Wow, our 8th annual Celebrate America was a beautiful service last Sunday! If you didn’t get to be there in-person, you can watch it here.

This Sunday we finish up with our series called “That You May Know” a verse-by-verse study of John’s three epistles. We’ll look at 3rd John in depth and look at the apostle’s warning to churches regarding the wolves that come into a church seeking to destroy it from within. I hope to see you!

The ladies have a really great event coming up Saturday, July 12, 9am – 12pm down at the JUMP building in downtown Boise, (If you’ve never seen JUMP you need to)! Our Women’s Ministry is partnering with Love INC (Love In the Name of Christ) to fill supply bags for families in need and to learn about what Love INC does in our communities. The cost is $20 and includes a great lunch. Meet at the JUMP Conference Center 1000 W. Myrtle St. in Boise. You can park in the underground lot for $6. Carpooling is encouraged. Also, you can pick up a paper bag out in the lobby this Sunday and fill it up to get a head start if you want. Register here online.

Every Fourth of July we hear the word “Freedom” tossed around a lot, but what does it mean for Christ-followers? What is it, and where does it come from? This Sunday I’ll share some thoughts from Galatians 5 that provide a great foundational answer as to how to live in true freedom. I hope you can come and even bring someone – especially those who’ve served in the armed forces or as first responder (police. – fire – emergency medical) who need an encounter with Jesus.

Bulletproof is BACK! And it begins this Wednesday night, June 11, with food trucks! Bulletproof is our summer Bible study where the whole family is invited to come and study God’s Word TOGETHER! Children learn age-appropriate lessons in the Kid’s classrooms while the youth and parents are in the Worship Center sitting at tables with their Bibles opened up. This year the study is called – Living Victoriously in Difficult Times by Precept Ministries. Come and learn together as a family or as a single. Study guides are $8 and will have plenty on hand this Wednesday. Just bring your own pencil and Bible!

This Sunday we continue our Update Israel miniseries with “Why Support Israel?” A few weeks back I laid out how anti-Semitism is accelerating across the world and sadly, we witnessed it in our own country again last Sunday. Police arrested an Egyptian man for fire-bombing several Jewish people who were marching in Boulder Colorado in support of the hostages held by Hamas terrorists. A line is being drawn in countries and streets across the globe demanding that people choose whether or not to support Israel’s very existence. This Sunday we will discuss reasons for believers and churches to stand beside this nation – God’s chosen. I hope you can make it at 9am or 11am.

Hi friend,

This Sunday we reach the final crescendo of our verse-by-verse study of Ephesians called The King’s Ransom with one of the most well-known passages in all of the Bible – Ephesians 6 and the armor of God.

With Mother’s Day almost here, it causes many of us to reflect on the mom God so graciously provided to us personally. I know Mother’s Day brings with it a wide variety of emotions when we think back, but for me it’s a wonderful memory of a special lady who cared and provided for me, and she is the one who spoke Jesus into my life when I played the prodigal.

Why do we call Good Friday good?

If you had asked the disciples on the day of Jesus’ death and burial, they would have very likely agreed with you. What good could possibly come from all the horrific things that took place to their Friend and Teacher? And now, He lays dead in a borrowed tomb. What good could possibly come from such a profound tragedy, they may have asked. What’s so good about Good Friday? For starters…

In a recent poll taken, 3 out of 4 non-church goers said they would attend an Easter service if they were invited by a friend or relative. This is where you come in! Inside our bulletins we’ve printed invite cards for everyone to use in order to invite a friend, neighbor, co-worker, or family member. Easter Sunday is the most-attended service of the year. What if your invitee heard the Gospel, and turned their life over to Christ as a result of you asking them to join you at RCC? You could be the catalyst for changing someone else’s eternity!

I love the change of weather we’re experiencing here in Idaho. It seems to change every few hours.

We are continuing in our study of Ephesians in a series called “The King’s Ransom” and this week I’ve titled my sermon – “From Rust to Restored”. Paul encourages every believer to put off the old life and put on the new and this Sunday I’ll be using a familiar metaphor via The Old Blue Truck.