Resurrection City Church - St. Paul Minnesota

Seeking Wisdom: Wisdom Applied | Generosity

Living a life of generosity goes against the grain, costing us something. We can tell ourselves all kinds of reasons why wisdom tells us to not live generously, but when we really look at what wisdom and the gospel actually have to say about it, we find living generously is essential to both. In this sermon, Angela Hermanson, Res City’s Governance Team chair, explores all of this.

Seeking Wisdom: Song of Songs | Healing From Sexual Sin or Sexual Assault

The book of Song of Songs holds out hope for restored relationships, love, and intimacy, but we still live in a world with broken sexuality. Pastor Julie talks about how to move forward with healing from sexual sin or sexual assault.

Seeking Wisdom: Song of Songs | Catching the Little Foxes

Song of Songs presents a vineyard of love that grows between the Young Woman and the Young Man, one green and flourishing, in some ways a return to the garden of Eden. However, little foxes threaten to take the fruit of their intimacy before they can get it. In this sermon, Pastor Joel walks through four different 'foxes' from the Song of Songs that can throw a wrench into the intimacy of a couple.

Seeking Wisdom: Song of Songs | The Right Time For Love

When is the right time for love? Pastor Julie talks about a piece of wisdom from Song of Songs: don't awaken love until the right time. Sex and intimacy are important parts of the human life, but they are best experienced in their proper contexts. Julie walks through how our spiritual union with Jesus can be a guide for intimacy in our relationships.

Seeking Wisdom: Song of Songs | What Does Wisdom Have to Do With Love?

Tim Mackie says that, “If the purpose of this biblical literature is to  educate us in how to think wisely and well about the many aspects of life in God’s design, it makes all the sense in the world why an entire book would be dedicated to celebrating the goodness of love.” Continuing with a new wisdom mini-series, Pastor Joel explains how Song of Songs communicates wisdom to us in love and relationships, why we need to be restored, and what is at the center of God’s design for human romantic relationships.

Seeking Wisdom: Job | Making Sense of Suffering

Job is at his wit's end, and in a very relatable move he tries to make sense of his predicament. However, in doing so he questions God and removes himself from wisdom. God shows up--and his response is one you don't want to miss. We find wisdom as we study God's response, and learn that while much is outside our grasp, God gives us what we need with the revelation of his response to pain, suffering, evil, and tragedy.

Seeking Wisdom: Job | Wisely Suffering

Many people experience suffering on a daily basis, and we want to know where God is in our suffering. The answer is found in wisdom--and Job is here to teach us what wisdom looks like in suffering. 

Seeking Wisdom: Job | Walking Wisely With a Suffering Friend

Everything we do as Christians should be done in community, including suffering. In this sermon, Pastor Joel uses Job's friends as positive and negative examples of how to walk with a brother or sister who is suffering--and he explains why this matters for how those outside the church view us as well.

From Life to Death | Easter at Res City

Easter and resurrection are the center of everything we do as Christians--our hope for new life in the future, our hope that that we believe is rooted in truth, and our hope that God is doing new things in us. Pastor Julie talks about the relevance of God's work to make us new after the year of struggle we've all been through. 

Seeking Wisdom: Job | Where Is God’s Wisdom When Life Falls Apart?

Job is the third wisdom literature book we’re studying in this series, and it asks difficult questions that make us examine ourselves and how we view God, as well as inviting us to wisdom when the day of suffering comes. Pastor Joel introduces this series in this sermon.