Redeemer Church Wichita

Morgan preached from Matthew 2 today.  Morgan started with the story of John Graham Burge, an American police detective for the Chicago police department who was found guilty of having "directly participated in or implicitly approved the torture" of at least 118 people in police custody in order to force false confessions.  He was later convicted, but this is a very real event from our time where...

Jon took us into Matthew 1: 1-24 today.  If you have ever been to therapy, it may start with a discussion of your family and how that has impacted you.  Our origin has influence.  Our origin shapes and forms us.  Through the origin of Jesus, we see who Jesus is and in turn we can see who we are.  This is why Matthew tells the story of the origin and genealogy of Jesus.   Just a reminder that Matth...

Morgan started us off looking at Matthew 1:1-17 and compared it to the famous violinist who sold out a concert at Carnegie Hall and the next day stopped and took time to play in the NYC subway.  Very few stopped to enjoy his amazing music.  They had no idea who was in their midst.  Matthew 1 is similar to this in that Matthew is laying literary art before us.  To a Jewish leader, this is dripping...

Pastor Morgan Burns takes us through 2 Timothy pointing out why it is important to develop mature disciples of Christ as Paul does with Timothy.  https://redeemerwichita.church/  

Pastor Jon Gordom preaching on the topic of Shalom.  https://redeemerwichita.church/  

The scripture today was John 17:9-23 and the topic was "Cultural Engagement." Jon started the discussion by showing in scripture where the message of the gospel goes across cultures.  We are going to see things differently and that's OK.  Can we allow space for our differences?  Can we be a community and love and serve each other?  Historically, the church has engaged in culture in 3 different way...

Dr. Don Davis preached on the topic, Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing out of Colossians 3. He encouraged us to keep our focus on Jesus, the Redeemer in a culture that is confused and disoriented.

Jon continued in Psalms this past Sunday by walking us through chapter 107. He kicked off the conversation asking "How much is enough?"  "How much money would satisfy you?" Sometimes we want all the benefits of money but not the problems that may come with it.  Many lottery winners destroy their lives.  Sometimes there is no control for greed.  We think we need more money, more blessings, more, mo...

Jon continued in Psalms 73 today.  The author of Psalms 73 is Asaph who was a director of music in the temple worship during the period of Kind David. We all have natural desires, but sometimes they get distorted  Pride come in and we may start wanting more and more. Asaph spoke of being envious as he saw the "prosperity of the wicked."  He saw bodies "fat and sleek" and that they had "no trouble...

Jon shared a lot on Sunday around Emotional Health and how Redeemer views emotion.   "We are committed to looking beneath the surface of each of our lives in order to be holistically transformed by the power of Jesus.  Pursuing emotional health is a lifelong journey that includes dealing with your past, family of origin, narrative scripts, emotions etc. in order to love God and our neighbor as our...

Morgan continued our Vision and Values series in I Corinthians 15: 1-11.   Corinth was the center for everything back in the day. The very air was about social status, autonomy and all about the pursuit of pleasure.  Morgan compared this to our world today.  Are we being shaped by culture or by Christ?  We are to be present in the world, but also be a distinct people.  Greatness is not dominating...

This week we got to listen and learn from Sarah Keasler as she shared her story for Asian American and Pacific Islander month. She shared about 3 influential people over history and her life that played significant roles in her faith journey. She is such a gifted speaker and we are excited to have her and her family be a part of our community.    We continued in our vision and values series lookin...

Jon continued the series on vision and values by looking at Matthew 28: 18-20, Col 1:28-29 and Ephesians 4: 11-16.  He started with the movie Good Will Hunting and how two blue collar kids from the same neighborhood lived life together even though one was a genius.  Ben Affleck's character told Matt Damon's character he dreamt about coming to pick Matt up one morning and that he would not be there...

Morgan preached on Matthew 28:16-20 and discussed our mission at Redeemer to create mature disciples of Jesus Christ.  We want to become a worshipping community loving God and our neighbors.  He discussed the disciples and how they doubted that Jesus really arose.  They doubted so that we might not doubt.  Our journey is complex and may waver between trusting and questioning and that's OK.  The di...

Easter Sunday was a beautiful morning as we all gathered to celebrate the resurrection.  Morgan preached from Matthew 28: 1-15.  He painted the picture of snow in KS in April and how the tulip can still pop through the snow.  Our lives can be like that.  We live in a world full of darkness but we have hope.  We have victory over death.  Many live their life in denial of death and will at all costs...