Redemption Hill Boise Podcast

We follow Jacob again this week in Genesis, and are introduced to some new characters: his sons, who, against their will, carry the burden of Jacob's own family wounds. Robert dives into the story of Joseph and his brothers from a new perspective, talking about favoritism, family prejudice and pain, and God's unique and beautiful grace for his people, no matter who they are and what burdens they c...

We pick back up with Jacob again this week, this time examining how a now-older Jacob wrestles with God- and how that wrestling and pain is actually grace. Robert walks through the story of Jacob’s life and challenges us to look at our own lives- how we might be more like striving Jacob than we think, and how God’s mercy is waiting for us at every turn. Listen in to the Redemption Hill Boise podca...

Today’s segment of our Genesis series features a weary Jacob in the desert, a mysterious dream, and a God who is insistent on coming to us. Jessie explores God-dreams and visions, prayers, wrestling with God, and a new way of looking at this somewhat fantastical and familiar story. Listen in to the Redemption Hill Boise podcast to hear the whole story, wherever you get your podcasts. Find more fro...

We’re back to Genesis! Out of the garden and into the wild lands, we’re spending the rest of the spring in the book of Genesis. Andrew led us through a new perspective on the story of Jacob and Esau– and how we might be more like Esau than we might have thought. Listen in to the Redemption Hill Boise podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Find more from Redemption Hill at redemptionboise.org , o...

Have you ever asked the question, “if Jesus has really risen, why is there still suffering in the world?” Using the words of Paul from Romans 8, Robert talks to us about suffering, aches, hopes and our longing to see a more just world– and how God is still making all things new. Listen in to the Redemption Hill Boise Podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Find more from Redemption Hill at redemp...

Once we are in Christ, our calling as Jesus followers transforms. All work is worship, and once Jesus is in us, we carry the Spirit everywhere we go. No matter what we spend our days doing, whether we’re working in our passion or feeding a baby or cleaning the house or grocery shopping, we carry the mantle of missionary everywhere we go. Listen to the whole sermon at the Redemption Hill Boise Podc...

Belonging takes practice. We all know that community is often more inconvenient than otherwise. It requires dedication, vulnerability, and a willingness to be known when we’re at our messiest. Sometimes, it leaves us hurt, deeply lonely, or overwhelmed with longing. There is hope. This week of our mini Easter series, Jessie looks at Jesus’ commitment to the table and to community after his resurre...

The resurrection is not something that happened to Jesus. It’s something that happened to you in him. What if we told you that you cannot transform yourself into the kind of person you want to be, and that actually, it’s good news? In today’s episode of our mini-Easter-series, Robert talks about the reality of the resurrection as it applies to our current life–the whole, beautiful, terrible mess o...

A seeking heart is a pull towards something you can’t quite name. This Easter, where have you given up hoping? What wishes have you stopped making? What dreams have you let die by the wayside? The good news of Easter is that Jesus draws near in our disappointment and presents us with a new way through. Listen in to the whole episode at the Redemption Hill Boise Podcast, wherever you get your podca...

God will chase us down after our schemes fail. For this week’s episode of Genesis, Jessie talks to us about the story of Hagar and the faithfulness of God, as a God who sees and a God who will chase us down. A God who goes looking for all of his children, and who is close to us in our waiting. Listen to the whole episode at the Redemption Hill Boise Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. Find mor...

This week's spiritual practice is the practice of study. When I read Richard Foster's book Celebration of Discipline 25 years ago for the first time I almost skipped this chapter. It seemed like all we ever did as Church people was study. There was Sunday School and Sermons and Bible Studies and personal Bible reading. Every day, every week...we would open the Bible and study to understand the Bib...

“And Abram believed the Lord and the Lord counted him as righteous because of his faith.” For our next episode in our Genesis series, Bob walks through portions of Genesis 16, in which God enacts the most formal covenant in the Bible. Bob urges us to ask the right question–not a question of whether or not we believe in God, but whether or not we believe him, if we believe the promises of God and a...

In its simplest explanation, meditation is centering our minds and hearts on the presence of God so that He can bring transformation in us, often in the form of repentance and obedience. It is both listening and responding. With fasting, we talk about withholding something in our lives so that we can replace it with something meaningful that re-centers us on the presence of God. Meditation is simi...

solitude, often referred to as "silence and solitude," does not mean "loneliness," nor does it mean "me time" like watching TV or doing an eye mask. In the same way as the previous disciplines we've discussed (fasting, prayer, and meditation), solitude is removing one thing to make space for something to take its place; in this case, it is stepping into quiet, alone spaces with the intent to liste...

Prayer is communing with the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. When we pray we talk and listen to God. We pray to connect to and feel closer to God. We also pray for guidance, for peace, for our own needs, and to intercede for others. It can be silent or spoken, formal or informal, by yourself or in a group. It can be done anywhere: at home, in the car, at work, while we play, in moments of frustrati...

Andrew walks us through the story of Abram’s call to a new land, to abandon the old ways and step into a new season in faith. He connects this call with the calls we experience ourselves, calls to abandon the lies that surround us and move into what is true, trusting that God alone will hold us up and keep us safe. Find more from Redemption Hill at redemptionboise.org , or follow us on Instagram @...

Work hard. Stay safe. Make your name great. Grab hold of your life and make it into something people will remember and admire, or at least, into something your children can be proud of. Into something that might get us into heaven, if we’re lucky. These are words we often hear, words we often tell ourselves, and words that are, in the kingdom of God, laced with lies. Robert explores the story of t...

Launched by the first murder, the new world God’s created has devolved into evil and suffering (not unlike how our world sometimes feels these days, too.) Jessie walks through the Flood narrative, providing fresh insight into the way we typically think about the story of Noah and the Ark– resisting the cute animated storytime narrative and centering it on the reality that God is not apathetic towa...

Welcome to our Lent series, where we're exploring what it could look like to practice different spiritual disciplines this Lenten season. Our first practice is FASTING. What is fasting? Biblically, fasting most often means abstaining from food for a spiritual purpose. However, the heart of fasting is voluntarily giving up something good to make space for God. That can include food, but it can also...

“God hears suffering; nothing is forgotten.” In a moving exploration of the story of Cain and Abel, the famous story of the first brothers and the first murder, Robert reminds us that violence and injustice is never hidden from God. As image bearers, our wellbeing and flourishing is intimately connected with the flourishing of one another; we are each others’ keeper. Listen to the whole sermon at...

We all know the story–the forbidden fruit, the disastrous turn of events in a perfect “utopia,” the snake, the woman, and the man. But do we actually know the right story? Andrew looks at the story in Genesis 3 with the lens of the God we met in the first two chapters, and explains how, if we have the character of this God in mind, the story changes completely.  Listen in to the whole sermon...

Did you know there are two creation stories in Genesis, back to back? The first one tells us about God, and the second tells us about what it means to be human, men and women together on this Earth.  Jessie walks us through Genesis 2, and asks us the question: no matter your gender, to what is God calling you to tend? Where is God equipping you to do that work by drawing you near?  Liste...

You are God’s image, a little idol, a representative of God’s presence on earth. You are not a contractor on Earth, or a slave, or a cog in a cosmic machine. You are a child in God’s household, because all of us are made in the image of God.  See what this means for you and the way we can live into that reality at the Redemption HIll Boise podcast, wherever you get your podcasts.   ...

Genesis is theology in story form. This week we look at the Bible’s creation narrative and compare it to the creation myths from the Ancient Near East and the story they weave about their own gods. The creation story is full of good news that is as relevant today as it was in the Ancient Near East, about who we are, what this world is, about the nature of the God who made us.  Listen in at th...

Our Genesis series is off and running. Of course, we’re starting at the beginning, with the prologue to the whole Bible in which God reveals himself to his people with the most beautiful truth of the gospel: God’s word brings light and separates the light from the darkness. Robert reminds us that God’s word today is just as powerful as his word at the start of time, that hope in a hopeless world i...