Rainier Valley Church - Seattle

The Way of the Cross #4: The Temple and the Cross (Palm Sunday)

The Way of the Cross #3: The Way of Servanthood

The Way of the Cross: The Way to Know and Become Yourself

The Way of the Cross: The Way of Forgiveness and Freedom

Social Distancing: Practicing Spiritual Friendship

Social Distancing: Forgiving and Be Forgiven

Social Distancing: The Love of God

Social Distancing: Christian Love In Practice

#5 Ensnared in Temptation or Escaping to Freedom

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 31, 2021

#4 Continuously Anxious or Prayerfully at Peace

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 24, 2021

#3 Conformity to the World or Transformation by the Word

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 17, 2021

#2 Walking in the Spirit or Indulging the Flesh

Pastor Kyle Van Tine January 10, 2021

#1 Developing A Rule of Life

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 3, 2020

#1 Developing A Rule of Life

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 3, 2020

#1 Developing A Rule of Life

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 3, 2020

#1 Developing A Rule of Life

Pastor Kyle Van Tine Jan 3, 2020

Loving others well in 2021

Pastor Steve Pratt Dec 27, 2020

Joy to the World!

Christmas represents God's invitation to the whole world to the joys of forgiveness, redemption, and salvation. Open your Bibles to Isaiah 55:1-13 as we look at the joyful invitation, the joyful response, and the joyful transformation that God brings to a tired, weary, and broken world.

Peace Despite Our Circumstances

No one would describe 2020 as being peaceful but would they describe you as being at peace? We can have peace despite our circumstances because we trust in God's sovereign plan, obey God's just rule, and anticipate God's future peace. Open your Bibles to Isaiah 11:1-10 as we look to the Prince of Peace to find peace in the midst of all the chaos.

Why Celebrate a COVID Christmas

For most of us, 2020 has felt hopeless. From a global pandemic and a struggling economy, to the isolation of quarantine and figuring out online school. We've walked through civil unrest, racial injustice, wildfires, hurricanes, and a chaotic election season that makes it easy to become hopeless. But every person needs hope. We need hope to wake up in the morning, hope to go to work, hope to keep going. Most of never stop to ask the question? What is my hope in? Do we hope in ourselves, in ot...

Thansgiving 2020

Thanksgiving 2020 No matter who you are, this has been a hard year from quarantines, lock-downs, and restrictions to financial challenges, joblessness, and relational hardships, there is no shortage of bad news. It's easy to join the masses in complaining, wallowing in self-pity, and being paralyzed in anxious. But God has something else for his people, something that sets up apart and makes us distinct, especially in times of suffering and hardship, God is calling us to give thanks! Christ...

Sabbath: Receiving the gift of limits

2020 has seen the world turned upside down and as an act of sanity and worship, we want to apply the important practice of Sabbath. Learn how the practice of the Sabbath enable us to stay attuned to God's presence throughout our week.

Baptism Sunday 2020

Baptisms is a celebration of new life as we reenact the story of Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection through the act of baptisms, and Jesus' story becomes our story. Celebrate those who boldly, joyfully, and publicly declared their faith in Jesus through Baptism! The old is gone, behold, the new has come! "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come." (2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV)

Enlarge Your Soul through Grief and Loss: Surrendering to Your Limits

The question isn't if we will suffer but how we will suffering. What will you do when life gets turned upside down. You choose to let it crush you or you can open yourself up to new possibilities and transformation in Christ. What framework will you have for suffering in your life? You will either get bitter or better, how will you respond? Listen to this week's message and learn from Jesus' to enlarge our souls through grief and loss in John 11.

Journey through the Wall: Letting Go of Power and Control

Journey through the Wall: Letting Go of Power and Control (2 Corinthians 12:7-10 and Psalm 51) Sometimes God uses obstacles, hardships, and weaknesses in order to get us to stop, slow down, and become dependent, humble, and spiritually sensitive. God custom designs "thorns " in our life to radically transform our character.

Going Back in Order to Go Forward: Breaking the Power of the Past

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality involves embracing God's choice to birth us into a particular family, in a particular place, at a particular moment in history. That choice to embrace our past grants us certain opportunities and gifts. It also hands us a certain amount of "emotional baggage" for our journey through life. For some of us this load is minimal; for others, it is a heavy burden to carry. True spirituality frees us to live joyfully in the present. Living joyfully, however, require...

Know Yourself That You May Know God: Becoming Your Authentic Self

Who gets to tell you who you are? What your identity is? There are three ways people find identity. They look inside themselves in individual expressionism, they look around them in traditional collectivism, or we can look up in Biblical Christianity to find their identity from God. Learn what it means to know yourself so that you may know God from Psalm 139 this week.   Pastor Kyle Van Tine Oct 11, 2020

Shalom: Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

The Church in the midst a Crisis. WE’VE SETTLED FOR A SHALLOW CHRISTIANITY WHERE: We pretend to be something on the outside that they are not on the inside. We remain emotionally and spiritually immature. We allow a lack of self-awareness to harm our relationships.We are unable to process sadness, anger, grief, and other emotions. When you ignore the emotional component of your life, behavioral patterns from your past can continue to hinder you from an authentic life of maturity in Christ. Y...

Life is War (Eph 6:10-20)

Special Guest Speaker: Pastor Harvey Drake "This is War" (Ephesians 6:10-20) Enjoy this Sunday's special message from Pastor Harvey Drake. Pastor Harvey unpacks the importance of spiritual warfare from Ephesians 6:10-20. Pastor Harvey entitled his sermon message "This is War" from this Sunday at Rainier Valley Church. Ephesians 6:10-24 - Pastor Harvey Drake - Sept 27, 2020

Marriage Check-Up (Eph 5:22-33)

The Coronavirus has drained our health, paychecks and our marriages. I don’t know a single marriage that hasn’t experienced difficulties and strains from COViD burnout, pessimism, exhaustion, and fatigue. Let's take our marriages and our singleness to the Word of God for a check-up.  Ephesians 5:22-33 - Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Sept 13, 2020

Imitating God (Eph 5:1-21)

Students want to be like their favorite professor so they'll talk and teach like them. Players want to be like their favorite all-star athlete so they'll wear their jersey or number. Musicians sing their favorite artists' songs to sound like them. Kids imitate their parents to be like them. The most powerful way kids grow is imitation. We need models to look to and learn from. It’s in pretending, trying, practicing, and imitating that we grow up and become mature. As Christians, we want to ...

A New Set of Clothes (Eph 4:17-32)

What are you wearing and why does it matter? The clothes we put on tell others about us but what does it mean to put on Christ?Trusting in Christ brings a new identity, we become a new creation, and replace the old ways of life with the new ways of the Spirit. A new identity brings new activity but to truly change, we must put off the old and put on the new. Ephesians 4:17-32 Pastor Kyle Van Tine Aug 30, 2020

How Churches Grow (Eph 4:1-16)

It's time for your spiritual check-up! How do healthy Christians continue to grow and mature? Pastor Kyle teaching on Ephesians 4:1-16, explaining the healthy churches grow through membership (Spiritual Unity 4:1-6), Ministry (Spiritual Diversity 4:7-12) and Maturity (Spiritual Maturity 4:13-16). Ephesians 4:1-16 Pastor Kyle Van Tine Aug 23, 2020 

Praying for Power (Eph 3:14-21)

Pastor Steve shares what it means to pray for strength from Ephesians 3:14-21 Pastor Steve Pratt - Sunday, August 16, 2020

The Mystery Revealed (3:1-13)

People love mystery stories, from Stranger Things on Netflix to the dozens of CSI-like investigative shows, from Scooby Doo cartoons to the Serial podcast, we want to find the clues and solve the mystery. There is a mystery in the Bible, a mystery that once solved, will utterly change our lives. Grab a Bible and a Notebook as we learn about the mystery of the Gospel in Ephesians 3:1-13. Pastor Kyle Van Tine - Sunday, August 9, 2020

A New Humanity (Eph 2:11-22)

Timeless truths in a timely manner. Learn how the Gospel moves us from alienation to reconciliation with God and one another. Jesus is forming a new humanity under the Lordship of the Messiah. Ephesians 2:11-22 by Pastor Kyle Van Tine Sunday, August 2, 2020

A New Humanity

Ephesians 2:11-22 Pastor Kyle Van Tine August 2, 2020

Jesus Saves! (Eph 2:1-10)

What does it mean that Jesus saves and why does it matter? Save us from what? Saves us for what? Come study Ephesians 2:1-10 with us and learn how Jesus saves us from spiritual death, the world, the devil, and ourselves. Jesus saves us for spiritual life, amazement, humility, and good works.

Praying to the Glorious Father (Eph 1:15-23)

Ephesians 1:15-23 Pastor Kyle Van Tine July 12, 2020

Praying to the Glorious Father

Ephesians 1:15-23 Pastor Kyle Van Tine July 12, 2020

Whom Will You Worship (Eph 1:3-14)

C.S. Lewis once wrote: “The world rings with praise-- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ..I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.” As Christians we have so much to sing praise about because we are chosen by the Father, redeemed by the Son, and assured by the Spirit. Learn about how ...

Why Study Ephesians (Eph 1:1-2)

This morning we begin a new study in the book of Ephesians. Ephesians focuses on who we are in Christ (Position) and how we are to live in Christ (Practice). Come learn with us and rekindle a white-hot love and devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ. We will be studying Acts 19, Ephesians 1:1-2, and Revelation 2:4-6.

Father's Day

This was the recording from Rainier Valley Church's first outdoor, social-distanced, family-style worship and prayer service!

Amen: Prayer in Times of Need

The one concern of the devil is to keep you and I prayerless. “Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. It turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.” - Samuel Chadwick 5 Resolutions from the Lord's Prayer 1.Resolv...

Gospel Healing

“the most segregated hour in America is 11:00 a.m. on Sunday morning.” - MLK Tragically, the effects of hundreds of years of slavery and the legacy of segregation created canyons of pain and distrust. Additionally, the political, social, and media intensive divisions. This morning, let's remember that Jesus has torn down the walls of hostility between racial and culture divides by bringing forgiveness, healing and reconciliation to a broken and divided world.

Protests and Peace

This morning Pastor Kyle Van Tine shares a pastoral word based on the current cultural moment with the death of George Floyd and the resulting riots in Seattle and throughout the country this week.

Work: A Catalyst for Character Growth

In the beginning God worked and He created mankind in his image to work. There is a dignity, a toil, and redemption in our work. How is work a form of worship? How does it connect to our spiritual life? What wisdom does the book of Proverbs have to share with us about our work?

RVC Daily 5.22

Thinking about the Importance of the Ascension in the Christian Life during this season.  8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phi...

RVC Daily 5.21

Reflecting on some thoughts and insights from the Elder Team about the schemes of the enemy against us and our church family.   2 Cor 2:11"...so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his designs."

RVC Daily 5.20

Dwelling in 1 Cor 13's teaching on the importance of love.