Redeemer Presbyterian Church

The message of Ephesians 3:20 challenges us to not only seek to understand the character of God more fully, but also to strive to live with greater trust and dependence on Him. Unlike the trust fall mishap in the YouTube video, we can fall safely into the arms of God and find rest there. Paul's words remind us that God is not compatible with our human, finite concepts of time or space. There are n...

As we focused this past Sunday, August 30 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, on Deuteronomy 20:5-9, we see the Lord telling men on the battlefield to go home. Since God wants undivided hearts on the battlefield, he tells some to go home to be with their new wives, live in their new houses, and enjoy their new vineyards. God knows how weak we are and that our hearts aren't always un...

This past Sunday, Craig turned our attention to Deuteronomy 20, where we find a transition from the “Cities of Refuge” to a time of war for the Israelites. Just as God provided guidelines in previous chapters for the Israelites to preserve life, he also gives his people standards for battle—an inevitability for God’s children. In each sermon, Craig offers a nugget of Biblical truth (you know, one...

The last several weeks at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we've seen the character of God in his provision of refuge cities through our Deuteronomy series. We've seen how God provides protection not just for our physical bodies but also for our souls. We find refuge when we are closely related to Christ and one another. On Sunday, August 16 our senior pastor preached Deuteronomy 19...

Last week Pastor Craig focused on the physical relief that comes from refuge in Christ. This week he returns to the example of the refugee in Deuteronomy 19:1-10 to emphasize the spiritual shelter we find in The Lord. Our souls cry out for protection and rescue from our sin (not just in times of pain, grief, or depression). Yet where can we go but to Christ to find true and lasting peace? God know...

Pastor Craig Bailey returns to Deuteronomy 19, specifically focusing on verses 1-10, which expounds on the sixth commandment “You shall not kill.” Craig reminds us that there is not one single flaw in the perspective of God, and we must return to “the second law” to reorient ourselves around God’s Truth in the midst of a sinful world. Much like the cities of refuge that God commands to be built in...

Guest pastor David Wright expounds on Psalm 13:1-6, in which the Psalmist cries out to God, asking “How long, Lord…?” How long will he suffer? How often do we, as God’s beloved children, ask Him the same question? Much like the seasons come and go, there are times in everyone’s life when feeling depressed and isolated from God leads us to identify more with our unworthiness, and less with the unco...

This week's sermon is a must-hear message in which Pastor Shawn Maze studied the account of the death of Absalom in order to highlight our all-too-common tendency to live self-serving lives. In the process he identified the dire consequences of such an approach to life, encouraging us to ask ourselves the question, "What will all my self-serving cost me?" Ultimately, he pointed us to the good news...

Be drawn into the drama of Mark 1: Lepers were defined by their disease, living alone, dwelling outside, and having no physical contact with anyone. The leper in Mark 1 rushes over to Jesus--urgently, without timidity--into his personal space, threatening Christ with his urgent cry, "Heal me." Jesus was willing to take this man's pollution, his disease, his exile, and his sin. Listen to the whole...

Last week The Post and Courier printed a list of hate groups in South Carolina, as determined by the Southern Poverty Law Center, defining a hate group as “those who have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people typically for their immutable characteristics.” Yet everyone who has ever lived throughout all of history has been born into sin and has been born a sinner. We...

Last year The Age of Individualism was published by The New York Times. Though it began “IN the future, it seems, there will be only one “ism” — Individualism — and its rule will never end. As for religion, it shall decline;…” the article goes on to argue “that the human desire for community and authority cannot be permanently buried.” As we’ve studied Deuteronomy in our current sermon series at R...

After a week like last week–and, yet, also every day, we’re called to fix our eyes on God. We do not mourn as those without hope: We look up with hope, and we don’t give up. At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our sermon this past Sunday, June 21 focused on Deuteronomy 16:20. Like God’s people, we’re called to “follow justice and justice alone,” but chaos always ensues because the h...

As we’ve examined Deuteronomy at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we’ve seen the structure and order that God ordains for the lives of His people, including festivals, laws, judges, priests, and prophets. This past Sunday, June 14 we explored God’s order versus the alluring call of chaos. His structure for everyday life is also a reminder that chaos is not far away, so we must cling...

As we read through Deuteronomy 16‘s description of the feasts and celebrations the Lord commanded the people to observe, we saw the repeated phrase and theme of “the place the Lord will choose.” The people of God were told over and over–for they were prone to forget and rebel–that they were to sacrifice according to the Lord’s instructions. As we battle to submit our ways to God (just as the natio...

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.

Each week Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, posts new sermons from senior pastor Rev. Craig Bailey for listening free of charge. Guest pastors’ sermons are also posted.