Holiness in our lives is becoming who we already are in Christ. Holiness flows out of an identity given to us God. A few months ago my wife Allie and I watched the Lion King together with our kids for the first time. Now I hadn’t seen this movie for probably 15 years or more, but…

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13 When I was younger in my faith I pictured Paul as a man whose heart was cold toward people. Always thinking, writing about and praising God such that he had no capacity left to think about people, or love, people. So consumed by God that he had no room left…

1 Thessalonians 2:17-3:5 God as king, in a way that only He can, exercises authority over affliction and brings it under his rule. God says to suffering, “you are now mine. You were meant for evil, but I intend you for good.”

I hear all the time that we are to “speak life” to one another. People like this idea of speaking life to others, and few people seem to have a problem with it, and that’s likely because the idea of “speaking life” is thought to be equivalent to speaking encouraging things to one…

If you’ve been around Redeemer for a little while, you may have heard people using the term “Life Groups”. Over the next few weeks here, the pastors are going to do a mini-series of exhortations to help us all understand what a Life Group is and why we have them at Redeemer. Here…

I am not usually a very impulsive person. But every once in a while, I will do things that I regret almost immediately. For example, I recently signed up for a race just a few weeks beforehand with little time to get in shape. Despite my regrets for having signed up, I was not…