Sunday 22nd March – Responding to the Covid-19 confinement rules
This is the audio version of the message that we video-streamed in our “virtual Sunday service”. If you’d like to attend the next service, please e-mail us to ask for details – contact@riverchurch.fr
Sunday 1st March – David #2 – Musician
David enters King Saul’s service as a musician. (1 Samuel 16.14-23) We are primarily looking at David in this series. But this early part of his life is intertwined with that of Saul. We can’t ignore what was going on in Saul’s life if we want to understand what was happening with David. Here, the […]
Sunday 23rd February – David #1 – nondescript shepherd
David: shepherd, musician, warrior-champion, fugitive and, finally, king. I started to note down the fairly important events in David’s life that we might include in this new series. I had three months worth of titles for Sunday messages and still hadn’t got to the part where he becomes king! So, we’re going to pick out a small […]
Sunday 16th February – Free speech
Pressure groups have been influencing local authorities in the UK to “no-platform” speakers at various evangelical church events. As a result, conference venue booking contracts have been broken. A Reading shopping centre has refused to renew the initial lease for one of America’s largest fast-food restaurants. Pressure groups have demonstrated outside the restaurant because the chain […]
Sunday 9th February – 1 Timothy 6.11-21
These final verses of Paul’s letter to Timothy are less about what we are to flee, and much more about what we are to pursue. Life for the Christian is not a list of “Don’ts”. It is about pursuing and taking hold of the treasure that God has given us: the life that is truly […]
Sunday 2nd February – 1 Timothy 6.1-10
Paul teaches how Christian slaves in the 1st century could reconcile their new-found freedom in Christ with their continued life of bondage. How does this dilemma touch our lives in the 21st century? The passage goes on to warn us about those whose desire seems to be to use “godliness” as a means to get […]
Sunday 19th January – 1 Timothy 5.1-16
Sometimes, when we read a Bible passage, we may find ourselves thinking, “Well, that isn’t really relevant to my situation. Let me find something more interesting.” However, Joshua 1 v 8 tells us to meditate daily on all of God’s Word. Today’s passage contains instructions to the first century church about caring for widows. How does […]
Sunday 5th January – 20/20 vision (If only!)
We have now entered into the ‘20s. The previous 20s decade – a century ago – came to be described as the Roaring 20s. The 1920s were almost frenetic, in terms of economic growth, social life and entertainment, but what will this new “20s” decade bring? Will 2020 be a year of peace and calm after the […]
Sunday 15th December – Preparing for Christmas
Christmas Day is perhaps the day of the year that we spend the most time and effort preparing for. (Apart from your wedding day – but that doesn’t come around every single year, does it?). Not only do we prepare for it ourselves, but we find that we are surrounded by lots of other people […]
Sunday 1st December – 1 Timothy 4.11-15
“Set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity”. Paul isn’t telling Timothy to become a plaster saint – he’s telling him to live out his faith follow Jesus as his model. Jesus, whom the Pharisees accused of being “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and […]