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Riverbluff Church SermonsEssentials We Believe - What a Friend We Have in Jesus - JUNE 15, 2025Dads, it is not too late to tell your family that what you want for FATHER’S DAY is for them to come to church with you!
This Sunday we get to celebrate dads at Riverbluff. We’ll have several from our church family sharing some of their heart-felt thoughts about their dads and husbands.
We will also continue in our ESSENTIALS WE BELIEVE teaching series. This Sunday, we turn our attention to what we believe about JESUS. I am so grateful, that on FATHER’S DAY we’ve landed here in our study, because no one was ever more lovingly...2025-06-1856 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsEssentials We Believe - Jesus Shows The Advantages Of The Holy Spirit - JUNE 8, 2025If my math is correct, there are 201 more shopping days until Christmas!!
Did that statement surprise you? Are you wondering, “Why on earth is Pastor Joe bringing Christmas up in June?” I think most of us would agree, that for the world, Christmas is the most celebrated of the Christian Holy Days, with Easter coming in second. For many Christ-followers in the “Western World”, those are often the only two Christian Holy Days we celebrate.
In the last 5 or so years, through my study of God’s Word, I’ve had a growing a conviction that JESUS would have His disciples add a...2025-06-111h 01Riverbluff Church SermonsEssentials We Believe - Eternal Security - May 25, 2025We continue this Sunday with our series on Essential Beliefs. This week we will be focusing on Eternal Security. I have a friend who retired from pastoring, and he often says that one of the enemy's biggest schemes is to steal the joy of Christians.
Have you ever had thoughts like: Am I really saved? Did I follow the right steps to gain salvation? How can I go to heaven after what I've done? If you have been robbed of your joy and peace of mind, then this week's message is for you!
I’m praying that you’ll make plans now...2025-05-2933 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsWhen Death Was Arrested - Easter Sunday - April 20, 2025While Riverbluff’s “Weekly Update” arrives in your inbox every Friday, this one comes on what is the most sacred Friday of the year. It 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 that Jesus personally carried our sin in His body on the cross so t...2025-04-2357 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsWhat Jesus Said in Red: About Love - March 30, 2025This Sunday, as we continue in our teaching series, “WHAT JESUS SAID IN RED”, we examine the third of the seven, recorded statements, Jesus made while dying on the Cross. This statement, found in John 19:25-27, is a very personal statement of love Jesus makes directly to his mother and one of his very best friends.
Jesus endured incredible pain as his organs began shutting down. Even in the midst of that great suffering, Jesus lovingly provides for the long-term care of his mother. Only by using the stake driven through his feet as a cruel step, could Jesus gain every...2025-04-0159 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsWhen God's People... Do Life Together - March 2, 2025This Sunday, as we open ourselves up to God’s Word together in worship, I’m excited to say that Dr. Curt Bradford will be leading us!
For those of you who are newer to Riverbluff, Curt was Lead Pastor at Riverbluff from 1988-2014. He has also been personally mentoring me since 1981. The LORD has multiplied Curt’s mentoring ministry, as he now mentors pastors all around our state. He is currently serving as Point Leader for the Steward Team of the Charleston Baptist Association. I hope you’ll join me in joyfully welcoming Curt back to his teaching role with us...2025-03-0452 minRiverbluff Church SermonsWhen God's People... Give Faithfully and Obediently - February 23, 2025It only takes a few moments with any news source to realize that evil is active in our world today. But, as bad as things are, the Bible says that there is “restraining power” at work, holding back the full measure of evil that could be released on earth. The Apostle Paul wrote to his friends in the church at Thessalonica about this:
“I expect you remember now how I talked about this when I was with you. You will probably also remember how I used to talk about a ‘restraining power’ which would operate until the time should come for the eme...2025-02-2556 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCelebrating the Goodness of God (full length) - October 6, 2024GOD’ Word is replete with accounts of GOD’s people marking HIS goodness with great celebrations and construction of memorial markers! This message will be such a celebration and it will become part of our “Memorial Wall to GOD’s Goodness” in our main hallway. We have so much to celebrate - our 82nd anniversary of GOD planting our church, the provision of a new home and new name 22 years ago, and now the “Burning of our Mortgage” on this property, just to name a few! So you’ll definitely want to be part of this historic celebratory day in the life of Rive...2024-10-091h 33
Riverbluff Church SermonsPentecost - Let the HOLY SPIRIT be Your WORSHIP LEADER - September 15, 2024Pentecost - Let the HOLY SPIRIT be Your WORSHIP LEADER - September 15, 2024 by Riverbluff Church2024-09-1857 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsPastor's Picks part 14: The Lifestyle Prayer - October 22, 2023In my 35 years of serving on staff here at Riverbluff, our LORD has continuously amazed me with the incredible ministry opportunities HE bring to us. One of those amazing opportunities is our partnership with Pastor Brian Miller, his wife Katherine, and the Kingdom work GOD has given them in Medellin, Colombia. Their work of saving babies by rescuing single moms from homelessness through ESTHER’S HOME, is a wonderful Christ-Centered ministry.
We’ve had the privilege of sending teams to serve there and several from Riverbluff run a distribution of BEBE’ BEANS COFFEE right here out of our church. All procee...2023-10-3138 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsBut God - September 3, 2023In this message, guest speaker Pastor Daniel Norman teaches from the books of Ephesians and 1 Timothy. Daniel shares his personal testimony and journey with God. Daniel came up through Midland Park and Riverbluff. He has served for many years in local churches as worship leader. Daniel plans to serve as Community Pastor and Worship Pastor at Kingdom Church, a new church plant, beginning in January 2024.2023-09-0639 min
The Cole Memo#328 - DJ, Ali, and Josh from Riverbluff Collective - Chillinois PodcastIn this episode, I sit down with DJ, Ali, and Josh from Riverbluff Cannabis and Riverbluff Collective. DJ, Ali, and Josh work together to run cannabis and hemp businesses in the state of Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin. Watch the video version here: https://youtu.be/uLKo9wdFw0g2023-09-021h 06
Riverbluff Church SermonsPastor’s Picks part 7: A Fully Devoted People Called Riverbluff - August 6, 2023In this message, Pastor Curt Bradford teaches from 1 Kings 8 on how to stay wholly devoted to the LORD and one another.2023-08-0945 minRiverbluff Church SermonsPastor’s Picks part 1: When JESUS Turns the Tables - June 25, 2023"Pastor’s Picks part 1: When JESUS Turns the Tables"
Welcome to summer at the River!
Starting Sunday, June 25, and running through the month of July, we are beginning a new Sermon Series entitled PASTOR’S PICKS. Each week, Pastor Dean and I will pick one of our favorite Bible stories or Bible passages to share with you. I think it’s going to be a great six weeks; but it won’t be the same without you!
Consider this your special invitation to join us Sundays at 9:30 or 11AM, or watch our livestream at 11AM on riverbluff.live, as we explore...2023-06-2857 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsJUNE 26, 2022 Riverbluff Church PODCASTIt’s been an incredible week at Riverbluff’s 2022 VBS! GOD has done some amazing things in the lives of many children, teens, and even the ministry partners!
This week’s theme verse for VBS is Ephesians 2:10. The entire week was all about how GOD, the Master Artist, is working to redeem, reclaim, and transform us, His creation, to the original design He planned for us. We are HIS “Masterpiece” in Christ Jesus!
Disastrously, there is a great soul destroying scheme that the ancient enemy of the LORD has deployed. It sets out to deface and deform GOD’s great work in us...2022-06-2752 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsREBUILD part 17: Encounters Call for Covenants - JANUARY 30, 2022In his book COVENANT & KINGDOM, Mike Breen describes these two themes as the “genetic code—the ‘double helix’ of DNA running through the Bible”. I believe he is right. These two themes can be found woven in the whole of GOD’s Word.
While some may describe “Covenant” and “Kingdom” as “theological words”, their more common counterparts are “Relationship” and “Responsibility. “Covenant” A.K.A. “Relationship” is our guide on how to abide in GOD; while “Kingdom” A.K.A. “Responsibility” is all about our service to GOD.
In this message, Pastor Joe Still leads us in our journey through the book of Nehemiah we’ll see the critical ro...2022-01-3156 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas 2021 part 1 – ADVENT: HOW TO WAIT WITH HOPE UNTIL HE RETURNS - November 28, 2021I’ve heard it said that if Christ-Followers are to thrive in this life we must know we are simultaneously living in the “already and not yet”. Sounds confusing I know, but that’s why we at Riverbluff celebrate ADVENT!
ADVENT is simultaneously a journey into the past and into the future of our Christian Hope. Through it we celebrate two great truths of our faith. First: “GOD was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself…” (2 Corinthians 5:19) Second: Jesus said: “Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me…” (Revelation 22:12) (NLT2)
This Sunday marks the first day of a spiritual journey th...2021-11-2955 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsREBUILD part 12 - November 7, 2021REBUILD part 12 - November 7, 2021 by Riverbluff Church2021-11-1649 minRiverbluff Church SermonsREBUILD part 10: Make Disciples - October 24, 2021The last words Jesus delivered to His followers, as recorded by the Gospel writer Matthew, were a great command followed by an even greater promise. That great promise was, “And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:20 (NLT2). Jesus’ Presence with us is what give us power to carry out Jesus’ great command to “Make Disciples”.
For the past 79 years, Jesus has faithfully blessed Riverbluff Church with His Presence, leading us into opportunity after opportunity to join Him in Making Disciples. This Sunday we celebrate one of those great opportunities to once agai...2021-10-2646 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsREFLECT part 1: Reflecting on the Heart of God - July 11, 2021What 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 ourselves can be challenging.
Though HE has many attributes, GOD has no difficulty knowing and describing who HE is at the core of HIS Bein...2021-07-1251 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsFlourish - part 1 - Our Father's Hand in our Flourishing - February 21, 2021Flourish - part 1 - Our Father's Hand in our Flourishing
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FLOURISH! That is such a great word that is filled with hope.
Everyone that I know, in some way, longs for a life that flourishes. If we have children and grandchildren, we have great hope that life for them will flourish. At Riverbluff we often pray for human flourishing in our city.
No one takes greater delight in our flourishing than GOD our FATHER! In fact, HIS plan for our lives has flourishing as its great aim. HE has a great growth plan for our flourishing that HE oversees directly and...2021-02-2255 minRiverbluff Church SermonsChristmas. HIS Coming... Raised Satan's Rage. part 6 - December 27, 2020Christmas. HIS Coming... Raised Satan's Rage. part 6 - December 27, 2020 by Riverbluff Church2020-12-291h 01Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas. His Coming... Is Our Hope - November 29, 2020ADVENT is simultaneously a journey into the past and into the future of our Christian Hope. Through it we celebrate a truth about GOD, “For GOD was in Christ, reconciling the world to Himself…” (2 Corinthians 5:19)
The word ADVENT means “coming” or “arrival” and central to our faith is the “double-Advent” of Jesus. His First Advent occurred in a stable in Bethlehem and His Second Advent could occur at any time. This double focus on past and future prepares us to celebrate the birth of Jesus, while filling our hearts with eager anticipation of the return of Christ as King, coming back to rule and r...2020-12-0155 minRiverbluff Church SermonsA Day to Give Him Thanks - November 22, 2020A Day to Give Him Thanks
November 22, 2020
We are filled with gratitude for all that GOD has done on our 40 DAYS OF PRAYER Journey!
I’ve had many conversations with so many in our River-family who have given testimony that ABBA-FATHER has truly begun a good work in their lives and that they are communing with HIM in prayer in new and fresh ways. Even in this “unprecedented” year of 2020 we have so much for which we can be thankful!
In this services, Pastor Joe Still will lead us to take time to express our thanks to GOD for the great...2020-11-2455 minRiverbluff Church Sermons40 Days of Prayer - Part 5: PRAYING MISSIONALLY - November 1, 202040 Days of Prayer - Part 5: PRAYING MISSIONALLY
November 1, 2020
As Jesus taught His disciples to pray, one of the things he told them was to pray, “Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven…”.
The overall story of the Bible shows that from before creation God has always had a plan to put the world right and receive the glory that He so wonderfully deserves by re-establishing His kingdom through His One-and-only Son, Jesus Christ. Throughout Scripture we also see that God has always been creating a people to whom He would reveal His glory and th...2020-11-0247 minRiverbluff Church SermonsLife Beyond Belief - September 6, 2020Life Beyond Belief - September 6, 2020
In this teaching by Pastor Joe Still, we will study an interesting passage from 2 Kings 13
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Sheltering... Where? Part 5: How to Shelter in God's Revelation
In this message Pastor Joe Still closes out our journey of learning from Job how to SHELTER IN THE LORD. Like you, I pray we never again face a “Shelter in Place” order; but if we do, I pray we’ve all grown in the knowledge that GOD our FATHER is the only sure and certain shelter in whom we can place our trust.
This week we watch as GOD Himself speaks directly to JOB. GOD answers Job’s questions and accusations with a flurry of questions of His own. GOD’s qu...2020-09-0250 minRiverbluff Church SermonsSheltering… Where? Part 3: Struggling While ShelteringMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-08-2747 minRiverbluff Church SermonsSheltering... Where? Part 4: Finding the Perfect ShelterSheltering... Where? Part 4: Finding the Perfect Shelter
August 23, 2020
In the fourth message in the series, "Sheltering... Where?" Pastor Joe Still continue our journey with Job and we see where he found the Perfect Shelter for all times! We'll be reading from Job 19.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-08-2455 minRiverbluff Church SermonsSheltering... Where? Part 2: How We "Get Back Up"In this message, we continue our journey with Job, learning how to Shelter in the LORD. Jesus told His followers "Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows..." John 16:33 (NLT2). In this season of global pandemic and national unrest we are all experiencing the truth of our LORD's prophetic Words. These earthly "trials and sorrows" are at times so overwhelming that it feels like we've been knocked down by them.
This week we'll examine how Job "gets up" after being knocked down by a string of overwhelming tragedies that left him down but not out! We'll learn from...2020-08-1448 minRiverbluff Church SermonsSheltering... Where? Part 1: How to Find a Strong ShelterSHELTER...WHERE? Part 1: HOW TO FIND A STRONG SHELTER
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August 2, 2020
As we move through what feels like "storm" after storm, I want to lead us to examine the life of a man of faith, who endured multiple, simultaneous "storms". This man's name was Job. Though he endured waves of calamity I pray none of us will ever know, we can learn from Job how to find a true and certain Shelter from the storms of life we will encounter.
We'll walk with Job as he asked some of life's most difficult questions in his struggle to find Shelter...2020-08-0259 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsUNDIVIDED, Part 3: WALK HUMBLYJuly 26, 2020
UNDIVIDED, Part 3: WALK HUMBLY
This message concludes our 3-week City-Wide teaching series, UNDIVIDED. My prayer is that this series will have been used by the LORD as "baby-step #1" that launches us as God's people to reject any racism, prejudice, or bias that still has a foothold anywhere in our hearts. Also that we would begin a vibrant journey of proactively joining GOD to "DO JUSTICE" through a fresh and heightened "LOVE of MERCY". None of that will happen, and I fear our land will continue to suffer much trauma, unless we as the people of GOD begin to once...2020-07-2752 minRiverbluff Church SermonsUNDIVIDED, Part 2: LOVE MERCYJULY 19, 2020
UNDIVIDED, Part 2: LOVE MERCY
In the second part of our city-wide series, UNDIVIDED, Pastor Joe Still focuses on the message from Micah 6:8 to LOVE MERCY.
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UNDIVIDED, Part 1: DO JUSTICE
On Sunday, July 12, we will begin a new sermon series called UNDIVIDED. I have been honored to collaborate with over 25 other pastors from Charleston area churches to make this a City-Wide Sermon Series. We’ll be taking 3 weeks in each of our churches to “unpack” the powerful Old Testament verse; Micah 6:8! That verse is actually Micah’s answer to a list of soul-searching questions the prophet asked himself in verses 6-7. Questions like, “With what shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before God on high?” (When I read those verses I feel like I’m peering...2020-07-131h 00Riverbluff Church SermonsGod's Part and the Believer's Response to GovernmentJuly 5 2020
God's Part and the Believer's Response to Government.
In this Fourth of July message, Pastor Guy Smith shows us what the scriptures say about God's supremacy. Sharing from Romans 13, we'll see how God has ordered our world and what our responsibilities are to honor and obey those in authority over us.
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Is There Hope for My Broken Heart
In this message on HOPE, Riverbluff Elder Jimmy Sanders shares from Luke 24:13-34.
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…IN YOU
{ Isaiah 43:18-19 }
In this message by Pastor Joe Still from Isaiah 43,
we'll see that GOD is at work bringing “much good” out of the intense struggles we are living through. There are also some steps we must take to join HIM in HIS great work.
Included in this service are a few moments spent recognizing and celebrating our recent graduates from high schools, as well as colleges and universities. We are so very proud of each of them and their accomplishments!
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-06-0852 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 6 - Jesus Beat the Greatest Odds Stacked Against UsBeating the Odds: Jesus Beat the Greatest Odds Stacked Against Us Through His Crucifixion & Resurrection
In the closing message in this series, Pastor Joe Still teaches from Psalm 22, showing us the fulfillment of the prophecy of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-06-0253 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 5 - By Beating the Odds Jesus Defeats DoubtBy Beating the Odds Jesus Defeats Doubt...
This week in our teaching series BEATING THE ODDS, we explore events recorded in Matthew 11, as Jesus teaches using Old Testament prophecies about HIMSELF and HIS cousin John the Baptist. We'll see how Jesus uses these ancient prophetic predictions and applies them to HIS own life and ministry as authenticating that HE is the promised Messiah of GOD! We'll also see how this teaching from Jesus can help us defeat doubts that every devoted follower of Jesus will face in this life; especially in "pandemic times"!
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-05-2549 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 4 - Jesus Beat the Odds Through the Power of His PurposeThis week in our teaching series "BEATING THE ODDS", Pastor Joe Still explores the Old Testament prophecy from Isaiah 42 through the events of Jesus life and teaching recorded in the Gospel of Matthew 12 chapter 12. Isaiah's prophecy, given 700 years before His coming, perfectly describes the purposes for His coming as Jesus actually lived them out! All of those purposes had your personal redemption and the salvation of the whole world as their ultimate goal!
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-05-1850 minRiverbluff Church SermonsMother's Day 2020: How to Change the World Without Leaving the HouseMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-05-1446 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 3 - Through a Supernatural BirthMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-05-0555 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 2 - How Micah's Message Born In Bethlehem Brings Us HopeMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-04-2658 minRiverbluff Church SermonsJesus Dertermined Part 5 - Jesus Determined We'd Know Him as KingMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-04-2255 minRiverbluff Church SermonsBeating the Odds, Part 1 - How Life with Jesus Beats the OddsMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-04-2057 minRiverbluff Church SermonsEaster 2020Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-04-2053 minRiverbluff Church SermonsJesus Determined, Part 4 - Jesus Determined to Reveal His Father's HeartMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-04-0254 minRiverbluff Church SermonsJesus Determined, Part 3 - Jesus Determined to Make Us Prayer DependentMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-03-2547 minRiverbluff Church SermonsJesus Determined, Part 2 - Jesus Determined to Wipeout Your WorryMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-03-2054 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsJesus Determined, Part 1 - Jesus Determined to Raise What's Dead In YouMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-03-1057 minRiverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 27 - Bodacious PrayingIn the final message in the "Connect" series, Pastor Joe Still finishes strong in Ephesians 6 by showing us what BODACIOUS PRAYING looks and feels like.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-03-0353 minRiverbluff Church SermonsConnect Part 26 - Be Strong in the LordConnect Part 26 - Be Strong in the Lord by Riverbluff Church2020-02-2657 minRiverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 25 - Succeeding In Every RelationshipMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-02-1954 minRiverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 24 - Your Walk TalksMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-02-1154 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsUnderestimating GraceMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-02-0252 minRiverbluff Church SermonsState Of Riverbluff 2020Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-01-3058 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsSanctity of Human Life 2020Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-01-2050 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsGet Out of Your Boat!Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-01-1437 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsPreserveMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-01-0648 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas: Behind the Scenes, Part 4Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2020-01-0442 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas: Behind the Scenes, Part 3 - From Darkness to LightMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-12-2356 minRiverbluff Church SermonsChristmas: Behind the Scenes, Part 2 - From Slavery to VictoryMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-12-1546 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas: Behind the Scenes, Part 1 - Saving People From SinMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-12-1053 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsChristmas Story 2Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-12-0355 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsGiving ThanksMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-11-2638 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 23 - The Way of ChangeMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-11-1959 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 22 - Connecting With the Persecuted ChurchMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-11-1159 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 20 - Right ThinkingMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-10-291h 02
Riverbluff Church SermonsLiving Out Your DashMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-10-2341 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCreating Tables... Displaying the GospelMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-10-1551 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 19 - How Grace Builds Up LoveMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-10-0658 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCapitalize, Part 3 -Do You Have A Lot?Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-10-0152 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCapitalize, Part 2 - Capitalizing When You Have a LittleMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-09-2750 minRiverbluff Church SermonsCapitalize, Part 1 - How to Capitalize in LifeThis morning we begin a 2-3 week series entitled CAPITALIZE! One of the great strategies the Evil One uses in our lives is “divide and conquer”! He tempts us to compartmentalize our lives which keeps us from capitalizing on the Grace God gives us. So, over the next few weeks, we’ll explore how to capitalize in life whether we’ve been given much or just a little.
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Riverbluff Church SermonsThe Goodness of God, Part 1 - Our Good, Good, FatherToday we join our hearts together to celebrate the Goodness of God!
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Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 8 - Where's Your Hope?Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-09-0252 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 7 - What Happens When My Delusions About Salvation Collide With JesusMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-08-2754 minRiverbluff Church SermonsGlobal "GOSPEL-ing" PartnersMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-08-201h 02
Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 6 - What Happens When My People-Pleasing Tendencies Collide With JesusWe continue our summer teaching series COLLIDE, we examine the life of a powerful political and military leader. Though he actually asked one of the most important questions recorded in the Gospels, his propensity for “people pleasing” caused him to miss the greatest opportunity of his life. As we study his encounter with Jesus, we will take some time of introspection to examine our own lives and see how our tendencies toward people-pleasing may be robbing us of life transforming, GOD-moments!
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Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 5 - What Happens When My Self-Assurance Collides With the Grace & Truth of JesusMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-08-0554 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 4 - Letting Go to Go With GodMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-07-2956 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 3 - What Happens When My Dejection & Discouragement Collide With the Grace of JesusIn this third message in the COLLIDE series, Pastor Joe Still shares how the LORD has a personal word for each of us from the unique account found in the fourth chapter of John’s Gospel. What began as a daily chore turned into a radical, life-transforming encounter. John recounts the events of a despised, disheartened, and discarded woman, whose life COLLIDES with the Good News Jesus has for her personally as she meets him at a well.
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Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 2 - DesperationMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-07-1752 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsCollide, Part 1 - What Happens When My Doubts Collide With JesusI’m excited to be launching our July teaching series that we’ve entitled “COLLIDE”. Each week we’ll examine a life that was on a collision course with GOD-in-the-Flesh! We’ll see how through that face-to-face encounter their habits or hurts or hang-ups were forever transformed and their world view forever reshaped. We’ll also see how Jesus still meets those needs in the lives of those of men and women today. This morning we’ll see what happens when our doubts “COLLIDE” with Jesus. It may seem strange but I’m praying for you and me to have a gospel-transforming...2019-07-1057 minRiverbluff Church SermonsIn the City, Part 1 - For God's GloryThis morning Pastor Guy Smith will open God’s Word to us and lead us to think about GOD’s great plan for HIS people to pray for and bless the place where HE has planted us.
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Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 18 - UNITY! It's Yours to KeepToday we continue our journey through the book of Ephesians where God’s Word calls us to UNITY!
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Riverbluff Church SermonsFather's Day 2019Often on Father’s Day we think about gifts for dad. This morning we’ll take some time to gaze at the very first gift ever given by our FATHER and opened by humanity. It may very well be the best gift ever given by our FATHER and the best gift any father can give.
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Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 17 - A Prayer for PowerIn this sermon by Pastor Joe Still we look into Paul's magnificent prayer for the Ephesian church found in Ephesians 3:14-19. In this prayer Paul prays that they would be granted power through the Holy Spirit to comprehend and know the immeasurable depths of God's love for them in order that their lives would be transformed to the glory of God.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-06-0450 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 16 - God's Global Mission in EphesiansToday we will also celebrate God’s Goodness to us as a church as several from our family share about what the LORD has already done as well as some new Kingdom adventures in which HE is inviting us to join HIM.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-05-281h 05
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 15 - Life at the RiverPlease know that today will be different in order and form. And, even though the “preaching” will not feel normal today, (I know some of you are thinking “it’s never normal around here”), we will be proclaiming the Good News of God’s marvelous Love through the vision that HE has given us for ministry as a church. I’m praying that GOD will stir our hearts today to commit for the first time, or recommit afresh, to be the church GOD has called Riverbluff to be in our “AOA”, in our City, in our Nation, and in the uttermost parts of...2019-05-211h 08
Riverbluff Church SermonsMother's Day 2019Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-05-1448 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 14 - The Beauty of Gospel MysteryMusic courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-05-071h 05
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 13 - God's Post Resurrection Plan Makes Us OneIn this sermon by Pastor Joe Still we look at Ephesians 2:11-22. Here we see God continue to carry out His plan, after the resurrection of Jesus, through His people that are known as the Church. Through Jesus, God has united both Jews and Gentiles into one Body as His people for His possession and His purposes. God calls the church to live out of their identity as a people united by God and for God. This unity serves as an apologetic of God's grace and goodness to the world.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-04-2856 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsEaster 2019In this sermon, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ and all of the wonder and glory of this miraculous event. God raised Jesus from the dead. This means that faith in Him is not futile! In fact, putting our total trust in Jesus and building our lives around His teachings is the only effective and hope-filled way to live in this increasingly challenging world. The irrefutable resurrection of Jesus makes trusting Him for everything in life the best decision anyone will ever make.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-04-2248 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 12 - The Gospel Declares Jesus is KingOn this Sunday before we gather to celebrate the greatest day in history, EASTER, we open God’s Word to a defining moment in the earthly life of Jesus. Palm Sunday was the first time Jesus would publicly accept the title of King. However; He wouldn’t live out that role in the long-awaited, religiously-anticipated way. Jesus would be King, but He would be a different kind of King, ushering in an unanticipated method of ruling and reigning. Yes, He would come and crush His enemies. He would not do this from a position of power, but through a humility and...2019-04-1454 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 11 - The Gospel Makes Much of JesusThis morning we are privileged to have Dave Hardin open God’s Word to us. Dave is constantly commending books to me that he’s been reading about the Gospel of Jesus. It is a topic he is very passionate about! I’m looking forward to his leadership among us today. Dave will also be leading a team from Riverbluff back into Cuba this week. We will have the privilege of praying over this team in today’s service.
Music courtesy of Hooksounds.com2019-04-0852 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsConnect, Part 7 - Solving the Gospel MysteryAt Riverbluff we believe the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST is the hope of the world and that HIS Church is the instrument through which God has chosen to display and proclaim that GOSPEL. From cover to cover the Bible is about the GOSPEL. Dave Harvey has stated that “Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel.”
But what is the Gospel?
Because many Christians are under the deceptive misconception that “the Gospel” is really only for the “lost” we are launching a 6-week intensive effort to equip ourselves in the “Whole-Gospel”...2019-03-1354 min
Riverbluff Church SermonsTransformational ChurchThis morning we take a look at new opportunities and challenges the LORD has clearly spoken to HIS people known as Riverbluff. And this evening we gather to celebrate these opportunities and to “brain-storm”
together how we are going to embrace each one!
Music courtesy of hooksounds.com2019-01-1458 min