River of Life Church Long Prairie (Audio)

Triumphant Entry

Going through the story of Jesus's Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem, Pastor Josiah walks us through 3 different groups of people and their perspective of the event. 3 different perspectives full of emotions, thoughts ideas and plans all clashing together at once. What does this mean for us? Are we busy telling God what He should do, or are we asking Him to reveal his will and plans to us?

Purpose

We all have asked the question, "What is my purpose." Whether you are a follower of Jesus or not we have all at some point asked this question. What is God's plan for our lives, is there one specific thing or is there more to it?

Global - Prayer Matters

In our final week of our Global series, Pastor Josiah challenges us with how it is not by numbers, or our strategies that will make a massive impact when it comes to reaching the ends of the earth with the gospel. But it is in the power of prayer. Are we only praying for those in our own circle, for our own needs? Are we aware of the responsibility to partner with God in praying for the nations as well?

Prayer

The most critical thing we can do to reach those around the world that need Jesus is pray. Mark Durene, a life long missionary to Thailand, shares his heart for the Buddhist world and invites us to pray for those in spiritual darkness.

Global -Partnering with God

This week we begin a series simply titled, "Global." Pastor Corey begins this series by helping us understand who the unreached are, and where they are. He shares his experiences in Thailand and Buddhist world. He shares his personal experience in coming to the understanding that we have an important part to play in moving God's kingdom forward. Specifically through prayer. He challenges us to participate in God's will by partnering with God through prayer for the Buddhist world and all mankind.

An Overflowing Church

We have a vision of reaching EVERYONE in our community.  As a community with different cultural backgrounds, we want to bring our cultures together.  Not to just tolerate one another,but to truly learn and appreciate our differences and bring them together to bring hope, joy and peace to our community.  This week we have guest speaker, Pastor Victor sharing with us on what it looks like to be an overflowing, multicultural church. 

Glory - Pressing On

In our final week of the series, "Glory" Pastor Josiah challenges us with the thought of pressing on. Over the last few weeks we have been challenged with the question, why does my faith look different than the faith of those in different parts of the world. Understanding that we should feel tension, challenging ourselves in asking the question, "Am I earnestly, passionately, desperately pursuing Jesus with everything that I have." In that, understanding we will never fully get there but we are not to become complacent when it comes to living out our faith, we are to press on!

Glory - Count the Cost

We are continuing in our series called, "Glory." This week Pastor Josiah challenges us with a passage from Luke 14, where Jesus says that following Him has a cost. When we think about the freedoms, and the wealth that we have, have we become complacent about our faith because it hasn't really cost us anything?

Glory - Pride

In the second week of our series Glory, we begin to dig deep into asking ourselves, "Am I fully living out my walk with Jesus in a way He has called me to do." We should have tension, if not why? Pastor Josiah talks about one of the reasons we don't feel that tension....Pride. What is Pride? How does it show up in our lives, and understanding that it looks different for each one of us. How do we begin to eradicate pride from our lives?

Glory - Tension

What does it look like to live out our faith? Have we been approaching how to do this all wrong? Pastor Josiah walks us through the tension we should be feeling as we live our lives to glorify God rather than ourselves.