Resurrection City Church exists to minister to St Paul, MN. Our vision is to glorify God by seeing people, our city, and the world made new in Jesus, our Savior and King.
Episodes
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
Sunday Nov 03, 2019
In Daniel 7, a strange figure is central to Gods purposes in judging the beasts. That figure is revealed as Jesus where he confesses to being him on a trial before the Jewish religious authorities. In both cases God reveals or unmasks the situation as it is from heaven. In order for us to get the glory of the passage we have to reveal or unmask our own situations over and over in our own hearts. If we don't, we will find ourselves getting bored with the gospel. Pastor Joel talks about how to keep the gospel from being stale in our hearts even when we've heard it so many times.
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
Sunday Oct 27, 2019
In Daniel 7, Daniel has a vision of four beasts who cause havoc on the earth. In it, we find a picture that resonates with our own crazy times. Daniel 7 is a lot of things and the imagery in the passage is tough to understand but when we get a grasp of it we see that it is a goldmine for leading us to understand what God is doing in the world about evil and chaos. Pastor Joel illustrates how to understand the type of literature that Daniel 7 is written in as well as what it means for us in our own conflict ravaged world.
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Monday Oct 21, 2019
Daniel is thrown into a pit of hungry lions looking for something to devour. We may not ever get thrown into a lions den but we have all felt like we were in a pit surrounded by lions who are licking their lips. In this sermon on Daniel 6, Pastor Joel explains that it's important that we view the lions den well like Daniel does. Only when we reframe the experience and quit assuming we know what is happening in the den can we have hope in God to deliver us. *Note This sermon was rerecorded due to technical difficulties
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
In Daniel 5 King Belshazzar is confronted with the word of God and it terrifies him It is a picture of us when we read Scripture We can find ourselves confused by it like when the history of the text doesnt align perfectly with other history as happens in this passage offended by it or frustrated that it doesnt give us what we want We need to be ready to let Scripture achieve its purpose and we need to know the master key to unlock it Jesus Otherwise it will rightly confound us and keep us from understanding its message Pastor Joel walks through how we can related well to Scripture in this sermon
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
One of the main differences between the people of God and the world around them is the humility with which they are called to live with. Our worship of God is what sets us apart and one of the primary ways to live that worship out is in redefining success giving credit where it is due and repenting and looking to God. Pastor Julie walks through the back half of Daniel 4 to break down how Nebuchadnezzars pride and his repentance of it is a model for us.
Monday Sep 30, 2019
Monday Sep 30, 2019
The book of Daniel along with many other books in Scripture offers a critique of power gone wrong calling those in authority to acknowledge that they cannot fulfill the role of God. In this passage, King Nebuchadnezzar finds himself called to repent and turn to God. It is hard for us to understand the role of someone like Nebuchadnezzar or Caesar or other emperors in the ancient world both because of how we view authority and because we live in a modern democracy. Sometimes its good then to turn the magnifying glass on ourselves and reckon whether or not we are trying to be Little Caesars trying to pull off what that authority figure would do ourselves. In this sermon, Pastor Joel talks about how we can hope in the kingdom of Jesus rather than any other kingdom we might try to build up on our own.
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Daniel has shown us how we can follow Jesus and still find excellence, but this doesn't mean we wont sometimes face opposition. On top of that, we are faced with the sometimes confusing question of how we should act in a pluralistic society. In this sermon on Daniel 3, we find out how we are called to follow Jesus when we are pressured to bow to some idol. Find out more about Resurrection City Church. Go to our website rescitychurch.org or follow us on Instagram and Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
When the apostle Paul walks into Athens in Acts 17, he observes and is distressed by many idols all relating to different aspects of peoples lives. His response is a disruptive gospel that takes the system of life of the people of Athens and turns it on its head. In this Fall Kick Off sermon, Pastor Joel tells why this disruptive gospel is one we need to retune ourselves and why its good to be made uncomfortable by the news of Jesus.
Monday Sep 09, 2019
Monday Sep 09, 2019
In Daniel 2, Daniel grows up learning the dominant trades of the culture which in Babylon means he is trained in astrology and divination. He excels in it but we find he only excels because of his reliance on God. In doing so he shows us how to be salt in our world, to worship Jesus, and to make the culture flourish as a result. This is what Christian excellence looks like. Pastor Joel describes what this Christian excellence entails.
Monday Sep 02, 2019
Monday Sep 02, 2019
As we finish the first chapter of the book of Daniel, Pastor Joel walks through what Daniel teaches us about how the people of God are to relate to their culture. Instead of rejecting culture or receiving culture, we are to redeem it through respecting distinction. We talk about how to do it in our workplaces in particular, just as Daniel does at the highest echelons of Babylon.