Riverside Community Church Sermons

Matthew 26:36-46. Consider Jesus wrestling with and then surrendering to the Father's will. Where are you struggling to surrender?

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 March 2024. The invite to follow Jesus includes the invite to be called his friend. In turn, we learn how community is where we live the friendship of Jesus out.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 17 March 2024. Community is not something we have to do, but something we get to do. By design, community is the place we experience transformation, life and love.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 10 March 2024. How we accept one another is based on how we believe Christ has accepted us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 March 2024. Today we learn that when Jesus calls us to follow him, his plan includes learning to follow him together with others who are following him. In other words, following Jesus is, by design, a groupwork exercise.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 February 2024. Jesus did not call us to be a Christian, nor did he call us to go to church. Rather, he called us to 'Follow him'. This is an invitation into a rich life of learning and transformation. This will be a year of learning what it means to take Jesus' invitation to follow him seriously.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 18 February 2024. As we begin our week of prayer and fasting we learn what it means to take on the ways of Jesus as learn from him.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 11 February 2024. Today gets to the heart of what it means to be a Christian as we are challenge around what it means to be a new creation in Christ.

Sermon given by Dr Martin Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 February 2024. He teaches about the new life available to us in Christ.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 January 2024. Today we learn about the compassionate nature of God and how his compassions for us are new every single day.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 21 January 2024. Steve kicks this series off by looking at how the New Covenant is the fulfilment of all God's promises to us through Jesus.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 14 January 2024. A practical look at a way Jesus commands us to live because of the love we receive from God.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 7 January 2024. Craig reminds us that the victory of Jesus is so complete that there is nothing that will come this year that can take away what we have in Jesus.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 31 December 2023. Craig encourages us to start the year by spending time in the Word and in prayer as we seek the Father.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 25 December 2023. In this Christmas Day message, we learn about Simeon and how he waited well to encounter the Presence of God in Christ.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 December 2023. The Shepherds were filled with great expectation when they encountered the Son of God. It is important we have our expectation set by God's story so that we too can have our expectation exceeded by the Presence of God this Christmas.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 10 December 2023. When Mary encounters God in the Christmas story, she responds with great joy, despite her challenging circumstances. Craig encourages us from God's word to adopt a posture of joy this Christmas.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 3 December 2023. Today we are encouraged by how the faithfulness of Zechariah prepared him for an supernatural encounter with God. The challenge for our own lives is to live in faithfulness as a response to the faithfulness of God.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 26 November 2023. The invitation to pray this prayer is the invitation for God to break those things in our lives which are opposed to the life he actually wants for us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 19 November 2023. When we pray this dangerous prayer we need to be willing and ready to respond to what God calls us to do.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 November 2023. If we are to be like God and be in the places God cares about, we need to trust him to break our hearts for a divine burden and passion that will move us into a kingdom purpose.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 5 November 2023. We are learning to pray dangerous prayers that are designed to take us out of our comfort zones and step out in faith. This week Craig encourages us to pray the dangerous prayer from Acts 4: "Make me bold".

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 29 October 2023. Today we start a series designed to help us pray prayers that will take us out of our comfort zone. By being willing to pray "Search Me", we are inviting God's transforming power into our hearts and lives.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 22 October 2023. We need to be willing to adjust our wineskins in order to best receive the new wine God wants to pour out among His people.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 October 2023. In this sermon, Steve shows how Jesus upgrades the reality of our family of faith and how we can better become this kind of family of faith.