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Redeemer is joining our neighbors in building a city that, through the Gospel, brings wholeness out of brokenness, authentic community among all people and cultural renewal in every place. We are a member of the Presbyterian Church of America denomination.
Scripture Reading from Proverbs 4: 23; Philippians 4: 4-7 (0:00)
Sermon by Sam Haist (0:35)
Scripture Reading from Proverbs 4: 23; Colossians 3: 16 (0:00)
Sermon by Sam Haist (0:35)
Scripture Reading from Proverbs 4:23 and Psalms 119: 9-16 (0:00)
Sermon by Sam Haist (0:55)
Scripture Reading from Isaiah 8: 19-22; 9: 1-7 (0:00)
Sermon by Charles Anderson (2:29)
Sermon by Charles Anderson (0:00)
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Other Scriptures Referenced:
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2 Kings 15: 29
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2 Kings 16: 7-9
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2 Chronicles 28: 1-2; 5-6
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Isaiah 7: 1-2
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Matthew 1: 20-23
Scripture Reading from 2 Kings 16: 1-5 and Isaiah 7: 1-9 (0:00)
Sermon by Sam Haist (2:22)
"Lent is not intended to be an annual ordeal during which we begrudgingly forgo a handful of pleasures," writes Dorothy Sayers. "It is meant to be the church's springtime, a time when, out of the darkness of sin's winter, a repentant, empowered people emerges.”
One of the most important ways this can happen is by using this season to build new patterns of living: habits and rhythms that more deeply connect us to Jesus, the source of our life and joy. This week, we invite you to give special attention to the practice of prayer. But instead of an essay, let's listen to some stories. Four members of our community share what prayer looks like in their own lives, and what motivates them to carve out space when so many other things clamor for their attention.
"Lent is not intended to be an annual ordeal during which we begrudgingly forgo a handful of pleasures," writes Dorothy Sayers. "It is meant to be the church's springtime, a time when, out of the darkness of sin's winter, a repentant, empowered people emerges.”
One of the most important ways this can happen is by using this season to build new patterns of living: habits and rhythms that more deeply connect us to Jesus, the source of our life and joy. This week, we invite you to give special attention to the practice of prayer. But instead of an essay, let's listen to some stories. Four members of our community share what prayer looks like in their own lives, and what motivates them to carve out space when so many other things clamor for their attention.
"Lent is not intended to be an annual ordeal during which we begrudgingly forgo a handful of pleasures," writes Dorothy Sayers. "It is meant to be the church's springtime, a time when, out of the darkness of sin's winter, a repentant, empowered people emerges.”
One of the most important ways this can happen is by using this season to build new patterns of living: habits and rhythms that more deeply connect us to Jesus, the source of our life and joy. This week, we invite you to give special attention to the practice of prayer. But instead of an essay, let's listen to some stories. Four members of our community share what prayer looks like in their own lives, and what motivates them to carve out space when so many other things clamor for their attention.
"Lent is not intended to be an annual ordeal during which we begrudgingly forgo a handful of pleasures," writes Dorothy Sayers. "It is meant to be the church's springtime, a time when, out of the darkness of sin's winter, a repentant, empowered people emerges.”
One of the most important ways this can happen is by using this season to build new patterns of living: habits and rhythms that more deeply connect us to Jesus, the source of our life and joy. This week, we invite you to give special attention to the practice of prayer. But instead of an essay, let's listen to some stories. Four members of our community share what prayer looks like in their own lives, and what motivates them to carve out space when so many other things clamor for their attention.
While Scripture doesn't require anyone to observe Lent, many Christians throughout the ages have found it helpful to set apart this season with a particular focus on prayer, fasting, and self-examination. At its best, Lent can function as a kind of spiritual checkup; a way for us to examine our hearts, take stock of our lives, and ask how God might be leading us to grow. As we journey through these weeks leading up to Easter, we'll be sending out a weekly email with some practical guidance on how to engage this season well.
This week, Sam Haist and Erin Anderson talk a little bit about the practice of fasting: what it means, why we might do it, and other ways we can carve out space for God if fasting from food isn't right for you. We hope you find it helpful.
Key Questions: When it comes to politics, what role does the local church play? How should this play out in the church “gathered” vs. “scattered”? In what ways might the church bring the Lordship of Jesus to bear on pressing issues and political questions?
Key Questions: Besides voting, what practical ways can we promote good in the political sphere?
Key questions: How should the ninth commandment shape our speech, media habits, and the way we interact with political sparring partners?
Key questions: What does it look like to process disappointment in politics? How do we stay motivated when perfect justice/righteousness/shalom isn’t available this side of glory? How might the promise of Christ’s coming restoration impact the way we engage here and now?
Sam talks about "politics for exiles," and focuses on what it looks like to seek the welfare of our communities as people whose first allegiance is to the Kingdom of God. See class materials at www.redeemindy.org/politics.
Greg Enas discusses major events, questions, themes, and concepts that have shaped our own particular context of American political thought.
You can access previous sessions and additional materials at www.redeemindy.org/politics.
Kian Hudson discusses Reformation political theologies with a special focus on the Anabaptists, Martin Luther, and John Calvin.
Key Texts: Luther’s Secular Authority, Calvin’s Institutes (Book IV, Chapter 20), Schleitheim Confession (Art. VI)
Key Questions: In what ways did the Reformers continue or depart from prior Christian political thought?
Download class handouts and additional resources at redeemindy.org/politics.
Key Question: what does mercy and justice look like “where we are” in our own local context?
Key Texts: Augustine’s City of God (Books IV & XIX), Aquinas’s Summa Theologica (Part II-II, qq. 90–108)
Key Questions: What did Christendom’s two most influential theologians think about justice, the state, and the law?
Key Texts: Romans 13, 1 Peter 2, Revelation 13
Key Questions: Why, according to Scripture, do governments exist? What role do they play in God’s purposes for the world? How should Christians relate to civil authority?
Key Texts: Psalm 10, Romans 5, Revelation 21
Key Question: What are the main ideas, tensions, and questions that have shaped and occupied Christian political thought throughout history?
Key Text: Genesis 1:27
Key Questions: What does it mean to be made in God’s image? How does God’s command to “exercise dominion” shape the way we think about politics today? In other words: what are people for, and what is God’s vision for our life together?
Exodus 4:29-5:21 - When Things Get Harder, Not Better - Charles Anderson (3/31/2019) by Redeemer Presbyterian Church
Exodus 3:10-17
10 Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.” 11 But Moses said to God, “Who am I that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the children of Israel out of Egypt?” 12 He said, “But I will be with you, and this shall be the sign for you, that I have sent you: when you have brought the people out of Egypt, you shall serve God on this mountain.”
13 Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” 14 God said to Moses, “I am who I am.” And he said, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I am has sent me to you.’” 15 God also said to Moses, “Say this to the people of Israel: ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, and thus I am to be remembered throughout all generations. 16 Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, ‘The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, “I have observed you and what has been done to you in Egypt, 17 and I promise that I will bring you up out of the affliction of Egypt to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
Exodus 2:23-3:10
23 During that long period, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned in their slavery and cried out, and their cry for help because of their slavery went up to God. 24 God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 So God looked on the Israelites and was concerned about them.
3 Now Moses was tending the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. 2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up. 3 So Moses thought, “I will go over and see this strange sight—why the bush does not burn up.”
4 When the Lord saw that he had gone over to look, God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”
And Moses said, “Here I am.”
5 “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.” 6 Then he said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, because he was afraid to look at God.
7 The Lord said, “I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering. 8 So I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites. 9 And now the cry of the Israelites has reached me, and I have seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them. 10 So now, go. I am sending you to Pharaoh to bring my people the Israelites out of Egypt.”
Genesis 12:1-4
12 Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. 2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. 3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
4 So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.