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Resurrection City Church - St. Paul Minnesota
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Resurrection City Church exists to minister to St Paul, MN. Our vision is to glorify God by seeing people, our city, and the world made new in Jesus, our Savior and King.
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Genesis: Blessed From the Beginning | Where It All Went Wrong
2w ago00:50:04Tap to summarizeDo you have a moment where you felt like something important in your life all went wrong? Something that seemed like the right call in the moment but now in hindsight was a mistake, maybe a terrible one, and which can’t be undone? The story of the Bible has a moment like this, and it comes in Genesis 3. The first three chapters of Genesis, in fact, could be called something like “The Rise and Fall of Humanity.” It’s the story of a crisis, a tragedy. It might seem like something that happened a long time ago and which doesn’t have anything to do with us. But it’s all of our story. We all have “at the tree” moments, where we have a choice to make. Will we trust God with our happiness and future or will distrust him and choose to trust ourselves instead? It’s the story of a man who cheats on his wife. Of the city official who embezzles thousands of dollar. The teen who throws her friends under the bus to join the cool kids in school and stains her soul with guilt. The banker who thinks ethics don’t apply to them and breaks all the rules. Of the influencer who edits every photo and every moment until she can't remember who she is when the camera is off. Of the college student who posts what will get likes instead of what he actually believes. When we realize this the story comes alive and in this message Pastor Joel walks through Genesis 3 shedding light on how it’s all of our story. Like our own stories of sin, it’s a tragedy, but it also is a story of hope. Hope of a tender and forgiving God who says to us at our lowest, “It’ll be ok. I’ll fix what’s been broken. I’ll fix it all.”
Transcribe →Genesis: Blessed From the Beginning | Dealing With Imposter Syndrome
3w ago00:41:20Tap to summarizePsalm 8 is a reflection on the beginning of Genesis, on our call to reign as God’s image bearers. But it also reflects on a major tension we feel as we try to live it out, too. Verses 4-6 goes like this: “ What are mere mortals that you (God) should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? Yet you made them only a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor. You gave them charge of everything you made, putting all things under their authority…” It almost feels like the writer has imposter syndrome. How can people like me—filled with all the flaws and limits and quirks we all have—really do this? That kind of sentiment can keep us on the sidelines and from really becoming who God has made us to be. Genesis 2 reflects on this tension by explaining two ways God meets us in our limitations: Sabbath to meet our emotional, physical, and mental needs, and other people to help us in our aloneness. The truth is, the more we learn to depend on God and what he’s given us, the better we can be at being human and fulfilling the calling God made us all with. In this message, Pastor Joel explains it all.
Transcribe →2026 Together Weekend | Stewarding the Domain or Mental Health
3w ago00:40:28Tap to summarizeGenesis 1 explains that to be human means to reign or govern the world alongside God. We each have a domain, a realm that is uniquely our own and where our will is the (or at least a) dominant one. On July 19th Res City did our Together Weekend Sunday, where we don't have a typical sermon but split the church into breakouts and this year we did four breakouts on this theme. In this breakout, Lisa Trump, Nicole Rohrer, and Catie Heen lead a discussion around how to reign well in the most basic part of us but which we're still called to steward responsibly: our mental health and thought life.
Transcribe →2026 Together Weekend | Being Human in an Artificial World: Wisdom for Navigating AI
3w ago00:37:02Tap to summarizeGenesis 1 explains that to be human means to reign or govern the world alongside God. We each have a domain, a realm that is uniquely our own and where our will is the (or at least a) dominant one. On July 19th Res City did our Together Weekend Sunday, where we don't have a typical sermon but split the church into breakouts and this year we did four breakouts on this theme. In this breakout, Joel Stegman leads a discussion around how to reign well in a world more and more saturated with a rapidly growing technology that is becoming a part of many parts of all of our lives, artificial intelligence.
Transcribe →2026 Together Weekend | Rooted: Creation Care as Worship
3w ago00:20:34Tap to summarizeGenesis 1 explains that to be human means to reign or govern the world alongside God. We each have a domain, a realm that is uniquely our own and where our will is the (or at least a) dominant one. On July 19th Res City did our Together Weekend Sunday, where we don't have a typical sermon but split the church into breakouts and this year we did four breakouts on this theme. In this breakout, Heather Lehn leads a discussion around how to reign well in the creation itself, a really important space to think about this concept because the first humans were literally tasked with it.
Transcribe →2026 Together Weekend | Vocation Bible School
3w ago00:23:47Tap to summarizeGenesis 1 explains that to be human means to reign or govern the world alongside God. We each have a domain, a realm that is uniquely our own and where our will is the (or at least a) dominant one. On July 19th Res City did our Together Weekend Sunday, where we don't have a typical sermon but split the church into breakouts and this year we did four breakouts on this theme. In this one, Drew Elrick leads a discussion around how to reign well in our places of work, or vocation.
Transcribe →Genesis: Blessed From the Beginning | Our World is Blessed
Jul 1200:40:31Tap to summarize“The future of the church is ancient.” What a surprising thing to believe, but the reality is God has given us all we need to navigate even the thorniest of issues we encounter. In a new series, we’ll be studying the oldest book in the Bible, Genesis. Genesis is the beginning of the lore, the founding myth, of all humanity, whether or not we, going about our day to day lives now, centuries removed from its stories and characters, are aware of it or not. The Bible begins by explaining how God has made the world to be the kind of place where humans can be who he made us to be. That’s what Genesis 1 is all about. In this message, Pastor Joel unpacks how the world was initially made to be that kind of place, and how it continues to be even now.
Transcribe →Stay Salty | The End Times
Jun 2900:39:55Tap to summarizeIt seems fitting for us to end our series on things Christians believe that make us weird with a message about the end of the world. End times fever has been common among Christians, especially over the last 50 or so years. But what did Jesus tell us about our speculation about the when or what of his return? Why might he have worried we would get too focused on it? In this message, Pastor Joel shares some of his childhood trauma around the end times, his personal opinions on the return of Jesus and talks about why it does matter that we hold tight to the expectation that Jesus return but not at the expense of what Jesus told us to keep our primary focus on.
Transcribe →Stay Salty | Living by Grace or Achievement
Jun 2100:44:22Tap to summarizeChristians talk a lot about God’s grace, but we less often talk about what is sometimes called the scandal of grace. When we really get the concept of grace, we’re going to actually be offended. It steps on the toes of what we think is right or wrong. For people who are used at deserving or achieving all they get, grace can be a real stumbling block, and our ego can even convince us to say no to it. In this message, using 2 Kings 5 and the story of a highly competent, rich and well-connected general named Naaman who desperately was looking for a cure for his leprosy, Pastor Joel explains why grace challenges the deeply held beliefs we have about ourselves, and how in allowing it to offend us God is actually trying to heal us of a spiritual disease we all have. It’s a spiritual leprosy, we could call it, using the story of Naaman as an allegory for our sinful arrogance. This is a message for everyone, but especially those who really struggle with perfectionism and achievement.
Transcribe →Stay Salty | Sex and Jesus
Jun 1400:41:51Tap to summarizeThis might surprise you, but when Jesus talked about sex he said the conservative hardliners of his day actually didn’t go far enough. For many in his day, as long as you jusrt had sex with your spouse, you were good. Jesus said that true righteousness went a lot deeper than that. Just being good at following rules doesn’t produce the kind of goodness God’s kingdom is meant to bring. Goodness in sex isn’t tied to rules at all, even the golden rule of sex we have today: consent. Jesus would say the kinds of things we all know are wrong when it comes to sex (things like assault and rape) come from the heart, which means we have to go after lust itself. This is a problem for today’s world. Lust is normal and celebrated, and we treat sex like it’s ice cream: it’s all good, there’s no such thing as morally bad ice cream, and everyone just has their own specific tastes. We tell ourselves this view of sex is good and represents progress from the backwards ideas about sex people like Jesus had. But the question we never really ask is this: Is this making us better people? More loving people? Or even happier people? If we’re really honest, the answer is no. And this brings us back to what Jesus says. In this message, Pastor Joel helps explain how the sexual revolution overpromised and underdelivered, and how by targeting lust itself Jesus gives what our craving for lust is really all about at the end of the day: real, true intimacy.
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