by Steve Hedrick | May 6, 2014 | Text Sermons
Senior Address by Lindsey Brush: My Experiences at the Church of the Redeemer. It isn’t easy for me to choose one particularly significant experience during my time at the church because I have been fortunate enough to have been involved in so many activities such as...
by Steve Hedrick | Apr 29, 2014 | Text Sermons
The week after Easter is a pretty interesting time in the life of any church. In a parish like ours, this is especially true, especially if you talk to anybody who was working here during Holy Week and Easter. For example: my own experience was that for a couple days,...
by Steve Hedrick | Apr 22, 2014 | Text Sermons
Alleluia! Christ is risen! One day three men were walking along and came upon a raging, violent river. They needed to get across to the other side, but had no idea how to do it. The first man prayed to God, saying, “Please, God, give me strength to cross the river.”...
by Steve Hedrick | Apr 14, 2014 | Text Sermons
In about half an hour’s time we have reenacted two events in which, in the roles we have played, we have completely contradicted ourselves. We began by shouting “Hosanna,” hailing Jesus as the Messiah, and then we joined with the crowd in calling for his execution....
by Steve Hedrick | Apr 8, 2014 | Text Sermons
In 1739, on the first anniversary of his conversion, trusting in Jesus Christ as his lord, Charles Wesley wrote an 18 stanza poem later put to music. In the hymn are two verses that read: He speaks, and listening to his voice, new life the dead receive, the mournful,...
by Steve Hedrick | Mar 31, 2014 | Text Sermons
In the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Amen. Imagine with me for a moment that the person sitting next to you knows everything (and I mean everything) about you – even and especially what St. Paul describes in our epistle today as those “secret”...