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The Riverside Church Sermons — 466 episodes

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Title
1

"Partnership, Not Perfection"

2

"A God for All Ages:

3

"A God for All Ages"

4

"Very Much Annoyed"

5

"Recruiting Terrorists"

6

"[We're still here]"

7

"Resurrection Reimagined"

8

"Grace Erupts from a Wound"

9

"Lawful Lynching"

10

"Committed to a Different Kind of Power"

11

"Take a Knee"

12

"When Life Stinks, Life Stll Speaks"

13

"Faith Changes How We See"

14

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

15

"Do Whatever He Tells You"

16

"What Are You Looking For?"

17

"Who Are You?"

18

"When Jesus Was Born"

19

"The Magic in our Mouths"

20

"Seeing in the Dark"

21

"The Shared Self"

22

"One Drop of Justice"

23

"God Was Not in the Fire"

24

"New Beginnings: The Season of Origins"

25

"Invite"

26

"Enough for Today"

27

"A Good Laugh and A Glimmer of Hope"

28

"Planting Small Seeds"

29

"Do That Jazz: Creation, Chaos and Courage"

30

"A Thirst For Wholeness"

31

"Branded"

32

"Imagine the Multitude... Thriving"

33

"Who Is Worthy?"

34

You Can't Unsee Hope

35

"New Day, New Deal"

36

"Imagine Obedience as an Act of Faith"

37

"Time to Get Out of the Boat"

38

"Imagine Living by the Spirit"

39

"Clothe Yourselves With Christ"

40

"Imagine the Shape of Faith"

41

"They Belong to Christ"

42

"The Divine Joke"

43

"Imagine Being Keepers of Memory"

44

"Imagine the Ones Who Get It"

45

"Jesus on the Free-Throw Line"

46

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

47

"What Are We Waiting For?"

48

"The Path of Downward Mobility"

49

"Clear About the Calling"

50

"Blessed is She Who Believed"

51

Imagine Crying Out Against the City

52

Imagine Living on the Edge of Trust

53

"Be Like the Children"

54

"We Are Fragile Creatures"

55

"Faith Over Fear"

56

"Imagine Making Memories and Meaning"

57

"Imagine Business as Unusual"

58

Imagine Fearless Faith

59

"The Original Invitation"

60

"Essential Workers"

61

"Godisnowhere"

62

"This is What Resistance Looks Like"

63

"Are You Ready to Shoot Your Shot?"

64

Wrestling with God

65

"Got Faith?"

66

How Much? So Much!

67

I Wanna Know What Love Is

68

The Queerest Love of All

69

The "S" Word

70

Divine Dependence

71

Call Me By Your Name

72

Choosing to Follow What is Good

73

The Revolutionary Prayer of Jesus

74

Being Church: The Rough Edges of Resurrection

75

Love: A Survival Guide Sermon

76

Credo: I Believe

77

Become Like Children This Earth Day (and beyond)

78

Your Faith Will Make Them Well

79

The Easter Laugh

80

Write Your Own Ending

81

“Get in Formation”

82

"When A Loving God Is Disappointed"

83

Love: True Religion is Heavy

84

Good News Begins in the Wilderness

85

Sitting on the Edge of Freedom

86

Dreams & Nightmares

87

God Looks at Our Love

88

Giving Up

89

Radical Inclusivity

90

Inspite of Us

91

The Battle for Faith Against Fear

92

The Role of the Servant

93

What Do You Want

94

Love Poured Out

95

God's Final Word is Always Life

96

Don't Test Me

97

The Miraculous Healing Power of Touch

98

Joy: True Religion Weeps & Laughs

99

Hope: True Religion Heals

100

What it Means to be God

101

So That This People May Know

102

Acting Human

103

Generation Free

104

God's Shadow and Shade

105

At the Opening of the Tent

106

Sabbath for the Struggling Ones

107

"The Evil Behind the Curtain"

108

Recreate Sabbath

109

"What is This Death?"

110

Unforced Rhythms of Grace

111

Robert's Rules and Righteousness

112

"They" are Here: The Coming Out of Christ

113

Who's Coming to the Cookout?

114

Hope in a Troubled Time

115

Faith In Action

116

God is Old

117

The Innkeeper's Response to the Resurrection

118

To be Continued...

119

A Choreographed Spectacle

120

Sermon by Dr Claudio Carvalhaes March 26, 2023

121

On the Other Side of the Door

122

Knives Out

123

God's Economy

124

Fractured Community? Matthew has a Plan for That

125

An Invitation to Move

126

Good News / Bad News

127

Jesus' Greatest Hits

128

Praying Dangerously

129

Children of God

130

Moving from Mourning to Morning

131

You Belong

132

In the Beginning: Part II

133

Making the World Bright

134

Quietly

135

Who? Me?

136

Wait for It

137

The Voices in our Head

138

That's What It's All About

139

Recovering the Bodies

140

Ugly Truths

141

Prayer Partners

142

Yum

143

The End

144

The Courage to Be

145

Gratitude, Community, Justice, Love

146

Behind the Shroud

147

A New Perspective

148

Ready to Thrive... Freedom

149

Ready or Not...

150

Are You Ready?

151

Get to Livin'

152

Let's Say Grace

153

We Are God's Great Hope

154

You Asked

155

A Song for Sheep

156

The Sobbing School Dropout

157

A Whisper Like Freedom

158

Sermon by Latoya Wilkinson

159

Not this... Pentecost

160

Hope in a Troubled Time

161

Saved for the Kingdom's Sake

162

Simeon and Anna: Kicking the Bucket List

163

Saints and Widows

164

Teach Us to Count Our Days

165

Sermon by Karyn Bigelow

166

Alleluia!

167

In the Midst of a Crowd

168

Water, is taught by thirst

169

Sermon by Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas

170

Our Mother...

171

Mighty Savior, Mother Hen

172

They, Us, All

173

Say Something!

174

STAND

175

Everybody Dance Now

176

After Confession

177

Conjunction-junction What's Your Function?

178

Today

179

Healing from Infirmities of Victimization

180

The Work of Christmas

181

One Thousand Baptisms

182

We Celebrate the Light

183

Love at the Edge: Elizabeth & Mary

184

Homily

185

Peace at the Edge: John

186

At the Edge of Hope

187

The Discipline of Community

188

Take your mask off first!

189

Counting the Saints

190

..And ...

191

Faith and Justice: Breaking White Silence

192

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

193

Rest for the Stressed

194

Worthy

195

God, I Quit!

196

Welcome

197

Who Do You Say That I Am?

198

God's Choice

199

An Equitable Christ

200

The Spirit of Love

201

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

202

Necessary Consumption

203

You Are The...

204

Heaven is a Dangerous Place

205

Unity is Holy Work

206

All the Assembly Kept Silence

207

Do You Not Care?

208

The Resurrection is Now

209

We Need Pentecost

210

Start Again

211

Jesus, Where are you?

212

Mine to Give

213

Sermon by Rev. Debra Northern

214

The Liberation of Climate Justice

215

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

216

The Alchemy of The Apology

217

Sermon by Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson

218

My Name Is...

219

Born Again, Again

220

Listening for Dinah

221

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

222

God, please

223

Don't Let The Darkness Fool You

224

The Real Temptation

225

2020 Vision

226

Salt, Spirit, Service

227

Do. Love. Walk.

228

John's In Jail

229

There's Power In The Problem

230

Grown-Up Faith

231

So What?

232

The Story of My Life

233

Making Room For Love: Angel in the House

234

Making Room For Joy: All Nature Sing

235

Making Room for Hope: Advent Affirmations

236

The Courage To Ask

237

Wet Feet

238

Work, God is Near

239

A Rich Inheritance For All

240

When The Tears Won't Stop

241

Tell A Story

242

Redwood in the Backwood

243

For the Love

244

The Incomparable Journey from Here to There

245

The High Cost of Discipleship

246

A Wind Too Strong

247

Living as Thou

248

Go Speak

249

How Long

250

No Justice, No Worship

251

A Radical Kind of Love

252

Pray

253

In the Moment

254

Getting to Good

255

Ready or Not

256

Certain Standards

257

How Can I Keep From Singing

258

How to Be a Good Man

259

Fire Extinguisher

260

A Bethany Kind of Place

261

Do You Want To Be Made Well

262

Who Are You

263

Interrupted

264

Fear and Forgiveness

265

Esau and Jacob

266

The Worst Sin of All

267

All that is Lost

268

Cain and Abel

269

Paradise Lost

270

Above, Below

271

Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Faith

272

Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Endurance

273

The Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Witness

274

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

275

When God Shows Up

276

Tell Me My Name

277

Go

278

God Keeps Promises

279

God Rights Wrongs

280

God is in Control?

281

Be Still and Go: Season 2

282

I Just Can't Wait to be King

283

Pennies and Privilege

284

Being Church in Divided Times

285

The Stewardship of Sight and Sound

286

Terrified, Shocked, Naked

287

Living a Good Life: A Good Practice

288

Living a Good Life: A Good Cause

289

Living A Good Life: A Good Community

290

Living a Good Life: A Good Mind

291

Living a Good Life: A Good Name

292

Dear Church, What's the Point?

293

Dear Church, It's Time For Wise Living

294

Dear Church- Unity, We Can Do It

295

Dear Church, Share the Love

296

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

297

Jesus and The Disinherited

298

I Just Can't Keep It To Myself

299

Overboard

300

Dear Church, We've Been Blessed

301

Sabbath as Radical Witness

302

Sabbath As Restoration

303

Sabbath as Refocusing

304

Sabbath as Renewal

305

Sabbath as Relationship

306

Jesus the Rulebreaker

307

Sabbath as Remembering

308

How Can These Things Be?

309

Lydia Joins the Movement

310

Best Laid Plans

311

Fooled By Loneliness

312

Fooled By Love

313

Fooled By Comfort

314

Fooled By The Past

315

Fooled by Fear

316

Making a Movement

317

Look Up

318

Buildings and Bodies

319

Bumper Sticker Living

320

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

321

Inviting God Back Into The Garden

322

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

323

Who am I and Why am I Here?

324

God with Skin On

325

Thin Places...

326

Never an Orphan (Space for Grace)

327

Rise

328

A Teaching Moment- Simple Gifts: Food

329

Simple Gifts: Waiting of the Light

330

Feels Like Home

331

Money, Money, Money, Money

332

A Time for Sharing (Space for Grace)

333

Like This

334

Overdraft (Space for Grace)

335

Receive This Blessing

336

For All the Saints (Space For Grace)

337

You Say You Want a Reformation

338

Sing a New Song (Space for Grace)

339

Children's Sabbath

340

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

341

Wedding Crashers

342

Stand Your Ground (Space for Grace)

343

Who's Vineyard? Who's Vision?

344

The Posture of the Pilgrim

345

What Belongs to Me

346

Ridiculous... Required

347

All We Need is Love

348

I Have Decided

349

Rebellious Resistance

350

Untitled

351

Is Like

352

#Blessed

353

Never Reduce Your Dreams

354

A Church for the City

355

Sow What?

356

Prisoners of Hope

357

Welcoming the Children

358

From Monuments to Movements

359

The End and the Beginning

360

Learning to Listen

361

Who'll be a Witness?

362

Never Alone

363

Sad, Scared, and Stingy

364

The Land of Cheap Knockoffs

365

Signs of Life: Clue

366

Everything Must Change

367

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

368

Sermon: 04.09.17 Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

369

Sermon: 04.02.17: Rev. William Barber II

370

Sermon: 03.26.17: Rev. Michael E. Livingston

371

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

372

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

373

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

374

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

375

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

376

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

377

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

378

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

379

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

380

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

381

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

382

Sermon: 01.01.17: Rev. Michael Livingston

383

Sermon: 12.25.16: Rev. Kevin Wright

384

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

385

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

386

Sermon 11.27.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler

387

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

388

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

389

Sermon: 10.16.16: Fr. Michael Lapsley

390

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

391

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

392

Sermon: 09.25.16: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler

393

Sermon: 09.18.16: Rev. Rachel Johnson

394

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

395

Sermon: 09.04.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

396

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

397

Sermon: 08.21.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

398

Sermon: 08.14.16 : Rev. Ellen Robinson

399

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

400

Sermon: 07.31.16: Ms. Christian Peele

401

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

402

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

403

Sermon: 07.03.16: Rev. Bertram Johnson

404

Sermon: 06.26.16: Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton

405

Worship 06.26.16 Rev.Brad Braxton

406

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

407

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

408

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

409

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

410

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

411

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

412

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

413

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

414

Sermon: 04.24.16: Rev. Michael E. Livingston

415

Sermon: 04.17.16: Rev. Dr. Tom Long

416

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

417

Sermon: 04.03.16: Rev. Cornell Brooks

418

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

419

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

420

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

421

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

422

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

423

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

424

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

425

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

426

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

427

Sermon: 01.24.16: Ms. Christian Peele

428

Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Kevin Wright

429

Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Dr. William Barber II

430

Sunday Worship: 01.10.16: Rev. Michael Livingston

431

Sermon: 01.03.16: Rev. John Dorhauer

432

Sermon: 12.27.15: Rev. Rachel Johnson

433

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

434

Sermon: 12.13.15

435

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

436

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

437

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

438

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

439

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

440

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

441

Sermon: 11.01.15: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler

442

Sermon: 10.25.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

443

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

444

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

445

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

446

Sermon: 09.27.15: Rev. Dr. Brian Mclaren

447

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

448

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

449

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

450

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

451

Sermon: 08.30.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

452

Sermon: 08.23.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega

453

Sermon: 08.16.15: Rev. Debra Northern

454

Sermon: 08.09.15: Rev. Kevin Wright

455

Sermon: 08.02.15: Ms. Christian Peele

456

Sermon: 07.26.15: Rev. Luke Powery

457

Sermon: 07.19.15: Rev. M.E. Livingston

458

Sermon: 07.12.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega

459

Sermon: 07.05.15: Rev. J. Brent Walker

460

Sermon: 06.28.15: Rev. Allyson Robinson

461

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

462

Sermon: 06.14.15: Rev. Dr. Jana Childers

463

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

464

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

465

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

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Sermon: 05.17.15: Dr. Diana Bass