Redemption Hill Boise Podcast

Towards whom do you feel hostility? Last Sunday was Pentecost, a celebration of the Holy Spirit being poured out onto all flesh. Bob talked us through Acts 2, and how a persistent Pentecost heals our divisions, and breaks down our walls. The work is to allow the Spirit to do the unfinished work of becoming like Jesus. Find more from Redemption Hill at  redemptionboise.org , or follow us on In...

Do we truly love our neighbor? How often do we hang out with people who differ from us? And what does the Old Testament law (think: circumcision, warfare rules, and sacrifice) have to do with it? For this episode of Whole, Kyle walks us through the minds of the Jewish Romans, and connects the law Paul refers to with our own stubborn hearts that are so often unwilling to love our neighbor the way J...

“Breakthrough requires a breaking.” Do you desire freedom from the land where death casts his shadow? For this episode of Whole, Jessie talks about the Biblical image of the wilderness, and how naming our own suffering and temptations as wilderness can open us up to God and to allow God to form and refine something new in us. God is in the wilderness with you; you are not alone. Find more from Red...

What does it actually mean to live by faith? And what does our identity and idolatry have to do with it? What does it look like to walk in through paradoxes of mercy and worship and righteousness and evil and punishment as we desire to be like God? Robert gets into all this in episode 3 of Whole as he walks through Romans 1. You don't have to rely on your own righteousness. Jesus, your Lord, has a...

Where do you go when you can’t keep working so hard to create an identity for yourself? What aspects of you do you hold as your core identity in the world? What if your self wasn’t something you had to work to create or present to the world in the hope that it is good enough, but rather something that is given to you, something you’re called into? For todays’ episode of Whole, Robert stays in Roma...

“ We have a particular role to play.” Why is it that, in an age of enlightenment, seeming prosperity and life and wealth and affluence, we are afflicted with an epidemic of anxiety, depression, ennui, and pain? What is the disconnect? We will be diving into these questions over the next 12 weeks through the spring sermon series, Whole: Building a Good Life in an Age of Anxiety, Depression, Isolati...

“You don’t have to hide anymore. Your shadow doesn’t have to lead you.” Are you tired of the broken staleness of your life? Are you weary with the every day ins-and-outs of trying to be alive in the world? For our Easter episode, Robert talks about the interaction between Peter and Jesus in John 21, and the truly radical, unconditional forgiveness that Jesus offers. It is never too late for you to...

“The message and the demonstration are connected.” What does Jesus actually say about living missionally? And how can we specifically live it out? For today’s segment of Therefore, GO, Robert walks us through Luke 10, examining Jesus’ call to mission: receiving and giving hospitality, and going with those who are going towards God. He also explains the BLESS rhythms: begin in prayer, listen &...

“How can we look to the church of the past to help us shape what’s coming next?” It’s easy to assume (and sometimes nice to fantasize that) we know everything–that we’re the most important generation, or the most important country, or person in our sphere, or in our family, etc. But Jesus (and an examination of the history of the church) turns that idea on it’s head. We’re coming to the tail end o...

"We are authorized to share the good news. Not only are we chosen, but we are given authority." We had a special guest speaker for this episode of Therefore,Go–Bill Randall. Bill is a leader with The Syndicate here in Boise, and came to talk to us about living as missionaries and revisiting and breathing new life into what can feel like a nervous topic for many of us: an evangelism pathway for eve...

“ If we want to be filled, we must find the secret spaces.” Prayer and fasting is one of those topics that sometimes makes us squirm, but it was a vital part of the life of Jesus. We know that in order to see movement in our city, our country, and our world, we must start with extraordinary prayer and fasting, as Jesus did. For this episode of Therefore Go, Robert talks all about where we see pray...

When you want to see movement in your neighborhoods, your families, and your own life, are you starting by extraordinary prayer and fasting? Where do you go first–to God, asking him to prepare the way, or to your own plans and ideas?  For todays’ episode of Therefore Go, Robert demonstrates a discovery Bible study and talks about the story of Cornelius and Peter in Acts 10:1-48, who dedicate...

We have to be able to know what the good news is for us or else we’ll never be willing to tell the good news to someone else. What is good news for our neighbors?  Everything that Jesus did was good news, because when the kingdom comes, everything bad is put to right.  This is an important step in sharing the good news of Jesus: we have to understand it in a deeply personal way, in order...

We have to ask: is allegiance to Jesus the center of who we are as a people? Have we looked upon Christ and said, He is the only one worthy of my allegiance? He's the only one worthy of me orienting my entire life around him? And am I going to take that encounter with the one true God and let it determine every part of how I live?  Robert dives into these questions about with this week’s serm...

“The world and its answers are not satisfying the desires of the people in it.” God is on the move across the world, in every continent, inviting people to join him in the work of making disciples. The pull inside us to see things set right is the calling–when we hear the invitation from God to join in the work he’s doing, will we answer with a resounding YES? For the second episode of Therefore,...

What if we need to learn from the rest of the world and sit in quiet submission, seeing how God works in places that look different from us? We are used to church looking a certain way–we know how to play the part of congregants, some of us taught how at a very young age. But what if participation in the work of the kingdom looks different than participation in a church service? For our first epis...

“The things God is asking you to do might feel crazy to you, but we need to step out in faith, trusting that God has been working in our lives. He has a plan, and it’s much bigger than the voices in our head.” Do you ever feel as if God is calling you into something that feels impossible for you? That God has the wrong person in mind when God looks at you? As we launch into 2024, Kyle spends some...

"Christmas says: God has come to us. Will you come to him?" For the fourth advent sermon, we focus on the wise men. Bob walks us through the classic story, but asks us a new question: in our context, will we watch and wait for the Lord, and when we see him, will we worship? In other words, we have been invited into this cosmic, beautiful reality of God-with-us; will we choose to be with him? redem...

"Sometimes we miss out on God being our shepherd because we refuse to be a sheep." For our third advent sermon, Jessie talks about the characters shepherds in the Advent story, and about our own often unwillingness towards humility, vulnerability, and true empathy. She explores in a fresh way why shepherds are such significant figures in the Christmas story, and what that says about God (and us.)...

“Forgiveness is choosing to sacrificially take loss upon myself–setting people free.” For our second Sunday of advent, Kyle weaves together three stories: Joseph in Matthew (of Mary & Joseph), Joseph in Genesis (of Joseph & the Coat of Many Colors), and his own story of betrayal and forgiveness. He wrestles with these themes, along with a beautiful picture of the love God has for us, that...

“If we are not intentional with advent, our hope gets replaced.” Welcome to Advent! For our first Advent Sunday, we focus on the Prophets and the Messianic hope. Andrew spends time in the Old Testament book of Micah, who wrote during a time much like ours, a time of consumerism and greed, and yet called his readers to a higher hope–a Messiah, a God-With-Us on the move–that would bring the true pea...

“The work is getting the kingdom into the people.” For our very last episode of The Gospel According to Jesus series, Robert finishes walking through the redemptive story of Jesus. He reminds us of how important it is to get the story straight- when Jesus proclaims the kingdom, he means his presence is coming into the world. With this event comes an invitation: before the kingdom of God comes in p...

“Jesus passed his ministry onto us. Do you believe this?” For the second-to-last episode of The Gospel According to Jesus, Kyle talks about the gospel as a political statement, answering that age old question: then what? What does it actually look like to live in the world with faith that Jesus is indeed king and we are invited into the kingdom? He talks to us about the history of the kingship of...

“You can’t experience what God means to you until you suffer.” This week is the first of a two part episode about the plot of this good news story according to Jesus. Robert walks through the story, starting from the very beginning in Genesis all the way through the time of the judges and the prophets in the Old Testament, helping us to see the story of redemption woven throughout Israel’s history...

“We have to understand where we are in the story to make sense of it.” For the next segment of The Gospel According to Jesus, Robert dives into the setting of the gospel story–the period, duration, location and level of conflict of the story–and why story is so significant to humans in the first place. He reminds us that remembering where we are in the story is key to making sense of our own human...