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Some Notes from Sunday’s Sermon 1 Corinthians 1:18-2:5 The Spirit of God is with us to bring God’s power and presence to our message and ministry. The Spirit of God is in us to keep us near the cross. 1 Corinthians 1 and 2 insist that …  The Holy Spirit convinces us that the foolishness of the cross is wisdom. The Holy Spirit gives us courage to share the message of the…

  The Bible is built on the premise that you need to change. And that, though left to yourself you cannot, by the Spirit of God you can change! If you are in Christ, God has changes planned for your life. You are not stuck in the rut forever but– IN CHRIST – everything changes!!   Change in the Future – We shall be changed when He appears in the end.…

There is no spot where God’s grace cannot and will not go! Pile up your walls, bring up the big stones of your iniquity, but Christ shall yet take your citadel and make you a captive! Plunge into the mire if you will, but that strong arm can bring you out and wash you clean. There is not strength enough in sin to overcome his grace! When he puts forth his arm, down…

A lion is admirable for its ferocious strength and imperial appearance. A lamb is admirable for its meekness and servant-like provision of wool for our clothing. But even more admirable is a lion-like lamb and a lamb-like lion. What makes Christ glorious, as Jonathan Edwards observed over 250 years…

God has never learned from anyone. God cannot learn. Could God at any time or in any manner receive into His mind knowledge that He did not possess and had not possessed from eternity, He would be imperfect and less than Himself. To think of a God who must sit at the feet of a teacher, even though that teacher be an archangel or a seraph, is to think of someone other than…

  Charles Spurgeon on studying to know God – The highest science and mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of the child of God is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.  And while the subject humbles the mind, it also expands it.  He who often thinks of God, will have a…

John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, But I have chosen you… ‘Ye did not choose me.’ How surely He diagnoses the human heart. How inevitably He puts His finger on our greatest shame and sorrow. Like the world in which we lived, and which counts us its own, we chose “after the sight of the eyes and the hearing of the ears.” but as for Jesus, when we saw Him there seemed no…

Subzero temperatures got you stuck at home? As long as you have a heater and a working internet connection we will keep you busy. Here is some worthwhile reading for you. (The usual disclaimers apply here. Linking to an article does not equal RBC endorsement. It simple means that we think it worth…

For the next three weeks, I have invited my favorite guest preachers to take the RBC pulpit. Our pastoral staff will be sharing the pulpit (2 guys each Sunday) preaching the Word (1 Peter 4&5). Darien and Wayne 01/05 Brennan and John 01/12 Dan and Cameron (RBC youth intern) 01/19 You don’t want to miss this!!!    

Are you brave enough to pray these this year? Ten short prayers for the new year Lord, place me in uncomfortable situations that will squeeze the lazy, self-centeredness out of me. Open doors for the gospel while giving me boldness and compassion to move through them. You have told me that a mind set on the flesh is death but a mind set on the Spirit is life and peace.…