Special Guest Speaker Dr. Marshall E. Hatch, Sr Senior Pastor New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church 4301 W. Washington Blvd West Garfield Park community. Series: Back to Church Summary: Dr. Hatch, pastor of New Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, shares a passage from the dedication of the Temple, as a way to think about the oncoming return to church for so many people.

River City Community Church

07.18.21 Guest Speaker Dr Marshall Hatch

Title: A River of Life Text: Ezekiel 47 Summary: Rev. Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil, a spiritual mother of River City, shares a message for River City, as we prepare to return to in-person service. Dr. Brenda reminds us that all power begins at the throneroom of God, and manifests itself in the city through the healing of all the nations.

07.18.21 Guest Speaker Dr. Brenda Salter McNeil,

Series: Trinitarian Love Title: Led by the Spirit Text: Romans 8:14-17 Summary: In the final installment of this series, Pastor Daniel explores the meaning of being led by the Spirit, particularly within the context of experiencing the overwhelming love of God.

7.11.21 Pastor Daniel Hill

Series: Trinitarian Love Title: Jesus is Love Text: John 3:5-17 Summary: In this sermon Pastor Daniel focuses in one of the most famous verses in the Bible: John 3:16. In this passage we are reminded that not only is God's singular motivation love, but that Jesus is the most concrete sign of God's love known to the universe.

07.04.21 Senior Pastor Daniel Hill

Series: Trinitarian Love Title: God is Love Text: 1 John 4:7-16 Summary: What is the most essential characteristic of God? What is the master trait that shapes how we understand all other traits about God? In this sermon, Pastor Daniel contends that John's declaration that "God is love" is the single most important thing we can know about God.

6.27.21 Pastor Daniel Hill Title: God is Love

Series: Trinitarian Love Title: To Know God Text: John 17:1-5 Summary: Using Father's Day as a launching pad, Pastor Daniel reminds us that experiencing the love of the heavenly Father is always a Triune affair.

06.20.21 Pastor Daniel Hill Title: To Know God

Title: Signs of the Kingdom Text: Isaiah 65:17-25 Summary: Jesus teaches us to pray daily, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven." In this sermon, Pastor Daniel asks the questions, "What does it look like when the kingdom of heaven begins to manifest here on earth?" Looking at Isaiah 65, some of the core signs of kingdom come are explored

06.13.21 Pastor Daniel Hill Title: Signs of the Kingdom

Title: Trinitarian Community Text: Acts 4:32-36 Summary: The impetus for being concerned for the socially vulnerable goes beyond just the commands of God - it is seen in the very nature of God's personhood. As a Triune God, the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit live in loving, submitted, self-sacrificial community, which then models how we as followers of Christ are meant to live

06.06.21 Pastor Daniel Hill Title: Trinitarian Community

Title: Seeking shalom Text: Jeremiah 29:4-11, Luke 16:19-31 Summary: In the last part of the vision series, introducing the property next door, Pastor Daniel looks at the importance of seeking the shalom/welfare of the community in which which God has sent us as a church.

05.30.2021 Senior Pastor Daniell Hill

*Please Refer to YouTube channel for visuals* Title: Seeing, loving, protecting, and developing young ones Text: Matthew 18:1-10 Summary: In the second installment in this vision series, Pastor Daniel explores the unusually fierce reaction that Jesus shares when discussing children in harm's way. He also explores the likelihood of the disciples being teenagers, and the way in which that changes the way we think about developing young people

05.23.21 Vision Series Part 2

*Please refer to our youtube channel to see visuals that Pastor Daniel is addressing throughout the sermon* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyboZ9cIO_Y&t=5s Series: Vision series - next door property Title: Lord, Guide us Text: Psalm 23:1-3 Summary: In this sermon Pastor Daniel talks about the Biblical importance of having a theology of place - of seeing the importance of a local church responding to the needs of its immediate community. River City has an opportunity to purchase the land adjacent to our building, and using the lens of Psalm 23, this sermon explores future possibilities for our community.

Title: Lord, Guide us

Series: The Resurrection Life Title: The energy of God Text: Philippians 2:12-18 Summary: In the finale of this series, Christine Chang explores the unique phrase from the Apostle Paul that we should "continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling." Though the word 'work' can conjure certain ideas, this verse sounds completely different when we look at it through the etymology of the word energy.

5-09-21 Christine Chang Lee

Series: The Resurrection Life Title: A time of hope and lament Summary: The Jasmine Sims joins Pastors Daniel and Worship Pastor Aaron to facilitate a time of entering God's presence, bringing both the pain of this past year and the hope that comes only through the resurrection

5.2.21 Title: A time of hope and lament

Series: The Resurrection Life Text: Matthew 27:62-66 Title: Seeing the Resurrected Christ Summary: Rev. David Marrero, Senior Pastor of New Life Covenant Church in Humboldt Park, joins River City as a guest speaker to offer a dynamic sermon about the power of the Resurrected Christ.

4.25.21 Guest Speaker Senior Pastor David Marrero

Series: The Resurrection Life Text: Romans 6:5-10 Title: Risen with Christ Summary: Dr. Gerald Dew, Senior Pastor of Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago, continues our series reflecting on the far reaching impact of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ

4.18.21 Guest Speaker Dr. Gerald Dew, Senior Pastor

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