When Work Goes Bad

What difference should following Jesus make in the way we approach our everyday work?In Week 3 of our Work Matters series, we explore Colossians 3:17, 22–24 and discover how the gospel transforms not just what we believe about work, but the way we work. Whether we're at a job, raising a family, attending school, or serving others, our everyday responsibilities become opportunities to honor Jesus.We'll look at three ways the gospel changes our work: 1) Who we work for, 2) How we work, and 3) How we treat the people around us.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

If work is part of God's good design, why does it so often leave us feeling frustrated, exhausted, or unfulfilled?In week two of our Work Matters series, we explore Genesis 3:17–19 and discover how sin has affected not only the work we do, but also our relationship with work. While work was created as a good gift, it can become a crushing burden when we look to our accomplishments for identity, security, and worth.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

What if work is about more than earning a paycheck or making it to the weekend?In the opening message of our new series, Work Matters, we explore a foundational truth: Work is God's idea. Long before sin entered the world, God created humanity in His image and invited us to participate in caring for His creation. Work was never intended to be a punishment, but part of God's good design.Whether you're working a full-time job, raising children, volunteering, or caring for others, your everyday responsibilities have purpose. Our work can reflect God's character and become a meaningful way to love our neighbors.Join us as we discover how following Jesus transforms the way we understand our work and why what we do Monday through Saturday matters to God.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

In a world filled with noise, busyness, and anxiety, how do we find true rest for our souls? Drawing from Psalm 131, guest speaker Jeff Ebert explores what it means to intentionally quiet our hearts before God. Discover how surrendering control, recognizing our limitations, and resting in Christ's love can lead us to a deeper sense of peace and contentment. True rest isn't found in doing more, but in learning to simply be with Jesus.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

How is your soul? Not just how you're doing on the outside, but how are you really doing at the deepest level of your life?This week, guest speaker Jeff Ebert explores Psalm 62:1 and the importance of caring for our souls. Through the words of King David, we're reminded that true rest, peace, and spiritual health aren't found in our circumstances, accomplishments, or efforts, but in God alone.Jeff challenges us to move beyond surface-level faith and consider how our souls are being strengthened through God's Word, prayer, authentic community, and accountability with other believers.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

In the final message of our ALL IN series, we look at Jesus’ words in Acts 1:8 and the calling of every follower of Jesus to live as someone who has been sent. Mission isn’t reserved for pastors or missionaries overseas. God has already placed us in neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, families, and communities where we can be witnesses to Jesus.We belong to a people who have been sent—and we go empowered by the Holy Spirit, motivated by the joy of the gospel, and together as the church.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

What does it mean to be meaningfully connected to a local church? In our All In series, we’ve talked about belonging, gathering, and growing. This week, we turn to another essential part of following Jesus together: GIVEIn 2 Corinthians 8:1–9, Paul points to the remarkable generosity of the Macedonian churches - believers who gave joyfully even in the midst of hardship and poverty. Their generosity wasn’t driven by guilt, pressure, or abundance. It was the overflow of God’s grace in their lives.Christian generosity is about far more than money. It begins when we recognize how much we’ve been given in Jesus and respond by giving ourselves first to the Lord. Our time, abilities, resources, relationships, and finances all become opportunities to participate in what God is doing.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

What does it actually mean to grow spiritually? In Ephesians 4:11–16, Paul shows us that becoming more like Jesus was never meant to happen in isolation. God uses His people to shape, challenge, encourage, and mature one another.In this message from our ALL IN series, we explore the difference between spiritual infancy and maturity, why we need Christian community to grow, and what it looks like to speak the truth in love. Following Jesus is deeply personal—but it was never meant to be private.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

“What does it actually mean to belong to a local church?” This is the big question we're asking in our 5-week series, ALL IN: A Sermon Series on Belonging to the Body of Christ. In Hebrews 10:19–25, we’re reminded that following Jesus has an “us” built into it. We need people who will encourage us, carry burdens with us, remind us of what’s true, and love us enough to spur us toward love and good works.In Week Two, we explore why gathering matters, the difference between simply attending and truly belonging, and why we cannot practice the way of Jesus together without regularly being together.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH 

Jesus never intended us to follow Him—or love our neighbors—alone. In John 17, Jesus prays that His followers would be united so that the world might see and believe. Our unity isn’t just good for the church; it’s part of our witness.In this final message from The Art of Neighboring, we explore how ordinary acts of neighboring become something powerful when practiced by an entire church. We may have different personalities, gifts, backgrounds, and stories, but we’re united around the same Savior and sent into our neighborhoods with the same mission.We can love our neighbors individually, but we show them Jesus together.✝️ RIVER VALLEY CHURCH"Practicing the Way of Jesus Together."📲 FOLLOW USWebsite: http://www.rivervalleychurch.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivervalleynh/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rivervalleynh/🎁 GIVE Help to support our mission financially. https://rivervalleynh.churchcenter.com/givingEnter a donation amount.Click the fund dropdown and select "General."Click the frequency dropdown and select "One Time" or "Regularly."Enter other contact and payment information and submit.🔔 SUBSCRIBE to our YOUTUBE CHANNEL:https://www.youtube.com/@rivervalleychurchNH