Redeemer Weekend Sermons

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Final Words Father, forgive them. • February 25, 2024 Teacher: Dave Brown -- /> Father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing. /> Today you will be with me in paradise. /> Here is your son.  Here is your mother. /> My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? /> I thirst. /> It is finished /> Into your hands I commit my spirit. /> The first three phrases display Je...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Final Words Father, forgive them. • February 18, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- /> 1. A time of repentance. /> 2. A time of renewal. /> 3. A time of self-denial. /> Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jes...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Living the Way Blessed at the peacemakers... • February 11, 2024 Teacher: Otis Garrison -- /> BLESSED ARE THE PERSECUTED /> Matthew 5:10, “Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” NKJV I. KINGDOM OF HEAVEN /> What does Jesus mean - For theirs is the kingdom of heaven? /> Many of Jesus’ parables focus on the kingdom of...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Living the Way Blessed at the peacemakers... • February 5, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- /> Matthew 5:9 – Blessed are the peacemakers, for the will be called children of God. /> You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to d...

/> ### MESSAGE NOTES Living the Way Blessed at the pure in heart... • January 28, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- MESSAGE NOTES Living the Way Blessed at the pure in heart... • January 28, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- /> Μακάριος: happy, supremely blessed, fortunate; to be envied. /> The Beatitudes are not only instructions on how to live, but directions to where God can be found. /> Living the way...

Living the Way Blessed are the merciful... • January 21, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> ### MESSAGE NOTES Living the Way Blessed at the merciful... • January 21, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- /> Matthew 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy." Mercy – the compassionate disposition to forgive someone or to offer aid, assistance, or help to someone in need. The conduct God demand...

Living the Way Blessed are those that hunger for righteousness... • January 14, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett /> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate /> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate; to be envied. /> “We can compare the work of the beatitudes to that of a plow in the fields. Drawn along with determination, it drives the sharp edge of the plowshare into...

Living the Way Blessed are the poor in spirit... • January 7, 2024 Teacher: Adam Barnett \_Matthew 7:28-29_\ > "When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority, and not as their teachers of the law." > “The realm where God’s way is done is the ‘kingdom of God.’ It is from everlasting to everlasting. What changed with t...

The Kingdom of God Christmas Eve • December 31, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown

O Holy Night Christmas Eve • December 24, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett > Let all within us praise His holy name! \_Luke 2:8-20_\ > “And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you go...

O Holy Night Advent • December 17, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- **O Holy Night**   "In His name, all oppression shall cease." • December 17, 2023   _Teacher:_ **Adam Barnett** > In His name, all oppression shall cease. \_Luke 4:18-19_\ > “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recove...

O Holy Night Joy • December 10, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- **O Holy Night**   Joy • December 10, 2023   _Teacher:_ **Adam Barnett** Chains Shall He Break, for the Slave is Our Brother – Philemon > American Christianity is consumer focused. Therefore, it is me-focused. > Jesus is making things right - in all people, for all people, and between all people. > Chains shall he break, for the slave i...

O Holy Night Peace • December 3, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett --  His law is love and His gospel is peace Luke 10:25-28 NIV “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is written in the Law?” he replied. “How do you read it?” He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your ne...

Love One Another Through • November 26, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown --  Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another John 13:34-35 NIV A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.  By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another. David Kinnaman One crucial insight kept popping up in our exploration.  In studying thousands of ou...

A Purpose for my Pain Through • November 19, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett --  Our pain connects us to people. 2 Corinthians 1:3-6 NIV Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as we share abundan...

Getting through with intentional stages of grief Through • November 12, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett, Melanie Fell, Leanne Benton, Dave Brown, Alison Myers, and Garland Tackett --  Leanne Benton: Rick Warren There is no life without change. There is no change without loss. There is no loss without pain. But grief is a choice. John 11:33-35 NIV When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come al...

Getting Through With the Help of Community Through • November 5, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett --  1.   Receiving help during a tough time. 2. Giving help during a tough time.   1 Corinthians 12:12, 27 NIV Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. Now you are the body of Christ, and each one of you is a part of it. Saint Basil “The Creator...

Hopeful Expectation Through • October 29, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett --  Isaiah 43:1-2 NIV But now, this is what the Lord says—he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. When you pass  through  the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass  through  the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you wa...

Hopeful Expectation Through • October 22, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown --  Matthew 7:24-27 NIV “Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these...

Thriving in the Middle of Transition Through • October 15, 2023 Teacher: John Wenrich -- Life is full of transitions… 1.   Change is different from transition. 2.   Every transition begins with an ending and ends with a beginning. 3.   The stages are cumulative.   The Middle Zone is the space between where we’ve been and where we need to go in order to thrive. 1.   The Middle Zone is a time of tes...

How to Wait Well Faith IRL • October 8, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- How to Wait Well James 5:1-3 NIV Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you.   Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes.   Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days...

Enemies of God Faith IRL • October 1, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- James 4:4 NIV Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God. James 4:1-3 NIV What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have be...

Forest Fires Faith IRL • September 24, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- James 3:1-2 NIV Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.   We all stumble in many ways. Anyone who is never at fault in what they say is perfect, able to keep their whole body in check. James 3:3-4 NIV When we put bits into the mouths of horses t...

Faith's Funeral Faith IRL • September 17, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- James 1:22 NIV Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. James 2:14-17 NIV What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in...

Worthless Religion Faith IRL • September 10, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- James 1:13-15 NIV When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birt...