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This begins a long section that theologians call The Bread of Life Discourse. We will take the broader passage in two pieces, finishing it up next week. We see Jesus and the disciples back home in Capernaum, but the crowds who had eaten the bread the day before followed them to find Jesus. In the pattern of what we have seen already, the people were so caught up in looking for signs that they miss...

This is another familiar story. After miraculously feeding 5,000 people, Jesus withdrew to a high place to pray. His disciples headed out to cross the Sea of Galilee. That night they were caught in a terrible storm and were rowing hard to try to make it to shore safe and alive. What happened next was something beyond what they ever could have expected. Jesus came to them, walking on the water. In...

This is a familiar story, and the only miracle that occurs in all four Gospels. This week we see Jesus return to Galilee from Jerusalem. As a crowd surrounded Him, he asked the disciples how they could feed all the people. The best anyone could produce was a boy’s lunch of barley loaves and small fish. Jesus was able to feed 5,000 men, potentially 10-20,000 people in total, with leftovers in abund...

This passage continues the discussion between Jesus and the religious leaders who wanted to kill Him after He healed a man on the sabbath. Jesus started by making dramatic claims to His own authority and equality with God (5:19-30). In our passage for this week, He continues by taking a courtroom approach and calling on witnesses to who He is, establishing the validity of His claims. This is a gre...

This week, we will be looking at the birth of Christ from the opening 2 chapters of Luke’s gospel. In what serves as the prologue of the book, Luke tells his motivation for writing this gospel, so that his recipient, a man named Theophilus, can have “certainty” (Luke 1:4) about the things concerning Jesus. It is this idea of having certainty amidst uncertainty that shapes Luke’s account of Christ’...

Throughout the remaining weeks of December, we’ll be pausing our study in John’s gospel to celebrate the Advent of Christ. Advent allows us to cultivate space in our lives for joyful remembrance and anticipation of Jesus Christ together. We remember His first coming in the incarnation, and we anticipate His second coming to establish His kingdom.  This week, we will be in Matthew 1:18-23, tak...

After Jesus healed the crippled man, he faced major backlash from religious leaders in Jerusalem for healing on the Sabbath. The response Jesus had was not to back down or cower to the pressure. Instead, He doubled down, telling them his real source of authority. This is a great text for us on this second Sunday of Advent, Love Sunday, the Sunday of preparation as we long for God’s presence. We wi...

We have seen Jesus in individual conversations with Nicodemus and the Samaritan Woman. Now John turns our attention to an interaction He had with a Gentile official. There are some incredible contrasts in this passage between those who were looking for signs from Jesus yet didn’t believe and this man, who believed in Jesus along with his whole household. As we spend time in this passage, we are go...

This passage is beautiful, challenging, uplifting, and powerful. This week we head into John 4 and we will see Jesus with a Samaritan woman at a well. I had initially thought about breaking the passage into multiple sermons, but in the study time with the staff team we all became convinced that we would lose some of the power of the story by doing that. So, we are going to cover John 4:1-42. As we...

This passage brings John the Baptist back into the storyline. We will see the jealousy of John’s disciples as they see Jesus’ ministry growing. This gets at some core issue of identity, purpose, and significance – issues that every one of us wrestles with. John’s perspective is unique, puzzling, and refreshing. It will help us find our own place in this world.

This is a chapter highlighting the reality of our sin nature, as well as the faithfulness of God to protect His promises and show mercy to sinners. The narrative follows Abraham after the events of Sodom and Gomorrah. He’s wandered from a place of fellowship with God and has found himself in a regrettably familiar situation. In a tragic lapse of faith his actions endanger his wife, compromise his...

As we continue to get to know who Jesus is, John turns our attention from the wedding in Cana and the clearing of the Temple courts to a series of conversations – with a Jewish teacher, a Samaritan woman, and a Gentile official. The Jewish teacher was a man named Nicodemus and he came to Jesus at night to try to learn more about who Jesus was. This leads to perhaps the most well-known conversation...

This Sunday we continue our series with John 2:13-25. Last week we saw Jesus turn water into wine and lead the wedding celebration. This week we see another side of Jesus as he clears the Temple. We will take something I’ve to try to understand why Jesus was so angry, as well as why John puts these two stories together.

After promising that his disciples that they would see far more than they expected, Jesus took them all to a wedding. At that wedding in Cana, the unthinkable happened – the hosts ran out of wine. John recounts the first miracle Jesus ever performed, calling it a sign and telling us that it manifested Jesus’ glory. This is a fun story that shows us glimpses of what Jesus’ Kingdom is like.

The narrative of John’s Gospel continues as we get introduced to some of the men who would become Jesus’ disciples – Andrew, Simon (called Peter), Philip, and Nathanael (called Bartholomew). From the John the Baptist’s identification that Jesus is “The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world,” there began a string of people who followed Jesus, told others about Jesus, and brought others to...

This Sunday we continue our series with John 1:19-34. All four Gospels show that the start of Jesus’ public ministry was rooted in the ministry of His cousin, John. This is a different John than our author. John’s ministry was to baptize people in order to prepare a righteous remnant of faithful to usher in the coming of Messiah. John wasn’t the only one in his time with that goal, but he was the...

While the first five verses set the tone of the transcendence of the Word, the Creator and source of all light and life, the verses that follow bring the shocking truth of God’s immanence, His presence with us as that same Word took on flesh and became human. The Incarnation of Jesus is one of the most powerful and mysterious truths we are confronted with in the Gospel and it has profound implicat...

This Sunday we begin at The Beginning . You get the feeling reading the start of John’s Gospel that he may have seen and read the other three and thought, let’s go back just a little farther on the timeline. What we have is one of the most packed, poetic, and beautiful sections of the entire New Testament. It is a powerful passage that begins to introduce us to Jesus.

This Sunday we are in between two sermon series. It’s not often that I get a one-off chance to preach on a topic, so I’m pretty excited for it. We will take some time this Sunday to talk about Deconstruction. It feels overwhelming to see and hear the stories of people deconstructing their faith and, so often, walking away from any belief in Jesus or connection to any church. There are lots of good...

This Sunday we will jump back into our series in Titus with all of Titus 3. Remember that Titus is a great, concise look at what the church is. We have already seen that the church is Hope for Eternity, God’s Family, and commissioned as God’s people Declaring the Gospel. This third chapter pushes the reality of the gospel into our lives and shows us that the Church is God’s people, Empowered for G...

On Sunday, we had the privilege of welcoming some guests as we celebrated and gathered for worship together. Dr. Bill Kynes, our sending pastor,  prayed for Redemption Hill, we heard from Dr. Ray Ortlund, Jr. as he preached from Romans 8, and Phil Maucieri joined us to help as our band leads us all in singing.

We have already seen that the church is Hope for Eternity, and God’s Family. The second chapter closes out with a power-packed explosion of the beauty of the gospel. The good news shapes how we see ourselves and how we fit into the world we live in, showing us our past, present, and future.

This passage shows us a beautiful portrait of the God’s Family. Everybody has a part to play in church life. The eternal hope we have in Jesus that we saw in last week’s passage is not just individual but joins us together and shapes a community that shows off God’s grace and goodness. This passage is particularly important for us at Redemption Hill because we have a Titus 2 Team. We will take tim...

I’m back in the pulpit this week as we begin a new short series in the book of Titus. August marks TEN YEARS of ministry for Redemption Hill Church. It’s hard for me to believe that it has been that long, and it’s amazing to look back at all that God has done over the past decade. Through the month of August we will work together to be reminded of what a church is, who we are, and whose we are. In...

This Sunday is the final sermon in our series as we study Revelation 22:6-21. It’s always bittersweet to finish up a series. I have loved the chance to walk through this book with you all over the past six months. I hope you have seen that it is filled with hope and intensely practical and important for us. We are living in the Last Days. Not just because we have lived through uprisings, wars and...