A summer with Pastor Tim Rolen, drawing lessons from the rivers that run through Scripture.
“That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither—whatever they do prospers.”
Psalm 1:3
Rivers run all the way through Scripture. A river flowed out of Eden. Israel crossed the Jordan into the promised land. Ezekiel watched water rise until it became a river no one could cross. Again and again, moving water marks the places where God meets his people.
In this summer series, Pastor Tim Rolen took us to the riverbank with Israel: the spies who came back afraid, the choice between fear and faith, and the kind of person God can use.
May 30 to June 27, 2021 · Five-week series
Prefer to watch start to finish? We've put all five weeks of Riverbank Reflections into one video on our YouTube channel.
Jeremiah 17:5-10
A missionary finds a village dying of disease with a hospital just across the river. The people will not enter the water. He wades in, swims across, and stands on the far bank waving, and only then do they follow.
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Numbers 14:6-9
Twelve spies see the same land. Ten say the cities are fortified and we cannot do this. Two say the Lord is with us, do not be afraid. Forty years later Israel is back at the same river with the same choice. Pastor Tim Rolen walks the whole road that got them there.
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Joshua 1:1-9
Twelve men go into the promised land. All twelve come back saying the land is good. Ten of them add that the people are giants and we looked like grasshoppers. The majority wins, and a nation spends forty years in a desert. Pastor Tim Rolen on what fear costs.
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Joshua 1:1-9
Moses is dead and Joshua has to take his place. Pastor Tim Rolen says it must have felt like Barney Fife being asked to replace Charlton Heston. What God says to him first is be strong, be courageous, do not be discouraged, which tells you exactly how Joshua was feeling.
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Joshua 2:1-24
An African impala can clear ten feet in the air and thirty feet across. Put one in a three-foot-walled enclosure and it stays there, because it will not jump when it cannot see where its feet will land.
Watch the messageRiverbank Reflections was one of several series we walked through in 2021. Browse the rest of the year, or join us in person on a Sunday.
