Riverbluff Church Sermons

Waiting is not easy. We are an instant society; we want what we want and we want it now, but that is not always how God works. Charles Stanley says, “I believe that God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.” In this message from Pastor Guy Smith, we continue through the book of Nehemiah. We see Nehemiah praying and waiting on God’s timing to speak to the king about what the Lord has laid on hi...

Until recently, whenever I’d hear the word “BREAKTHROUGH”, I would almost always celebrate. The context for that word being used seemed to always mean something good was happening for someone I cared about! This week we continue our journey with Nehemiah. If you’ve read through his story in the book that bears his name, you know that he ultimately has a “breakthrough experience” after receiving so...

REBUILD! RESTORE! REVITALIZE! REPAIR! RECOVER! REVIVE! REFRESH! Those great words excite my heart and capture my mind. They are Gospel Words! In these days of tension, turmoil, and tragedy, I think most of us have some place in our life where we’d like to see one of those words find traction. That’s why we’re beginning a new series in the book of NEHEMIAH that we’re entitling REBUILD! The book of...

Well it is that time of year once again…BACK TO SCHOOL! I remember the start of school as a kid.  Looking back there seemed to be an annual rhythm.  Math class is a good example of that rhythm.  Seems like we’d always take the first several weeks of school and review the last few mathematic skills we learned the year before and then we’d begin adding new challenges and learning new skills. This Su...

In this era of pandemics and pandemonium, I’ve heard many people speak of how hard it is to find something good happening around us. Could it be that the good we’re looking for is waiting to be done by us? James, the half-brother of Jesus wrote these words, “ to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin. (James 4:17) I love the cadence of the KJV in that verse! Since we are a...

Though known by several names; The LORD’S SUPPER, The EUCHARIST, HOLY COMMUNION, is the one way JESUS instructed HIS disciples to remember HIS sacrifice for them. This Sunday we will bring our REFLECT series to a close and share in the Life of our LORD by coming to His Table together. -Pastor Joe Still

Are you currently walking through a challenge or facing a great struggle? Is there something you’re wrestling through and you don’t see a way out, unable to see a way around or over the obstacle in your life? Do you feel you’ve come to a dead end where your back is against the wall and you see absolutely no way out? In Exodus Chapter 14, GOD’s chosen people, the entire nation of them, find themsel...

In this message, Pastor Joe Still shares from his Sabbatical Journey into Psalm 46:10. Psalm 46:10 “BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD”  In our previous message, we began a new series entitled REFLECT.  We began the series reflecting on the Heart of God.  In this message I want to take us on the other half of that journey and explore what can happen, when in that stillness of Knowing God, we come to...

What makes you tick? What’s at the core of who you are? What drives you to do the things you do? What is your heart? These are great questions to ask ourselves to help us rightly calibrate our lives. Socrates said: To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom! If you’ve ever seen a counselor, you know that it can be difficult to describe yourself to someone else. At times, knowing the truth about ou...

On July 4th, our country celebrates 245 years of Independence as a sovereign nation.  That freedom was declared in a document crafted by the hands of men and we know it as our Declaration of Independence.  That document is considered to be one of our nation's great treasures. For those of us living in America who follow Jesus, we have an Independence that merits greater celebration than our nation...

In this message, Pastor Curt Bradford to open God’s Word. He teaches on Jeremiah 17:5-8 and share two ways God has made grace available to all of humanity.

WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? In this message, Pastor Dave Hardin explains the message of the Gospel and what its ultimate purpose is (to transform lives for the glory of God). He also shares the relationship between the gospel, our gospel identity, and our obedience.

Pastor Curt Bradford leads us in this message, as he shares how we must REMEMBER the spiritual realities that impact our present realities.

The Way of the Harvest Laborer In this message guest speaker Craig Tuck teaches from Matthew 9:35-38. You will hear practical way we can proclaim the gospel right where we live, work, and play.

How do we KNOW JESUS? In this message Pastor Guy Smith teaches from Hebrews 1:1-4. You'll be encouraged to listen to Jesus because of who He is and to follow Him in all we do.

While GOD’s Word has much to say about prayer, it speaks with much greater frequency about praise. For some, praise is thought to be primarily a component of prayer, while to others it is mostly connected to music or singing. While praise can flow in prayer or through singing, the picture the Bible paints of praise is far more immense. One of the great images of praise is described in Psalm 22. Th...

One of my favorite passages of scripture to meditate on about JESUS, is not found in one of the four Gospels, but in the second chapter of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. It is a beautiful six verse summary of the Gospel of GOD that reveals JESUS, the “King of Kings”, as the most humble servant. (Philippians 2:5-10) JESUS’ life, teaching, ministry, and sacrificial-death flowed from HIS Heart to...

Not long ago I read an article that sought to offer some solutions to the problem of over-crowded prisons. It provided the readers with lots of comparative statistics and some of the numbers were quite staggering. That same week I had been reading in Matthew chapter 18, and the thought came, “as staggering as the numbers of people incarcerated might be, it doesn’t come close to the numbers of peop...

Dr. Karl Menninger, who in the 1920’s founded the Menninger Clinics that designed many breakthrough treatments for those who battle mental illness, once stated: “Money giving is a very good criterion, in a way, of a person’s mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill.” Millennia before Dr. Menninger made his famous quote, King Solomon wrote in Proverbs 11:25 “The generous will prosper;...

FLOURISH part 10 - How the Holy Spirit Helps You Flourish - April 25, 2021 When our children were very young, somewhere between two and three, they both went through the “I do it” phase. Most kids go through it. It is a normal part of development where they assert some independence.  In those moments, they did not want our help! Though some of us never seem to break out of that “I do it” phase, he...

Psalm 92 is known as a Psalm for the Sabbath. It is a Psalm about God’s people worshipping, overcoming, and flourishing. Verses 12-15 focus on how the LORD’s Righteous Ones flourish. “The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon. They are planted in the house of the LORD; they flourish in the courts of our God.”  Psalm 92:12-13 (ESV) The first and last images given in...

A phrase that was common in our home when our kids were young was “don’t assume”! While our son Taylor was very little, (he’s now 28 and a Tech Sergeant in the USAF), when intending to use the word “assume”, he would instead say “exhume”. Truthfully, when we “assume”, we often dig up things that invite death! Making assumptions without having all the facts has often been the source of much human m...

The Friday before Easter Sunday is often called “Good Friday”. It is “good” because it is the day, over 2,000 years ago, when GOD demonstrated how truly Good and unconditionally loving HE is toward humanity. HE demonstrated this by sacrificing HIS one and only begotten SON on the Cross of Calvary. Though you and I were not there physically, the Bible says that our sin was. The Apostle Peter writes...

Our country’s ongoing obsession with the “Royal Family” of England fascinates me, especially since we fought a war over two-hundred years ago to get them off our backs! Being over two-hundred years removed from those experiences, we in America have no real life experience with Kings and Kingdom rule. I believe that lack of real-life experience, has made it difficult for us to embrace Jesus’ teachi...

Like many of you, I grew up hearing the phrase “practice makes perfect”! Over the course of my life, I’ve invested much time “practicing” several different pursuits, and as of yet, I’ve not become “perfect” at any of them. Have I gotten better at many of them? Sure I have! Along the way I’ve learned that pursuing perfection is not the best use of our time, because according to the Word of GOD, onl...