Redemption Hill Boise Podcast

Did you know that you are called to be a priest? Everyone who decides to follow Jesus is also called into participation in a kingdom of priests, tasked with representing the people to God and God to the people. Kyle looks at Exodus 19, and the story of Moses receiving a message of calling for the people, a calling that still applies to us today.  Listen into the Redemption Hill Boise Podcast...

At the start of the new year, we often are tempted to take on Project Self: stronger, skinnier, healthier, more disciplined, better.  But actually… life with Jesus is not about making yourself any type of way, but allowing God to consecrate us, to walk alongside us, to order our lives in a way that makes space for abundance. Jessie walks us through Psalm 104, and gives us a hopeful reminder f...

“Responding to God is to offer our attention.” For our last advent sermon, Jessie talks to us about the Wise Men, and what we can learn from their decision to drop everything to respond to the voice of God in their hearts. Like the wise men, we worship whatever we give our attention to. This advent season, what is fulfilling your time? What are you looking for? What are you waiting for in these da...

“Some things are worth dropping everything for.” Today’s advent meditation circles around the shepherds and the miraculous, mysterious message that came to them in their most ordinary of circumstances. How can we contemplate this same wonder that comes to us in our every day life? What do we do when we are surrounded by the presence of God who has moved into the neighborhood? Why do we speculate i...

For this week’s advent meditation, Robert talks to us about the weirdest part of the advent story: encounters with angels. He walks us through the angel appearances in the Christmas story–the story of Zechariah, who responded with disbelief, the story of Mary, who responded with surrender, and the story of Joseph, who responded with trust. Robert asks us all the question the angels ask these three...

“The real question isn’t ‘is God Speaking?’ The real question is ‘ will we listen?’ ” For our first Sunday in advent, Bob journeys through the story of Zechariah and Elizabeth, zeroing in on Zechariah’s response to God’s message through the angel Gabriel. This mysterious story of redemption and conception in old age is a call to us too, to not judge, but to open up our own hearts to the message Go...

For our last episode of Starting Over with God, Robert talks to us about the core tenant of relationship with God–prayer. He tells us the story of the disciples asking Jesus to teach them to pray in the way He did, and the revolutionary prayer that came after, created as an invitation not to become more religious but to enter into an intimate relationship with God.   Find more from Redem...

Community is complicated. Often, we think we just need to find a new one when we get hurt, that we can just stumble upon something perfect and experience a quick, utopian fix. This week, Bob talks to us about the miscommunications of community–how community won’t solve all your problems, but it is in community that we are pointed to God.  Listen in to the whole episode at Redemption Hill Bois...

“An encounter with Jesus is different than just a religious experience.”  Tired of religion and performative ritual? Exhausted from riding a roller coaster of self-worth? Andrew talks to us today about how we can settle into an identity that will not launch us every which way, but will ground us into a love that is permanent.   Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise...

“Craving of the world leads only to more, and it never satisfies. The way of Jesus is the opposite.”  If someone spent a week with you, what would they learn about this way of Jesus? This week, Jessie dives into 1 John to examine what it looks like to actually imitate a life like Jesus’. Once we commit to following Jesus, it is not about checking off a list of religious performances (thank Go...

Do you ache to be good? Do you wish you could just start over? There is good news: Jesus doesn’t wait until you die to start making things new. The renewal–the beautiful redirection of our attention–begins now. Listen in as Jessie helps us to consider being “born again” in a new light, and find hope at the bottom of despair. Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow u...

What comes to your mind when you think about the Bible? Excitement? Fear? Disgust? In this world, whether you know it or not, we all have to do something with the Bible– reject it, ignore it, get curious about it, accept it, or something different. What are you going to do with it? Robert talks to us this week about what the Bible actually is, what its purpose is for, and why it’s important to eve...

Our next episode of Starting Over with God features Andrew as he talks to us about the person of Jesus: who he is, how he feels about us, and the free invitation he offers us.  Listen in wherever you get your podcasts! Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow us on Instagram @redemptionboise , and Facebook at Redemption Hill Boise .  redemption church, chur...

For our third episode of Starting Over with God, Robert takes us through Genesis 3 and explores the problem of sin in the world and the sneaky lies that we still believe today that keep us from experiencing and demonstrating the love of God in the world, the lies that bring destruction directly through us. We end on a cliffhanger this week so make sure to tune in again next week for the rest of th...

For our second episode of Starting Over with God, Robert takes a prologue-like look into the character of God. Why do we care about this story? What about God makes this story–the story of the Bible and the story of us–matter so much?  Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow us on Instagram @redemptionboise , and Facebook at Redemption Hill Boise . redemption c...

For the first episode of Starting Over with God, Robert tells the story of his own journey with Jesus recently, how God found him and gently led him into a place of transformation.  Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow us on Instagram @redemptionboise , and Facebook at Redemption Hill Boise .

Jessie gives us a stunning introduction to our new fall series that’s officially kicking off next week, Starting Over with God. She takes us through the parable of the Prodigal Son(s), asking us to examine our assumptions about ourselves, others and God. She reminds us of the hope that lies at the end of the story– that our identity is not in what we do or fail to do, but rather in the presence of...

“The gentle shall inherit the Earth.” Today we wrap up our summer series, Bear Fruit, with Kyle speaking to us on Gentleness. (Yes, we went out of order.)  He walks us through instances of the gentleness Jesus talks about in the New Testament, and digs into what it means to actually bear the gentleness of the Holy Spirit (and why it’s so difficult for us today).  Find more from Redemptio...

Todays’ episode is from our friend Josh Cramer at Resurrection Covenant Boise. He walks through Romans 8, and talks about our identity as children of God. He explores what we were made for– for participation in God’s kingdom work in the world around us, to bring the beauty, justice and good news to the groaning creation around us–and how our truest identity and glory is our restored identity in Ch...

All the way from Donnelly, today’s episode is from Joe Pavlish, who is focusing on the fruit of Self-Control. Joe walks through different Biblical examples of self-control, and explores the irony that we can’t actually have self-control by ourselves, but need the power and help of the Spirit to exhibit this fruit in our lives. Listen in wherever you get your podcasts! Find more from Redemption Hil...

Adriana brings a good word on the inner work of Faithfulness today for our next episode of Bear Fruit. She walks us through the story of Abraham and Sarah and her own personal story as she draws out truths about identity, who God is, calling, formation, and what might be keeping us from faithfulness in our own story. This episode is chock full of good stuff, so listen in wherever you get your podc...

Today’s episode of Bear Fruit is from Andrew on goodness. In today’s wild world, what is good often feels unclear. He looks at what the scriptures say about goodness, and asks us: what actually produces the power to do good things? And how can we participate in it?  Listen in wherever you get your podcasts!  Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow us on In...

Bob’s episode of this weeks’ Bear Fruit on kindness focuses on the reality that kindness, like the other fruits of the Spirit, is an action we can practice. He leads us through several different thought experiments and exercises we can repeat to increase our capacity for kindness in our daily lives, both in our ability to receive and recognize it, and in our ability to radically give it.  Fin...

“How are you doing with patience right now?” Kyle asks us in this week’s episode of Bear Fruit. Patience, especially in a difficult world or in a life that feels unsatisfying, can be extraordinarily difficult. However, Kyle surmises, thank God that we’re not actually the ones who have to drudge patience up from the depths. Walking and abiding with God will produce the fruit of the Spirit that is p...

For our PEACE episode of Bear Fruit, listen in to a guest speaker, friend, and co-laborer with Redemption Hill, Bill Randall. Bill works with Novo, is a band of creative missionaries sent to multiply movements of the gospel and mobilize the church for that mission around the world, and is on the leadership team at the Boise Underground.  Listen in to Bill talk about peace and becoming peace m...