River City Blog

It was a joy to host the 2017 A29 Midwest Conference "Jesus Is Bigger" here in Fargo. A number of folks who attended the conference have asked for some of the music we sang together. Below is a breakdown of the songs by session along with author/artist information. All for Christ! ~~~~~~~ Thusday - Session 1 "In Tenderness" (Public Domain: arr. Citizens Saints) ...

How do the people we encounter in our neighborhoods, in the dorms, in the office, make sense of the world? How do they view what's wrong with society? Where do they look to for hope? What do they consider to be good news?...

Far too often I am the detective from Law & Order asking question after question that makes people feel more like suspects than actual people. Becoming an audience and receiving what is the most important information validates the individual as one embedded in this broken world, and shows a willingness to learn more of how they have actually experienced that brokenness....

As the Lord moves me here and moves me there, giving new opportunities for relational connections everyday, I hope to be open to those opportunities and step into them by faith....

So how does this missional, outreach-oriented church manage nearly as a whole (as a collective of individuals' actions) to overlook, avoid, whatever, a lone father and his son?...

The description of this destruction in Hosea is tough to read and brings present day realities to mind, even for disciples of Jesus on this side of the cross. The question that comes to mind is as follows: Through what sort of lens are we to view these acts of punishment?...

This past weekend we were challenged and encouraged by our friend and brother Reid Monaghan as he presented a seminar on parenting called Love and Grace: Aiming Children In A Godward Direction We were given some great content and had some solid interaction with one another around how we can faithfully fulfill our roles as parents and encourage one another, in the body of...

This summer, River City Church will spend time in the book of Colossians in a preaching series titled, Christ is All. We're excited about the truth that we'll engage, and we anticipate great blessing as we'll hear 9 different men preach from God's Word. You might ask, "Why the book of Colossians?" or "What led to the decision to choose Colossians over the other 65 books?"...

Pastor Jeremy Martinson and I provide a brief explanation as to why we are concluding our sermon series in Mark 16:8 and not preaching Mark 16:9-20....

We're on the cusp of multiplying a congregation of worshippers into the SW part of our city. To celebrate what God has been doing among us and to commission some of our church family to plant this new congregation we will NOT be meeting downtown but we will all worship together in one all-church worship service at the Cambria Suites and Convention Center in West Fargo whe...