Redeemer Weekend Sermons

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...

Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Psalm 90:2 Jesus was born, but he did not begin. John 1:3 - Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. The infant is infinite. Philippians 2:6-7 John 14:9 Christmas – God got on our level. “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You.” - Augustine

Teacher: Adam Barnett Isaiah 9:6 Isaiah 9:1-5 Isaiah 9:6-7 Isaiah 9:2-7, MSG Mighty God - El Gibbor 1 - Jesus is God. Philippians 2:6-7 “He took to himself what he was not, while remaining what he was … he continued to be what he is, while appearing to us as what we are.” – Augustine 2 - Jesus is a Warrior. Luke 1:46-51 3 - Jesus sees your battles and cares.

Teacher: Dave Brown Isaiah 9:6-7 Wonderful Counselor Mighty God Everlasting Father Prince of Peace Jesus has cognitive and practical mastery of every phase of reality: physical, moral, and spiritual. He is master only because he is Maestro. “Jesus is Lord” can mean little in practice for anyone who has to hesitate before saying, “Jesus is smart.” He is not just nice, he is brilliant. He is the sma...

MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Consumerism | Week 12 | November 24, 2024 Teacher: Daniel Dennison Mark 10:17-22 “An idol is anything in our life that takes the place of God. It is anything in our life other than God that gives us meaning, acceptance, and purpose.”- Tim Keller Matthew 6:25-26

MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Legalism | Week 11 | November 10, 2024 Teacher: Dave Brown “In the past few years, I’ve observed an epidemic of sorts: patient after patient suffering from the same condition. The symptoms of this condition include fatigue, irritability, insomnia, anxiety, headaches, heartburn, bowel disturbances, back pain, and weight gain. There are no blood tests or X-rays diagnostic...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Legalism | Week 10 | November 10, 2024 Teacher: Dave Brown /> We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one w...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Complacency | Week 9 | November , 2024 Teacher: Tim Mannin /> 1 Peter 1:1 (NIV) To God’s elect, exiles scattered throughout the provinces… Mark 12:28-31 (Message) “Which is most important of all the commandments?” Jesus said, “The first in importance is, ‘Listen, Israel: The Lord your God is one; so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligen...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Technology| Week 8 | October 27, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> Poison #1: My phone controls me. /> “We are formed in the image of what we habitually gaze at.” – Justin Earley, Habits of the Household /> Antidote: 1 Corinthians 6:12. “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything"—but I will not be mast...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Unforgiveness| Week 7 | October 20, 2024 Teacher: Leanne Benton /> We were created for connection, but we can easily drift or be pushed toward isolation! /> Genesis 2:18 "Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone.” /> John 10:10 "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full."...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Unforgiveness| Week 6 | October 13, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. – Deuteronomy 6:5 /> Matthew 18:21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?” 22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Guilt vs Conviction| Week 5 | October 6, 2024 Teacher: Scott Johnson /> You have a job – and work to do – for God’s kingdom! /> GUILT is a counterproductive shame you feel over something in your past that cannot be changed (it’s there, alright!) and for which you have already been forgiven by Christ. Guilt interferes with your present and future – sometimes in ver...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Politics | Week 4 | September 29, 2024 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown /> Tradition helps us remember God’s faithfulness. /> This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD—a lasting ordinance…Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on the this very day that I brought your division ou...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Politics | Week 3 | September 22, 2024 Teacher: Dr. Dennis Edwards /> Unity requires living as heavenly citizens /> Unity means engaging in Spiritual Warfare together /> Unity require humility

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Politics | Week 2 | September 15, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> 1.    Jesus demands our ultimate allegiance.  /> Anyone who loves a father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and anyone who loves a son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.  - Matthew 10:37-38 /> My Christian identity is superior to my political affiliation. /> 2.    My peace and ho...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES In The Way | Same and Condemnation | Week 1 | September 8, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.  – John 10:10 /> Satan wants to secretly, casually, quickly, and fully destroy the superabundant life Jesus wants for you.  /> Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Redeemer People | Worship | Week 3 | September 1, 2024 Teacher: Leanne Benton /> 1. Worship forms our memory. /> When we worship, we remember God’s faithfulness. /> 2. Worship awakens our expectation. /> Boldness in action outside the church began with boldness of prayers inside the church. /> When we worship together, we are actually experiencing God’s presence. /> 3. Worship...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Redeemer People | Our Affirmations | Week 2 | August 25, 2024 Teacher: Dave Brown /> The centrality of the Word of God /> All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work. 2 Timothy 3:16-17   /> The Evangelical Covenant Church affirms the Holy...