Riverside Church
328 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast includes sermons delivered at Riverside Presbyterian Church in Cambridge, Ontario. Join us for morning and evening worship services each Sunday. Visit Riverside online at riversidepres.com.
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The Book of Revelation
January 12, 2020 14:30At Riverside we believe that it is important for our spiritual growth to be exposed to preaching from as much of the Bible as possible. Therefore much of our preaching is systematic exposition of books of Scripture. In this series we will work our way through the Book of Revelation.
Jesus the Sufficient Saviour
December 29, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 15.2 MBRead: Isaiah 40:1–8 Mark 1:1-15
I Will Send Elijah
December 22, 2019 22:30 - 33 minutes - 14.9 MBRead: Malachi 4 Text: Malachi 4:5-6 Download Manuscript Sermons Series: The Message of Elijah
Immanuel: God with Us
December 22, 2019 15:00 - 35 minutes - 15.6 MBRead: Matthew 1:18-25 Text: Matthew 1:22-23 Download Manuscript
Elijah Taken to Heaven
December 15, 2019 22:30 - 36 minutes - 17.3 MBRead: 2 Kings 2:1-14 Download Manuscript Sermons Series: The Message of Elijah
Glory to God; Peace on Earth
December 15, 2019 15:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBRead: Luke 2:1-21 Text: Luke 2:14 Download Manuscript
Reviewing the Basics (12) What is the Christian Hope?
December 08, 2019 22:30 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBRead: Matthew 5:1-12 Matthew 6:19-21 Hebrews 11:8-16 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Moses/Joshua; Elijah/Elisha; John the Baptist/Jesus
December 08, 2019 15:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBRead: 2 Kings 2:1-14 Download Manuscript Sermons Series: The Message of Elijah
Reviewing the Basics (11) What means does God use for our salvation and growth?
December 01, 2019 22:30 - 37 minutes - 16.9 MBRead: Acts 2:22-47 Text: Acts 2:42 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Reviewing the Basics (10) Why is the Church so Important?
November 24, 2019 22:30 - 34 minutes - 16.5 MBRead: Ephesians 4:1-16 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Is there no God in Israel?
November 24, 2019 15:00 - 38 minutes - 17.7 MBRead: 2 Kings 1:1-18 Download Manuscript Sermons Series: The Message of Elijah
The Battle Belongs to Christ
November 17, 2019 22:30 - 35 minutes - 14.7 MBRead: Revelation 19:11-21 Joshua 5:1 - 6:5 Text: Joshua 5:13 - 6:5
The Angel of the Lord
November 17, 2019 15:00 - 34 minutes - 14.2 MBRead: Genesis 16 Genesis 32:22-32 Exodus 3:1-6 Judges 2:1-5
Reviewing the Basics (9) How Shall We Then Live?
November 10, 2019 22:30 - 33 minutes - 14.5 MBRead: Colossians 3:1-17 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Reviewing the Basics (8) How Does Salvation Change Us?
November 03, 2019 22:30 - 35 minutes - 15.4 MBRead: John 3:1-15 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Idolatry and Injustice
November 03, 2019 15:00 - 42 minutes - 18.3 MBRead: 1 Kings 21 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah
Reviewing the Basics (7) How Do I Know That I Am Saved?
October 27, 2019 21:30 - 37 minutes - 16.4 MBRead: Hebrews 6:13-20 1 John 2:1-6 Romans 8:16 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
The Call of Elisha
October 27, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 17.5 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-21 Text: verses 19-21 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah
Reviewing the Basics (6) "What Must I do to Be Saved?"
October 20, 2019 21:30 - 38 minutes - 17.1 MBRead: Mark 1:14-15 Acts 20:17-21 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
The Sound of a Low Whisper
October 20, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 16.2 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-18 Text: verses 11-18 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah
Reviewing the Basics (5) “Who Makes the First Move?”
October 13, 2019 21:30 - 33 minutes - 15 MBRead: John 11:38-44 Romans 8:28-30 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
Facets of Thanksgiving
October 13, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBRead: 1 Chronicles 29:1-22 Text: verses1-17 Download Manuscript
Reviewing the Basics (4) “What is the Good News?”
October 06, 2019 21:30 - 35 minutes - 15.9 MBRead: 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 Download Manuscript Sermon Series: Reviewing the Basics
The LORD’s Question and Elijah’s Complaint
October 06, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 15.4 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-10 Text: 1 Kings 19:9-10 So we have Moses asking for mercy and minimizing justice. And we have Elijah speaking of justice and saying nothing of mercy. This points to a tension in the Old Testament between the mercy and the justice of God. There is an awful lot in the Old Testament of the wrath of God against the sins of his people. But there is also the theme of God’s mercy that runs through the story. And these two aspects of God’s character are in tension with one ...
God Begins to Restore Elijah’s Soul
September 29, 2019 14:00 - 37 minutes - 16.6 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-8 Text: 1 Kings 19:5-8 So while the journey itself was not authorized by God, God was guiding it because he was going to use it to teach Elijah and renew him to his calling. This teaches us that even when we sin God can be directing events so as to teach us things that we need to know from our sins. It is not that God is ever responsible for our sin. But God is able to orchestrate things in such a way that we learn lessons from our sins. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Downl...
Reviewing the Basics (3) “What Does it Mean to be a Sinner?”
September 22, 2019 21:30 - 38 minutes - 17.1 MBRead: Romans 3:9-20 Romans 5:12-21 Ephesians 2:1-7 Our status needs to be changed. In order to be saved our status needs to be changed from guilty to not guilty – from guilty to righteous. But we need more than a change in status before God’s law. The kind of people we are needs to be changed. Our nature needs to be changed. We need to be changed from people who are inclined towards evil to people who are inclined towards obedience. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript Sermon S...
Discouragement and Endurance
September 22, 2019 14:00 - 35 minutes - 15.4 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-4 Revelation 13:1-10 Text: 1 Kings 19:4 On the one hand, we have the revelation of God’s greatness and his power and his glorious promises to defeat evil and bring renewal, but on the other hand it often seems that evil has the upper hand. It often seems that any progress is tiny, and the advance of evil is massive. And that can be true in our individual lives and battles as well. The language of the Bible about the transforming power of salvation for believers is of...
Reviewing the Basics (2) “Why does God make such a big deal about sin?”
September 15, 2019 21:30 - 34 minutes - 15.4 MBRead: Genesis 2:1-17 And so it is possible for us to have life instead of death. We are born dead in sin, but by grace through faith, we can be reconciled to God on the basis of what Jesus has done and so begin to experience the fullness of life that is rooted in a relationship of love with God. The richness of that now already is beyond words, but what we experience know is just a foretaste of what is to come. And the key to it all is giving God his due – living for him and not for ou...
Persecution and Elijah’s Fear
September 15, 2019 14:00 - 33 minutes - 14.9 MBRead: 1 Kings 19:1-3 By nature we are all like Jezebel in our willful blindness to the reality and relevance of God. If we now believe in God and trust in Jesus for salvation, it is only because this miracle of grace as taken place in our lives. God has “shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” This is what Jesus came to do. One of the things that Jesus came to do according to Isaiah 42:7 is give sight to the blind. — R...
Reviewing the Basics (1) God’s Message to the World
September 08, 2019 21:30 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBRead: Luke 24:44-53 Text: verses 45-48 One of the greatest problems in the church and in each of our lives is a failure to live with the reality of who God really is. Our thoughts of God are far too small. Because of that we shove him to the periphery of our lives. The basic truth that we need to constantly be relearning is that everything is about God and that God is overwhelming in his greatness and glory. Our wellbeing in life is tied to our knowledge of the glory of God. And the gr...
Reviewing the Basics
September 08, 2019 21:00This series of sermons is a summary of the basics of the Christian message or the gospel. It is intended to give a clear summary of the biblical message for those whose thinking on some of the fundamental concepts of the gospel is fuzzy while assuming that reviewing the basics is edifying, even for those who have a clear understanding of these matters.
Ahab, Elijah and Prayer
September 08, 2019 14:00 - 34 minutes - 15.5 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 41-46 Text: Verses 41-46 And this short single verse description of Elijah running before Ahab illustrates a hope for change that will soon be disappointed. What this story illustrates is the need for God to act in a new way if there is there is ever going to be lasting change. The story as a whole illustrates that sin leads to famine and death and the fact that it will take more than even something as spectacular as fire from heaven to make a lasting difference....
Jesus, a Pharisee and a Sinful Woman
September 01, 2019 21:30 - 35 minutes - 15.9 MBRead: Luke 7:36-50 We need to examine ourselves. This passage is teaching us that not everyone who is religious is saved. There are ways of being very meticulous about law-keeping while being strangers to Jesus and his mercy. One sign of this is feeling contempt for great sinners. Another sign is a coldness towards Jesus – a lack of love and heartfelt gratitude to him for his mercy towards great sinners. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript
Fire from Heaven
September 01, 2019 14:00 - 39 minutes - 18.2 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 22-24, 30-40 Text: Verses 38-40 What we have here is an expression of God’s grace to his people. The fire that came from heaven fell upon the altar and consumed the burnt offering, the wood and the altar itself. And it did not consume the people. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah
Jesus: God’s Gentle Servant
August 25, 2019 21:30 - 34 minutes - 15.5 MBRead: Matthew 12:9-21 Text: Verses 15-21 Notice that our text speaks of salvation in terms of justice. The salvation that Jesus came to bring involves justice. And justice means that our sins cannot just be overlooked and ignored. If anyone’s sin was just overlooked and ignored, there could never be a world of justice and peace and harmony. And what that means is that for Jesus to not break a bruised reed or not quench a smoldering wick, he himself had to absorb the just penalty for si...
Elijah’s Prayer
August 25, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 16.3 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 22-24, 30-37 Text: Verses 32b-37 The truth of God and about God is revealed with more and more clarity as the story of the Bible progresses. And so it is with this truth of the great significance of the knowledge of God. And as with every other theme in Scripture Jesus Christ is the climax in one way or another. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah
Jesus and the Centurion
August 18, 2019 21:30 - 35 minutes - 15.7 MBRead: Luke 7:1-10 The main purpose of each of the gospels is to reveal Jesus to us and to call us to respond to him in faith and obedience. And since, loving, worshiping and trusting in Jesus is such a central part of what it means to be a Christian, it is always helpful for us to turn to the gospels and reflect on some aspect of what they have to teach us about Jesus, our Saviour and our Lord. — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript
Elijah Repairs the Altar of the LORD
August 18, 2019 14:00 - 36 minutes - 16.2 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 17-24, 30-32a Text: Verses 30-32a You see, idols will take over our lives if we let them. Remember for us, we are talking about things like money and pleasure and comfort when we are talking about idols. Idols are things that take the place of God in our lives – often they are things that are good in themselves, but they become idols if they become God-substitutes. The broken-down altar teaches us that if we are not fighting against idolatry in our lives, the idol...
The Tenth Commandment (2) Contentment
August 11, 2019 21:30 - 36 minutes - 15.9 MBRead: Philippians 4:10-20 Text: Verses 10-13 Knowing Jesus and living to please him is so wonderful – so satisfying – so delightful – that it is possible to be content in every circumstance. That is something to think about! That is something to aspire to. Life can be good and for most of us it is good. But it can be so much better. We can know deeper joys and more profound delights and greater satisfactions by doing whatever it takes to grow in our love for Christ. One thing that this...
The Futility of Trusting Idols
August 11, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 16.8 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 17-29 Text: Verses 23-29 And so it is easy for us to place our trust in the things we can see rather than in the God whom we can’t see. The only way we know that everything that we need comes from God is from the Bible. God tells us in his word that he is our Shepherd and our provider. But we know that by faith. We do not know that empirically. God’s involvement in our lives and in the weather and in the economy is not something that we can discern on the basis of...
The Tenth Commandment (1) You Shall Not Covet
August 04, 2019 21:30 - 35 minutes - 16.1 MBRead: Exodus 20:17 Colossians 3:5 Romans 7:7 This is an important part of the biblical teaching concerning desires. We are to desire some things more than other things. Some desirable things are more important than other desirable things. We are to desire some things with all our hearts, and we are to desire other things with less than all our hearts and there are yet other things that we are not to desire at all. How we order our desires is a moral question. The kinds of things that w...
“Limping Between Two Different Opinions”
August 04, 2019 14:00 - 38 minutes - 16.8 MBRead: 1 Kings 18:1-2, 17-21 Idolatry is anything which takes the place of God in our lives – anything that we love more than God – anything that we trust more than God – anything that we look to, to satisfy our souls more than God. Romans 1:25 gives a short definition of idolatry when it says of mankind in sin that they “worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator.” — Rev. Jerry Hamstra Download Manuscript Sermon Series: The Message of Elijah