Views from The Ridge 6.11.2025
Sunset Ridge is a church that desires to follow Jesus, reach people, and radiate God’s love and hope to all.
Worship
Sunday, June 8th
9 AM, Chapel, Acapella
11 AM, Sanctuary, Instrumental
Happy Father’s Day
Main Passage: Matt 3:13-17
Preaching Fellow, Evan Tardy
You’ve likely met Evan and seen her in worship with her family, we are happy to welcome her to the pulpit this Sunday. Evan is a seminary student at Abilene Christian University who is passionate about growth in transformational communities and church culture. She has served in several churches in areas of outreach planning, missional development, young adults, and teaching ministries. Evan and her family live in the Alamo Heights area. She is thrilled to partner with Sunset Ridge as she seeks to gain deeper understanding of the craft of preaching.
Watch previous sermons here.
Discipleship
Sundays, 10:15 AM, Bible Class & Discipleship for All Ages
Studying Matt 3:13-17
Fellowship Hall
Adult Bible Class: Open to all
BEMA Podcast Discussion group
Chapel Classroom, Women’s Discipleship Group
Room 218, Youth Group, 7th-12th grade
Roots: Children’s Discipleship through Godly Play
Bible Story Focus this Week: Ephesians 4:4-6
Room 102, PreK - Kindergarten
Room 122, 1st - 2nd Grade
Room 203, 3rd - 6th Grade
Tuesdays, 7 AM & 9 AM, Men’s Discipleship
Scott Heare’s Office, Limited spaces; Contact Scott to join a group.
Wednesdays, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, High School Tableship & Study Group
Upstairs Teens’ Room 218, Contact Den to join this group, open to 9th-12th Grade
Connections
We’re slowing things way down this summer.
Our core programming will remain the same, and we hope to see you around campus.
Coming Up…
Please note, that during the summer, Sunset Ridge Farmers Market hours have changed to 8 AM - noon.
June 28, Nuevos Vecinos Pop-Up Thrift Sale, Once Another Coffee
Every Saturday, Sunset Ridge Farmers Market, Charis Park
Every Sunday, Worship at 9 AM and 11 AM
Beyond Sunday
”Include Me”
Jess Lowry, Executive Director & Pastoral Leader, Sunset Ridge Church & Sunset Ridge Collective
There is enough time in any given day to do all that God is asking you to do.
This has become the line I repeat throughout the day. Scott often shares his daily prayer:
Include me.
In all the ways we tend to complicate life, I wonder who we might become if we took just two steps:
Prayed each morning, Jesus, include me in what you are doing in the world around me today.
Let that prayer guide how we plan our day: What is it that You are asking me to do today?
This marks a shift in tone—from God, give me the strength to do all that I want to do today to something deeper.
The questions become an invitation to align our lives with God’s rhythm, God's cadence, God’s desires and dreams for us.
When I read the whole of Isaiah 58, it never fails to stop me in my tracks. The Message version is especially poignant:
You fast, but you bicker and fight. You fast, but you swing a mean fist.
What I’m interested in seeing you do is sharing your food with the hungry, inviting the homeless poor into your homes, putting clothes on the shivering ill-clad, being available to your own families. Do this and the lights will turn on, and your lives will turn around at once.
The prophet Isaiah is clear about how we are meant to spend our time and ourselves. I wonder—if we began to pray for God to shape our days—how much more closely our lives might resemble this passage.
It’s easy to internalize this as guilt, to think we’re not doing enough. But guilt and shame have no place in the goodness God desires for our lives. Instead, we start each day with our two simple questions. And through them, we begin to notice the opportunities to love God’s people that are already right here—between our own two feet.
When we orient our days around what God is truly asking of us, there is exactly enough time.
May we be the people who have the courage to spread love like wildfire.
I can’t wait to see what God will do.
Love-Jess
Prayers of the People
Carol Gerhardt continues under the care of hospice. Please also keep her husband, Bob, and their family in your prayers.
