The Rim Church

This week's message from Hosea 5–6 reminds us that God's discipline is an expression of His love, meant to draw us back to Him rather than push us away. While we often look to temporary comforts to ease our pain, only God can truly heal and restore our hearts. Through the gospel, we see that His discipline isn't meant to destroy us but to transform us, leading us from brokenness to new...

Luke 15 reminds us that the parable of the lost son is really about two lost sons and one loving Father. The younger son was lost through rebellion, while the older son was lost through pride and religious performance. Both were far from the Father's heart, yet the Father pursued them with grace, showing that God's love isn't earned by good behavior or lost through failure. The gospel...

God’s desire is not only to forgive His people, but to restore them to a deep and intimate relationship with Himself. Through the picture of a faithful husband pursuing an unfaithful wife, we see God’s relentless love calling us back to wholehearted devotion, surrendering the idols that compete for our hearts and responding to His grace with worship and trust.

Hosea 2 reveals that our sin is more than breaking rules—it wounds the heart of a God who desires an intimate relationship with His people. Yet even in our unfaithfulness, God's compassion and faithfulness remain steadfast, as His ultimate goal is not condemnation but restoration and salvation through Jesus, our greater Hosea.

In Hosea 1, we see God use the prophet’s marriage and children to show how His people had turned away from Him, reminding us that success and comfort don’t always mean we’re close to God. Even in the middle of Israel’s unfaithfulness, God promises restoration through Jesus, showing that His warnings are meant to draw us back to Him, not push us away.

The gift of speaking in tongues is a pathway to deeper intimacy with God, revealing it not as a source of confusion or division, but as a Spirit-given language for prayer, praise, intercession, and personal strengthening. Through passages like 1 Corinthians 14 and Acts 2, we see how tongues can operate missionally, corporately, and personally—ultimately inviting believers to pursue the fullness of...

Even in His final moments on the cross, Jesus paused to see, honor, and provide for His mother, revealing the deep personal care He extends to each of us today. Through Mary’s journey of surrender and faithfulness, we’re reminded to honor the mothers and spiritual mothers in our lives by truly seeing them, valuing them, and recognizing them as image-bearers of God.

In this teaching, we explore how healings and miracles—from the signs and wonders of the Old Testament to the miracles of the New Testament and the gifts of the Holy Spirit—point beyond themselves to something greater. They are signposts of the Kingdom of God, giving us a glimpse today of what will one day be fully revealed.

What if God still speaks today—not distantly, but personally—and invites us to hear His voice for the sake of others? In this episode, we explore 1 Corinthians 14 and the gift of prophecy as a Spirit-led practice meant to strengthen, encourage, and comfort, challenging us to listen, test, and boldly share what God may be saying to build up His people.

Jesus teaches in John 16 that it’s actually better for Him to leave so the Holy Spirit can dwell within us, empowering us to live the Christian life from the inside out rather than through our own effort. The Spirit convicts, guides, and reveals Jesus to us, inviting us into a daily relationship where transformation comes not from striving, but from His presence within.

We are invited to move beyond confusion about the Holy Spirit to discover Him as a personal, divine friend—not a force to control, but someone to walk with daily—transforming how we relate to God and experience true intimacy with Him. Rooted in Acts 1:1–8, we explore His person, promise, and power, reminding us that He holds us securely, empowers us to be witnesses, and invites us into an ongoing,...

The resurrection in Matthew 28 isn’t just ancient history—it’s a living invitation to “come and see,” where Mary Magdalene and the other Mary show us that God meets ordinary, broken people in their grief and transforms them through an encounter with the risen Jesus. But this invitation always leads to a calling—when we truly encounter Christ, we’re changed and sent to “go and tell,” carrying both...

We are invited to move beyond cultural cynicism and rediscover authentic celebration of God, drawing from Palm Sunday to show how rhythms of worship and remembered testimonies—like the resurrection of Lazarus—fuel genuine, heartfelt response. Rather than manufactured emotion, we’re called to fight forgetfulness and respond honestly to God’s ongoing work in our lives with gratitude, expression, and...

This message invites us into the uncomfortable yet freeing practice of confession—not just admitting what we’ve done, but honestly naming what’s happening inside us and bringing it into the light before God and others. As we resist the temptation to minimize, deny, or redefine sin, we discover that Jesus is our advocate and that true healing comes through honest confession within a community marke...

This sermon explores what it means to be human in an age of AI, tracing the story from Genesis to the Tower of Babel to show our ongoing temptation to replace dependence on God with self-made solutions. It reminds us that true formation comes not through information or artificial companionship, but through intimacy with the Holy Spirit—embracing the tension of waiting, praying, and trusting as we...

This message asks a piercing question: if we stop accomplishing things, are we still valuable? Walking through Mark 2:23–28 and the rhythm of creation in Genesis, it reminds us that God designed us to work from rest, not for rest, and that true Sabbath invites us to trust Jesus’ finished work rather than striving to prove our worth.

Jesus’ 40 days in the wilderness in Matthew 4 reveal that the desert is not a place of abandonment but a space of transformation, where distractions fall away and we learn to hear God’s voice more clearly. In seasons of solitude, loss, or Lent, the wilderness invites us to stop numbing our loneliness and instead discover that our deepest hunger is ultimately a thirst for God’s presence.

Matthew 25’s parable of the ten virgins teaches that faithful waiting for Christ means cultivating a personal life of prayer that cannot be borrowed or sustained by others. Through the example of Jesus in Gethsemane, we are invited into persevering, surrendered prayer that forms our hearts, keeps our spiritual lamps burning, and prepares us to remain faithful even in the long wait.

Mark 9 reveals the paradox of faith and doubt living side by side in the human heart, captured in the desperate father’s prayer, “I believe; help my unbelief.” The passage reminds us that spiritual power does not come from past success or self-reliance, but from humble, ongoing dependence on God through prayer.

This message invites us to enter Lent as a meaningful and intentional season—not merely a religious obligation—following Jesus, who after His baptism was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, succeeding where Israel failed and securing a victory we now share through our new identity in Him. During these forty days, Lent becomes an opportunity to turn from distraction toward deeper communion with...

This exploration of Titus 3 reveals that salvation isn’t just a past moment, but an ongoing work of healing, restoring, and making us whole—freeing us from sin’s penalty, power, and ultimately its presence. As children of God who are still becoming heirs, we’re invited to leave behind orphan ways of living and lean into the Father’s transforming love through the shaping work of the Holy Spirit.

This message from Titus 2 confronts the dangerous gap between what we claim to believe and how we actually live, reminding us that when our lives don’t reflect Jesus, we misrepresent God to the world. Yet the hope is this: we don’t change through willpower, but by first receiving God’s grace, which empowers us through the Holy Spirit to live transformed lives that make our faith believable.

We are challenged to confront the gap between what we say we believe and how we actually live, reminding us that real faith is formed through firsthand encounter with Jesus, not just consuming Christian content. The good news is that Jesus meets us in that gap and, by His grace and Spirit, empowers us to move from spectators to participants whose lives reflect the gospel we profess.

Worship isn’t something we start—it’s something we step into. Drawing from Revelation 4, this message invites us to see Sunday gatherings as joining the nonstop worship already happening in heaven, where our response flows not from performance, but from seeing Jesus clearly and entering God’s presence through the finished work of Christ.

As we step into a new year, this message from Genesis 22 asks a simple but powerful question: what do you really worship, and what do your everyday choices show you trust most? Through the story of Abraham and Isaac—and how it points to Jesus—we see that worship isn’t just about singing, but about choosing trust over control and discovering that God Himself is the greatest gift.