River Hills Church

Doing As Jesus Did

How Jesus interacted with and treated people in a very tense and divided time can teach us a great deal about how engage culture in our own day with truth and love.

Becoming Like Jesus

We are all being formed by something. Spiritual formation in the Way of Jesus is the process of being formed into people of love in Christ.

Being With Jesus

What gets our attention shapes us. The baseline of the life of an apprentice is spending time with the Master.

Apprentice To Jesus

Transformation is possible if we are willing to arrange our lives around the practices, rhythms, and truths that Jesus himself did, which will open our lives to God’s power to change. Scripture Referenced: Matthew 4:18-22; 11:28-30; 16:24 John 10:10; 14:6; Acts 9:2, 19:23; 24:14

Self-Control in an Age of Self-Expression

Living by the Spirit enables you to choose the important thing over the urgent by dying to self.

Gentleness in an Age of Rage

Living by the Spirit enables you to rightly steward strength for love.

Faithfulness in an Age of Infidelity

Living by the Spirit enables you to be principle-driven, committed, utterly reliable and true to your word.

Goodness in an Age of Brokenness

Kindness in an Age of Indifference

Living by the Spirit enables you to practice kindness with vulnerability out of a deep inner security.

Joy in an Age of Despair

Living by the Spirit enables you to delight in God and his salvation for the sheer beauty and worth of who he is.

Peace in an Age of Anxiety

Living by the Spirit enables you to have confidence in God and rest in His sovereignty and wisdom more than your own.

Patience in an Age of Hurry

Living by the Spirit enables you to face trouble without losing the other fruits of the Spirit.

Love in an Age of Selfishness

Living by the Spirit enables you to love a person for their intrinsic value, not for how they benefit you.

Not Alone: In Our Grief

It’s ok to grieve, to struggle, to feel loss. Jesus joins us in our grief and offers help, hope and healing in the midst of it.

Not Alone: In The Cave

No one is immune from mental and emotional struggles, but God cares and is with us in the valleys and wants to restore us back to wholeness.

Not Alone: In The Chaos

Busyness sabotages our relationships with God and others, causing stress and anxiety. The answer is to slow down and make room for the things that matter most.

Compassion Sunday

Activate: Fan Into Flame

Activate: Serve One Another In Love

All spiritual gifts are given for the common good in order to build up the body of Christ and serve together as his hands and feet in our communities.

Activate: Gifted and Called

Everyone who is in Christ has been given spiritual gifts and is called to impact those around them through loving, joyful, gift-based service.

Greater Than: A Greater Vision

When we keep our eyes on Jesus and stay connected to his people and purpose, it enables us to persevere in faith through whatever trials may come our way.

Greater Than: A Greater Righteousness

Christ reveals to us that the way to a right relationship with God is trust, not performance.

Greater Than: A Greater Sacrifice

When Christ willingly laid down his life for us, he comprehensively and permanently restored our relational access to God.

Greater Than: A Greater Covenant

The new covenant is greater because it is fully dependent on the faithfulness of Christ, not us, and it is written on hearts, not tablets of stone.

Greater Than: A Greater Priest (Mediator)

Jesus is the only bridge to God we need. He is not a cold and distant deity but an understanding and intimate friend.

Greater Than: A Greater Revelation

Christ is the full and final revelation of God to us. If you want to know what God is like, look at him. If you want to experience God’s presence and power, look to him.

How to Pray: Deliver Us

We have a spiritual enemy who seeks to steal, kill and destroy us, but God is able to deliver us and lead us to a life of freedom and victory.

How to Pray: Yours Is...

God’s kingdom, power, and glory belong to him alone and will come to pass according to his timing, not ours.

How to Pray: Forgive us

Unforgiveness prevents us from receiving God’s forgiveness. God’s forgiveness enables us to forgive others.

How to Pray: Kingdom Come

God invites us to join with him in both prayer and action to redeem the brokenness and injustice of earth and bring it into alignment with the truth, beauty, goodness of heaven.