Riverside Community Church Sermons

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 7 April 2024.

Faith is essential to the life of following Jesus. Today Steve helps us understand what faith is, and how we can grow our faith.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 31 March 2024. Today we learn about how the resurrection of Jesus gives me access to the eternal life of God, both for today as well as for eternity.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 29 March 2024. Jesus' death isn't just something that happened 2000 years ago. Today we learn what it means to be united with Jesus in his death.

Matthew 28:1-8. Consider the joy and the surprise of the resurrection. How does the resurrection give you hope in your situation?

Matthew 27:57-61. Consider the day where it seemed as if death had won and God was silent. Where does it seem as if evil has won in your life?

Matthew 27:32-56. Consider the public humiliation of Jesus, a picture of the ugliness of our sin he bore.

Matthew 27:11-28. Consider Jesus the truly innocent one, taking the place of the guilty, and how he does that for you.

Matthew 26:69-75. Consider Peter denying Jesus and the ways we do the same with our actions.

Matthew 26:47-56. Consider Jesus betrayed by Judas and deserted by his friends. Jesus can identify with how you've experienced betrayal and desertion.

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.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 8 October 2023. One of the Spirit's roles is to enable us to worship in Spirit and truth.

Sermon given online by Craig Wilcock for Riverside Community Church, 1 October 2023.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 24 September 2023. Paul pleaded on three different occasions for God to remove the 'thorn from his flesh', and God's surprising answer is an invitation to every single one of us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 17 September 2023. Today we learn how to adopt the compassionate heart of Jesus with great faith.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 10 September 2023. In John 5 Jesus heals a man who had been lame for 38 years. As we see the story unfold and hear Jesus' explanation, we learn how the Father is still at work healing today.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 27 August. This week Craig encourages us to seek and desire to be believers who actively seek to hear the prophetic voice of God.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 20 August 2023. Moses was audacious enough to always want more of God's glory and presence. Today's encouragement is for us to adopt the same posture.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 13 August 2023. This week we look at how we can practically begin the journey into spiritual gifts, living lives empowered by God's Spirit for love and ministry.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 6 August 2023. God's plan has always been to do his work through human beings that he calls to participate in his empowered work. The main way he does this is through spiritual gifts. Today Steve looks at the What, the Why and the How of Spiritual Gifts.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 30 July 2023. This week Craig speaks about how God's Spirit is working in a transformational way within us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 23 July 2023. According to Galatians 5, the church is to be led by God's Spirit. Today Steve shares some of where God's Spirit is leading the church.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 16 July 2023. So often in the life of faith we know true things with our minds, but our hearts seem to still be unchanged by them. God's Spirit helps us move truths into the very core of our being.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 9 July 2023. The Scriptures use words of fullness to describe the life of the Spirit. Today looks at a biblical understanding of what God wants for us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 2 July 2023. Today Steve opens the Scriptures to show how all the threads in Scriptures concerning the Spirit of God converge in the person of Jesus. Jesus is the one to whom we come to receive God's Spirit.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 25 June 2023. Craig journeys through the development of God's Presence among His people, culminating in the unstoppable reality of the New Testament Church.