The Story: Conclusion :: YouVersion Event

Meet Royal Redeemer’s pastors after the contemporary worship service on the first Sunday of each month. Online worshipers gather on a Zoom call following worship. In-person worshipers gather in the cafe. Bring your questions, comments, and ideas for ministry at Royal Redeemer. For more information, contact Pastor Joel pastorjoel@royalredeemer.org

Children’s Christmas Pageant

The Preschool and children of the church (up to grade 4) will be performing One Night in Bethlehem. Registration is open and the deadline is November 14th. First practice will be November 14th at 1:00pm.

Questions??? Contact Dianna Bowers, diannabowers@royalredeemer.org

Women’s Morning Bible Study

Women’s Morning Bible Study will have a new study beginning November 8. They will be studying the Max Lucado book 'You Were Made for This' Find out more information and register by clicking here: https://www.royalredeemer.org/grow/#adult-discipleship

Marriage One Night Event

Marriage One Night Event, On Friday, December 3, from 5:30-7:00pm, Royal Redeemer is hosting another Marriage Event! It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the messiness of marriage...all the scary stats, all the sad stories. But we believe marriage doesn’t have to be complicated, exhausting, or full of endless to-do lists. It can start with just one thing.

That’s what we’ll be discussing in our upcoming marriage event on Friday, December 3.

Also, that same night we are having a “Drop and Shop” with our High School students providing childcare for parents to get some holiday shopping done or attend a marriage event and go on a date!

The cost of the event is $20 and it’s all going toward the National Youth Gathering.

All you have to do to register for the event and the childcare is sign up in the Commons or online by clicking here: https://www.royalredeemer.org/events/marriage-one-day-event/

Questions? Contact Pastor Ben pastorben@royalredeemer.org

What holds us back from genuine spiritual experience?

I needed to change. The more time I spent in the Bible, the more I knew that I needed to change the way I read it.

Has this ever happened to you? You think you have the Bible all figured out and then something happens; maybe it’s plagiarism in front of a room of people, but maybe it’s a tragedy in your life, or maybe you just grow up and experience more, but something happens and it rocks the way you read the Bible.

1. Begin as Beloved

Mark 1:11 NIV

2. In case of emergency, ask two questions:

1. How does this story help me understand Messiah Jesus?

2. How does this lower story fit into God’s upper story of salvation?

Luke 24:44 NIV

2 Timothy 3:15-17 NIV

Luke 16:31 NIV

3. Don’t settle for easy answers

"I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."

Rainer Marie Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“The new leaven is the faith and grace of the Spirit, it does not leaven the whole lump at once, but gently, and gradually, we become like this new leaven and eventually, a bread of God. This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished, but it is actively going on. This is not the goal but it is the right road. At present, everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed.”Martin Luther (Defense and Explanation of All the Articles, Luther’s Works American Edition, Vol. 32. P. 24)