Sermon Sunday, 29 November 2020/Rev. Charleston Wilson
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Sermon Sunday, 22 November 2020/Rev. Christian M. Wood
Throughout Christianity's history, there have been two great heresies that have given birth to countless other heresies. These two misrepresentations of Jesus focus on who Jesus is, and they each get it completely wrong. One defines Jesus as totally divine and not...
Sermon – Sunday, 25 October 2020/Seminarian Andrew Lazo
What Might Matter Most? Wow—Christin and I have really missed you! We are so glad to be back—coming to Redeemer feels like coming home. And we’ve been busy since we left you last summer. Christin has a new book project and has started a graduate program online at...
Sermon – Sunday, 18 October 2020/Rev. Christian M. Wood
Do you remember the first time you paid income tax? I saw a video on YouTube recently; a father was filming his son opening his first paycheck in the back seat of his car. As he opened it, his face went from ecstatic excitement to confused pain. The father asked the...
Sermon – Sunday, 11 October 2020/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
I need to talk about a specific prayer and how understanding that prayer can cause an about-face – a “total eclipse of the heart” (Bonnie Taylor) – a real reversal – a genuine "aha moment" that can change your life – can change my life. And all of this has to do with...
Sermon – Sunday, 4 October 2020/Rev. Christian M. Wood
What I find wonderful about this church is that our parishioners and the clergy of this parish take seriously what we read in the Bible. We don’t view the Bible, and especially the words of Jesus, as suggestions, or ancient sage advice that does not correlate to the...
Sermon – Sunday 27 September 2020/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
I love church signs – or marquees, as they are more properly called. Mt. Pleasant Baptist advertises this on two lines: “Do you know what hell is?” And, underneath on the second line, the sign reads, “Come, hear our preacher.” A Presbyterian church sign makes this...
Sermon – Sunday, 20 September 2020/Rev. Christian M. Wood
What is human nature? How do you define human nature? Webster's defines human nature like this: human nature is the fundamental dispositions and traits of humans. Thank you, Webster’s dictionary, for perhaps the most unclear definition in all history. The problem with...
Sermon – Sunday,13 September 2020/Rev. Charleston D. Wilson
For several months, we’ve been working our way through St. Paul’s magnum opus, his letter to the Church in Rome. Today we have reached chapter fourteen (of sixteen), and St. Paul is dealing, once again, with the mixed nature of the church in Rome. By “mixed” I mean...