Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Austin

The power of the Apostle Paul’s rhetoric and logic is on clear display in the second half of Romans 3. After definitively proving that all humanity is unrighteous, under sin, and subject to God’s wrath, he turns the tables and announces the good news: righteousness can only come through faith in Jesus Christ! With this set of verses, he concludes his long and devastating indictment of Jews and Gen...

After showing the Gentiles their need for God's righteousness, Paul turns to his fellow Jews. Because the Jews were boasting in their outward conformity to God's will, Paul reminds them of their failure to obey the law and corrects their misunderstanding about circumcision. Paul wants the Jews to recognize they need God's righteousness just like the Gentiles. Although Paul's critiques target first...

Paul’s great thesis in this letter is found in Romans 1:16-17. He confidently declares that the gospel is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes. For in the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed and by that same gospel, the righteous shall live by faith. But who are the righteous? Last week, we saw how all of us are guilty of the various sins against which God’s wrath is be...

On June 26, 2003, the Supreme Court struck down a Texas law that criminalized same-sex intimacy. That decision set the stage for another decision 12 years later that legalized gay marriage. These legal decisions merely codified what a majority of Americans still today accept and celebrate. But at the end of Romans 1, Paul uses same sex intimacy as an example of the whole hearted rebellion against...

This week, we begin a new sermon series in Paul’s epistle to the Romans. He’s writing to a church he’s never visited but his letter will become one of the most important books in the New Testament, helping us understand early Christian doctrine, conflict between Jews and Gentiles, and the life that God calls us to lead as his disciples. We’ll begin with a discussion of Paul’s understanding of the...

In the church calendar the first Sunday after Pentecost is Trinity Sunday, a day set aside to remember and reflect upon the nature and character of God. This Sunday we will explore the privilege of knowing God as a tri-une being, and discuss three implications of God's nature for his followers today.

Message from Rev. Titus Bagby on May 24, 2026

As we conclude our celebration of Easter, we turn our attention to the ascension of Christ to the Father’s right hand in glory. Our text this Sundays tells us that Jesus, as the victorious King who is enthroned in power and majesty, gives gifts to his church. What are the gifts? The better question is, who are the gifts and why does our King give them to us? When we grasp that, we’ll better unders...

When we confess our belief using the Apostles’ Creed, we say we believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Is that reality purely future? Or is it closer than we think? This Sunday, we’ll hear from the Apostle Paul about resurrection in the present tense from 1 Corinthians 15: what does it look like for us to live “in Christ,” the one who was dead but now is alive and at wor...

Every soldier or statesman knows that after a hard fought victory, the real work begins. Whether you are rebuilding a nation after war or forming a more perfect union, the battle gives way to construction. What is God constructing after his victorious battle against sin and death? What does the new creation look like? The first step in any rebuilding process is to lay a cornerstone. Join us this S...

Message from Rev. Danny Morgan on April 26, 2026

As we continue our celebration of Easter, we turn to the well-known story of Jesus’ appearance to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Along the way, Jesus leads them through a survey of the Old Testament showing how all of Scripture points to him! By the end of the journey, the disciples have been moved from sadness to joy. This Sunday, we’ll listen in on the greatest small group Bible study ever...

What happened to the disciples after Jesus was raised from the dead? We continue the story of the first Easter this week and find the disciples hiding in a locked room, afraid—afraid of the Jews but even more unsettled by the news of Jesus’ resurrection. The disciples’ reaction (especially Thomas’s reaction) is illustrative for you and me: what will it take for us to believe God’s promises, to tru...

This Sunday is Easter and we will finally conclude our study in the Gospel of Mark with Mark's account of the Resurrection of our Lord. We began our study on January 8, 2023, and have returned to it each spring. I trust that these four years of study about the life and work of Jesus have not just informed your mind but have also enlarged your heart, helping you worship and follow Jesus as his disc...

In the church calendar, today is both Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday, a day where we remember both Jesus’ triumphant entry into Jerusalem and his redeeming suffering on the cross. The tension between these two images of Jesus—hailed as King by the crowds but mocked as King by Pilate and others—is instructive for us. It makes us confront our own expectations of King Jesus: what does he look like? W...

The pace of Mark’s storytelling—already fast compared to the other Gospel writers—spicing up. Jesus is taken from the Garden of Gethsemane to the home of the High Priest for a hasty trial before the Jewish religious leaders. Peter, meanwhile, has followed at a distance and is trapped by accusations that he was one of Jesus’ disciples. Both Jesus and Peter undergo a trial of sorts, both are condemn...

In January 2020, a small group from Redeemer visited Israel. One of the most moving places for me to visit was the Garden of Gethsemane. The area lies at the foot of the Mount of Olives. You can look across a small valley to the ancient city of Jerusalem. The Temple Mount is clearly visible. It was there on the night before Jesus died that his disciples heard something extraordinary: they heard Je...

On the night Jesus was betrayed, he established the Lord's Supper (communion) as a sign of the New Covenant for his people. He intended his church to celebrate this meal until he partakes of it with us after his return. This Sunday we will explore our theology of the table, focusing on its background, the nature of its gift, and the calling of its participants.

It’s important to remember that the Gospels are both the inerrant word of God and a carefully constructed narrative full of dramatic contrasts. Nowhere is this more evident than in Mark 14 and the contrast between Judas the disciple and Mary the sister of Jesus’ friend Lazarus. They are both totally devoted to…different things! This sermon we’ll explore the differences between them, the difference...

Our text this Sunday, Mark 13 (and the parallel texts in Matthew 24 and Luke 21), is among some of the most difficult to understand in the Bible. Jesus appears to mix predictions of things that would occur during the lifetime of the disciples with things that would only occur at the very end of human history. Although we won’t have time to unravel all of the exegetical complexities of Mark 13 this...

We return to the book of Mark and conclude Mark 12- where Jesus's authority has been systematically challenged by the leaders of this day. In doing so, we will see how from v. 28-44, Jesus is shown to be the Lord of the law, the Confounder of the Wise and the Judge of True Virtue.

Message from Rev. Dr. Richard Lints on February 8, 2026

For the prominence of its place in Christian theology, heaven remains a mystery. Glimpses of it can be mined in the Scripture. Our songs are filled with longings for it. We confess our belief in it. But what it actually is and what it will be like are frustratingly elusive. It’s especially hard when death intrudes. Whether we bury a loved one too early or whether we finally succumb to the ravages...

“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God’s.” Many of us are familiar with these words from Mark 12. They are one of the few places in the New Testament where Jesus or the apostles directly speak to political matters. Together, these passages provide Christians with the beginning of a political theology to help guide our understanding of life between Jesus’...

Message from Rev. Danny Morgan on January 18, 2026