Redemption Hill Church

We are so excited to get back into the Gospel of John together this Sunday. We left off at the very beginning of May in chapter 11. Many see chapter 12 as a turning point in John’s portrait of Jesus. This Sunday we will dig into John 12:1-11. Jesus had just raised his friend Lazarus after he had been dead for four days. We will take a look together at the reactions of the people around Jesus in th...

Last Sunday, Pastor Bill talked about his hopes for the church as we look ahead. Our church is heading into a new season together. Now that we are over a decade into this work, Redemption Hill is not a church plant, we are a church. Even more, Redemption Hill has had the privilege of investing into other church plants and planting efforts. Coming through a few difficult and tumultuous years togeth...

This Sunday we will continue our Roots & Fruit series as we look at what it means to do the Lord's work in the Lord's way. We talk a lot about church as a family and a community. There is more to being a church, though. We are called by God to be His people, carrying the light of the gospel of Jesus Christ into this world, empowered and led by the Spirit to good witness and work. Way too often...

Jon Parks is a Pastor of Village Church East Belfast. Pastor Jon was involved from the very beginning of the plant, though not as its pastor. His brother Lucas was the planting pastor. Over time, though, God called Jon into pastoral ministry and the church affirmed his gifts and qualification for that ministry role. In summer 2020, Lucas moved away from Belfast and took a new role in a different c...

Redemption Hill is committed to intentionally equip members of the church, empowered by the Holy Spirit, to do the work of ministry. Redemption Hill equips and resources members to pursue their passions and gifts as they join Jesus on His mission in our city. Ministry at Redemption Hill is deeply contextualized and reliant on the Holy Spirit to wake up sleepy Christians, save nominal Christians, a...

Acts 2:41-47 shows the impact of God’s people coming together in community. The impact is felt internally as members of the body are cared for and encouraged in tangible and intangible ways (Gal. 6:1-5). It is also felt outwardly as our city experiences God’s love and grace through His people, the church (Acts 2:42, 5:14, 11:24). Redemption Hill Church is a community of people who gather together...

Dr. Doug Logan is the President of Grimké Seminary in Richmond, VA, and the Dean of Grimké Urban. He is also the Associate Director of Acts 29, and currently serves as the Pastor of Church Planting at Remnant Church. Pastor Doug has been a longtime friend of Redemption Hill Church, and we are glad to welcome him back to preach this Sunday, as he casts a vision for Seeing the Beauty of the City.&nb...

We were honored to have Pastor Michael Martin join us last Sunday. He planted Learning To Live Fellowship, (LTLF) in Inglewood, California and served on the pastoral team at Oceanside Christian Fellowship (OCF) in El Segundo, CA. He now serves at Senior Pastor at Stillmeadow Church in Baltimore. Michael has had significant involvement in the work of church health and church diversity both while se...

Redemption Hill is a family that graciously welcomes people into loving community. At its core, the gospel is a celebration that welcomes all people into the family of God through Jesus Christ. Redemption Hill is a family that is generous, thoughtful, and warm, welcoming people into community and celebrating God’s grace together. Pastor Eric will walk us through Luke 5:27-32 and will show the diff...

This Sunday Pastor Cedrick Brown, the founding pastor of Commitment Community Church in Lindenwold, NJ, will be preaching for us. He also serves as Co-Superintendent of EFCA East, our district in the EFCA. Cedrick was born and raised in Compton, CA. He played football, including as a pro on the Philadelphia Eagles. He has been married to Lisa for over 30 years and they have three adult children. D...

This Sunday brings our next guest preaching, Pastor Andrew Elder. Andrew serves as Pastor of Village Church South Belfast, which was planted out of Village Church East Belfast. Redemption Hill has been a partner in the work in Belfast for more than a decade, from the very beginning of our church and theirs. Pastor Andrew has a tender heart for people and passion to reach the lost.  His sermon...

This Sunday I will introduce the series, preaching on the theme of Roots & Fruit that can be traced as a thread through the entire biblical storyline. I will also introduce the preachers we can look forward to hearing this summer. I will start with 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 and we will touch down in a number of passages along the way. It’s bittersweet for me to say that this is my last Sunday with o...

This will be our third week in the story about Lazarus. In the first, we saw Jesus interact with Martha, and claim to be the resurrection and the life. In the second, we saw Jesus interact with Mary, and Jesus wept. This week we will see the power of life conquer the grave, as Lazarus is raised from the dead. As Lazarus emerged from the tomb, Jesus called the others there, “Unbind him, and let him...

Last week we introduced the story of Lazarus’ death. Jesus met Martha along the road and asked her if she believed it when He said, “I am the resurrection and the life.” This week we are going to zero in on one key verse, the shortest verse in your Bible – Jesus wept. What a profound statement! This shows something of Jesus’ humanity, anger, sorrow, compassion, and care for His friend Lazarus and...

Some close friends of Jesus lost their brother, Lazarus, who had died. By the time Jesus got to them, Lazarus had been in the tomb for four days. Martha went out to meet Jesus, and she was confident that if Jesus had been there, Lazarus could have been healed, but now it seemed to late. Jesus reassures us all that He is the resurrection and the life. This Sunday we get to dig into this passage and...

Jesus continues the imagery of shepherding and sheep. The people who heard Him teach still could not grasp the things He said with clarity and precision. This passage exposes the difficult reality that the same group of people, with the same background, culture, and lens for the world, still can land in opposite places when it comes to Jesus. Some people will never believe because they have mispla...

Jesus used three metaphors to continue to tell the people in Jerusalem who He is and what He came to do. All three in this passage center around shepherding and sheep. Most of us didn’t grow up around sheep, and probably don’t know the first thing about shepherding life and work. Even still, the passage is very clear on teasing this out for us as we look to Jesus. Understanding the shepherding mot...

As Jesus called His first disciples, He called them to leave everything to follow Him. He gave a glimpse of the reality of Christian discipleship. Pastor Eric will help us to see that Jesus calls us not just to an individual pursuit, but to join Him in transcendent Kingdom work.

This shows us the 6th of 7 signs of Jesus through John’s Gospel. While leaving the Feast of Tabernacles, Jesus and His disciples came across a man who had been blind from birth. That led to some theological debates and assumptions, trying to decide and determine the cause-effect relationship of sin to his blindness. As He does throughout the Gospels, Jesus confronted the assumptions, did the unexp...

This brings the time Jesus spent at the Feast of Tabernacles to a close. After making some fiery statements to people in the Temple courts, that their father was the Devil, the conversation got increasingly heated. By the end of it, people were picking up rocks and getting ready to throw them at Jesus. This week we will explore what made them so angry and try to look at our own hearts. I am excite...

Jesus continued His conversation with the people in the Temple courts, where He had said, “I am the Light of the World.” This passage raises a tough rebuke from Jesus. As the people claimed that Abraham was their Father, Jesus challenged them that their lives didn’t reflect that lineage. In this passage Jesus expanded His teaching on walking in darkness or having the light to show that our lives w...

This passage will serve as a diagnostic for our lives. Jesus shows the stark difference between walking in darkness and having the light. It is a passage that is both challenging and encouraging. The whole section is framed by Jesus’ statement, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

This Sunday we come to a very interesting passage in John’s Gospel. It is a beloved story that may be one of the most well known stories of Jesus’ life and ministry, both within and outside of the church. Part of what makes this section interesting is that your Bible will almost certainly have brackets around John 7:53-8:11. The note in the ESV says, “[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53-...

We are going to cover the whole chapter. So, I encourage you to spend some time to read it before Sunday so you can get a sense of it. This is a bigger section than we typically take on. The scene shifts to the Feast of Booths in Jerusalem. Jesus refused to go up to Jerusalem with His family, but did show up in Jerusalem and he was, once again, confronted by authorities who wanted to arrest and ki...

This is the second half of the Bread of Life Discourse. Last week we saw Jesus start statements with “Truly, truly,” three times. It helped us explore really hard questions about our own hearts. This week Jesus takes the metaphor a step further. Where He claimed to be the bread of life, now he makes an explicit call to eat His flesh and drink His blood. The people who heard Him were understandably...