Redeemer Presbyterian Church

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.

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, on September 9, our guest pastor Rev. Michael Walters preached to us from Isaiah 55:6-9. He encouraged us from this passage to do four things to seek God: 1. Call on the Lord - As this passage shows, in our critical need we call out or cry out to the Lord in this broken world, knowing that brokenness is also within us. 2. Repent of your sins - Wit...

For this Labor Day weekend, we had the privilege to hear Rev. Michael Walters preach from Revelation 5 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC. He focused on the beautiful yet opposite perfections that combine in Jesus: his infinite highness and infinite condescension, his infinite justice and infinite grace, his infinite glory and lowest humility, and more. Then he examined Jesus as the...

On Sunday, August 26 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, we enjoyed hearing Rev. Ross Hodges from our sister church in Mt. Pleasant preach from Matthew 7:7-11. He focused on prayer and praying, encouraging us (as Jesus did in the Sermon on the Mount) that God wants us to come to him in prayer He wants us to ask knowing we'll be heard in our prayers He wants us to come to him because...

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor continued this past Sunday, August 19 with part 2 of his sermon on the Beatitude in Matthew 5:8.  Since the heart is at the center of a person's being, including how we relate to others and to God, we must consider what kind of source our heart is. Genesis 6:5 tells us that every intention of man's heart is only evil, yet God say...

At Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, our senior pastor on Sunday, August 12 continued in Matthew 5, focusing on the Beatitude, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." He explored two questions: 1. What does it mean to see God? 2. Why should we want to see God? Open the eyes of our heart, Lord, for we want to see you.

Our senior pastor was back with us this Sunday, August 5 at Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Charleston, SC, and he returned to our beloved Matthew sermon series focusing on Matthew 5:1-7. Though the world encourages an "every man for himself" attitude, in God's Kingdom it's each for the other. Since we've experienced God's great mercy, then we must be people of mercy living mercifully. In verse 7,...