1 Thessalonians 1:1-3 In just one verse the Apostle Paul tells us what this letter is all about. The big idea is that faith in Jesus and His saving work fuels love for one another. Together faith and love free us to do life together in hopeful harmony as we await Jesus…

The Church is how people come to know what Jesus and His kingdom are like. This is the introduction sermon to our new series through the book of 1 Thessalonians, From Faith to Love.

Matthew 11:28-30 Think back with me for a moment to a time when you interviewed for a job. Perhaps you can recall a particularly difficult interview in which the questions were hard to answer clearly. Now imagine you’re sitting down for another job interview and the interviewer…

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…