Redeemer Weekend Sermons

The Pharisee and the Tax Collector Parables • March 19, 2023 Teacher: Daniel Bunn -- Luke 18:9-14 NIV To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable: “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers...

The Seed and The Sower Parables • March 12, 2023 Teacher: Leanne Benton -- Martin Luther “We need to hear the gospel every day because we forget it everyday." Mark 4:3-19 NIV “Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because...

Lostness Parables • March 5, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Luke 15:2b NIV “This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.” Luke 15:7 NIV “I tell you that in the same way, there will be more rejoicing in  heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.” Luke 15:10 NIV “In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels...

The Good Samaritan Parables • February 26, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- If you’re not feeling it, you’re not fasting it. Klyne Snodgrass “The parable is a metaphor or simile drawn from nature or common life, arresting the hearer by its vividness or strangeness, and leaving the mind in sufficient doubt about its precise application to tease it into active thought.” Klyne Snodgrass “Jesus’ parables...

Why go to church when church can come to me? Asking for a Friend • February 19, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer "The antithesis between the Christian life and the life of the bourgeois respectability is at an end.  The Christian life comes to mean nothing more than living in the world and as the world, in being no different from the world, in fact, in being prohibited from being di...

How is the Bible Meant to be Read Today? Asking for a Friend • February 12, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- How is the Bible, an ancient document, meant to be read today? Douglas Sweeney “The Bible is the written word of God, from the eternal word of God, and hangs together on the work of the incarnate Word of God.”   STEP ONE: Research the World Behind the Text. Exegesis: the careful, systematic st...

Miracles Asking for a Friend • February 5, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown -- If God never changes, why do we not see miracles today? If God doesn’t provide a miracle that I asked for does that he doesn’t love me enough? What is a miracle? Why does God perform them? 1. Peter’s Mother-in-Law 2. A Man with Leprosy 3. Water to Wine Luke 4:38-44 NIV Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now...

Is Jesus Really the Only Way to Heaven? Asking for a Friend • January 29, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Is Jesus really the only way to heaven? Jesus is undeniably, unmistakably, totally, entirely, and absolutely the only way to heaven. John 14:1-7 NIV “Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me. My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have to...

How do I live in purity in an impure world? Asking for a Friend • January 22, 2023 Teacher: David Nunn -- Cultural Changes Since 1963: 1. Divorce rate-   1963: 3.5% of American households were headed by a divorced person.  Today: 50% 2. Out of wedlock births-   1963: 5%   Today: 22% 3. Illegal Drugs-   1963: 18 arrests per 100,000 Americans Today: 300 arrests 4. Religious values- 1963: 1% had no r...

What does it mean to have faith in God? Asking for a Friend • January 15, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Hebrews 11:1, 13-16a NIV Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. All these people were still living by faith when they died.  They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them from a distance, admitting that they were foreigners and strangers...

Why Does a Loving God Allow us to Suffer? Asking for a Friend • January 8, 2023 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Redeemer is a safe space to ask questions because no one has all the answers! Caroline Westerhoff “Our danger lies in questioning too little rather than too much. After all, our questions can be the voice of God.” Why does a loving God allow us to suffer? God doesn’t want to hurt me, but He wil...

Prayer January 1, 2023 Teacher: Dave Brown -- 1 John 1:8-9 NIV If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.   Corporate Confession Almighty and most merciful Father, we have erred and strayed from your ways like lost sheep. We have followed too mu...

Adam and Andrea Barnett share a powerful and moving reading of the Christmas story during our Christmas eve services.

Joy Advent • December 18, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Joy is the deep settled conviction that God is for us.   Luke 2:6-11 NIV While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no guest room available for them. And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, k...

Love Advent • December 11, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- 1 John 4:7-12, 19 NIV 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...

Peace Advent • December 4, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Peace is not the absence of conflict. Isaiah 9:6 NIV For to us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Luke 2:12-14 NIV “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. A...

Hope Advent • November 27, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Webster Dictionary Wish is to have a desire for something that is usually unattainable. Webster Dictionary Hope is to desire with the expectation of obtainment or fulfillment. Isaiah 9:1-7 NIV Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in th...

Two looks at Matthew 6:13 The Lord's Prayer • November 20, 2022 Teachers: David Nunn and Kayla Canfield --- David Nunn James 1:13-14 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 one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is dragged away and enticed. Lord, protect me from myself. Psalm 141:4 NIV Let not my hear...

Forgive Us as We Forgive The Lord's Prayer • November 13, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Matthew 6:12 NIV Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 6:12a NIV Forgive us our debts. The moment we underestimate the grossness of sin, we undervalue the forgiveness of sin. Matthew 6:12b NIV … as we also have forgiven our debtors. Matthew 18:21-35 NIV Then Peter came to Jesus and...

Daily Bread The Lord's Prayer • November 6, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Matthew 6:11 NIV Give us today our daily bread. Martin Luther We are beggars, that is true. Exodus 16:3 NIV If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt!  There we sat around pots of meat and ate all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve the entire assembly to death. Exodus 16:4-5 NIV Th...

Your Kingdom Come The Lord's Prayer • October 30, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Matthew 6:9 NIV Our Father in heaven, hallowed by your name. Matthew 6:10 NIV Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Mark 4:11a NIV He told them, “The  secret  of the kingdom of God has been given to you.” The  kingdom of God  is the timeless reign of an eternal, sovereign God both in the hea...

How to Pray The Lord's Prayer • October 23, 2022 Teacher: Leanne Benton -- Matthew 6:5 “When you pray, don’t be like the hypocrites, for they love standing in the synagogue and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have their reward in full.” Matthew 6:6 “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father who is unseen. Then your Father who se...

Freedom in Christ A Firm Foundation • October 16, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- John 8:31-36 NIV To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are Abraham’s descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?” Jesus...

Touchstones from the Past Lead to God’s Future A Firm Foundation • October 9, 2022 Teacher: Dave Kersten -- Touchstones from the Past Lead to God’s Future Isaiah 51:1-6 NIV “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn; look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth. When I call...

Whole Mission of the Church A Firm Foundation • October 2, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- We Affirm a Commitment to the Whole Mission of the Church. What to Expect:  Friendly, encouraging people in a welcoming atmosphere. Authentic, heartfelt worship in music. Celebration of life through the sacraments of Communion and Baptism. Relevant, Bible-based teaching. Engaging experiences for children.   Th...