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River of Life Church - St Joseph
Join us weekly to listen to the message from the St Joseph location of River of Life Church. Our goal is to share the word of God in a way that relates to you so you can put it to work in your everyday life.
Episodes
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Pray First - Week 4
This week we continue our prayer series talking about the Prayer of Jabez. This is a popular passage in scripture where Jabez prays that God would bless him…
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Pray First - Week 3
Starting this week and continuing over the next few weeks we will be diving into different scriptural prayer plans you can use to enhance your prayer life…
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Pray First - Week 2
This week we continue our series on prayer by talking about what a healthy prayer life looks like. We focus in on the three different levels of prayer that we…
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Pray First - Week 1
This week we begin our fall focus series, Pray First. This Sunday was Back to Church Sunday for us as well, so this message includes a heavy salvation focus…
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Even If
This week is a standalone sermon based off of the declaration of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in Daniel 3. When faced with possible death at the hands of…
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Be Rather Than Seem (Guest Speaker - Sterling Steen)
This week we hear from a guest speaker: Sterling Steen. Sterling is the Next Steps Pastor at Bridgeview Church in Big Lake, MN. Part of his role at the church…
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Guest Speaker: Sephra Kinser
This week was Family Sunday at our location, so we took a week off from our Story of the Bible series and instead got to hear from Sephra our Kids Pastor! She…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 9
Our series about the story of the Bible continues on going over the major theme of the entire New Testament: what is the Church and what does it mean to be the…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 8
This week we move our series to the New Testament and talk about how Jesus is the answer to the entire story of the Bible. Before Jesus, the Old Testament ends…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 7
Have you ever wondered what in the world was going on in the Old Testament prophetic books? Then this sermon is for you. This week we continue our series…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 6
This week we continue our Story of the Bible series by jumping into the poetic Wisdom Literature of the Bible. These books show us God’s good plan for how to…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 5
This week we continue our series talking about the Old Testament era where Israel was ruled by judges and then kings. This era covers the books of the Bible…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 4
This week we continue in our series talking about the era of Moses in the Old Testament and focusing on the major themes: the Exodus and the Law. These are…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 3
This week we continue in our Story of the Bible series talking about the conflict in the story: sin. We cover chapters 3-11 in Genesis as they lay out how…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 2
This week we continue our series about the story of the Bible by digging into the beginning: Genesis 1. The opening chapter of scripture is so monumental for…
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The Story of the Bible - Week 1
This week we launch into our summer series about the Story of the Bible. God's Word is meant to be a blessing to us, but many struggle with how to properly…
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Who We Are - Week 8
The is the final week of our Who We Are series. This week our main idea is this: "We are the Church always." We focus in on Ephesians 2:19-22 where Paul…
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Who We Are - Week 7
This week we are doing part two of being Shaped by the Spirit. In scripture, there are always clear markers of the Holy Spirit moving in individuals and in the…
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Who We Are - Week 6
This week we continue our series talking about the truth that we are shaped by the Spirit as a church. Every single part of the life of faith is enabled by…
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Guest Speaker - Tim Bueckers
This week, Pastor Tyler was ill, so Tim Bueckers brought the word. He talks in this sermon about the love of God and how that love not only should shape our…
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Who We Are - Week 5
This week we continue in our series Who We Are by highlighting the truth that we radically follow Jesus. In our society today, the word "Christian" is throw…
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Who We Are - Week 4
This week we continue our Who We Are series talking about having generational impact as a church.* We look at the death of Moses and how God allows him to see…
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Who We Are - Week 2
This week we continue in our Who We Are series talking about the idea that we serve a God that is infinitely more than we could ever ask or imagine (Ephesians…
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Who We Are - Week 1
This week we begin a new series called Who We Are looking at the character and values of our church. We recently passed the two-year mark for our church being…
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On The Road - Week 3 (Easter)
Happy Easter! This week we round out our On The Road series by celebrating the resurrection of Jesus and covering the story of him walking on the Road to…
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On The Road - Week 2 (Family Service)
This week we look at the Triumphant Entry of Jesus.** In that story, people celebrate Jesus and his next three major actions are to cry, curse a tree, and flip…
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On The Road - Week 1
This week we start a new series called On The Road with Jesus where we will take a few stories of Jesus traveling on different roads and what we can learn from…
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Fighter - Week 5
This week we round out our Fighter series talking about the story of the Good Samaritan and how this highlights what we should do to fight for the Kingdom of…
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Fighter - Week 4
This week we have a guest speaker, Tim Bueckers, who is an awesome member of our church! Tim talks about what it means to truly trust God in the world that we…
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Fighter - Week 3
This week we continue our Fighter series talking about the idea of not using Jesus as a tool or weapon to push our own agendas forward. Both in Bible times and…
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Fighter - Week 2
This week we continue our Fighter series by talking about the idea that we cannot put non-biblical prerequisites or expectations on what it means to be a…
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Fighter - Week 1
This week we begin a new series talking about how Christians should engage with the culture around us. We aim to answer the question: How should Christians act…
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For - Week 2
This week we wrap up our mini-series, For, by talking about the fact that every one of us is saved for the Great Commission. As a part of us accepting Jesus…
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For - Week 1
This week we start a new mini-series called "For" where we are going to be talking about what we are saved FOR. Many Christians know and can articulate what…
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Seeking - Week 4
This week we talk about maturing in our seeking process. Using the idea of a pyramid that we move from lower levels to higher levels, Pastor Tyler highlights…
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Seeking - Week 3
This week we dive into the idea of seeking God first in our lives. What does it mean to seek him first like it talks about in Matthew 6:33? We break down that…
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Seeking - Week 2
This week we continue our series on seeking God by talking about some characteristics of truly seeking him. There can be various aspects of our lives that can…
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Seeking - Week 1
What does it mean to seek God and why should we seek him? In this series, we are going to look at the answers to those questions. This week we begin by showing…
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Gifts of Christmas - Week 4 (Family Service)
This week we finish off our Gifts of Christmas series by talking about probably the greatest gift that Jesus brought when he came: love! This is a family…
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Gifts of Christmas - Week 3
This week we explore what it means that Jesus brings us the gift of light through his coming on Christmas. This idea has so many wonderful layers to it and…
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Gifts of Christmas - Week 2
This week we continue our Gifts of Christmas series talking about the gift of peace. This sermon focuses on the idea that we can truly experience God's peace…
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Gifts of Christmas - Week 1
This week we begin a new series entitled The Gifts of Christmas. Obviously, the greatest gift of Christmas is Christ coming, but with is coming he also…
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Family Matters - Week 4
This week we wrap up our Family Matters series by talking about how to begin pursuing healing from a dysfunctional family history or a difficult family…
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Family Matters - Week 3
This week we continue our series on God's plan for the family by discussing parenting. Scripture is clear that there is one over-arching priority that all…
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Family Matters - Week 2
This week we cover the topics of singleness and marriage. Both are important! We start by talking about how singleness is a blessed state where we can…
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Guest Speaker - Kelli Patrick
This week had a guest speaker Kelli Patrick come and share a powerful word about reaching our city for Jesus. Kelli works with students to help empower them to…
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Family Matters - Week 1
This week we being a new series on God's plan for the family. We begin this series by looking at what the Bible says is God's purpose in creating families and…
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The Numbers
This week we are doing a standalone sermon about the idea of being dependent on God. It's not comfortable to live where we are forced to depend on God, but…
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Admirer or Follower? (Guest Speaker: Erin Olson)
This week we hear from St Cloud Chi Alpha missionary, Erin Olson, as she speaks on the topic of being an admirer of Jesus versus being a follower of Jesus…
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First Response
This week's sermon is a standalone sermon asking this question: what is your first response when you are faced with adversity or opposition in your life? The…
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Vision - Week 4 (Big Three)
This week we cover the outward-facing goals that God has given our church. These goals all stem out of our mission to have one more person growing in Christ…
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Vision - Week 2 (Discipleship)
This week we move forward with our vision series talking about what we consider the "lifeblood" of our church: discipleship. Every body needs blood to function…
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Vision Sunday
This week we spent some time talking over the vision that we believe God has for our church. This sermon covers where we are, where we could be, and what needs…
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Gospel of John - Week 12
This week we close out our series on the Gospel of John by talking about Jesus' death, resurrection, and ascension. While the story may be familiar to you…
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Gospel of John - Week 11
This week we turn our attention to the Holy Spirit, who Jesus repeatedly brings up in his final words with his disciples before his death (John 14-17). Jesus…
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Gospel of John - Week 10
This week we shift to the second half of John. From John 12 on, the book switches to covering the final week of Jesus's life including four chapters covering…
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Gospel of John - Week 9
This week we go to John 11 where Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead. Throughout the story, even though people in the crowd believe in Jesus, they put…
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Gospel of John - Week 8
This week we continue our Gospel of John by covering John 8 where Jesus tries to correct some of his followers, but they reject his leadings. We talk about the…
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Gospel of John - Week 7
This week we venture into John 6 and talk about Jesus being the bread of life. This story highlights the miracle-working power of Jesus, the power of a small…
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Gospel of John - Week 6
This week we are back to the Gospel of John and looking at what to do when we experience spiritual frustration. All of us have moments where we are frustrated…