Elemental - Riverwood Church Community

Add To Your Faith - Love

June 4, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:6

This message takes one of the most overused, confused, misused, and abused words: ‘love’, explores its origins, its place in our current culture, and the reason human love is so limited. It then examines the unique properties and power of a different kind of love: agape!

Add To Your Faith - Affection

May 28, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:6

If relationship phrases like ‘synthetic-relationships’, ‘a knife-in-the-back-of-our-own-selfishness’, ‘out-honouring-others’, and ‘taking-a-relational-laxative’ are unfamiliar to you, then this message from 2 Peter 1:6, Romans 12:10 and 1 Peter 1:22 may be just what you need!

Add To Your Faith - Godliness

May 21, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:6

As we attempt to understand the 5th element in Peter’s ‘formula for godly living’, we quickly realize that this idea of ‘godliness’ is somewhat nebulous, antiquated, and difficult to define! In this message, we take on the challenge of defining and taking a firm grip on what it means to be godly as we continue our study in 2 Peter 1:5-9!

Add To Your Faith - Perseverance

May 14, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:6

Most of us would define ‘perseverance’ as ‘enduring the unpleasant’ with a side of ‘putting up with the painful’. However, as you’re about to discover in this message from 2 Peter 1:6, God’s definition of perseverance is so much more than simply grinning and bearing it! With stories and examples of perseverance, this message will take you from Japan to your laundry room, over to Barcelona and right back to your own heart!

The Formula for Godliness and the Role of Self Control

May 7, 2023 • Dunstan Gomes • 2 Peter 1:5–7, 2 Peter 1:3–4

To grasp the value and role “self-control” plays within our everyday lives we need to have a clear picture of what God desires for us. This weekend we will dive deeper into 2 Peter 1:3-4 to create a formula to help us understand God’s plan and our role in it! With the formula, we will also have a better understanding of our need to develop self-control.

Add To Your Faith - Knowledge

April 30, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:6

If you were to sit down to test your knowledge of God, how well do you think you would do? Many of us would panic thinking, I can’t recite the books of the Bible or name the attributes of God or explain ‘the abomination of desolation’! But that is not the kind of ‘knowledge’ God is calling us to! This message, based on 2 Peter 1:6, explores what ‘knowledge’ means and the difference knowledge of God makes in our lives!

Add To Your Faith - Virtue

April 23, 2023 • Todd Petkau • 2 Peter 1:5–9

In 2 Peter 1, the apostle Peter lets us know that floating and bobbing in our faith will only lead to us being carried away by the currents of culture, so he provided us with a formula! It’s a formula for following. A formula for a godly life. However, before we can actually learn the formula, we need to lay a foundation. Join us as we do a deep dive into 2 Peter 1:5-9 for the next seven weeks!