Riverwood Presbyterian Church Podcast Riverwood Presbyterian Church

I had always grown up under the traditions of the Reformed church and was blessed to find this church while I was in college. It was just one of three crucial parts in my collegiate experience (including former roommates as one part, and the local RUF ministry as the other) in terms of expanding my knowledge of scripture, challenging me theologically, and smashing a lot of my preconceived notions of exactly what it means and takes to be a Christian. The church engages, I think very effectively, culture in a way many churches, in my experience, aren’t willing to.

The pastor is someone I’ve had the pleasure to spend time with outside of the church and get to know him a bit more. He, more than anyone, has really broken the mold I had always tried to fit pastors into and being around him is such a relief. The sermons will always be theologically sound and don’t seek to avoid any difficult topics and will even manage a good, theologically solid, expository sermon out of what would otherwise appear to be a rather innocuous bit of scripture (Hosea 1:1, for example).

In the year that I’ve been gone, I’ve also been blessed to have found a good reformed church home, but I always make time to listen to these podcasts. It has shortened many a long drive for work. Whether I’m hearing a sermon for the tenth time, or for the very first time I am always challenged, always moved, and always come out with a better and more thorough understanding of the Gospel.

For three years I went to the actual Riverwood Presbyterian Church, and those were some of the best three years of church-going experiences I've ever had. The message they send is, I believe, true, strictly biblical, strongly personal and yet so God-focused, you really feel like you're a part of what is being spoken. The most unique thing about this church is that the theology they teach really challenges the mind, makes you think deeper about more trivial aspects to the Christian belief. And the pastor could possibly be the next C.S. Lewis, he's just awesome. When I moved away, I was so happy to find this podcast, because now I can listen to the sermons even from far away. It makes for good driving listening whilst traveling or vacationing, and is encouraging during those times when you're feeling emotionally distraught and/or spiritually alone. Get it, you won't regret it.