Resurrection City Church - St. Paul Minnesota

Come and See | Salvation Is For The World

Jesus brings both literal bread to those in need, but he offers a deeper and more necessary sustenance: himself. What is the relationship between the two? How does partaking in Christ empower and strengthen us to work to correct injustice and help those in need? Why is it so important that we don't separate the two, as Christians often do?

Pastor Joel dives into these very important and timely questions in this sermon from John.

Come and See | Jesus: Healer & Prophet

The big idea of John 5:1-47 is perhaps the most central to the whole book: that when we look at Jesus, we are seeing God. For us, in the midst of history being made, we need to know what God is calling us to do. So to do so, we look to Jesus.

When we look at Jesus in this passage, we see two things: 1) A healer and a 2) prophet. Like Jesus, we are called to be healers and prophets in this time of injustice and pain. Join us as Pastor Joel explains how we can be healers and prophets like Jesus.

Corporate Lament & God's Justice | The Lord Roars From Zion

In response to the death of George Floyd, we corporately lament the systemic racism, injustice, and sin in our world and in our own hearts.

Pastor Joel gives a message from the book of Amos on God's justice, which comes to destroy racism and sin, how radical change begins with repentance, how repentance leads to life not just in the future but now, and how we can find hope in Jesus in the midst of our anger and sadness.

Come and See | Healing and the Kingdom

What happens when Jesus doesn't heal?

Once again, we find Jesus perform a "sign", and this time, Jesus heals a boy who was dying. Before we, with modern eyes, can embark on reading about biblical healing, we need to first empty our pockets at the door and realize how the expectation of happiness and affluence many of us have influences how we view healing, and specifically, how we can forget that it is is a sign.

Many who are listening to this podcast may experience chronic pain or mental health issues even though they have cried out for healing in the past. We talk about how the sign of faith on those circumstances is greater than the healing would be.

Come and See | The Woman at the Well

As John continues to reveal Jesus to us, we are treated in this passage to his interaction with a Samaritan woman--a surprising thing for a rabbi of his stature to do in the eyes of many of his contemporaries.

This meeting is a window into the heart of Jesus's message: That ALL are invited to come and be satisfied at the living water that is offered by Jesus, even if you are engaged in unseemly activity, a member of a marginalized race, or a woman in a patriarchal society. Join us as Pastor Julie walks through one of the most memorable passages in the book of John.

Come and See | Kingdom Ambition

The story of the book of John pivots back to John the Baptist in this sermon's passage. John, this great influencer for Jesus, has seen his influence decline as Jesus's popularity has risen. His disciples ask him, "What the heck, boss?" and his response is truly incredible.

He responds by showing us all the heart and ambition of a Christlike servant. In this sermon. Pastor Joel talks about 3 aspects of ambition and servanthood that John teaches us. This is particularly poignant in a society that aggrandizes ambition. 

Join us as we dig into this countercultural text, and examine the one who John points to, the great servant king himself, Jesus. 

Worthy of the Call: A Res City Initiative

The Apostle Paul, socially distanced from a church he had planted in Thessalonica, encourages the church to live worthy of the call that had been placed on them in their difficult circumstances. We believe that God is calling us to also be worthy of the call he has placed on us in the midst of the crazy times we live in too.

In this message, Joel and Julie outline the three things we are calling the church to endure with, taking small steps in challenges each week.

Those three things are:

(1) Leaning into time with God

(2) Gathering as a Family

(3) Serving Generously

We unpack what those things mean in this message. Hope you enjoy!

Come and See | A Vulnerable Love

John is peeling back who Jesus is, layer by layer, and the layer we peel back to day is the layer that reveals to us God's love, found in the important section that contains John 3:16.

We are introduced to the deep, vulnerable love of God which is itself experienced in vulnerability. Often, we try to receive God's love with in our wisdom or our knowledge, like Nicodemus. But God comes to us in vulnerable love, and we receive him in vulnerability. We are in danger of missing God's coming if we can't receive him vulnerably.

Come and See | Born Again?

What does it mean to be "born again"? Many of us have negative connotations with that phrase, but in John 3:1-8, we see how Jesus uses it to describe the new life we can have in him that comes with repentance and choosing to follow Him as our king.

God is at work building his kingdom, and just like the wind, we can't control it or even see it sometimes, but we can feel its effect. In this sermon, Pastor Julie reminds us that we need the king (Jesus) in order to see the kingdom and that we gain a new family identity when we are born into the family of God.

Easter 2020 | The Sign of Hope

This is probably the strangest Easter many of us will ever celebrate. Yet, Jesus is still risen, the tomb is still empty, and we still have hope. This Easter Sunday, Pastor Joel unpacks the situation of the Thessalonians, to whom Paul writes as he is quarantined from them in the letter 1 Thessalonians.

Paul's answer to their uncertainty about the future is to look back at the story of Easter, and then look forward. When we look back at the Easter story, we find that we have hope because we know God has design in death, and he sets a pattern of life from death that we can expect in the age to come, but also now in the present.

Join us as we celebrate the Super Bowl of Christianity on this unique, but still hopeful, Easter.