Living Vertizontal

By The Church at Riverstone

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Living Vertizontal is a weekly podcast from The Church at Riverstone, A Fellowship of the Church of the Nazarene in Madera, CA. Living Vertizontal explores Scripture and celebrates the work of the Holy Spirit in our world.

Episode Date
Inevitability of Influence (Luke 17:1-4)
Jul 08, 2026
Urgency and The Chasm of Our Own Making (Luke 16:19-31)
Jul 01, 2026
The Easy Trap v. The Simple Invitation (Luke 16:1-18)
Jun 24, 2026
The Parable of the Two Sons and the Prodigal Father (Luke 15:11-32)
Jun 17, 2026
Pursuit and Celebration of the Valuable (Luke 15:1-10)
Jun 10, 2026
Bid Farewell (Luke 14:25-35)
Jun 03, 2026
The Right Now Moment (Luke 14:15-24)
May 27, 2026
From Prominence to Humility (Luke 14:1-14)
May 20, 2026
Making Every Effort to Know and be Known (Luke 13:22-35)
May 13, 2026
The Day Freedom Disrupted Religion (Luke 13:10-21)
May 06, 2026
Active God, Active Response (Luke 13:1-9)
Apr 29, 2026
The Urgency of the Revival Within (Luke 12:49-59)
Apr 22, 2026
Be Ready, Always, EveryONE (Luke 12:35-48)
Apr 15, 2026
Lent 2026: The Unrequested King (Zechariah 9:9-12)
Apr 01, 2026
Lent 2026: Invitation and Opportunity to Dwell (Psalm 27)
Mar 25, 2026
Lent 2026: Choosing to Love, Listen, and Hold Fast to God (Deuteronomy 30:11-20)
Mar 18, 2026
Lent 2026: God’s Refinement, Our Obedience, Global Promise (Jeremiah 32:26-41)
Mar 11, 2026
Lent 2026: Desiring the Lord (Psalm 84)
Mar 04, 2026
Lent 2026: Listening in the Wilderness (Week 1: Psalm 95)
Feb 25, 2026
Faithful Focus On Jesus (Luke 12:22-34)
Feb 18, 2026
Living Richly Toward God (Luke 12:13-21)
Feb 11, 2026
He’s Got Our Back (Luke 12:1-12)
Feb 04, 2026
Warnings and Invitations to Abide (Luke 11:37-54)
Jan 28, 2026
A Good Eye and the Humble Heart (Luke 11:29-36)
Jan 21, 2026
Just Keep Swimming (Luke 11:14-28)
Jan 14, 2026
The Good Father (Luke 11:1-13)
Jan 07, 2026
Advent 2025: To the Heart of God (Advent Week 5: Christ - Jonah 4:1-11)
Dec 31, 2025
Advent 2025: To the Heart of the Enemy (Advent Week 4: Love - Jonah 3:1-10)
Dec 24, 2025
Advent 2025: In the Depths of the Sea (Advent Week 3: Joy - Jonah 1:9-17)
Dec 17, 2025
Advent 2025: In the Chaos of the Storm (Advent Week 2: Peace - Jonah 1:9-17)
Dec 10, 2025
Advent 2025: To the Ends of the Earth (Week 1: Hope - Jonah 1:1-8)
Dec 03, 2025
The Good Portion (Luke 10:38-42)
Nov 26, 2025
Open to Interruption (Luke 10:25-37)
Nov 19, 2025
So Others May Live (Luke 10:21-24)
Nov 12, 2025
Our Kingdom Identity (Luke 10:13-20)
Nov 05, 2025
The Potential in the Not-Yet (Luke 10:1-12)
Oct 29, 2025
Kingdom Possibilities and Costs (Luke 9:51-62)
Oct 22, 2025
Patience Amidst Misconception (Luke 9:37-50)
Oct 15, 2025
Dynamic Listening to Jesus (Luke 9:28-36)
Oct 08, 2025
Titles, Meanings, and Implications (Luke 9:18-27)
Oct 01, 2025
Invitation, Not Interruption (Luke 9:10-17)
Sep 24, 2025
Missional Blueprint (Luke 9:1-9)
Sep 17, 2025
Desperate for Jesus (Luke 8:40-56)
Sep 10, 2025
Remaining Despite Resistance (Luke 8:26-39)
Sep 03, 2025
Transformative Power of Obedience (Luke 8:16-25)
Aug 27, 2025
Everyone, A Place to Belong and Serve (Luke 8:1-15)
Aug 20, 2025
Undivided Dependence (Luke 7:36-50)
Aug 13, 2025
This Kingdom is for You (Luke 7:24-35)
Aug 06, 2025
Beauty of Ambiguity (Luke 7:18-23)
Jul 30, 2025
Restorative Implications of the Inbreaking Upside Down Kingdom (Luke 7:1-17)
Jul 23, 2025
Hope of a Foundation in Christ (Luke 6:46-49)
Jul 16, 2025
Dependent Like Our Teacher (Luke 6:37-45)
Jul 09, 2025
Radical Dependence and Trust (Luke 6:27-36)
Jul 02, 2025
The Cost … Blessing of Discipleship (Luke 6:12-26)
Jun 25, 2025
Sabbath and Abiding in Jesus’ Kingdom (Luke 6:1-11)
Jun 18, 2025
New Wine Skins (Luke 5:33-39)
Jun 11, 2025
Being the People Who See (Luke 5:27-32)
Jun 04, 2025
Seeing as He Sees (Luke 5:17-26)
May 28, 2025
Willingness to Encounter Brokenness (Luke 5:12-16)
May 21, 2025
Comfort in Uncomfortability (Luke 5:1-11)
May 14, 2025
Confession, Conviction, Action - The Cycle of Obedience (Luke 4:31-44)
May 07, 2025
False Dichotomy of For or Against … (Luke 4:14-30)
Apr 30, 2025
Lent Week 7: Easter Sunday (Matthew 28)
Apr 23, 2025
Lent Week 6: Palm Sunday (Luke 22:33-34, 23:39-43; John 19:25-27; Matthew 27:45-46; John 19:28-30; Luke 23:44-46)
Apr 16, 2025
Lent Week 5: Encountering God, Empowering Love (Matthew 27:22-31 and Mark 15:37-41)
Apr 09, 2025
Lent Week 4: The God Who Sees Us (Mark 14:27-31 and Luke 22:54-62)
Apr 02, 2025
Lent Week 3: The Obedience of Prayer (Matthew 26:36-46 and Luke 22:39-44)
Mar 26, 2025
Lent Week 2: Obedient Service Despite Betrayal (Luke 22:1-34 and John 13:1-17)
Mar 19, 2025
Lent Week 1: Resolute Obedience and God’s Kingdom (Luke 9:18-36, 43-48, and 51-62)
Mar 12, 2025
Obedience as Foundation (Luke 4:1-13)
Mar 05, 2025
Sons and Daughters of God (Luke 3:15-38)
Feb 26, 2025
Upside Down Fruit of His Kingdom (Luke 3:7-14)
Feb 19, 2025
Hearing, Remaining, and Understanding (Luke 3:1-6)
Feb 12, 2025
Listen First … Listen Twice (Luke 2:41-52)
Feb 05, 2025
The Impact of Availability and Obedience (Luke 2:22-40)
Jan 29, 2025
Too Good Not to Share (Luke 2:1-21)
Jan 22, 2025
Communal Impact of Transparent Living (Luke 1:57-80)
Jan 15, 2025
Mary's Upside Down Kingdom Perspective (Luke 1:26-56)
Jan 08, 2025
God's Upside Down Kingdom and Our Faith (Luke 1:1-25)
Jan 01, 2025
Advent 2024 Week 4: Peace (Luke 1:46-55)
Dec 25, 2024
Advent 2024 Week 3: Joy (Isaiah 12)
Dec 18, 2024
Advent 2024 Week 2: Love (Luke 1:68-79)
Dec 11, 2024
Advent 2024 Week 1: Hope (Psalm 25:1-10)
Dec 04, 2024
Relentless Prayer (Colossians 4:2-18)
Nov 27, 2024
Christ In All (Colossians 3:18-4:1)
Nov 20, 2024
Set Your Sights Above (Colossians 3:1-17)
Nov 13, 2024
Focus on the Shadows or The Substance? (Colossians 2:16-23)
Nov 06, 2024
The Struggle of Lordship (Colossians 2:6-15)
Oct 30, 2024
Dependent > Dependable (Colossians 1:24-2:5)
Oct 23, 2024
Foundation and Centrality of Christ (Colossians 1:1-23)
Oct 16, 2024
Faithful In the Ordinary (Romans 16:1-27)
Oct 09, 2024
A Life of Missional Purpose (Romans 15:23-33)
Oct 02, 2024
Ready/Growing in Christ (Romans 15:14-22)
Sep 25, 2024
Unity in Christ, Vital for Worship and Witness (Romans 15:1-13)
Sep 18, 2024
Pursuing Christ in Community (Romans 14:13-23)
Sep 11, 2024
Relieved of Our Propensity to Judge (Romans 14:1-12)
Sep 04, 2024
The Debt of Love (Romans 13:8-14)
Aug 28, 2024
Actionism Over Activism (Romans 13:1-7)
Aug 21, 2024
Heaping Coals of Love … (Romans 12:9-21)
Aug 07, 2024
Life as Worship (Romans 12:1-8)
Jul 31, 2024
Unifying Faith in Christ (Romans 11:25-36)
Jul 24, 2024
Rooted by Faith in Christ Alone (Romans 11:11-24)
Jul 17, 2024
God's Not Done Yet (Romans 11:1-10)
Jul 03, 2024
Our Messaging Matters (Romans 10:14-21)
Jun 26, 2024
Courageous Obedience (Romans 9:30-10:13)
Jun 19, 2024
Obedience as Extraordinary (Romans 9:14-29)
Jun 12, 2024
The Children of Promise (Romans 9:1-13)
Jun 05, 2024
What Can Separate Us?
May 29, 2024
Living in the In-between (Romans 8:18-30)
May 22, 2024
What Motivates You? (Romans 8:1-17)
May 15, 2024
The Plight of Living to Law (Romans 7:13-25)
May 08, 2024
Freed for Another (Romans 7:1-12)
May 01, 2024
Whose Kingdom Are You Building? (Romans 6:15-23)
Apr 24, 2024
Grace Initiates and Sustains Life in Christ (Romans 6:1-14)
Apr 10, 2024
Which Camp Will You Choose? (Romans 5:12-21)
Apr 03, 2024
Worth Our Lives (Romans 5:1-11)
Mar 27, 2024
Belief Beyond Reasonable Expectation (Romans 4:13-25)
Mar 20, 2024
Open to the Unexpected (Romans 4:1-12)
Mar 13, 2024
Faithfulness as the Cure (Romans 3:21-31)
Mar 06, 2024
Cure Over Diagnosis (Romans 3:9-20)
Feb 28, 2024
Windows of God’s Faithfulness (Romans 3:1-8)
Feb 21, 2024
Who Is In? (Romans 2:17-29)
Feb 14, 2024
Surrendering Our Desire to Judge (Romans 2:1-16)
Feb 07, 2024
Misplaced Focus As Idolatry (Romans 1:12-32)
Jan 31, 2024
Obligation of Love (Romans 1:8-17)
Jan 24, 2024
Identity Pointing to Purpose (Romans 1:1-7)
Jan 17, 2024
Called and Equipped to See As Jesus Sees (Acts 9:19b-31)
Jan 10, 2024
Obedience is Mission Critical (Acts 8:1-3; 9:1-19a)
Jan 03, 2024
Conduits of God's Peace: Advent Week 4 (Psalm 89)
Dec 27, 2023
Our Bags of Gold: Advent Week 3 (Psalm 126)
Dec 20, 2023
The Enduring Love of God Played Out: Advent Week 2 (Psalm 85)
Dec 13, 2023
The Vulnerability of Lament: Advent Week 1 (Psalm 80)
Dec 06, 2023
Its All About Relationship (Malachi 3:13-4:6)
Nov 29, 2023
Kingdom Economics (Malachi 3:6-12)
Nov 22, 2023
Holy Refinement (Malachi 2:17-3:5)
Nov 15, 2023
Life of Covenant Faithfulness (Malachi 2:10-16)
Nov 08, 2023
The Covenant to Give Life and Peace (Malachi 2:1-9)
Nov 01, 2023
His Story and Our Place In It (Malachi 1:1-14)
Oct 25, 2023
Obedience Leads to Restoration (Haggai 2:10-23)
Oct 18, 2023
The Greater Glory of the One Within (Haggai 1:15b-2:9)
Oct 11, 2023
Sacrificial Obedience and the Promise of Presence (Haggai 1:1-15a)
Oct 04, 2023
As We Go... Make Disciples (Matthew 28:1-20)
Sep 27, 2023
End of the Old and Beginning of the New (Matthew 27:45-66)
Sep 20, 2023
Listening First in Our Dependence on God (Matthew 27:27-44)
Sep 13, 2023
Living Selflessly for Our King (Matthew 27:11-26)
Sep 06, 2023
The Tale of Two Disciples and Two Communities (Matthew 26:69-27:10)
Aug 30, 2023
Living As Jesus Lived (Matthew 26:47-68)
Aug 23, 2023
The Fight for Faith (Matthew 26:31-46)
Aug 16, 2023
Preparation to Live as Christ Lived (Matthew 26:17-30)
Aug 09, 2023
What is Jesus Worth to You?
Aug 02, 2023
Focusing on the Just One (Matthew 25:31-46)
Jul 26, 2023
Investing Well in Jesus' Kingdom (Matthew 25:14-30)
Jul 19, 2023
Be Preparing (Matthew 25:1-13)
Jul 12, 2023
Keep Watch (Matthew 24:36-51)
Jun 28, 2023
Faithful Living (Matthew 24:1-35)
Jun 21, 2023
Root Over Fruit (Matthew 23:25-39)
Jun 14, 2023
Upside Down Metrics of Christ (Matthew 23:13-24)
Jun 07, 2023
Known by Love (Matthew 23:1-12)
May 31, 2023
Exposing the Truth, Penetrating Our Hearts (Matthew 22:37-46)
May 24, 2023
With Open Hands Before Jesus Daily (Matthew 22:15-33)
May 17, 2023
The In-between Time (Matthew 22:1-14)
May 10, 2023
Stewarding in God's Kingdom (Matthew 21:33-46)
May 03, 2023
Saying Yes and Doing Yes (Matthew 21:23-32)
Apr 26, 2023
Cleansed and Called to Bear Fruit (Matthew 21:12-22)
Apr 19, 2023
Go and Tell His Truth (Matthew 28:1-15)
Apr 12, 2023
Donkey or Horse? (Matthew 21:1-11)
Apr 05, 2023
Jesus Sees Them, Do You? (Matthew 20:29-34)
Mar 28, 2023
Not So With You (Matthew 20:17-28)
Mar 21, 2023
Where is Our Focus? (Matthew 20:1-16)
Mar 14, 2023
The Cost of Following Jesus (Matthew 19:13-30)
Mar 08, 2023
Forgiveness and Reconciliation (Matthew 19:1-12)
Mar 01, 2023
The Life of Forgiveness (Matthew 18:21-35)
Feb 22, 2023
Peanut's Closet
Feb 18, 2023
Accountability in the Church (Matthew 18:15-20)
Feb 15, 2023
Who Is the One You're Called To? (Matthew 18:1-14)
Feb 08, 2023
Our Faith and Our Witness (Matthew 17:14-27)
Feb 01, 2023
Are You Listening? (Matthew 17:1-13)
Jan 24, 2023
Who Do You Say I Am? (Matthew 16:13-28)
Jan 18, 2023
Here is Your Sign (Matthew 16:1-12)
Jan 11, 2023
Desiring Jesus (Matthew 15:29-39)
Jan 04, 2023
God With Us (Mathew15:21-28)
Dec 28, 2022
The Heart of the Matter (Matthew 15:1-20)
Dec 21, 2022
Called to Action (Matthew 14:22-36)
Dec 14, 2022
The Kingdom of Peace (Matthew 14:1-21)
Dec 07, 2022
Our Response to the Kingdom of Heaven (Matthew 13:44-58)
Nov 30, 2022
Wheat, Weeds, and Mustard Seeds (Matthew 13:31-35)
Nov 23, 2022
Are We Wheat or Weeds? (Matthew 13:24-30 & 36-43)
Nov 16, 2022
What Soil Are You? (Matthew 13:1-23)
Nov 08, 2022