Redeemer OC Podcast

In Deuteronomy 4, Moses exclaims, “What great nation is there that has a god so near to it as the LORD our God? And what great nation is there that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law?”   This Sunday we’ll consider The Ten Commandments, the summary and center of God’s law. We’ll hope to grow in our understanding of these ten rules for life, as well as the Christian’s response to al...

We’re excited to announce  Rev. Dr. Bryan Chapell  is preaching this upcoming Sunday at Redeemer!  Dr. Chapell is currently the Stated Clerk of the PCA. He has also served as the President of Covenant Theological Seminary and a Senior Pastor. He is the author of many books, including  Unlimited Grace ,  Each for the Other ,  Holiness by Grace ,  Praying Backwards ,  The Gospel According to Daniel...

We all crave blessings. We crave blessings from our family members, spouses, friends, employers, and other people of influence.  We long for people to delight over us, to wish us well, and commit to seeing us flourish.  This Sunday, we’ll continue our Bible in a Year series by entering the book of Numbers and focusing on Numbers 6:22-27 - where God speaks his most famous blessing over his people....

This week we’ve come to the place where most Bible in a Year plans crash and burn, Leviticus!   In it, as Jen Pollock Michel writes “the sacrificial system is described in gruesome detail, including what must be done with the blood, fat, and entrails of each animal slaughtered for human sin. It's a book filled with smoke and scent, and a river of blood runs through it: drained, collected, and spat...

Exodus 25-40 gives detailed instructions about how the Israelites were to construct the Tabernacle within which they were to worship the LORD. While texts like these can be intimidating and dense, in this week's sermon, we will be explaining how these seemingly arcane building manuals actually point us to the heart of the Covenant and a renewed understanding of life with God. See you on Sunday! Pa...

This week we will follow the freed Israelites in the desert as they journey toward the promised land. Along the way, Exodus 17 records a most unusual miracle—God provides for his people with water from a rock. Later in Scripture, in 1 Corinthians, Paul explains the most unusual meaning to this event—“that rock was Christ.”   See you on Sunday! Pastor Josh

This Sunday, in Exodus 3, we will encounter God at the burning bush. We will hope to leave changed--like Moses was--knowing the God who hears the pleas of his people and is mighty to save.   I look forward to seeing you on Sunday. Pastor Josh

Covenants are counter-intuitive in our society.  Traditional marriage vows sound wild to our modern ears. Do couples really mean, “for better or worse, for richer or poor, in joy and in sorrow”?!  We live in a culture full of convenient agreements, compared to binding relationships. When peoples’ perceived agreement is broken, or too hard, they often will try and get out of their contract.  This S...

The Bible is a story that leads us to Jesus Christ.  Even though we are only in the first week of our readings, there have already been significant developments in the storyline of Scripture, including the creation, humanity’s fall into sin, judgment, and the promise of redemption.  This Sunday we’ll consider these developments and hope to be in a position to better appreciate the story as a whole...

As you know, we are reading the Bible together in 2023 and we start our reading plan on the first Monday of the year, January 2nd. For many of us, this sounds like a daunting task. We wonder, how do I read the Bible? That’s the question we’ll take up this Sunday and hope to leave you more equipped to read the Bible in the new year. Pastor Josh

The wait is almost over!   Tomorrow evening ushers in a new season, a season of rejoicing and feasting as we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ together.  For Christmas Eve we will sing the great Christmas carols we love, interspersed with scripture readings ("lessons”). The celebration will continue the next morning with a special Christmas Day worship service.  To help build your anticipation,...

During this season, we remember the advent, or coming, of Christ. But why did Christ come? What was the purpose of the incarnation?   This Sunday we’ll consider what John the Baptist said about Jesus to answer that question.   Pastor Josh

This Sunday we will consider a single sentence of John’s magisterial prologue. We do so, since there is no sentence that is so critical to your understanding of the incarnation and your celebration of advent, as John 1:14, “The Word (logos) became flesh and dwelt among us…” We look forward to seeing you on Sunday Pastor Josh

If you were tasked with writing a great treatise about Jesus, how would you begin? John says something that at once captured and intrigued his audience: “In the beginning was the word… In him was life, and that life was the light of men.…The true light...was coming into the world.”   Join us this Sunday as we continue our Advent series in the prologue of John’s Gospel.   Pastor Josh

“Advent begins in the dark.”   These words are a famous description of the season of Advent from Fleming Rutledge. As we enter Advent this Sunday and prepare to celebrate Christmas, we remember that the world is not the way it’s supposed to be. On one hand it’s “the most wonderful time of the year,” but on the other hand it’s one of the darkest times of year.  In Genesis 1 God spoke over the darkn...

This week we conclude our sermon series on the Trinity by completing our summary sentence of the doctrine: The one true God exists as three persons that are co-equal.   In pursuit of this doctrine, we’ll consider the Trinity in Jesus’ baptisms, the baptism he received at the beginning of his ministry as well as the baptism he commissions after his resurrection. We look forward to seeing you on Sun...

On Sunday we are fortunate to have a guest preacher, Rev. Justin Edgar from  City Presbyterian Church in Albuquerque. This is his introduction of Psalm 143: I have a low tolerance for the dark. Whether it is dark emotions…sadness, frustration, low grade anger, anxiety, fear…when I run head on into these, my tendency is to find artificial lights to cope. Food, drink, shopping, tv, phone…anything to...

Last week Pastor Josh began our sermon series on the Trinity with the idea that there is but one true God. This Sunday Pastor Derek will continue the series with the idea that the one true God exists in three persons. To best prepare for Sunday, take time to read, meditate, and pray through John 14:1-31. As you do, notice and reflect on the truths of the Trinity in that chapter. I look forward to...

Can you explain the Trinity? How would you respond if a neighbor asked you this question? Over the next three weeks we will consider the essential truths we affirm when we speak about God as triune. This Sunday we begin with the idea that there is but one true God. Pastor Josh

We love to receive blessings from Jesus, but not so much warnings. Jesus began his Sermon on the Mount with a list of blessings, and he concludes it with four back-to-back warnings. If we’re honest, these words from Jesus are scary. It’s a section we sometimes skip over because it makes us feel uncomfortable. However, instead of skipping over it, we’ll dive deep into it and embrace those hard feel...

Which of Jesus’ teachings, do non-Christians, like the most, but fault Christians for keeping the least? Think about that… what is your answer? I suspect the answer is found in Matthew 7:1, which we will consider in church this Sunday. See you then! Pastor Josh