1 John 1:1-4, 1 John Pt. 1: The apostle John lived through many trials and tribulations. He has watched all his friends, his fellow apostles, martyred for their faith. He has witnessed the explosive growth of the early church, and has contended for the faith against false teachers who threaten to tear the church apart. Now nearing the end of his life, John writes a letter to a group of Christians who are dismayed and confused about who Jesus is. Was he real? Did he actually come in the flesh? Wh...
Apr 30, 2023•32 min
Matthew 9:9-13, 35-38 // Jesus tells us that the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Not only are we to pray for the Lord to raise up laborers for the harvest, we should not be surprised when the Lord calls us to participate in his harvest. This was the case of Dr. Ryan Pennington, director of Refugee Language Project, and his family, who were called to the Ma Manda people of Papua New Guinea to provide the Scriptures in their own language. As the director of Refugee Language Project,...
Apr 23, 2023•29 min
Psalm 16 // What gives you confidence in life - and how do you know your confidence won't be misplaced? Death is everywhere. Death is certain and permanent. Nobody has ever been able to earn enough income, popularity, or security to escape their mortality. If we put our confidence in these things to escape death, we will be sorely disappointed when these things fail to deliver us from that fateful day. But what if we put our confidence in someone who died - but was raised from the dead? And what...
Apr 16, 2023•31 min
John 20:1; 11-18 // "So what if Jesus rose from the dead? What does that have to do with my life today?" Many people read the story of the resurrection of Jesus Christ and recognize that it is a beautiful and powerful story, but that it's just that - a story. It doesn't mean anything for living in our modern world today, nor can it help us with the distressing challenges we face in everyday life. But if the resurrection of Jesus Christ truly happened, then nothing could be more relevant to our w...
Apr 09, 2023•31 min
John 19:1-30 Our mission is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and display the gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives to our neighbors and to the nations. Visit redeemerchristianchurch.com/give and join in our mission through your generous financial assistance - every gift and donation we receive goes to this goal!
Apr 09, 2023•24 min
Matthew 21:1-11 // If you got to pick your salvation, what kind of salvation would you want God to give you? As Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a donkey, the people cry aloud "Hosanna!" The long-awaited king had come to overthrow the Roman Empire and deliver the people from their oppression - or so they thought. Jesus was coming to bring salvation, but it was not the salvation that they were expecting or seeking. Instead of political salvation, or material salvation, Jesus came to bring eternal sa...
Apr 02, 2023•29 min
Nahum, Pt 3 (Nahum 3:1-7, 18-19) // How could such a small, weird book in the Old Testament have anything to say to Christians today? Nahum is a book that foretells divine wrath against the city of Ninevah, a city built on violence, bloodshed, and oppression. Assyria was one of the most powerful empires of the ancient world, and Ninevah was its crowning jewel to its citizens - and the dread and terror of those who opposed Assyria. But Nahum isn't just foretelling the downfall of one wicked empir...
Mar 26, 2023•36 min
Nahum, Pt. 2 - Nahum 1:15-2:13 // Why is God's justice something to look forward to? Our sin is not just an individual problem. Sin is a problem that plagues all of humanity, and the creation we live in. When we talk about "salvation", we often narrow it to our individual salvation and miss out on how Scripture talks about salvation. God's salvation includes our personal salvation, but also the salvation of his people and all creation from sin and death. While we look forward to God's final just...
Mar 19, 2023•43 min
Nahum, Part 1: Nahum 1:1-14 // How can the wrath of God be a good thing? The idea of a "wrathful God" seems like an archaic view of God from the distant past. If God is love, then he can't be wrathful - that would make him an abusive tyrant! But God's wrath is not like the wrath we know from sinful man. His wrath is an extension of his love and perfect goodness. His wrath is based not on sin, but on his holy power and authority - and his wrath is a shelter for those who turn away from evil and t...
Mar 12, 2023•36 min
Standalone - John 3:1-21 Our mission is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and display the gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives to our neighbors and to the nations. Visit redeemerchristianchurch.com/give and join in our mission through your generous financial assistance - every gift and donation we receive goes to this goal!
Mar 05, 2023•32 min
Matthew 4:1-11 How does Jesus Christ respond to the devil's testing? After Jesus' baptism, he is immediately driven into the wilderness for 40 days. What may seem like an abrupt break in the exciting action of the Gospel account is actually leading us to one of the most important events in Christ's entire ministry. After 40 days, the devil visits Jesus to test him. Exhausted from fasting for 40 days, how does Jesus respond to the devil's testing - and what happens if he fails? Our mission is to ...
Feb 26, 2023•34 min
Jonah 4 Jonah 3:10 - 4:11 // How can God be a God of mercy and justice at the same time? After God commands the fish to spit Jonah out on to dry land, Jonah reluctantly goes to Nineveh. As a Hebrew Israelite, currently experiencing the boot of the Assyrian empire, walking into Nineveh was a dangerous and life-threatening thing for Jonah to do, and yet he finally went - and began preaching a terrible sermon. Jonah wanted to see God's justice, and preached a bare-bones message of repentance with n...
Feb 19, 2023•38 min•Ep. 4
JonahJonah 2:10 - 3:9//How can God be a God of mercy and justice at the same time?After God commands the fish to spit Jonah out onto dry land, Jonah reluctantly goes to Nineveh. As a Hebrew Israelite, currently experiencing the boot of the Assyrian empire, walking into Nineveh was a dangerous and life-threatening thing for Jonah to do, and yet he finally went - and began preaching a terrible sermon. Jonah wanted to see God's justice, and preached a bare-bones message of repentance with no hope o...
Feb 12, 2023•35 min
JonahJonah 1:17 - 2:9// Jonah did not just disobey God. He wanted to flee from God. So, in order to do this, he leaves the land of Israel, he leaves his people, and he even abandons his personal call and identity as a prophet of God, as he sails to the edge of the earth. Now, because of his sin, he cast into the sea where he sinks into complete and utter isolation. Sin often deceives us into thinking that it will give us pleasure and peace. But in reality, it drives us away and exiles us from th...
Feb 05, 2023•35 min
Jonah (Part 1)Jonah 1:1-16// Jonah is not just a story. Jonah is our story. Jonah represents the enduring call of the people to step out of their comfort, out of their bias, and out of their tribe to embrace the mission of God. We have been called. Do we have ears to hear the voice of the One who calls us? We have been sent. Will we go to where God sends us? We have been loved. Will we love as God has loved us? We have the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Will we declare it and display i...
Jan 29, 2023•39 min
Genesis 9:5-6// The doctrine of the sacredness of human life doesn’t only have implications for society at large. It has deeply personal implications that reach down into the very motivations of our hearts. Murder is the fundamental denial and discretion of the image of God. It is why it is forbidden even in the Ten Commandments of Moses. But Jesus drills down deeper. He shows us that murder is rooted in hatred within our hearts. When we are wounded and wronged, we are tempted to respond by woun...
Jan 22, 2023•36 min
Galatians 1:1-9 Our mission is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and display the gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives to our neighbors and to the nations. Visit redeemerchristianchurch.com/give and join in our mission through your generous financial assistance - every gift and donation we receive goes to this goal!
Jan 15, 2023•36 min
EpiphanyIsaiah 60:1-14// Human beings long to be home. In each of us there is a sense of restlessness and eagerness to find that place where we belong, where we are at peace, and where we are at rest. At the end of every journey and adventure is the hope of arriving at a place we can call home. The Bible offers an account of why we hunger for home: human beings were created by God in the garden of Eden. Eden was a place of peace, provision, and flourishing, but even more, it was a place where hu...
Jan 08, 2023•32 min
Galatians 4:4-7// Even if you've never heard the phrase "deus ex machina" before, you probably have seen it in books, TV shows, and movies many times over: when the hero of the story has lost because the odds are insurmountable and their fate has been sealed, something outside of the established story suddenly changes all factors in the story. An unwinnable situation suddenly becomes winnable, and the hero defeats the villain. Even though these 'reverses' are everywhere in our storytelling, deep...
Jan 01, 2023•27 min
Christmas Day 2022John 1:14-18 Our mission is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and display the gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives to our neighbors and to the nations. Visit redeemerchristianchurch.com/give and join in our mission through your generous financial assistance - every gift and donation we receive goes to this goal!
Dec 25, 2022•28 min
Christmas Eve 2022Luke 2:1-21 Our mission is to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ with our words and display the gospel of Jesus Christ with our lives to our neighbors and to the nations. Visit redeemerchristianchurch.com/give and join in our mission through your generous financial assistance - every gift and donation we receive goes to this goal!
Dec 24, 2022•23 min
Advent 2022 (Part 4)Matthew 1:18-25'// As a man, Jesus has experienced all of our disappointments. He experienced the heartbreak of loss as he was told that John the Baptist had been murdered by Herod. He experienced the sting of betrayal as every one of his disciples fled from him when he was arrested. He knows the pain of what it feels like to have a friend like Peter curse the very mention of his name. He knows our disappointment. And that is why he is qualified to heal it. But even more, as ...
Dec 18, 2022•29 min
Advent 2022 (Part 3)Matthew 11:2-11// John the Baptist was the forerunner for Jesus, the long-awaited Messiah. And yet, despite spending his entire ministry preparing the way for Jesus, John began to have some doubts as he languished in his prison cell. What if Jesus wasn't the Messiah? What if he was preparing the way for the wrong person? John sends his disciples to inquire of Christ whether he ought to be looking for someone else, and in his response, Jesus answers him that he is the one John...
Dec 11, 2022•28 min
Advent 2022 (Part 2)Matthew 3:1-12// Sometimes we need sharp reminders to shake us out of the stupor of our comfortable lives. John the Baptist's warning to the Pharisees and Sadducees - and to us today - is absolutely necessary. He sees through the pretension and the pride and lies that we construct to bring ourselves false comfort and he’s going to be able to separate the wheat, the fruit of a life oriented toward God and toward repentance, from the chaff, the excess useless part of the wheat ...
Dec 04, 2022•31 min
Advent 2022 (Part 1)Matthew 1:1-17// Matthew shows us that, more than entering the story of Israel, Jesus perfected it. Jesus succeeds where Israel fails. Jesus is the true Abraham who leaves a place of comfort to go forth in faith and find a home for his family, so that through him blessing might come into the whole world. He is the true David who fights the true giants of sin, Satan, and death on our behalf, and who will rule and reign with a kingdom that knows no end. Jesus is the one who bri...
Nov 30, 2022•31 min
Thanksgiving - Psalm 107Psalm 107:1-32// When we look out on nature, we see God’s goodness everywhere. Whether it is the glory of the Palo Duro Canyon, the beauty of snow, the joy of music, the taste of pizza, the wonder of children, the majesty of the universe, we see the good blessings of God everywhere around us. These are all examples of gifts God gives to all freely which reveal his nature to us. But the one place we see the goodness of God most clearly is in the gift of his only son to sav...
Nov 20, 2022•35 min
The Deathless Sermon - Orphan Sunday 2022James 1:27// Sunday, November 13th, 2022 is Orphan Sunday, a day where we highlight God's call for the church to care for the orphan and the fatherless as one of the most important and vital practices of our faith. We are so incredibly thankful for Dr. Milton Jones of Christian Relief Fund and for the work they do around the globe to bring water, medicine, and education to orphans all over the world!Our mission is to declare the gospel with our words and ...
Nov 13, 2022•29 min
Romans: The Power and Glory of the Gospel (Part 31)Romans 16:1-27// Romans 16 gives us a type of candid photograph of Paul and certain church members in Rome in the middle of the first century. It provides us with a window into the real lives of real Christians who have gone before us in the faith. Yet, it is in and through the lives of ordinary Christians that the gospel of Jesus Christ has gone forth. It is in and through the lives of ordinary Christians that the supernatural power of God has ...
Nov 06, 2022•33 min
Romans: The Power and Glory of the Gospel (Part 30)Romans 15:14-33// Jesus is the one who was despised and rejected by men. He is the man of sorrows who has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. He is the one who was "pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities". At the cross, Jesus endured the "chastisement that brought us peace" (Isa 52:13—53:12). Yet, here in Romans 15, Paul is connecting his own ministry to that of the Suffering Servant of Isaiah 52 and 53. Is this blas...
Oct 30, 2022•38 min
Romans: The Power and Glory of the Gospel (Part 29)Romans 14:13-15:13// The Bible is a book that recounts many miracles and epic moments in history. We think of Moses dividing the Red Sea, Elijah calling down fire from heaven, and Jesus rising from the dead. Miracles are important. And miracles can and do happen. But the primary way that the kingdom of God has advanced is through the simple faithfulness of the people of God as displayed in the profoundly practical and small moments of life. The ...
Oct 23, 2022•33 min
