Redemption Hill Church

What began as a death-row nightmare under an angry, terrified dictator ends with a radical promotion into the king’s cabinet, not through political maneuvering or compromise, but through the sovereign hand of God. King Nebuchadnezzar falls on his face, attempting to worship, yet his response reveals a confused heart that bends toward worshiping the messenger and the gift rather than the Giver—a po...

Something can look incredibly strong and still be incredibly fragile. Consider the Titanic: 46,000 tons of steel and luxury, built with such structural confidence that engineers didn’t even bother putting enough lifeboats on board. Yet it wasn’t a naval fleet or a missile that sank it, but a silent, submerged block of ice that took only three hours to send the giant ship to the ocean floor. Everyo...

We live in a world of experts. Need financial advice? Find a planner. Tax issue? Hire a CPA. Struggle with marriage? See a counselor. With modern technology and AI, we can typically find a solution for almost any problem—but what happens when you encounter a problem human wisdom cannot answer? That is where we find King Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2. The most powerful man in the world had everything—...

Forced into exile and pressured to assimilate, Daniel and his friends refused the king's food, choosing dependence on God over comfort and status. We face the same subtle pressure today—softening ethics for business, staying silent to avoid awkwardness, or prioritizing our children's cultural status over their spiritual formation. Left to ourselves, most of us cave. But standing firm was never abo...

Most of you in this room are native citizens of this country, but you can only imagine how Daniel and his three friends must have felt. Forcefully torn from their families, their homes, their occupations, and their homeland, they were dragged into exile in chains—immersed in a foreign culture, ruled by a tyrannical king, surrounded by an unfamiliar language, and submerged in a paganism that ran vi...

A sermon on Romans 8, and taking seriously the Holy Spirit in the lives of Christians.

The passage in Mark 16 is an amazing promise fulfilled... Jesus is risen from the dead. He is risen for our sakes! The tomb is not opened so he could get out, but so that we could get in.

As Jesus is taken down from the cross and laid in the tomb, Mark draws our attention to faithful women who remained near and Joseph of Arimathea, a courageous disciple who risked his reputation to honor the body of Christ. The sealed tomb leaves no question: Jesus truly died. Yet for those who belong to Him, something else was buried there as well. Our sin was laid upon Christ and carried with Him...

Mark's Gospel reaches its stunning climax not with a miracle or a triumphant crowd, but at the foot of the cross. As darkness lifts and Jesus breathes His last, a hardened Roman centurion becomes the first human in Mark's Gospel to rightly confess, "Truly this man was the Son of God." In this sermon, we explore why Mark places this Gentile confession at the center of his Gospel, what the cross rev...

At the cross, Jesus endured humanity's final verdict against Him. The inscription, "The King of the Jews," intended as a charge of mockery, proclaimed a deeper truth than Pilate or the crowd understood. Religious leaders, passersby, and even the criminals crucified beside Him united in ridicule, demanding that He come down from the cross to prove His identity. Yet the greatest evidence that Jesus...

Missions is worship. The fulfillment of missions sometimes requires us to let go of things that are good and excellent, but we have a greater passion to go. Missions is rooted in the local church sending, supporting, and sustaining the gospel to places who have not heard the name Jesus.

In Mark 15:1–15, Jesus stands before Pilate as the innocent King, falsely accused by the religious leaders and condemned by the Roman governor. Although the Jewish leaders reject Him because He is not the kind of king they wanted, and Pilate knows Jesus is innocent, both choose self-interest over truth. Throughout the trial, Jesus remains remarkably silent, fulfilling God's sovereign plan and the...

Looking at how Peter's denial demonstrates what exists in all of us, and how Jesus goes to the cross and is denied so we aren't.

Mark places Jesus' trial before the Sanhedrin between two betrayals — Judas before it, Peter denying him during it — so that the Lord stands surrounded by false witnesses while being the one true and faithful witness in the room. The whole Gospel has been building to a single question: who is this man? The religious leaders convene an illegal, predetermined trial, but their fabricated testimony co...

Mark 14:43-52 presents one of the loneliest moments in all of Scripture. In the garden, when Jesus is seized, the disciples who promised loyalty scatter into the darkness, and even the unnamed young man flees, leaving everything behind. The scene strips away every illusion of human faithfulness. The Shepherd stands abandoned by His flock, facing betrayal, violence, and the cross alone. Yet this is...

Mark 14:27–42 sets two truths side by side. Before any disciple fails, Jesus promises to go ahead of them to Galilee after He rises—grace that runs ahead of failure and outlasts it. Then in Gethsemane, the one man who will not fall away wrestles in prayer while those who swore loyalty fall asleep. The contrast is the point: we are kept not by the strength of our resolve but by the faithfulness of...

In Mark 14:10–26, the institution of the Lord's Supper is deliberately framed by treachery and failure. Mark opens with Judas slipping away to bargain with the chief priests (vv. 10–11) and closes on the road to Gethsemane, where Jesus has just warned that every man at the table will fall away. Between those bookends sits the meal itself—the Passover prepared, the betrayer exposed ("one of you wil...

In Mark 14:1-9, a woman pours out perfume worth a year's wages on Jesus, and the room calls it waste. He calls it beautiful. This Sunday we'll sit with what extravagant devotion actually looks like — and why the cost is the point, not the problem.

Most people say they believe Jesus is coming back, yet for many that belief changes very little about how they live. We become consumed with temporary things, like travelers distracted by airport shops while forgetting the flight home. In Mark 13, Jesus confronts that drift. He prepares His disciples not only for the destruction of the temple, but for the certainty of His return. As He points to t...

Listen to Part 2 of our sermon on the Olivet Discourse

n Gospel of Mark 13, Jesus sits opposite the temple and tells His disciples something unthinkable: the massive stones of Herod’s Temple would one day be torn down until not one remained upon another. For the Jewish people, the temple was the center of worship, identity, and national hope. Yet Jesus reminds us that even the grandest structures of this world are temporary. His words were literally f...

When was the last time you did something to be seen? Maybe it was a post carefully crafted to present the best version of yourself, a story that subtly elevated your image, or even an act of service done with an eye toward recognition. There’s something in all of us that longs to be noticed, to earn approval, to matter in the eyes of others. But living this way is exhausting. Constantly curating a...

Jesus has answered question after question from His critics, and now He turns to ask a question of His own. Still in the temple on Tuesday before the cross, He addresses the issue of His identity as the Messiah. The religious leaders have missed it because they reduced the Messiah to something smaller than He truly is. They were half right—but completely wrong. They knew the Messiah would come fro...

This passage from Mark 12 presents a sobering reversal that strikes at the heart of religious complacency: a scribe begins by testing Jesus’s orthodoxy but ends by being weighed in the scales of the Kingdom himself. The scribe’s question regarding the prōtos —the first or most important commandment—uncovers a man who is biblically literate and intellectually convinced, yet stands in a precarious p...

In Mark 12:13-17 , Jesus is confronted by an unlikely alliance of Pharisees and Herodians — two groups who despised each other but united in opposition to Him. The Pharisees represented a false submission to God while rejecting earthly authority, and the Herodians represented the opposite: a rejection of God while clinging to earthly power. Together they set a trap, asking whether it was lawful to...