Our Redeemer Presbyterian Church: Recent Episodes
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Are you increasingly governed by God’s word in your life? To help understand the life of Jesus and his teachings he often used stories and it is through these stories, and others that we can learn how to apply his teachings to our lives. Join guest preacher, Tommy Martin, as he shares his love of the Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis and encourages us to live whole heartedly to:
Remember God’s Word
Believe God’s Word
Nothing Else Matters
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Join guest pastor, Jim Deal of Faith Presbyterian Church in East Wenatchee as he walks us through the five stages of grief the disciples go through after Jesus’s death paralleled by the life of the main character in the movie, Up during the time of Pentecost.
Do you pray for our pastor? Do you pray for the protection of him and his family? Do you pray for him to be empowered by the Holy Spirit, that he would know God’s will and do it? Do you pray he would be faithful in his daily walk with Christ, reading his bible as a love letter and not just a text book? Do you pray he will resist temptation, strive to make his ministry Christ centered, have a heart for the lost , handle opposition and criticism well, and ultimately give God the glory?
Join guest speaker, Tommy Martin, as he encourages us to pray for our pastor.
People are often more passionate and loyal to their political party then to Christ. But as Christians we are not called to follow political parties, but rather to follow Christ. Join Mark as he shares the message from Paul’s words in Romans 13 in light of John’s words of Revelation 13.
How do you look at life? This is often referred to as your worldview. Do you see life immersed in the mercies of God transforming all you do? This is what Romans chapter 12 is asking us to do. Paul is telling us that as we move from Romans 1-11 into chapter 12 we need to be continually adjusting our lens prescription so that we see everything in the light of God’s mercies displayed in Jesus Christ. Join Pastor Mark as he encourages us to respond to God’s mercies by loving Christ back while living reaching out to those around us in the name of Jesus Christ.
Join Pastor Mark as he continues to walk us through Romans. This week we look at chapters 9-11 where Paul makes it very clear that God’s word has not failed the Jews. That our salvation story is laden with Jewish footprints and that we MUST know that He has not rejected his people or written them out of history’s salvation story. But rather it is a story about a holy stump with deep roots with both Jewish and Gentile branches grafted into it, with a shared message for all of us. Listen to the message of this holy stump that has “bound everyone over to disobedience (1:18-3:20) so that He may have mercy on them ALL.”
Join Pastor Mark as he shares the Gospel of Christ from John 13:1-17 and leads us in moments of silent meditation on this passage. Note, the recording will go silent for moments of time as you are called to reflect on what Mark is saying.
Join Mark as he invites us to allow the scriptures to fill our imaginations with the confusion of Easter morning as he reflects on the resurrection strangeness in the gospel story and pushes us to find ourselves alongside the disciples, declaring Jesus Christ is Lord of all.
Join Pastor Mark as he discusses the triumphal entry of Christ into Jerusalem and the Zebedee brothers, James and John as he asks if you’ll be a donkey fetcher for Christ when he calls you to serve alongside him as a servant.
The Bible often connects our Triune God with the image of fire. From Moses meeting God in the burning bush that is not consumed. The Israelites being led through the wilderness by a pillar of fire. Elijah soaking the altar and the wood with water, praying and the fire that came down and consumes it, to the holy spirit image of fire that came at Pentecost and ignites our faith and redirects our hearts towards Christ.
In Chapter 8 of Romans is the bellowed passage for Christ followers for loved ones to gather around a family member facing dark and difficult times in their life and death. Join Pastor Mark as he shares the word to us from Romans 8 on the Spirit that longs to settle in our lives, ignite us, and create beauty with its holy fire.
Romans 7 is a difficult chapter. With a wide variety of opinions on its meanings, it makes it difficult for a pastor to stand before her or his congregation and preach confidently. But join Mark as he shares the power of sin, a power outside of us that causes us to do what we do not want to do. A power that tries to separate us from God.
Slavery, is throughout our text of Romans 6. There is a juxtaposition of slavery throughout this passage. We are NO LONGER to be slaves of sin as baptized Christ followers (6). We can offer ourselves as slaves (16) in obedience to the “Master Sin’s” demands, & in doing so, prove our bondage to SIN. But Christ Followers must look in a different direction. Our gaze must be elsewhere. Paul proclaims, “be slaves to righteousness/faithfulness” (18). We are to be SLAVES of God (22). But we will be slaves one way or the other.
There was voluntary slavery in the ancient world. There was forced slavery because of war. But there was also a choosing to be a slave. One author said, “People in dire poverty could offer themselves as slaves to someone simply to be fed and housed.”
The Jewish people reading this letter would pick up Paul’s Exodus-Passover language. Our non-Jewishness misses this. But Paul is telling us that the old testament narrative of Adam and Abraham and Jesus Messiah’s coming is ONE story. The Israelites were SLAVES to Egyptian POWER. They walked through the waters of the Red Sea to their salvation. “The LORD took Israel in hand with his powerful hand, Split the Red Sea right in half . . . Your path led through the sea, your way through the mighty waters, though your footprints were not seen. You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses & Aaron.” Paul (I Cor. 10:2) speaks of the Israelites being baptized (water) into Moses in the cloud and the sea. Baptized Christians have left the old world of Egyptian slavery and walked through the waters of baptism into freedom to obedience in Christ. We and Israel are on the pilgrims way learning to live obediently to a new master.
Join Mark as he leads us through Romans 6 and our ties to the freedom of slavery to sin thanks to Jesus’s death and resurrection.
Do you believe God to be weaker than Adam? Adam’s sin affected EVERYTHING in the world. Every person, plant, animal, ameba, and proton in the universe was affected by Adam’s sin. So, do you believe in the immensity of Christ’s death on the cross, that his death covered for all of our sins? That his death also affected EVERYTHING in the world?
Where is the line between listening and doing? When do we act upon what we see in front of us? James reminds people to be quick to listen and slow to speak or be angry. So when can I turn people away from sin if I know I need to give them time, to be heard and cared for? Am I truly listening to them and their needs? Join guest speaker, Frank Moore as he asks these questions and more.
Romans 4
Abraham is the father of all who believe, both Jew and Gentile. Even though he wasn’t circumcised and he didn’t know God’s law before he believed God’s promise, he was credited with righteousness. This is because Abraham simply believed the promise, the gift, the voice of God. He did not obey himself into belief. He did not work himself into acceptance. He believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. Join Pastor Mark in our series on Romans as he calls us to believe afresh God’s voice and have faith.
Join Pastor Mark as he starts a new sermon series on the book of Romans that will be weekly between now and May with a word for each week. This week’s word is “Ashamed.”
So, what are you ashamed of? What causes you to cringe when a certain topic is brought up in a group?
Join guest speaker, Frank Moore, as he asks us what our “no” is or, what is the cost of our discipleship. What are each one of us willing to “give” as a sacrifice to follow Christ. Is our limit the same as what Christ would ask of us, or does he ask us to go further and are you willing to give him what he asks?
“When he appeared, our soul felt its worth.” This line from “O Holy Night” shows how our understanding of God, Jesus, and others changes in the moment Christ appeared as a baby in a manger. In the moment when we find Christ, our souls know their true worth.
Join guest preacher, Reverend Curt McFarland from the ECO church in Yakima as he shares how returning home to Christ we find our true worth.
Pushing back the darkness that God does not dwell inside our universe is what Christmas Eve is all about. We all gather to swear, damn, and curse back the darkness of enlightenment that tells us there is nothing outside the frame of this world. That there is no God that still speaks. We all struggle and fight to push back the darkness of doubt, unbelief, and meaninglessness. Join Pastor Mark in his Christmas Eve message that is surrounded by the image of Carvaggio’s 1609 painting of the nativity and see if you are looking low enough to find the God that became flesh and dwelt among us and pushed back the darkness with His light.
Join Pastor Mark as he speaks as Joseph to correct our thinking on who he was as a Jewish man, husband, father, and disciple of Christ.
As we enter the Christmas season we read the stories of the nativity. But over the years these stories become so common that sometimes we miss details or even change the facts of the story. Join Pastor Mark on this three sermon series of encouraging us to allow our eyes, ears, and hearts to be open to a rethinking of these common stories so that we see the Christmas advent story for its true beauty, truth, and power.