Redeemer Weekend Sermons

Teacher: Adam Barnett   Saul had a spear in his hand and he hurled it, saying to himself, “I’ll pin David to the wall.” But David eluded him twice.  - 1 Samuel 18:10b-11   David took his men with him and went out and killed two hundred Philistines and brought back their foreskins. They counted out the full number to the king so that David might become the king’s son-in-law. Then Saul gave him his...

Teacher: Dave Brown   Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands. —1 Samuel 18:7; 21:11   Saul was very angry; “they have credited David with tens of thousand,” he though, ‘but me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David. — 1 Samuel 18:8-9   David went to Nob, to Ahimelek the priest. Ahimelek trembled when h...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   “Through writing and reflecting, journaling keeps you alert to God’s presence and activity in, around, and through me.” – Adele Calhoun   “David’s story isn’t a stain-glassed window of a saint, but a cracked mirror in which we see ourselves and the God who loves us anyway.”  - Eugene Peterson   But Samuel replied: “Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   “David’s story isn’t a stain-glassed window of a saint, but a cracked mirror in which we see ourselves and the God who loves us anyway.” – Eugene Peterson   In God’s kingdom, people purposefully resist isolation and intentionally prioritize community.   1) Isolation contradicts the nature of love.     Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   Responsibility – the state or fact of having a duty (an obligation requiring loyalty and faithfulness).   We carry the responsibility of sharing God’s love and truth with others (through word and deed).   We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. - 2 Corinthians 5:20a   An ambassador is the highest-ranking diplomatic officer, de...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem. Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities;...

Teacher: Adam Barnett   As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem. - Luke 9:51   After Jesus had said this, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem. As he approached Bethphage and Bethany at the hill called the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you, and as you enter it, you will find a co...

Teacher: Dave Brown   Despair: Utter loss of hope. — Merriam-Webster Dictionary   Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter of soul, to those who long for death that does not come, who search for it more than for hidden treasure, who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave? Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? For sighin...

Teacher: Adam Barnett When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the...

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. — Matthew 11:28-30 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me [following Me as My disciple]. — Matthew 11:29 For at least several decades the churches of the Western wo...

“These people needed a break! The Pharisees’ legalism surrounding the Mosaic Law had ground them into spiritual powder.” - Stuart Weber “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” - Matthew 11:28-30 “Come to...

Teacher: Adam Barnett “Jesus didn’t actually say much about the kingdom of heaven in the sense that we normally mean it. When he spoke of heaven’s kingdom, he wasn’t talking about a place called heaven to which people might or might not go after they die. He was talking about something that would become a reality ‘as in heaven, so on earth’ (Matt. 6:10). So instead of suggesting that we could esca...

Teacher: Dave Brown “Repent for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” — Matthew 4:17 Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. — Matthew 5 The kingdom of heaven is like… Sin may be comprehensively defined as a lack of conformity to the law of God in act, habit, attitude, outlook, disposition, motivation, and mode of existence. — J.I. Packer I reared children and brought t...

Teacher: Adam Barnett The elder, To my dear friend Gaius, whom I love in the truth. Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. It gave me great joy when some believers came and testified about your faithfulness to the truth, telling how you continue to walk in it. I have no greater joy than to hear that my children...

Teacher: Leanne Benton 1 The elder, to the lady chosen by God and to her children, whom I love in the truth—and not I only, but also all who know the truth— 2 because of the truth, which lives in us and will be with us forever: 3 Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son, will be with us in truth and love. 4 It has given me great joy to find some of your ch...

Teacher: Adam Barnett Dear children, keep yourself from idols. – 1 John 5:21 Exodus 20:3 – You shall have no other gods before me. An idol is anything or anyone more important to you than God. “Idolatry is robbery and perversion. It’s robbery because we take what is due to God and give it to something else. And it’s perversion because we give the devotion God rightly deserves to other things.” - E...

Teacher: Dave Brown Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an...

Teacher: Adam Barnett 1 John 2:28-29; 3:1a And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him. See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! John 1:12-13...

Teacher: Adam Barnett If you know God, you must obey Him and live as Jesus did. We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: Whoever claims to live in him must liv...

Teacher: Dave Brown This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim...

Teacher: Adam Barnett Who? The Apostle John What? A pastoral exhortation on truth, obedience, and love. When? AD 90-95. Where? Ephesus (and surrounding churches) Why? The truth was under attack. 1 John 1:5 (NIV) 1 John 1:5 (AMP) “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” - St. Francis

Teacher: Leanne Benton Jeremiah 29:11 Proverbs 15:22 Psalm 33:11 The Infinite Infant Entered Our Timeline What Will We Do When God Disrupts The Plan? Proverbs 16:9 Proverbs 19:21 The Story of Christmas is Not About What We Want But What We Need What Will We Do When God Changes Our Plan, A Holy Disruption? Philippians 1:6 What Will We Do When Our Plans Come to a Place of Disruptive Disappointment?...

Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 7:14 Matthew 1:22-23 1 - God was with us (past event). Matthew 1:18-21 2 - God is with us (present reality). God is ALWAYS with you and will NEVER leave you. Galatians 2:20 3 - God will be with us (future hope).

Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Peace is not the absence of conflict. Luke 2:12-14 Luke 2:14 1 - Peace with God. Romans 5:10 “Our sin has put wrath between us and God, and a mere ceasefire will never suffice—we are not meant to live under the cloud of an uneasy standoff with God. Instead, Jesus became incarnate, died, and rose so that believers might be adopted into God’s own family and eat at th...