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The Riverside Church Sermons — 478 episodes
Diamond Loyalty
"Our Holy Odyssey"
Remember Jesus, Re-Member Church
Fierce Faith: Living into Our Altar Egos
Awakening and Anchoring
"The Grace to Change"
Abide
Rooted, Built Up, and Established
Sow What?!
"Just as I Am"
"For the Sake of God's World"
"The Technique of Faith"
"Partnership, Not Perfection"
"A God for All Ages:
"A God for All Ages"
"Very Much Annoyed"
"Recruiting Terrorists"
"[We're still here]"
"Resurrection Reimagined"
"Grace Erupts from a Wound"
"Lawful Lynching"
"Committed to a Different Kind of Power"
"Take a Knee"
"When Life Stinks, Life Stll Speaks"
"Faith Changes How We See"
"Dancing With Jesus (Or God's Transgressive Border Crossing)"
"Do Whatever He Tells You"
"What Are You Looking For?"
"Who Are You?"
"When Jesus Was Born"
"The Magic in our Mouths"
"Seeing in the Dark"
"The Shared Self"
"One Drop of Justice"
"God Was Not in the Fire"
"New Beginnings: The Season of Origins"
"Invite"
"Enough for Today"
"A Good Laugh and A Glimmer of Hope"
"Planting Small Seeds"
"Do That Jazz: Creation, Chaos and Courage"
"A Thirst For Wholeness"
"Branded"
"Imagine the Multitude... Thriving"
"Who Is Worthy?"
You Can't Unsee Hope
"New Day, New Deal"
"Imagine Obedience as an Act of Faith"
"Time to Get Out of the Boat"
"Imagine Living by the Spirit"
"Clothe Yourselves With Christ"
"Imagine the Shape of Faith"
"They Belong to Christ"
"The Divine Joke"
"Imagine Being Keepers of Memory"
"Imagine the Ones Who Get It"
"Jesus on the Free-Throw Line"
"A Scandalous Love: Desiring, Touching and Caressing the Divine"
"What Are We Waiting For?"
"The Path of Downward Mobility"
"Clear About the Calling"
"Blessed is She Who Believed"
Imagine Crying Out Against the City
Imagine Living on the Edge of Trust
"Be Like the Children"
"We Are Fragile Creatures"
"Faith Over Fear"
"Imagine Making Memories and Meaning"
"Imagine Business as Unusual"
Imagine Fearless Faith
"The Original Invitation"
"Essential Workers"
"Godisnowhere"
"This is What Resistance Looks Like"
"Are You Ready to Shoot Your Shot?"
Wrestling with God
"Got Faith?"
How Much? So Much!
I Wanna Know What Love Is
The Queerest Love of All
The "S" Word
Divine Dependence
Call Me By Your Name
Choosing to Follow What is Good
The Revolutionary Prayer of Jesus
Being Church: The Rough Edges of Resurrection
Love: A Survival Guide Sermon
Credo: I Believe
Become Like Children This Earth Day (and beyond)
Your Faith Will Make Them Well
The Easter Laugh
Write Your Own Ending
“Get in Formation”
"When A Loving God Is Disappointed"
Love: True Religion is Heavy
Good News Begins in the Wilderness
Sitting on the Edge of Freedom
Dreams & Nightmares
God Looks at Our Love
Giving Up
Radical Inclusivity
Inspite of Us
The Battle for Faith Against Fear
The Role of the Servant
What Do You Want
Love Poured Out
God's Final Word is Always Life
Don't Test Me
The Miraculous Healing Power of Touch
Joy: True Religion Weeps & Laughs
Hope: True Religion Heals
What it Means to be God
So That This People May Know
Acting Human
Generation Free
God's Shadow and Shade
At the Opening of the Tent
Sabbath for the Struggling Ones
"The Evil Behind the Curtain"
Recreate Sabbath
"What is This Death?"
Unforced Rhythms of Grace
Robert's Rules and Righteousness
"They" are Here: The Coming Out of Christ
Who's Coming to the Cookout?
Hope in a Troubled Time
Faith In Action
God is Old
The Innkeeper's Response to the Resurrection
To be Continued...
A Choreographed Spectacle
Sermon by Dr Claudio Carvalhaes March 26, 2023
On the Other Side of the Door
Knives Out
God's Economy
Fractured Community? Matthew has a Plan for That
An Invitation to Move
Good News / Bad News
Jesus' Greatest Hits
Praying Dangerously
Children of God
Moving from Mourning to Morning
You Belong
In the Beginning: Part II
Making the World Bright
Quietly
Who? Me?
Wait for It
The Voices in our Head
That's What It's All About
Recovering the Bodies
Ugly Truths
Prayer Partners
Yum
The End
The Courage to Be
Gratitude, Community, Justice, Love
Behind the Shroud
A New Perspective
Ready to Thrive... Freedom
Ready or Not...
Are You Ready?
Get to Livin'
Let's Say Grace
We Are God's Great Hope
You Asked
A Song for Sheep
The Sobbing School Dropout
A Whisper Like Freedom
Sermon by Latoya Wilkinson
Not this... Pentecost
Hope in a Troubled Time
Saved for the Kingdom's Sake
Simeon and Anna: Kicking the Bucket List
Saints and Widows
Teach Us to Count Our Days
Sermon by Karyn Bigelow
Alleluia!
In the Midst of a Crowd
Water, is taught by thirst
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas
Our Mother...
Mighty Savior, Mother Hen
They, Us, All
Say Something!
STAND
Everybody Dance Now
After Confession
Conjunction-junction What's Your Function?
Today
Healing from Infirmities of Victimization
The Work of Christmas
One Thousand Baptisms
We Celebrate the Light
Love at the Edge: Elizabeth & Mary
Homily
Peace at the Edge: John
At the Edge of Hope
The Discipline of Community
Take your mask off first!
Counting the Saints
..And ...
Faith and Justice: Breaking White Silence
Seen & Not Heard: Raising a Nation by Listening to Children
Rest for the Stressed
Worthy
God, I Quit!
Welcome
Who Do You Say That I Am?
God's Choice
An Equitable Christ
The Spirit of Love
To Kill or not To Kill: The Question for our Nation
Necessary Consumption
You Are The...
Heaven is a Dangerous Place
Unity is Holy Work
All the Assembly Kept Silence
Do You Not Care?
The Resurrection is Now
We Need Pentecost
Start Again
Jesus, Where are you?
Mine to Give
Sermon by Rev. Debra Northern
The Liberation of Climate Justice
Ride On, King Jesus, No One Can Hinder Me!
The Alchemy of The Apology
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
My Name Is...
Born Again, Again
Listening for Dinah
Healing from Below by Rev. Lynn Casteel Harper | February 14, 2021
God, please
Don't Let The Darkness Fool You
The Real Temptation
2020 Vision
Salt, Spirit, Service
Do. Love. Walk.
John's In Jail
There's Power In The Problem
Grown-Up Faith
So What?
The Story of My Life
Making Room For Love: Angel in the House
Making Room For Joy: All Nature Sing
Making Room for Hope: Advent Affirmations
The Courage To Ask
Wet Feet
Work, God is Near
A Rich Inheritance For All
When The Tears Won't Stop
Tell A Story
Redwood in the Backwood
For the Love
The Incomparable Journey from Here to There
The High Cost of Discipleship
A Wind Too Strong
Living as Thou
Go Speak
How Long
No Justice, No Worship
A Radical Kind of Love
Pray
In the Moment
Getting to Good
Ready or Not
Certain Standards
How Can I Keep From Singing
How to Be a Good Man
Fire Extinguisher
A Bethany Kind of Place
Do You Want To Be Made Well
Who Are You
Interrupted
Fear and Forgiveness
Esau and Jacob
The Worst Sin of All
All that is Lost
Cain and Abel
Paradise Lost
Above, Below
Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Faith
Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Endurance
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years: Witness
The Hopes and Fears of All the Years, The Truth Will Set You Free
When God Shows Up
Tell Me My Name
Go
God Keeps Promises
God Rights Wrongs
God is in Control?
Be Still and Go: Season 2
I Just Can't Wait to be King
Pennies and Privilege
Being Church in Divided Times
The Stewardship of Sight and Sound
Terrified, Shocked, Naked
Living a Good Life: A Good Practice
Living a Good Life: A Good Cause
Living A Good Life: A Good Community
Living a Good Life: A Good Mind
Living a Good Life: A Good Name
Dear Church, What's the Point?
Dear Church, It's Time For Wise Living
Dear Church- Unity, We Can Do It
Dear Church, Share the Love
Dear Church, What Do We Do When the Walls Fall Down?
Jesus and The Disinherited
I Just Can't Keep It To Myself
Overboard
Dear Church, We've Been Blessed
Sabbath as Radical Witness
Sabbath As Restoration
Sabbath as Refocusing
Sabbath as Renewal
Sabbath as Relationship
Jesus the Rulebreaker
Sabbath as Remembering
How Can These Things Be?
Lydia Joins the Movement
Best Laid Plans
Fooled By Loneliness
Fooled By Love
Fooled By Comfort
Fooled By The Past
Fooled by Fear
Making a Movement
Look Up
Buildings and Bodies
Bumper Sticker Living
It's a new Dawn, It's a new Day, It's a new Life...
Inviting God Back Into The Garden
We're launching a new podcast -- Be Still and Go: Meditations for the Movement
Who am I and Why am I Here?
God with Skin On
Thin Places...
Never an Orphan (Space for Grace)
Rise
A Teaching Moment- Simple Gifts: Food
Simple Gifts: Waiting of the Light
Feels Like Home
Money, Money, Money, Money
A Time for Sharing (Space for Grace)
Like This
Overdraft (Space for Grace)
Receive This Blessing
For All the Saints (Space For Grace)
You Say You Want a Reformation
Sing a New Song (Space for Grace)
Children's Sabbath
Creating Safe Spaces on the Journey towards Healing (Space for Grace)
Wedding Crashers
Stand Your Ground (Space for Grace)
Who's Vineyard? Who's Vision?
The Posture of the Pilgrim
What Belongs to Me
Ridiculous... Required
All We Need is Love
I Have Decided
Rebellious Resistance
Untitled
Is Like
#Blessed
Never Reduce Your Dreams
A Church for the City
Sow What?
Prisoners of Hope
Welcoming the Children
From Monuments to Movements
The End and the Beginning
Learning to Listen
Who'll be a Witness?
Never Alone
Sad, Scared, and Stingy
The Land of Cheap Knockoffs
Signs of Life: Clue
Everything Must Change
Sermon: 04.15.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 04.09.17 Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 04.02.17: Rev. William Barber II
Sermon: 03.26.17: Rev. Michael E. Livingston
Sermon: 03.19.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 03.12.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 03.05.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.26.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.19.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.12.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.05.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.29.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.22.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.15.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.08.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.01.17: Rev. Michael Livingston
Sermon: 12.25.16: Rev. Kevin Wright
Sermon: 12.04.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 12.11.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon 11.27.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
sermon: 11.20.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.23.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.16.16: Fr. Michael Lapsley
Sermon: 10.09.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.02.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.25.16: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.18.16: Rev. Rachel Johnson
Sermon: 09.11.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.04.16: Rev. Michael Livingston
Sermon: 08.26.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 08.21.16: Rev. Michael Livingston
Sermon: 08.14.16 : Rev. Ellen Robinson
Sermon: 08.07.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 07.31.16: Ms. Christian Peele
Sermon: 07.17.17: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 07.10.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 07.03.16: Rev. Bertram Johnson
Sermon: 06.26.16: Rev. Dr. Brad Braxton
Worship 06.26.16 Rev.Brad Braxton
Sermon: 06.19.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 06.12.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 06.05.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.29.16: Rev. Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr.
Sermon: 05.22.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.15.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.08.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.01.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 04.24.16: Rev. Michael E. Livingston
Sermon: 04.17.16: Rev. Dr. Tom Long
Sermon: 04.10.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 04.03.16: Rev. Cornell Brooks
Sermon: 03.27.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 03.20.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 03.13.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 03.06.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.28.16: Rev. Dr. Amy. K. Butler
Sermon: 02.21.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.14.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 02.07.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.31.16: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 01.24.16: Ms. Christian Peele
Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Kevin Wright
Sermon: 01.17.16: Rev. Dr. William Barber II
Sunday Worship: 01.10.16: Rev. Michael Livingston
Sermon: 01.03.16: Rev. John Dorhauer
Sermon: 12.27.15: Rev. Rachel Johnson
Sermon: 12.20.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 12.13.15
Sermon: 12.06.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 11.29.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 11.22.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 11.15.15: Rev. Dr. Michael E. Livingston
Sunday Worship: 11.15.15: Rev. Dr. Michael E. Livingston
Sermon: 11.08.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 11.01.15: Rev Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.25.15: Rev. Kevin Wright
Sermon: 10.18.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.11.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 10.04.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.27.15: Rev. Dr. Brian Mclaren
Sermon: 09.20.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.13.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 09.06.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler and Rev. Michael Livingston
Sunday Worship: 09.07.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler & Rev. Michael Livingston
Sermon: 08.30.15: Rev. Kevin Wright
Sermon: 08.23.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega
Sermon: 08.16.15: Rev. Debra Northern
Sermon: 08.09.15: Rev. Kevin Wright
Sermon: 08.02.15: Ms. Christian Peele
Sermon: 07.26.15: Rev. Luke Powery
Sermon: 07.19.15: Rev. M.E. Livingston
Sermon: 07.12.15: Rev. Dr. April Stace Vega
Sermon: 07.05.15: Rev. J. Brent Walker
Sermon: 06.28.15: Rev. Allyson Robinson
Sermon: 06.21.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 06.14.15: Rev. Dr. Jana Childers
Sermon: 06.07.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.31.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.24.15: Rev. Dr. Amy K. Butler
Sermon: 05.17.15: Dr. Diana Bass