Redeemer Bible Church Sermon Audio

2 Timothy 3:10–4:5 | Living life as a Jesus follower is like trying to diet when no one else is. You are trying to eat right, meanwhile, your wife decides to pick up baking as a hobby. It's almost impossible to resist, therefore it requires the right discipline and encouragement to stay away from temptation. This week in 2 Timothy 3 and 4, we see Paul encouraging Timothy to live a Godly life durin...

Matthew 5:10-12 | The last message in our summer Beatitudes series. "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven." Jesus bookends His Beatitudes message with reference to the kingdom of Heaven and encouraging His followers to "rejoice and be glad" when they face persecution. But what is persecution? How are we to respond and how can we respond...

Matthew 5:9 | When we live as peacemakers, we live true to our identity as sons and daughters of our Heavenly Father who is the ultimate peacemaker. So how do we step into the character God is crafting in us to be people who make peace? And where do we need to be true to live out this identity in our lives right now?

Matthew 5:8 | "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." The sixth Beatitude statement from Jesus' Sermon on the mount.

Matthew 5:7 | "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy." The fifth Beatitude statement from Jesus' Sermon on the mount. What does merciful mean and how can we cultivate a heart of mercy?

Matthew 5:6 | As the Rolling Stones say, "I can't get no satisfaction..." That one line summarizes so much of the human existence. What brings satisfaction in this world? And why does it seem so much of what we pursue in hopes of being satisfied actually leads us to be more dissatisfied? What if satisfaction is not found in pursuing satisfaction but in the pursuit of something else? Jesus tells us...

Matthew 5:5 | What is meekness? It's actually kind of hard to pin that question down. It's increasingly hard when we swim upstream in a culture where meekness is often disregarded. So what is meekness? We have to get at it because the meek receive a beautiful inheritance. It's an inheritance we don't want to miss out on. So let's pursue an understanding of meekness and this inheritance Jesus promi...

Matthew 5:4 | Consider for a moment those times in life when you feel alright –when you feel at peace. What are the conditions that cause that or allow for that? Next, think about the times in your life when you don’t feel alright –when you don’t feel at peace. What’s gone wrong? Now, for our final query, how much time do you spend trying to be in the first category and not the second? If you’re l...

Matthew 5:1-3 | The Blessed Life What is the blessed life? We will define what it means to be blessed based on the value system of the kingdom we identify with. So what kingdom do we identify with? And if it is the kingdom of God, we might be surprised to hear the very opening line of how Jesus characterizes who a blessed one is. There is major encouragement in what he says for those who know thei...

Revelation 21:1-27 | The greatest story ever told is the story of God’s desire to dwell with His people, and to redeem them from their sin. In Revelation 21, we learn the end of this epic story, the fullness of redemption. In the world we live in where headlines and hardships can weigh heavily upon us, getting our eyes to the end of time will provide us with the hope and motivation we need to pres...

Acts 11:19-30 | We've talked about what 4W lives look like, but what does it look like when God gathers and unifies 4W lives to make up a 4W church? What characterizes a church like that? We look to the church at Antioch in the book of Acts to take our cues of what we can look like as we seek to faithfully live out God's calling of being a 4W church.

Romans 10:13-17 | Our passage this week demands a response. All Bible passages do, but we feel the intensity of Paul's logic as he flows it out in Romans 10. How will people believe in what they have never heard? How will they hear unless someone tells them? The answer: They won't. But they must. So we must go with the gospel.

1 Peter 4:7–11 | How did Jesus say that the world would know we are his disciples? By our love for one another. When we talk about working for Christ here at Redeemer we are talking about the stewardship of all God has given us to lovingly and sacrificially serve the body of Christ. In 1 Peter 4, we come across a back-to-back-to-back list of one another's that can shape the way we work for Christ....

John 15:1–11 | Walking with Christ is the daily rhythm of abiding in Christ that leads to increasing Christlikeness. So what does this abiding look like? How do we walk in a way that abides? Thankfully Jesus invites us into the joy of an abiding walk with Him, and He teaches us what that abiding looks like. Let's gather around John 15 and let Him call us into a vibrant, abiding walk with Him. Chec...

John 4:1–45 | Worship. What is it? We all have this general sense, but then you go to define it and it can be hard to encapsulate in a string of words with a period at the end. Followers of Jesus are worshippers of Jesus. We must have an understanding of what it means to worship him. Fortunately for us, Jesus met a worship-thirsty sinner at a well one day and convicted her of her wrong worship, ta...

Matthew 22:34–40 | We know we are to love God. And we know that we are to love him with a wholehearted love. We strive toward this as we grow in our walk with Jesus day by day, that we would love God more today than we did yesterday. That our love for him is deepened more next week than it was this week. To be a disciple of Jesus is to be falling more and more into a wholehearted love of God. Here...

Matthew 28:1–20 | Jesus is alive! So what should that mean? If Jesus is truly alive, and if every heart is to worship him as a resurrected savior, what kind of responses should we have to this fact? Maybe more strongly, what response does a resurrected Christ demand from us? In Matthew's gospel, we get clear direction as to what the response should be to the resurrected Christ. As we gather to cel...

Genesis 41:1–50:26 | As Jacob comes face-to-face with his brothers, what will his reaction be? I mean these are the guys who sold him and sent him on a 13-year journey as a household servant and prison sufferer. If you were coming face-to-face with people who led you into over a decade worth of pain and heartache, what would you say? What would you do? Joseph's response is shocking. Really shockin...

Genesis 40 | In the deepest valleys of life, we hold on to the truth that God is with us. But it's important for us to ask... So what? Why is it good news that God is with us in the deep valleys of life? As we continue in our study through the life of Joseph, we see that he is still in the valley. He's still in the prison. And it gets worse for him in Genesis 40. Through it all, we know that God i...

Genesis 38:1-30 | Join Pastor Brock as he walks through Genesis 38.

Genesis 37:1-39:23 | Question: Where is God when life is at its worst?  Answer: Right. With. Us. I know that is easier to know in our head than it is to know in our heart when life is at its absolute worst. When the deep valleys come it's easy to ask: God where are you? Why so silent? Why aren't you moving in this?  This week we watch as Joseph goes from the position of a prized son to a prison su...

Genesis 34:1-31 | Walkthrough Genesis 34 with Pastor Brian. A terrible, terrible story but the grace of God abounds.

Genesis 32 | What does it feel like to be weak, wounded, and wrestled to the ground by God? Jacob knows, and it changed the way he walked through life. We need to know what this is like as well.   There is no prevailing without first having been weakened, wounded, and wrestled by God. Let's come together ready to "leave with a limp" from our study of this passage.

Genesis 29 | The schemer gets schemed. Jacob has been wheeling and dealing, scheming and dreaming, conniving and thriving (or so he thinks). He is about to meet his match in uncle Laban. Genesis 29 begins a series of events in which Laban and Jacob battle and scheme against each other. God is bringing Jacob face to face with one like him in the hopes of breaking him from his scheming and bringing...

Genesis 28 | Have you ever found yourself making deals with God? "God if you... then I will..." We find Jacob trying to make a deal with God while he is on the run from family drama in Genesis 28. Even after the Lord offers him the free gift of His mercy, Jacob still tries to scheme his way into blessing. What can we learn from Jacob, and where do we need to change "God, if you... then I..." deals...