Riverside Church

“In my Father’s house There’s a place for me I’m a child of God Yes I am” This verse from the Hillsong Worship song ‘Who You say I am’ sums up this talk by Simon from the book of Galatians. The gospel puts us into the Fathers house we don’t have to be worried or insecure about our future, about whether we’re accepted.

Joel explains how the apostle Paul is explaining that everyone trying to live by the law is under a curse. Christ became the curse for us so the same blessing given to Abraham may be given to all who believe. He emphasizes that the true purpose of the law was to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. Showing that if we belong to Christ then we are heirs according to the promise given to Abraham.

Julian continues our series in Galatians considering Pauls desire to share grace and freedom in Jesus. Christian unity is important, more so than our personal preferences. Our new life in Jesus presents many challenges but he equips us by his Holy Spirit. Due to a technical problem the first five minutes of the message were not recorded.

Simon starts our new series in the book of Galations by unpacking why the apostle Paul needed to write to the Galations in the way he did.

Our guest speaker Chris Kimmance, Senior Pastor of Ashford Vineyard unpacks the miracle of Jesus calming the storm and tells us how we can be storm calmers of problems that affect our own lives.

Street Pastors from Whitstable and Herne Bay tell us about their exciting and much needed contributions to the communities on a Friday night empowered by the Holy Spirit.

Fantastic to celebrate with Annabelle, Anna, KC, Claire and Andy today. Before the baptisms, Simon explains how it started in the Bible and the reason we baptise people. Following that are their life changing stories.

At our Easter family communion service Simon explains the Easter story with the help of several short videos.

Simon unpacks the topic of invitation, we are to invite everyone to an encounter with Jesus. We encourage people to “come and see” and discover the truth of the Gospel. Due to a technical problem the first couple of minutes of the message were not recorded.

Jesus told us we would bring salt and light to our communities. The Message puts it this way, “You’re here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavours of this earth. You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colours in the world…”

Chris talks about sharing the good news of Jesus with others as well as being generous with our money and possessions.

In part three of the coastlands series, Simon explains how Jesus embodied for us what it was to be a servant and how we should therefor serve others in the community.

Simon continues our current ‘Coastlands’ series and talks about how the church is called to ‘scatter’ and be sewn throughout society and be attractional to the needs of the community.

Keely kicks off our new Coastlands sermon series by unpacking how we are called to be a people revealing God to the communities around us.

Simon and Keely focus on five of the many ministry’s going on at the moment with the help of the group leaders to explain the exciting developments. It was also an opportunity to meet and interview our great new Assistant Pastor Jacob.

Sam talks about the dangers the persecuted church face around the world and the hope God gives us to face these.

The best place for our hope is in God who calls us to generously reflect his nature.

Keely explains how God wants our hearts to be so big that they can contain everything that God has given us but then overflows into our workplaces and our towns.

Simon starts the new ‘Overflow’ series by explaining what it means to live a joyful life of generousity. Before that Keely explains the transition taking place of Mark and Rachel taking on the heading up of worship at Riverside and Darlene standing down from the roll.

Chris unpacks the statement ‘God is love and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them’. The song that was played and referred to near the end was ‘All you need is love’ by the Beatles.