Riverside Church

Our Friend Robert Whitner was a guest at The River, grab your Bible and listen to this wonderful devotion.

Most quoted verse in the bible is no longer John 3:16, but found in Luke 6.  "Judge not"..  However Jesus judges, he judges what people do.  In fact he's a fruit inspector.  In these verses he give an analogy to help us understand.  Grab your bible and lets study together!

People are fickle, and change.  In 2 Samuel people where fighting over David, who's got more heritage in the king of Israel.  Much like the switch that was flipped on Jesus when he entered Jerusalem, a few days later the ones who sang Hosanna where the very ones yelling "crucify him!"  Grab your bible and lets study!

In this section of the text we examine David as he forgives his enemies.  We do well to forgive, just like we have been forgiven.  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

What does real church look like?  Loud music?  Smoke machines?  Simple antidotes and light sermons with 3 points and a poem?  The epistle of James tells us!  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

In the "preaching on the plateau" or the sermon on the mount found in other gospels, Jesus lays out it simple.  Simple enough, that when we read it, we either submit to it, or ignore it all together.  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

In the text David is mourning his son's death, he is so distraught that he abandons what he is surpose to be doing as King and shepherd of Israel.  What do we do with our feelings?  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

In this text James begins to teach us about patience, what does he tell us about the rains.  What does that even mean?  Grab your bible and lets find out!

Looking at his disciples, Jesus exclaims blessings on them.  One of the blessings is those that are hungry will be satisfied.  Are you hungry for righteousness?  Are you satisfied with the things of this world?  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

Absalom has began the war against his gray haired father to knock him off his throne.  The battles begin in the forest where many of the troops where swallowed up by the forest it's self.  Soon Absalem is found suspended between heaven and earth, much like a prince we read about in the gospels.  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

In this section of text we see a faithful friend, and a former friend now enemy who takes his own life.  We examine if suicide is the "unforgivable sin".  Grab your bible and lets study together!

The phrase come now begins in chapter 5.  This is certainly not the way to begin a sermon according to most liberal non-sola scriptura universities.  However the full bible will always make a fully developed Christian, grab your bible and lets study together!

Is happiness the same thing as blessed?  You could consider in our time and age that they mean the same thing.  However Jesus wasn't teaching about happiness in this instance.  Blessedness means something in a whole different level.  Grab your bible and lets study together! www.RiverSideFWB.com

In this episode we hear how David is slandered, he may even deserve it, however Shimei pours it on thick with insults.  Has this ever happen to you?  Grab your bible and lets study together!

Jesus chooses weak feeble men to join in him turning the world upside down.  Grab your bible and lets study together!

After staying up all night praying Jesus has a huge decision to make.  Have you tarried all night in prayer before a big event?  Have you prayed about it?  Grab your bible and lets study together!

In this episode David prays.  His heart is broken, his son wants him dead, his confidant is working for his enemy.  He is rejected and on the run.. but he prays.  Do you follow this example and pray?  Grab your bible and lets study together!

When David is running for his life from his own son Absolem he comes to the summit.  The place of worship.  David goes to church.  You'd think that things would be easier for him from here out.  However that isn't the case.  Going to church doesn't guarantee that you will have an easy life.  In fact things get harder for David soon after this!  Grab your bible and lets study together!  

In James 6 we see that the Apostle flips the script.  Up is down and down is up!  After talking about the gravity of grace, where like water, grace pools to the lowest point.  We see that being brought low, is up.  Being brought high is to our detriment!  Grab your bible and lets study together! 

The man with the withered hand, sits in the synagogue.  Jesus commands that the man to stretch out his hand.  When God commands us to do something and we just can't?  Where he demands he provides.  Grab your bible and lets study together!