Redeemer Church of Waterford

When Peter confesses, "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God," he is not making a definitive statement about the deity of Jesus. When Peter calls Jesus "Christ," he is affirming that Jesus, as a descendent of David, is the final fulfillment of the promise of a king to sit on David's throne. When Peter calls him "Son of God," he does not mean by that title what we mean by that title. So wha...

The name 'Jesus' derives from the Aramaic 'Joshua' which means 'the LORD who saves.' Jesus was a common first century Jewish name. Because the people were anticipating a savior who would deliver them from their enemies, parents of infant sons would name them 'Jesus' in the hopes that their baby boy might be that savior. How are we to understand the eternal Son of God - who always existed - coming...

To fully understand what the Apostles meant when they called Jesus "Lord," it is necessary to understand the meaning of the unutterable Name of the LORD as God was called in the Old Testament.

What does it mean when the Nicene Creed affirms that our one Lord Jesus Christ was "begotten of His Father"? Was there a time when the Second Person of the Holy Trinity did not exist? Beyond that, what are the implications FOR US that the Son of God was begotten of His Father?

When the cherubim and the twenty-four elders sing, "Thou, Lord, hast created all things and for thy pleasure they are and were created," we are confronted with the absolute sovereignty of God over every created thing and the resulting tension between the will of the creature and the will of the Creator.

The first article of the Nicene Creed affirms "one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible." This one God is seated on an invisible throne from which He overrules all other powers which have been ordained by Him, both visible and invisible. What is to be the response of all created things to this Sovereign Ruler?

How does Jesus being the Creator of things visible and invisible speak to our own cultural moment which places a higher value on the visible (material) world than it does the invisible (spiritual) world?

The 148th Psalm is a call for all creation to praise the Lord. Verses 1 - 6 call for the heavens to praise the Lord, from the highest to the lowest created things. Verses 7 - 14 call for the earth to praise the Lord, from the lowest to the highest created things.

In the first century, when the Apostle Paul wrote to the Colossians, there is confusion about who Jesus is. In the fourth century, when the Nicene Creed was written, there is confusion about who Jesus is. In the twenty-first century there is confusion about who Jesus is. Before we can understand God as "maker of all things visible and invisible," we must understand the nature and person of His Son...

Albert Mohler: "...everything that exists traces its existence and its reality to the sovereign act of God the Father Almighty—maker of heaven and earth." What we believe about the origins of life is fundamental to everything else we believe, and more importantly, fundamental to how we live either under the Lordship of Jesus Christ or in rebellion to His creation order.

In this continuation of our consideration of what the Nicene Creed means by "Maker of Heaven and Earth," Pastor Paul gives a fuller exposition of Hebrews 1:1-12 as we examine how the Son as the Word of the Father calls everything that is into being.

What does the Nicene Creed mean when it says, "We believe in one God, the Father Almighty"? How are we to understand God as "Father"? Preeminently, God is understood to be Father in His eternal relationship to the Son without regard to His relationship to those whom He has adopted as Sons.

In our day you can find people with problems, or foibles, or issues, or hang ups. You can find people who have made mistakes. You can find good people who occasionally do bad things, but rarely can you find a sinner. What we learn from our text is that only where the transcendent, holy God is revealed do men see themselves as sinful.

Who was this man whose resurrection from the dead we celebrate each Easter? He was a man in human flesh like any other man. But the description given of this man by his closest friend and companion as "the Word of life," but more than that as the one who was "from the beginning" indicates he was more than extraordinary.

The words of Isaiah 53 are the perspective of onlookers to the life of Jesus who mistakenly believed that the sorrows and griefs Jesus endured during his life and the ignoble death he died were evidence of the judgement of God upon him. But they soon realized that the wrath Jesus endured was not for his sins, but for theirs.

Regeneration is not conversion; it is not repentance; it is not moral reform. Regeneration precedes all of these things - including faith - and is solely a work of God without any effort on our part at all.

Regeneration is a Trinitarian work, which is to say all three persons of the Holy Trinity acted in eternal counsel to devise and execute the plan of redemption in such a way that it cannot fail to produce the intended result of saving all of God's people.

Over a 20 year period (2005-2025), the number of 18 to 29 year old's in America who identify as "Christian" has declined from 68% to 44%. We are losing our children to the culture. 2 Timothy 3 defines a culture by what it loves, and those loves lead to an abandonment of God. But the Apostle Paul also offers a strategy for spiritually training our children so that they are protected from being swep...

The doctrinal stability and spiritual maturity of Redeemer Church is the work of the whole church as together we "grow up into Christ." In what specific ways do spiritually mature believers contribute to the stability and maturity of the church?

What are your expectations when you come into church on a Sunday? When you leave church, how would you describe your experience? In Isaiah 6, Isaiah is going to the temple with the congregation to worship, something he would have routinely done. But there is nothing routine about the experience he describes in Isaiah 6. Even so, we can identify five elements of worship in Isaiah 6 that ought to be...

On Thursday, February 13 we learned that 70 Christians were found beheaded in a church in the Democratic Republic of Congo. As shocking as this news is, these 70 are only the most recent of the millions upon millions of followers of Jesus who have "loved not their lives unto death" throughout church history. How are we to respond? "To die is gain."

At the end of a discourse on the cost of discipleship, Jesus makes a seemingly unrelated statement about salt, its flavor, and its usefulness. What does salt have to do with the radical discipleship our Lord has just described?

It is not possible to be a Christian unless you are a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ. How does Jesus identify true disciples? Controversially: 1. A true disciple of Jesus hates father, mother, wife, children, and his own life. 2. A true disciple of Jesus bears his cross and comes after Jesus 3. A true disciple of Jesus renounces everything he has

On the evening of His resurrection, Jesus shared a meal with two of His disciples who lived in a village called Emmaus. What do we learn from this meal that informs the way we share the Lord's Supper together as God's family?

In his Gospel, Luke records 7 meals where Jesus was either a guest, a host, or both guest and host. What has Jesus given us in each of these meals which are also present whenever we celebrate the Lord's Table?