Redeemer Presbyterian Church

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued preaching through the Lord's Prayer this past Sunday, March 10 as part of our Matthew sermon series. He described four realities about the Kingdom of heaven as he encouraged us to pray for and long for the coming of the Kingdom of God. And we should be about the work that will bring about the Kingdom.

On Sunday, March 3 our senior pastor continued preaching through the Lord's Prayer from Matthew 6:9-13. Focusing on Jesus' use of a familiar term for God--calling him "Father," Pastor Craig challenged us to keep a balance between austerity and irreverence as we seek to be intimate with the holy. The religious leaders of Jesus' day only thought of God as a distant, awesome deity, so when Jesus call...

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued in our Matthew sermon series, looking again in Matthew 6 at the Lord's Prayer. We began looking at the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 focusing on the first word "our." Jesus prays "OUR Father," not MY Father--though God the Father certainly is Jesus' father. Jesus uses "our" because it's a community word, and it's vita...

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our friend Rev. Shawn Maze filled our pulpit this past Sunday, February 17 preaching to us from Luke 24:35 and other passages examining how Jesus was known to his disciples in the breaking of the bread.

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued in our Matthew sermon series, looking again in Matthew 6 at Jesus' teaching on prayer. (See sermons from First Week and Second Week.) Prayer is a byproduct of a right relationship with God. We must see our Heavenly Father rightly if we're to pray more.

Our senior pastor addressed prayer again on Sunday, February 3 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, as he continued in Matthew 6:5-6. (Find the first sermon on prayer from January 20 here.) We must be people who pray from a right relationship with God. The location where the hypocrites in Matthew 6 chose to pray indicates whom they believe their audience is. They chose a busy street...

On Sunday, January 27 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we welcomed back Will Hunter to preach for us this week, encouraging us from Psalm 90. Will began by describing "home," and we saw in Psalm 90 that Moses the writer of the psalm says that the Lord himself is our home and dwelling place.

Our sister churches in the Lowcountry Presbytery joined on Sunday, January 20 for a joint evening worship service at Redeemer with joyful music and guest preacher Dr. Derek Thomas from First Presbyterian Church in Columbia, SC.

This past Sunday, January 20 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued in Matthew 6. Last week we began looking at the "pillars of piety," focusing on giving. This week we continued with the second pillar of piety: praying. Pastor Craig challenged us: How vital is prayer to your life? Prayer must be central to the life of the believer because vital, monumental...

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, returned to our Matthew sermon series this week, following up on the previous sermon in this series where he described "living a life of righteousness." Reading Matthew 6:1-4 this week, Craig encouraged us to do good things for the right reasons.

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, began the New Year in Romans 5:1-2, asking us: who will we resolve to be in 2019? what will Redeemer be and do in 2019? He challenged us to be at-peace people who stand in grace. Grace and peace must be part of all our being and doing. **Edit: Pastor Craig mistakenly references “The Gospel Project” in this sermon recording, but h...

For the last Sunday of 2018 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we enjoyed our own Kurt Brewer's preaching from Luke 16:1-13. Jesus told this parable on his way to Jerusalem where he knew he'd die, so we must view this parable in that light. Jesus compared the unbelievers in this world to the "sons of light," warning that the unbeliever is better at taking care of temporary things i...

On Sunday, December 23 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor preached his Advent sermon series from Isaiah 42:1-4. What about Jesus do we not know? Or what do we know wrongly? If we knew Jesus in his fullness, who could we be?

Our youth and children at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, led us in worship with songs and Scripture as they told the Christmas Story. Then our senior pastor followed their pageant with an abbreviated sermon from Revelation 22:12-21, where Jesus promised to come again to earth. And God keeps his promises to waiting people!

Last Sunday, December 2 our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, moved to the book of Isaiah for the Advent season. He focused today on Isaiah 42:1-4 to look at how we should look to Christ as God’s antidote for our fears. Fearfulness is part of being human because so many circumstances in our lives are beyond our control. So what does God say about fear? Looking back a...

Last Sunday, November 25 guest speaker Rev. David Donovan from Church Creek Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, taught from Isaiah 57:15 to prepare us for Advent. He referred to this as the "John 3:16 of the Old Testament" and remarked how the New Testament is a commentary on this one verse. In this verse, the people of Israel see their power shrinking, their numbers decreasing, and their influ...

Last Sunday, November 18 our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued in our Matthew sermon series and centered this week on Matthew 5:20-48. He pointed out how easy it is to wrongly define “righteousness.” We looked in these verses at six teachings Jesus used to illustrate righteousness and perfection, drawing a contrast between perceived and true righteousness....

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued in our Matthew sermon series focusing on Matthew 5:17-20 this past Sunday, November 11. We all engage in wishful thinking, and people always do what we want in our wishful-thinking world. Do we engage in wishful thinking regarding Jesus? Jesus is always better than we can imagine. Our goal should be this: to know Jesus...

Last Sunday, Nov. 4, our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued in our Matthew sermon series, focusing for another week on Matthew 5:13-16. The previous week Pastor Craig challenged us to be the salt of the earth, and this week he focused on how we should be the light of the world—but not in the way we might think. He spoke of living out a “life in lament” in wh...

Last Sunday, October 28 our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued in our Matthew sermon series focusing for another week on Matthew 5:13-16. The first sermon on October 21 on these few Matthew verses focused on "living in the world." For this week's message, Pastor Craig challenged us that we must be the salt of the earth because Jesus says we must be.

On Sunday, October 21 our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued our beloved Matthew sermon series in Matthew 5:13-16. If the Beatitudes show us how we should be, then these next verses tell us that we can't stay on the mountain with Jesus; we must be living within the world. And when we're in the world, we cannot hide who were are in Christ--nor should we want...

On Sunday, October 14 our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, continued preaching on the final Beatitude in Matthew 5:1-12 with part two of his sermon on that passage. In Part 1 last week, he explained that persecution is a clash between two kingdoms, and this week he focused on how when persecution comes into our lives, it must be for the right reasons. Persecution co...

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, began preaching on the final Beatitude in Matthew 5:1-12. He described the certainty of persecution in our lives, because persecution is a clash between two kingdoms. As we praise God for bringing us out of the kingdom of darkness and into the kingdom of light, Pastor Craig challenged us to ask ourselves, "In which kingdom are yo...

On Sunday, September 30 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued in the Beatitudes preaching from Matthew 5:1-9. The Lord has told us and equipped us to make our world a different kind of place by making peace and not merely keeping it. He challenged us to examine our lives asking, if we're not peacemakers, can we then be sons and daughters of God? We're calle...

Our senior pastor at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, resumed our Matthew sermon series on Sunday, September 23 picking up in Matthew 5:1-8. Check out part 1 and part 2 that also focused on verse 8. He compared the palpable political and cultural divisions in our country to the detrimental divisions in our heart, encouraging us to have undivided hearts, united hearts, pure hearts.