSV Follow Us on IG :)

BOTTOM LINE: You're not alone when life gets messy. GOAL: To encourage students to find joy in God’s presence with them this Christmas no matter what their holiday season looks like. SCRIPTCH: Luke 2:6-14, 16-20 NIV Follow Us On IG

This week at RBYouth, we take a different look at the story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32), and discover that we are loved by our Heavenly Father more than we could possibly imagine Follow us on IG!

A message from Nehemiah 1:4-11 Follow us on IG!