Redemption Hill Boise Podcast

“Because Mary knows who God is, and has placed her hope in the story… she’s able to respond.” For the first week of Advent, we are focusing on prophetic hope that advent brings. In today’s short homily, Kyle walks us through the story and the song of Mary in Luke 1. He asks us to stop and consider the reality of what God was asking of Mary when he asked her to carry Jesus. As God invites us into t...

“What does your life say about what you believe?” In the third and final episode of our series Philo-Xenia, Robert dives into Matthew 25, defining hospitality as the badge of belonging to the kingdom of God. He looks at the difference between spoken beliefs and embodied beliefs, and the way our actions are a perfect representation of what we believe and who we put your faith in. He offers us pract...

A great conversation with Jessie about Jesus and practical hospitality- both barriers to our own welcoming, and real life ways we can be conduits of hospitality in the world around us, both giving and receiving hospitality. We end with a little discussion on identity and how our belovedness is what allows us to shower love on other people. Listen to all of Jessie’s sermon in the previous episode....

“ “We’ve gotten really good at keeping the wrong people out, but now we can’t seem to find the latch to open that gate back up.” In the second episode of our series Philo-Xenia, Jessie looks at the life of Jesus in Luke, and how Jesus showed radical, intimate, vulnerable hospitality to friends and strangers alike. She talks about 3 barriers that we come up against when faced with the choice to be...

After a short break, we are back with another Instagram interview about our new series, Philo-Xenia. Alyssa and Robert talk about hospitality and its connection with narrative, trust and identity. They close with 2 simple postures you can take to start reframing the cultural narratives around poverty and marginalization in our country and our city. This conversation is part of a larger series on H...

“Hospitality is at the center of what it means to be God’s people.” In the first episode of our series, Philo-Xenia (the greek word for hospitality), Robert compares our practices of hospitality to the behavior of people in the Ancient Near East, looking at Abraham in Genesis. He looks at the provision, protection and lovingkindness of God, laying out what it might look like to embody the hospital...

“How a message is delivered is just as important as the context of the message.” Our series, Liturgy: The Work of the People is wrapping up this week with our last Core Value of Contextualization. Robert talked about contextualization as a kingdom movement into the culture and the importance of contextualizing our structures to what people can and will understand. He describes contextualization as...

“The work is to do for the one or the few that we wish we could do for everyone.” Our 18th Core Value is a commitment to bringing the good news of the kingdom to the ends of the earth, acknowledging that we cannot do this work unless this same good news has penetrated the depths of our souls. In addition to a discussion about this value and a highlight of some of Redemption Hill’s missionary partn...

In this episode, Alyssa talks with Andrew about our Core Value of our commitment to the lost, the heart of Jesus, prayer, spiritual practices, proclamation and invitation. We also got to hear about Ruja, the non-profit Andrew works with in Uganda! If you are interested in their work, check out their Instagram @ruja_org . Resources mentioned in the podcast are: The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by...

“Proclamation is an invitation. We respect the freedom of the hearers, and its’ never done in a. Manipulative way. The church proposes, never imposes anything on the lost.” In our discussion of our Core Value of our commitment to the Lost, Andrew walked us through different interactions with Jesus in the gospels, and his posture towards those who others deemed “scum” and “notorious sinners.” Andre...

“To not engage in the injustice and suffering is a misrepresentation, a distortion of the gospel. It is to fail to draw to the world the picture that Jesus drew and is calling us to draw along with him, and it fails to join Jesus where he is busy setting things right. So this is the real question: are we, as a community, ready to engage in the work Jesus is calling us into?” As we near the end of...

We live with “the echoes of a voice that calls us to live with a dream for justice.” (N.T. Wright) :: In this episode, Alyssa talks with Robert about biblical justice. It's a fantastic conversation about why justice is such a polarized issue in our country, how we can pursue justice when issues feel really big, the whisper of hope we hold in our bodies, and what it looks like to work towards justi...

“The church has to be a counter-example of justice in the world.” For this week’s Liturgy, Robert talks about the Core Value of Biblical Justice. Robert defines Biblical Justice as justice that is not only social, racial, and economic, but the overarching work of the people of God to join the work of the Kingdom of God in setting things right, and making things whole. He calls us through practical...

In today's episode, Alyssa interviews Robert all about different daily concepts and practices connected with simplicity- the theology of work, stewardship, community and emotions around our possessions. Thanks to all who tuned in to our TENTH episode! We are grateful for you and look forward to continuing to share this space with you as we go forward. Find more from Redemption Hill at redemptionbo...

“Don’t waste the things God has entrusted to you when they were meant for someone else.” After a little break, we are almost finishing up our Liturgy series with Robert talking about our thirteenth core value of Simplicity. He walks through Jesus’ teachings on money and possessions in Matthew, Mark and Luke, encouraging us into a life of deep dependence on Jesus’ abundance that connects us with Go...

Talking to Jessie and Andrew was SO fun! We got to know them a little better, found out they both like green and black coffee with oatmilk, talked about what they love about God, justice, wonder, and discipleship! Plus, 10 random rapid fire questions about their life! If you are interested in the Tim Timmons' podcast Alyssa mentioned, it’s called 10,000 Minutes: The Experiment. Start with the Elli...

It’s our 5th birthday! Redemption Hill turned five on Sunday, and we celebrated by reflecting on our story and by commissioning Jessie Horney and Andrew Green as pastors in our community. In this episode, we get to hear from Robert, Andrew and Jessie as they share their own stories, hopes and visions for this next season at Redemption Hill. Find more from Redemption Hill at redemptionboise.org , o...

Alyssa interviews Robert in today's episode, where they really dig into the ideas of deconstruction (and what we mean by it), missionary as a term and a practice, what we face when we lean into the way of Jesus, and how we can accept the easy yoke of Jesus from an identity as beloved. If you want more reading on beloved-ness as your identity, check out Life of the Beloved by Henri Nouwen. Find mor...

“God’s church doesn’t have a mission. God’s mission has a church.” We’re taking a break from our Core Values series this week, as we held our gathering in the park with all of The Syndicate , a movement of micro-churches that we belong to, committed to engaging every neighborhood with the gospel and sending every believer as a missionary. This week, looking at Jesus’ instructions to the apostles i...

A bonus episode with all the teaching content from our Micro Church Summit at the end of August. You’ll hear from Robert, Dusty, and Malia on the history of the church and where the Micro Church movement fits in, the definition of a micro church and a description of the different types, the vision of the Syndicate, the cycles and seasons of a micro church, and what it looks like to cultivate hospi...

“Can we trust in God’s generosity instead of trusting in the world’s scarcity?” Kyle hosts our eleventh episode of our Liturgy series, expounding on the core value of Sharing and Giving. Walking through passages from Matthew, Acts, and the Psalms, he talks about God’s creativity, cultivation, kindness, and abundance in connection with our own tendency towards worry, exploring how trusting in God l...

“You and I are original artworks of God.” In the tenth episode of our series, “Liturgy: The Work of the People,” Cindy talks about our tenth Core Value of Empowerment. Using different texts from the New Testament, she walks through what it means for us to be uniquely called by God into the good works laid out for us to do, and details next steps for us as we discover the specific ways we’ve been e...

“Our journey was saying yes to God shaping us, not changing our circumstances.” In our ninth “Liturgy” episode, Jessie talks about our core value of Passion through the lens of story and the hero’s journey, touching on the big ideas of anxiety, suffering, lies, truth, and faith. Reframing anxiety as a balance between hope and fear, she talks about what it looks like to step over the thresholds of...

“Our commitment to each other is a commitment to each other’s burdens and needs.” In the eighth episode of the series, “Liturgy: The Work of the People,” Matt shares about our core value of Each Other. He talks about how this core value is at the heart of learning the way of Jesus, expounding on the value of loving each other and the world as a conscious commitment to our small communities and the...

“The move from pride to humility is largely done in a way that moves from the outside in.” In episode 7 of our “Liturgy” series, Bob hosts a conversation on our core value, Humility. Referencing the New Testament writers, he explores common beliefs about humility, how to cultivate it in community as a practice that develops patience, forgiveness, respect, kindness, and a willingness to be wrong, a...