Riverside Community Church Blog

How does a new church get started? What will Riverside's next church plant be like? Here's a general glimpse into the church planting process and a closer look at Gibson's call to plant Ridgeline.

Smartphones can be a distraction, used for sinful desires, or used for spiritual growth. This post includes tips for sanctifying your smartphone usage and my top 10 spiritual growth apps.

Mark Cahill recently spoke at Riverside and blessed us with his evangelistic zeal and helpful insights into how to be a better witness for Jesus Christ. Today we are featuring the content of his monthly newsletter as a guest blog.

You may have seen the billboards (1200 are up nationwide) or heard the radio shows about Harold Camping's prediction that Jesus will return on Saturday, May 21st. Here is a great article with sound Biblical teaching on predictions like these. Don't cancel your weekend plans...

When God chose the language to describe our salvation, he often used the picture of adoption into His family (see Romans, 8:15, 8:23, 9:4, Galatians 4:5, Ephesians 1:5, John 14:18, 1 Thessalonians 2:17, and James 1:27). It’s a beautiful picture of extending grace, mercy, love, and rights to an undeserving party. Riverside is excited to live out this beautiful metaphor through the start of an orphan ministry! To get a better idea of what this will look like, we asked Mary to share her vision and background for this ministry.

Jesus, while teaching his disciples how to pray, gives them practical advice from a parable. Does the language He used describe your prayer life?

What a pastor wants his church to understand about Rob Bell's new book "Love Wins"

Synergy is what we call Riverside's process of multiplication, including how we go about making disciples. There are a few unique aspects of the discipleship process that we integrate into every discipling relationship. These are the distinct elements we emphasize in our disciple-making process at Riverside