Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 22 September 2024. Not only does Jesus bring his kingdom by forgiving and healing, he also demonstrates his love and compassion by bringing freedom to those under demonic influence.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 15 September 2024. Some of Jesus' harshest warnings were not for sinner but for the religious elite of the time.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 8 September 2024. The church is often the last place people feel welcome with their sexual shame. However, in the ministry of Jesus we see that His Presence is the safest place for us to bring our sexual shame and pain.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 1 September 2024. When we look at the Scriptures we see that healing ministry was significant in both Jesus' ministry as well as the ministry of the early church in the book of Acts. Today Steve unpacks how we can think about engaging the ministry of healing today.…

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 August 2024. This week we learn Jesus' heart for the outsider and how we as a church ought to adopt the exact same heart.

Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 18 August 2024. This week Sizwe brings the challenge home to every single one of us: who do YOU say Jesus is?

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 11 August 2024. While Jesus is fully divine, He is also fully human. Craig helps us understand how this helps us follow him.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 4 August 2024. Explore the stories of Scripture that lead to the fulfilment of Jesus as the Son of Man and the Son of God.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 July 2024. The first thing the New Testament wants us to know about Jesus is that He is Messiah. Today Steve talks about what that means for us.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 21 July 2024. Jesus teaches us to pray into the very real and spiritual battles that we face every day in this part of the Lord's Prayer.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 14 July 2024. Forgiveness is one of the biggest ways that God wants to pour grace into the pain of our lives and our broken relationships.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 7 July 2024. Jesus teaches us to ask.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 30 June 2024. What is God's will for my life or my situation? This is one of the biggest questions we ask. Today we are encouraged to press into praying, "Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven".

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 23 June 2024. Jesus was all about the Kingdom of God and he invites us to prioitise praying into the Kingdom, "YOUR kingdom come ... on earth as it is in heaven."

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 16 June 2024. The first line of the Lord's Prayer is an invitation to an intimate relationship with the Father as well as to see Him as majestic and glorious!

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 9 June 2024. As we follow Jesus, He reproduces his life within us. This is the true fruit of being a disciple.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 2 June 2024. God's desire for us is to fulfil our God-given purpose in loving God and loving others. Sin prevents us from living these lives of loving God and neighbour. The gift of forgiveness is how God restores us to this right relationship.…

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 25 May 2024. Repentance is an invitation to keep on track with the life that God has available for us.

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 19 May 2024. Craig teaches about how in Jesus we can have an unshakable confidence in Gods love for me. His work and the work of the Spirit means that nothing can separate me from His love.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 12 May 2024. Jesus says that he has loved us in the same way he has been loved by the Father. However, in order for us to receive this love, we need to allow God to deal with the obstacles that stand between us and his love such that we can remain in the love Jesus has for us.…

Sermon given by Sizwe Tshabangu at Riverside Community Church, 7 April 2024. This week Sizwe helps us understand how we can remain in the love that Jesus invites us to partake in.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 28 April 2024. Jesus says that his words are full of the Spirit and life. However, our experience of God's word is often a far cry from this life-giving vision. In today's message, Steve encourages us with practical ways to know and enjoy Jesus through his words, and thus begin to expe…

Sermon given by Craig Wilcock at Riverside Community Church, 21 April 2024. This week Craig helps us transition from LOVING the words of Jesus to LIVING the words of Jesus.

Sermon given by Stephen Pohlmann at Riverside Community Church, 14 April 2024. Words matter. Words are used in every relationship to get to know the person intimately. The motive is not data, but relational knowledge. The same is true of Jesus. If we love him, we will love his words.

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 …

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.