River Corner Church

On July 17, Jeff McLain looked at at Colossians 4:5, exploring how Paul encourages the church to make the most of every moment; for it is any moment that the rule and reign of God has the potential to break into the present.  Throughout this series, Final Instructions, each week, we have explored Paul’s final instructions to the church in Colossae, looking at Paul's instructions on how to bring the church into a maturity of faith.

In a season of cultural earthquakes, Paul encourages the Colossian church towards maturity in Christ by learning to pray for the message and the messengers of the Kingdom. In the same way, Paul’s writing encourages us to pray that the rule and reign of God to break-in to the realities of our world. We are encouraged to pray that the obstacles of the messengers do not become a hinderance to the testimony of who Jesus is and what knowing Jesus brings. We must be a church that is dedicated to praying for the mission and messengers of God.

It is in Colossians 4:3-4, that Paul writes; "And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.”

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

On July 10, Jeff McLain looked at how Paul calls us the church to commit to intercessory prayer, in Colossians 4:3-4, as he continued our Sunday morning series, Final Instructions. Throughout this series, each week, we have explored Paul’s final instructions to the church in Colossae.

In a season of cultural earthquakes, Paul encourages the Colossian church towards maturity in Christ by learning to pray for the message and the messengers of the Kingdom. In the same way, Paul’s writing encourages us to pray that the rule and reign of God to break-in to the realities of our world. We are encouraged to pray that the obstacles of the messengers do not become a hinderance to the testimony of who Jesus is and what knowing Jesus brings. We must be a church that is dedicated to praying for the mission and messengers of God.

It is in Colossians 4:3-4, that Paul writes; "And pray for us, too, that God may open a door for our message, so that we may proclaim the mystery of Christ, for which I am in chains. Pray that I may proclaim it clearly, as I should.”

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

On July 3, Jeff McLain explored Colossians 4:2 and why Paul, writing from prison, encouraged followers of Jesus in the Colossian Church, to be devoted to prayer, but also to be in a prayerful posture that was watchful and thankful. 

In a season of cultural earthquakes, Paul gives the church some final instructions on what they should commit themselves to in this season.  Over the next few weeks, we are going to look at these Final Instructions to learn what we should commit ourselves too in this season of cultural earthquakes. 

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

Jeff McLain looks at Matthew 5:13, on June 26, at River Corner Church, exploring what it means to be the salt of the earth, in a time such as the one we are currently living. This Podcast Episode explores a posture for followers of Jesus in light of the overturning of Roe V. Wade on June 24, 2022.

In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers, "You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot." Listen to this episode to hear more about how this encouragement from Jesus, challenges us to reconsider our posture in this season.

In this episode, Jeff McLain refers to a Position Paper on Abortion from the Brethren-in-Christ Church movement. You can read or download that Position Paper on Abortion, here. (https://bicus.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/abortion1.pdf).

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

On Sunday, June 12, Jeff McLain looked at Matthew 8:18-23, and what it means to respond to God's call on our life with immediacy. Though this passage, we see that truly following Jesus means we must fully count the cost of surrender. Jesus invites us all to follow him, but the cost is often too great for many.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

On June 5, Jeff McLain looked at Mark 5:21-36, and discovers how Jesus models what it means to be interruptible. Through Jesus' interaction with the synagogue leader and the woman with a bleeding problem, we see what it means to live in a way that is spiritually sensitive in the present.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

We invite you to gather with us on Sunday mornings at 10:00 AM.

You are welcome to come as you are, just be you. As a community of everyday people, we want to be a people who live and love like Jesus in the places we live, work, and play.

If you have a question about something you heard in this message, or you want to learn more about our growing church community, visit us online at www.rivercornerchurch.com.

On May 29, River Corner Church brought our series, Confidence, to a close. Jeff McLain looked at 1 Peter 3:15-17 and how spiritual confidence is both found and grown in community, but it spiritual confidence also witnesses to the places we live, work, and play.

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, Confidence. This series looks at the word, elpō which conveys the idea of “living hope,” “sure footing,” or “confidence.” This word, confidence, is one that Peter uses five times throughout the letter of 1 Peter. Confidence is a consistent theme as Peter writes to his disciples and church communities who have been scattered across the region in situations that are robbing them of their confidence in life.

These early followers of Jesus were dealing with increasing problems, pandemics, poverty and persecution in the empire. They were also finding themselves now isolated in society and their families as they discovered new purpose in following  Jesus. It is to these beat up, bruised, and bedraggled ragamuffins that Peter writes a letter to encourage them in these tough situations, but Peter also wanted to give them a new paradigm, a paradigm of what it means to live confidently through faith. I hope that as we explore Peter’s ideas of confidence, that we are encouraged on how we can live confidently in some uncomfortable times.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

This past Sunday, May 22, at River Corner Church, Jeff McLain continued our series "Confidence," through 1 Peter. We looked at 1 Peter 3:3-5 and how spiritual confidence brings about a gentle & quiet authority in our lives.

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, Confidence. This series looks at the word, elpō which conveys the idea of “living hope,” “sure footing,” or “confidence.” This word, confidence, is one that Peter uses five times throughout the letter of 1 Peter. Confidence is a consistent theme as Peter writes to his disciples and church communities who have been scattered across the region in situations that are robbing them of their confidence in life.

These early followers of Jesus were dealing with increasing problems, pandemics, poverty and persecution in the empire. They were also finding themselves now isolated in society and their families as they discovered new purpose in following  Jesus. It is to these beat up, bruised, and bedraggled ragamuffins that Peter writes a letter to encourage them in these tough situations, but Peter also wanted to give them a new paradigm, a paradigm of what it means to live confidently through faith. I hope that as we explore Peter’s ideas of confidence, that we are encouraged on how we can live confidently in some uncomfortable times.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

On Sunday, May 15, at River Corner Church,  Jeff McLain explored 1 Peter 1:13-21 and what it means to set our hope so we might live confidently in our faith and lives as followers of Jesus.

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, Confidence. This series looks at the word, elpō which conveys the idea of “living hope,” “sure footing,” or “confidence.” This word, confidence, is one that Peter uses five times throughout the letter of 1 Peter. Confidence is a consistent theme as Peter writes to his disciples and church communities who have been scattered across the region in situations that are robbing them of their confidence in life.

These early followers of Jesus were dealing with increasing problems, pandemics, poverty and persecution in the empire. They were also finding themselves now isolated in society and their families as they discovered new purpose in following  Jesus. It is to these beat up, bruised, and bedraggled ragamuffins that Peter writes a letter to encourage them in these tough situations, but Peter also wanted to give them a new paradigm, a paradigm of what it means to live confidently through faith. I hope that as we explore Peter’s ideas of confidence, that we are encouraged on how we can live confidently in some uncomfortable times.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

On Sunday, May 8, at River Corner Church, Jeff McLain explored 1 Peter 1:1-7 and what it means to take hold our living hope so we might live confidently in our faith and lives as followers of Jesus.

For the next few weeks, we will look at our series, Confidence. This series looks at the word, elpō which conveys the idea of “living hope,” “sure footing,” or “confidence.” This word, confidence, is one that Peter uses five times throughout the letter of 1 Peter. Confidence is a consistent theme as Peter writes to his disciples and church communities who have been scattered across the region in situations that are robbing them of their confidence in life.

These early followers of Jesus were dealing with increasing problems, pandemics, poverty and persecution in the empire. They were also finding themselves now isolated in society and their families as they discovered new purpose in following  Jesus. It is to these beat up, bruised, and bedraggled ragamuffins that Peter writes a letter to encourage them in these tough situations, but Peter also wanted to give them a new paradigm, a paradigm of what it means to live confidently through faith. I hope that as we explore Peter’s ideas of confidence, that we are encouraged on how we can live confidently in some uncomfortable times.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

On May 1, District Overseer Robert Brody joins us at River Corner Church, to give a new charge to our church community and it's new leadership in this new era.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

As a closure to our In the Shadow of the Cross series at River Corner Church, Pastor Jeff McLain explores John 21:25-26 on April 24, 2022.

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, In the Shadow of the Cross. Each week we have looked at some of the stories in John's narrative, each along Jesus' journey leading up to the cross. This morning we explored John 21:25-26 and the way John invites us to not just have eternal life with Jesus, but a transformed life on this side of the grave.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

As part of our In the Shadow of the Cross series at River Corner Church, Pastor Jeff McLain explores John 20:11-18 on April 17, 2022 (Easter Sunday).

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, In the Shadow of the Cross. Each week we have looked at some of the stories in John's narrative, each along Jesus' journey leading up to the cross. This morning we arrived at the climax of the story, the death and resurrection of Jesus, as it appears in John 20.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

As part of our In the Shadow of the Cross series at River Corner Church, Pastor Jeff McLain explores John 12:9-19 on April 10, 2022 (Palm Sunday).

For the past few weeks, we have been in our series, In the Shadow of the Cross. Each week we have looked at some of the stories in John's narrative, each along Jesus' journey leading up to the cross. This morning we explored John 12:9-19, and the way Jesus walks away from power, prominence, place, and position in the eyes of the world.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).

As part of our In the Shadow of the Cross series at River Corner Church, Pastor Jeff McLain explores John 11 on April 3, 2022.

This week we start our series, In the Shadow of the Cross. Each week we will look at some of the stories in John's narrative, each along Jesus' journey leading up to the cross. This morning we start in John 11, with this story of Lazarus, and we find what it has to teach us about Jesus.

River Corner Church is a growing church community of everyday people who gather to worship God, follow Jesus, and journey through life together. We gather on Sunday mornings, at 10:00 AM, at 524 River Corner Road in Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Learn more about our growing church community online through our website (www.rivercornerchurch.com) or our Facebook (www.facebook.com/RiverCornerChurch).