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The Riverside Church Sermons — 472 episodes

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Title
1

Abide

2

Rooted, Built Up, and Established

3

Sow What?!

4

"Just as I Am"

5

"For the Sake of God's World"

6

"The Technique of Faith"

7

"Partnership, Not Perfection"

8

"A God for All Ages:

9

"A God for All Ages"

10

"Very Much Annoyed"

11

"Recruiting Terrorists"

12

"[We're still here]"

13

"Resurrection Reimagined"

14

"Grace Erupts from a Wound"

15

"Lawful Lynching"

16

"Committed to a Different Kind of Power"

17

"Take a Knee"

18

"When Life Stinks, Life Stll Speaks"

19

"Faith Changes How We See"

20

"Dancing With Jesus (Or God's Transgressive Border Crossing)"

21

"Do Whatever He Tells You"

22

"What Are You Looking For?"

23

"Who Are You?"

24

"When Jesus Was Born"

25

"The Magic in our Mouths"

26

"Seeing in the Dark"

27

"The Shared Self"

28

"One Drop of Justice"

29

"God Was Not in the Fire"

30

"New Beginnings: The Season of Origins"

31

"Invite"

32

"Enough for Today"

33

"A Good Laugh and A Glimmer of Hope"

34

"Planting Small Seeds"

35

"Do That Jazz: Creation, Chaos and Courage"

36

"A Thirst For Wholeness"

37

"Branded"

38

"Imagine the Multitude... Thriving"

39

"Who Is Worthy?"

40

You Can't Unsee Hope

41

"New Day, New Deal"

42

"Imagine Obedience as an Act of Faith"

43

"Time to Get Out of the Boat"

44

"Imagine Living by the Spirit"

45

"Clothe Yourselves With Christ"

46

"Imagine the Shape of Faith"

47

"They Belong to Christ"

48

"The Divine Joke"

49

"Imagine Being Keepers of Memory"

50

"Imagine the Ones Who Get It"

51

"Jesus on the Free-Throw Line"

52

"A Scandalous Love: Desiring, Touching and Caressing the Divine"

53

"What Are We Waiting For?"

54

"The Path of Downward Mobility"

55

"Clear About the Calling"

56

"Blessed is She Who Believed"

57

Imagine Crying Out Against the City

58

Imagine Living on the Edge of Trust

59

"Be Like the Children"

60

"We Are Fragile Creatures"

61

"Faith Over Fear"

62

"Imagine Making Memories and Meaning"

63

"Imagine Business as Unusual"

64

Imagine Fearless Faith

65

"The Original Invitation"

66

"Essential Workers"

67

"Godisnowhere"

68

"This is What Resistance Looks Like"

69

"Are You Ready to Shoot Your Shot?"

70

Wrestling with God

71

"Got Faith?"

72

How Much? So Much!

73

I Wanna Know What Love Is

74

The Queerest Love of All

75

The "S" Word

76

Divine Dependence

77

Call Me By Your Name

78

Choosing to Follow What is Good

79

The Revolutionary Prayer of Jesus

80

Being Church: The Rough Edges of Resurrection

81

Love: A Survival Guide Sermon

82

Credo: I Believe

83

Become Like Children This Earth Day (and beyond)

84

Your Faith Will Make Them Well

85

The Easter Laugh

86

Write Your Own Ending

87

“Get in Formation”

88

"When A Loving God Is Disappointed"

89

Love: True Religion is Heavy

90

Good News Begins in the Wilderness

91

Sitting on the Edge of Freedom

92

Dreams & Nightmares

93

God Looks at Our Love

94

Giving Up

95

Radical Inclusivity

96

Inspite of Us

97

The Battle for Faith Against Fear

98

The Role of the Servant

99

What Do You Want

100

Love Poured Out

101

God's Final Word is Always Life

102

Don't Test Me

103

The Miraculous Healing Power of Touch

104

Joy: True Religion Weeps & Laughs

105

Hope: True Religion Heals

106

What it Means to be God

107

So That This People May Know

108

Acting Human

109

Generation Free

110

God's Shadow and Shade

111

At the Opening of the Tent

112

Sabbath for the Struggling Ones

113

"The Evil Behind the Curtain"

114

Recreate Sabbath

115

"What is This Death?"

116

Unforced Rhythms of Grace

117

Robert's Rules and Righteousness

118

"They" are Here: The Coming Out of Christ

119

Who's Coming to the Cookout?

120

Hope in a Troubled Time

121

Faith In Action

122

God is Old

123

The Innkeeper's Response to the Resurrection

124

To be Continued...

125

A Choreographed Spectacle

126

Sermon by Dr Claudio Carvalhaes March 26, 2023

127

On the Other Side of the Door

128

Knives Out

129

God's Economy

130

Fractured Community? Matthew has a Plan for That

131

An Invitation to Move

132

Good News / Bad News

133

Jesus' Greatest Hits

134

Praying Dangerously

135

Children of God

136

Moving from Mourning to Morning

137

You Belong

138

In the Beginning: Part II

139

Making the World Bright

140

Quietly

141

Who? Me?

142

Wait for It

143

The Voices in our Head

144

That's What It's All About

145

Recovering the Bodies

146

Ugly Truths

147

Prayer Partners

148

Yum

149

The End

150

The Courage to Be

151

Gratitude, Community, Justice, Love

152

Behind the Shroud

153

A New Perspective

154

Ready to Thrive... Freedom

155

Ready or Not...

156

Are You Ready?

157

Get to Livin'

158

Let's Say Grace

159

We Are God's Great Hope

160

You Asked

161

A Song for Sheep

162

The Sobbing School Dropout

163

A Whisper Like Freedom

164

Sermon by Latoya Wilkinson

165

Not this... Pentecost

166

Hope in a Troubled Time

167

Saved for the Kingdom's Sake

168

Simeon and Anna: Kicking the Bucket List

169

Saints and Widows

170

Teach Us to Count Our Days

171

Sermon by Karyn Bigelow

172

Alleluia!

173

In the Midst of a Crowd

174

Water, is taught by thirst

175

Sermon by Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas

176

Our Mother...

177

Mighty Savior, Mother Hen

178

They, Us, All

179

Say Something!

180

STAND

181

Everybody Dance Now

182

After Confession

183

Conjunction-junction What's Your Function?

184

Today

185

Healing from Infirmities of Victimization

186

The Work of Christmas

187

One Thousand Baptisms

188

We Celebrate the Light

189

Love at the Edge: Elizabeth & Mary

190

Homily

191

Peace at the Edge: John

192

At the Edge of Hope

193

The Discipline of Community

194

Take your mask off first!

195

Counting the Saints

196

..And ...

197

Faith and Justice: Breaking White Silence

198

Seen & Not Heard: Raising a Nation by Listening to Children

199

Rest for the Stressed

200

Worthy

201

God, I Quit!

202

Welcome

203

Who Do You Say That I Am?

204

God's Choice

205

An Equitable Christ

206

The Spirit of Love

207

To Kill or not To Kill: The Question for our Nation

208

Necessary Consumption

209

You Are The...

210

Heaven is a Dangerous Place

211

Unity is Holy Work

212

All the Assembly Kept Silence

213

Do You Not Care?

214

The Resurrection is Now

215

We Need Pentecost

216

Start Again

217

Jesus, Where are you?

218

Mine to Give

219

Sermon by Rev. Debra Northern

220

The Liberation of Climate Justice

221

Ride On, King Jesus, No One Can Hinder Me!

222

The Alchemy of The Apology

223

Sermon by Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

224

My Name Is...

225

Born Again, Again

226

Listening for Dinah

227

Healing from Below by Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper | February 14, 2021

228

God, please

229

Don't Let The Darkness Fool You

230

The Real Temptation

231

2020 Vision

232

Salt, Spirit, Service

233

Do. Love. Walk.

234

John's In Jail

235

There's Power In The Problem

236

Grown-Up Faith

237

So What?

238

The Story of My Life

239

Making Room For Love: Angel in the House

240

Making Room For Joy: All Nature Sing

241

Making Room for Hope: Advent Affirmations

242

The Courage To Ask

243

Wet Feet

244

Work, God is Near

245

A Rich Inheritance For All

246

When The Tears Won't Stop

247

Tell A Story

248

Redwood in the Backwood

249

For the Love

250

The Incomparable Journey from Here to There

251

The High Cost of Discipleship

252

A Wind Too Strong

253

Living as Thou

254

Go Speak

255

How Long

256

No Justice, No Worship

257

A Radical Kind of Love

258

Pray

259

In the Moment

260

Getting to Good

261

Ready or Not

262

Certain Standards

263

How Can I Keep From Singing

264

How to Be a Good Man

265

Fire Extinguisher

266

A Bethany Kind of Place

267

Do You Want To Be Made Well

268

Who Are You

269

Interrupted

270

Fear and Forgiveness

271

Esau and Jacob

272

The Worst Sin of All

273

All that is Lost

274

Cain and Abel

275

Paradise Lost

276

Above, Below

277

Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Faith

278

Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Endurance

279

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Witness

280

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years, The Truth Will Set You Free

281

When God Shows Up

282

Tell Me My Name

283

Go

284

God Keeps Promises

285

God Rights Wrongs

286

God is in Control?

287

Be Still and Go: Season 2

288

I Just Can't Wait to be King

289

Pennies and Privilege

290

Being Church in Divided Times

291

The Stewardship of Sight and Sound

292

Terrified, Shocked, Naked

293

Living a Good Life: A Good Practice

294

Living a Good Life: A Good Cause

295

Living A Good Life: A Good Community

296

Living a Good Life: A Good Mind

297

Living a Good Life: A Good Name

298

Dear Church, What's the Point?

299

Dear Church, It's Time For Wise Living

300

Dear Church- Unity, We Can Do It

301

Dear Church, Share the Love

302

Dear Church, What Do We Do When the Walls Fall Down?

303

Jesus and The Disinherited

304

I Just Can't Keep It To Myself

305

Overboard

306

Dear Church, We've Been Blessed

307

Sabbath as Radical Witness

308

Sabbath As Restoration

309

Sabbath as Refocusing

310

Sabbath as Renewal

311

Sabbath as Relationship

312

Jesus the Rulebreaker

313

Sabbath as Remembering

314

How Can These Things Be?

315

Lydia Joins the Movement

316

Best Laid Plans

317

Fooled By Loneliness

318

Fooled By Love

319

Fooled By Comfort

320

Fooled By The Past

321

Fooled by Fear

322

Making a Movement

323

Look Up

324

Buildings and Bodies

325

Bumper Sticker Living

326

It's a new Dawn, It's a new Day, It's a new Life...

327

Inviting God Back Into The Garden

328

We're launching a new podcast -- Be Still and Go: Meditations for the Movement

329

Who am I and Why am I Here?

330

God with Skin On

331

Thin Places...

332

Never an Orphan (Space for Grace)

333

Rise

334

A Teaching Moment- Simple Gifts: Food

335

Simple Gifts: Waiting of the Light

336

Feels Like Home

337

Money, Money, Money, Money

338

A Time for Sharing (Space for Grace)

339

Like This

340

Overdraft (Space for Grace)

341

Receive This Blessing

342

For All the Saints (Space For Grace)

343

You Say You Want a Reformation

344

Sing a New Song (Space for Grace)

345

Children's Sabbath

346

Creating Safe Spaces on the Journey towards Healing (Space for Grace)

347

Wedding Crashers

348

Stand Your Ground (Space for Grace)

349

Who's Vineyard? Who's Vision?

350

The Posture of the Pilgrim

351

What Belongs to Me

352

Ridiculous... Required

353

All We Need is Love

354

I Have Decided

355

Rebellious Resistance

356

Untitled

357

Is Like

358

#Blessed

359

Never Reduce Your Dreams

360

A Church for the City

361

Sow What?

362

Prisoners of Hope

363

Welcoming the Children

364

From Monuments to Movements

365

The End and the Beginning

366

Learning to Listen

367

Who'll be a Witness?

368

Never Alone

369

Sad, Scared, and Stingy

370

The Land of Cheap Knockoffs

371

Signs of Life: Clue

372

Everything Must Change

373

Sermon: 04.15.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

374

Sermon: 04.09.17 Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

375

Sermon: 04.02.17: Rev. William Barber II

376

Sermon: 03.26.17: Rev. Michael E. Livingston

377

Sermon: 03.19.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

378

Sermon: 03.12.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

379

Sermon: 03.05.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

380

Sermon: 02.26.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

381

Sermon: 02.19.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

382

Sermon: 02.12.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

383

Sermon: 02.05.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

384

Sermon: 01.29.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

385

Sermon: 01.22.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

386

Sermon: 01.15.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

387

Sermon: 01.08.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

388

Sermon: 01.01.17: Rev. Michael Livingston

389

Sermon: 12.25.16: Rev. Kevin Wright

390

Sermon: 12.04.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

391

Sermon: 12.11.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

392

Sermon 11.27.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

393

sermon: 11.20.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

394

Sermon: 10.23.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

395

Sermon: 10.16.16: Fr. Michael Lapsley

396

Sermon: 10.09.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

397

Sermon: 10.02.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

398

Sermon: 09.25.16: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler

399

Sermon: 09.18.16: Rev. Rachel Johnson

400

Sermon: 09.11.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

401

Sermon: 09.04.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

402

Sermon: 08.26.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

403

Sermon: 08.21.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

404

Sermon: 08.14.16 : Rev. Ellen Robinson

405

Sermon: 08.07.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

406

Sermon: 07.31.16: Ms. Christian Peele

407

Sermon: 07.17.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

408

Sermon: 07.10.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

409

Sermon: 07.03.16: Rev. Bertram Johnson

410

Sermon: 06.26.16: Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton

411

Worship 06.26.16 Rev.Brad Braxton

412

Sermon: 06.19.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

413

Sermon: 06.12.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

414

Sermon: 06.05.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

415

Sermon: 05.29.16: Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.

416

Sermon: 05.22.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

417

Sermon: 05.15.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

418

Sermon: 05.08.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

419

Sermon: 05.01.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

420

Sermon: 04.24.16: Rev. Michael E. Livingston

421

Sermon: 04.17.16: Rev. Dr. Tom Long

422

Sermon: 04.10.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

423

Sermon: 04.03.16: Rev. Cornell Brooks

424

Sermon: 03.27.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

425

Sermon: 03.20.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

426

Sermon: 03.13.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

427

Sermon: 03.06.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

428

Sermon: 02.28.16: Rev. Dr. Amy. K. Butler

429

Sermon: 02.21.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

430

Sermon: 02.14.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

431

Sermon: 02.07.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

432

Sermon: 01.31.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

433

Sermon: 01.24.16: Ms. Christian Peele

434

Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Kevin Wright

435

Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Dr. William Barber II

436

Sunday Worship: 01.10.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

437

Sermon: 01.03.16: Rev. John Dorhauer

438

Sermon: 12.27.15: Rev. Rachel Johnson

439

Sermon: 12.20.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

440

Sermon: 12.13.15

441

Sermon: 12.06.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

442

Sermon: 11.29.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

443

Sermon: 11.22.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

444

Sermon: 11.15.15: Rev. Dr. Michael E. Livingston

445

Sunday Worship: 11.15.15: Rev. Dr. Michael E. Livingston

446

Sermon: 11.08.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

447

Sermon: 11.01.15: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler

448

Sermon: 10.25.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

449

Sermon: 10.18.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

450

Sermon: 10.11.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

451

Sermon: 10.04.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

452

Sermon: 09.27.15: Rev. Dr. Brian Mclaren

453

Sermon: 09.20.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

454

Sermon: 09.13.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

455

Sermon: 09.06.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler and Rev. Michael Livingston

456

Sunday Worship: 09.07.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler & Rev. Michael Livingston

457

Sermon: 08.30.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

458

Sermon: 08.23.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega

459

Sermon: 08.16.15: Rev. Debra Northern

460

Sermon: 08.09.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

461

Sermon: 08.02.15: Ms. Christian Peele

462

Sermon: 07.26.15: Rev. Luke Powery

463

Sermon: 07.19.15: Rev. M.E. Livingston

464

Sermon: 07.12.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega

465

Sermon: 07.05.15: Rev. J. Brent Walker

466

Sermon: 06.28.15: Rev. Allyson Robinson

467

Sermon: 06.21.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

468

Sermon: 06.14.15: Rev. Dr. Jana Childers

469

Sermon: 06.07.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

470

Sermon: 05.31.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

471

Sermon: 05.24.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

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Sermon: 05.17.15: Dr. Diana Bass