Redeemer Weekend Sermons

Fellowship of Believers A Firm Foundation • September 25, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- We affirm the Church as a Fellowship of Believers. 1. The Church is not a holy building. 2. The Church is not an exclusive club. 3. The Church is not a weekly spiritual meeting. 4. The Church is not a moral police force. The Church is a community of born-again believers who confess Jesus Christ as Lord. In obed...

The Necessity of New Birth A Firm Foundation • September 18, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- John 3:1-9 NIV Now there was a Pharisee, a man named Nicodemus who was a member of the Jewish ruling council. He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs you are doing if God were not with him.” Jesus replied, “Very truly...

Conscious Dependence on the Holy Spirit A Firm Foundation • September 11, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- 1. We affirm the centrality of the word of God. 2. We affirm the necessity of new birth. 3. We affirm a commitment to the whole mission of the church. 4. We affirm the church as a fellowship of believers. 5. We affirm the reality of freedom in Christ. 6. We affirm a conscious dependence on the H...

Centrality of the Word of God A Firm Foundation • September 4, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Evangelical Covenant Church We covenant with each other by cultivating communities of worship committed to prayer, preaching, and study of the word, celebrating the sacraments, and building relationships across gender, ethnicity, age, culture, and socioeconomic status. We equip loving, giving, growing Chri...

Romans Romans • August 28, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Romans 16:17-19 NIV I urge you, brothers and sisters, to watch out for those who cause divisions and put obstacles in your way that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Keep away from them. For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of naive people. Eve...

Real Love Romans • August 21, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- To be a living sacrifice isn’t just getting on the altar but staying there . How is our God-time in comparison with our Screen-time? Romans 12:9-21 NIV Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.   Be devoted to one another in love. Honor one another above yourselves.   Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual...

Living Sacrifices Romans • August 14, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Romans 12:1 NIV Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. Oswald Chambers “We have the idea that we can dedicate our gifts to God. However, you cannot dedicate what is not yours. There is actually o...

Ingrafted Branches Romans • August 7, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Romans 11:17-24, 30-32 NIV If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the ro...

Beautiful Feet Romans • July 31, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Romans 10:14-15 NIV How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” Eugene...

More Than Conquerors Romans • July 24, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Romans 8:31 NIV What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?  Romans 8:32 NIV He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? Kenneth Boa “It is illogical to conceive that God would give his most tre...

Privileges of Sonship Romans • July 17, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Romans 8:12-17 NIV Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The...

No Condemnation Romans • July 10, 2022 Teacher: Leanne Benton -- Romans 8:1-4 NIV “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do because it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sin...

Breaking Out of the Doom Loop Romans • July 3, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Romans 7:15-25 NIV I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful natu...

Slaves to Righteousness Romans • June 26, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- A Christian is free from the power of sin and death!  Romans 6:15 NIV What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! The freedom of believers from the power of sin does not imply that believers are free to sin. Romans 6:16 NIV Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as o...

Free & New in Christ Romans • June 19, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- A Christian is free from the power of sin and death! Romans 6:1-4 "What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were...

Romans Week 4 Romans • June 12, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- Romans 5:12, 15, 17 NIV [S]in entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all people, because all sinned…But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, ove...

Introduction to Paul Romans • June 5, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- First Feature of the Gospel – God has the power to save his human creation.  Romans 5:1-11 NIV Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God....

"Those People, Not Us" Romans • May 29, 2022 Teacher: Daniel Bunn -- Romans 2:1 NIV "You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else," Romans 2:11-16 NIV For God does not show favoritism. All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s s...

Introduction to Paul Romans • May 22, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Our desire is that you would read the designated section for yourself in Scripture first , and then read the three entries that correspond to that Scripture—theological, pastoral, and devotional. At the end of the three entries is space for you to write any reflections, questions, or thoughts you had on the text.   Acts 9:1-22 NIV...

Peter's Vision Holy Moments • May 15, 2022 Teacher: Dave Brown -- 3 Basic Questions to Ask When Reading Scripture 1. What’s the background? 2. What’s happening in the text? 3. What does that mean for me today?   Acts 8:1 NIV “On [the day Stephen was stoned] a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.” Acts...

Acts 1:8 Holy Moments • May 8, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- 1. The ascension is Jesus' enthronement as King. 2. The ascension makes Christ supreme over our enemies. 3. The ascension paves our way to the Father. 1. At Pentecost, we witness the birthplace of the church. 2. At Pentecost, the Holy Spirit comes to rest on all believers. 3. At Pentecost, we received the enabling of the Holy Spirit. Act...

The Pentecost Holy Moments • May 1, 2022 Teacher: Tim Mannin -- Leviticus 26:10 NIV You will still be eating last year’s harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. Acts 1:4-5 & 8-11 NIV While he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with wate...

The Ascension Holy Moments • April 24, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- There is no such thing as "Post-Easter!" 1. Rejoice in the Resurrection 2. Remember your Baptism 3. Return to Spiritual Disciplines 4. Reflect on the Birth of the Church 5. Reach out to your Neighbor George Weigel "The disciples, a group of first-century nobodies, must have been baffled, skeptical, and even frightful about what h...

The Resurrection Easter Sunday • April 17, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- [Sunday] [Monday][Tuesday] [Wednesday] [Thursday] [Friday] [Easter!] SUNDAY IS HERE! HE IS RISEN! DEATH IS DEFEATED! JESUS IS ALIVE! Matthew 28:1-4 NIV "After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to look at the tomb. There was a violent earthquake, for an angel of the Lord...

The Road to Calvary Palm Sunday • April 10, 2022 Teacher: Adam Barnett -- Luke 9:51 NIV As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.   Luke 9:52-56 NIV And he sent messengers on ahead, who went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him; but the people there did not welcome him, because he was heading for Jerusalem. When the disciples J...