Redemption Church North Mountain: Recent Episodes
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"So the king did not listen to the people..." Israel wanted a king like all the other nations. They got what they wanted. They have a king that refuses to listen to God's commands or the cries of his people. We need a better king.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Kings 12
"For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and this heart was not wholly true to the Lord his God..." Solomon's life reminds us; the essence of sin is simple. Our hearts turn towards idols instead of our Lord.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Kings 11
"I have indeed built you an exalted house, a place for you to dwell in forever." Without the presence of God, the temple is an interesting, historical building. With it, it is the hope for Israel and a foreshadow of the greatest gift we have: the word of God who has dwelt among us.
Speaker: Sandy Mason
"In the eleventh year in the month of Bul, the eighth month, the temple was finished in all its details according to its specifications. He had spent seven years building it." God's temple is no longer an idea. His presence is here to stay.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Kings 6
"I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be." How did Solomon become the wisest man to ever live? He asked God for it.Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Kings 3
Then Joab said, 'Today you have disgraced all your servants who today have saved your life'..." The king has fallen short yet again, and the Lord reminds Him of His purpose, to lead the people of Israel.
Speaker: Aaron Dailey
2 Samuel 19-20
"When King David heard of all these things, he was very angry." David is angry as he watches his family falling apart. But David, like Adam long before him, cannot break out of his own passivity.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2 Samuel 13-18
"But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord." David takes what isn't his. David sins and harms the people he is supposed to lead. David displeases the Lord. Israel needs a better king.
NOTE - This passage contains graphic accounts of sexual sin.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2 Samuel 11-12
"But Mephibosheth your master’s grandson shall always eat at my table." Once an enemy. Now seated with the King. THIS. IS. THE. GOSPEL.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2 Samuel 9
"And David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the Lord..." God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2 Samuel 6-7
"And they anointed David king over Israel." The clash of the two kings has come to an end. But there is still carnage, tears, and pain as Israel enjoys David as her king while longing for their true King.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2 Samuel 3-5
"May the Lord judge between me and you, may the Lord avenge me against you, but my hand shall not be against you." David gives us a picture of the greatest gift that the true king of Israel can give his enemies... forgiveness.
Speaker: Marcus Doe
1 Samuel 24
"And Saul spoke to Jonathan his son and to all his servants, that they should kill David." David is anointed king. David comforts Saul's mental anguish. David kills Goliath. And now... this is his reward.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Samuel 19-22
"The who Lord delivered me from lions and bears will deliver me from this Philistine." David and Goliath. We see what faith looks like, sounds like, and acts like.
1 Samuel 17
Speaker: Josh Watt
"The LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” God's choice for king is here... and nobody sees it coming.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Samuel 16
"And the Lord regretted that he had made Saul king over Israel." Saul's failures are mighty. The king Israel wanted turned out to be just like all the other kings.
Speaker: Anthony Hernandez
1 Sameul 15
"And Samuel said to Saul, 'You have done foolishly. You have not kept the command of the Lord your God...'" Saul fails the Lord and his people and sets the trajectory and tone for all future kings... except one.
1 Samuel 13-14
Speaker: Xavier Salazar
"So all the people went to Gilgal, and there they made Saul king before the Lord in Gilgal." Saul does exactly what the people wanted - he defeated their enemies. He is on track...
1 Samuel 11
Speaker: Josh Watt
"There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people." Israel's desired king is here...
1 Samuel 9-10
Speaker: Josh Watt
"We want a king like the other nations." Israel demands what God knows isn't best. In His wisdom and grace and mercy, He gives them what they want to ultimately show us all what we need.
1 Samuel 8
Speaker: Trae Fraley
"Walk in wisdom towards outsiders making the best use of the time." Are we making the best use of 'the' time? As we close out this wonderful letter, Paul reminds us of what we should be doing.
Speaker: Josh Watt
Colossians 4:2-18
"Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for man." Christians are called to see work as more than just providing - it is worship.
Colossians 3:22-4:1
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Children obey your parents... Fathers, do not provoke your children lest they become discouraged." Paul continues his lessons for the home and he has strong words for the dads.
Colossians 3:20-21
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Wives submit to your husbands. Husbands love your wives." Paul turns his attention to the home. He packs a lot into just a few words for Christian husbands and wives.
Colossians 3:18-19
Speaker: Josh Watt
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Paul challenges us to put off our old selves, and walk in Christ.
Speaker: Cody Lingelbach
Colossians 3:5-17
And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him." Paul challenges us to put off our old selves, and walk in Christ.
Speaker: Jimmy Curley
Colossians 3:5-17
"Set your mind on the things that are above, not on things that are on earth." Paul reminds us that Christians should see everything in this life differently because of Christ.
Colossians 3:1-4
Speaker: Josh Watt
"See to it that noone takes you captive..." Paul warns this young church about the big but sneaky ways churches (and Christians) can get off track.
Speaker: Josh Watt
Colossians 2:6-23
"Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone... that we may present everyone mature in Christ." This is discipleship at its core!
Speaker: Luke Simmons
Colossians 1:24-2:5
"All things were created through him and for him." Who is Jesus? Paul's description of Jesus here in the first chapter of Colossians is one of the most beautiful descriptions of the supremacy of Christ in the entire Bible.
Speaker: Josh Watt
Colossians 1:15-23
"We have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will..." Paul's opening in his letter reveals a beautiful vision of what the church (and our church) should be praying for.
Speaker: Josh Watt
Colossians 1:1-14
"Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved." The gospel is not advice for us to live up to, but news about what Jesus has already done.
Speaker: Josh Watt
1 Corinthians 15:1-8
"Now there were also many other things that Jesus did..." John closes his book with a reminder that we are all just scratching the surface of knowing Him.
Speaker: Anthony Hernandez
John 21:20-25
"This was now the third time that Jesus was revealed to the disciples after he was raised from the dead." Jesus does more than just reveal himself. He restores Peter to himself.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 21:1-19
"Do not disbelieve, but believe." Jesus tells Thomas what we all need to hear. Belief in Jesus is what we need for forgiveness, life, and all things pertaining to life.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 20:19-31
"I have seen the Lord." Mary saw him. The disciples saw him. And many others witnessed the risen Lord. And we are here today preaching the original Easter message. He is risen!
Speaker: Dave Goffeney
John 20:1-18
"Secret and fearful disciple?" Nobody wants that to be the way they follow Jesus. However, we can all relate and we all can learn a lot from Joseph and Nicodemus.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 19:38-42
"It is finished." Jesus' final words. His work accomplished. Our freedom secured.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 19: 28-37
"But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.” Join us as we look at God's vision of a true feast.
Speaker: Josh Watt
Luke 14:12-14
"They came to him, saying, 'Hail, King of the Jews!' and struck him with their hands." The true king is here to be crucified in order to receive his crown.
Speaker: Tyler Johnson
John 19:1-27
"So who do you want me to release?" At the core of the gospel is a message of substitution and freedom. Jesus takes Barabbas' punishment and sets him free. This is the gospel.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 18:38-40
Jesus faces yet another trial centered on this question, "who is the king?" Pilate, like all of us, must face the same question. Jesus is inviting us all into a kingdom not of this world.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 18:28-37
"Again Peter denied it and immediately the rooster began to crow." The one Jesus calls Rock cowers as Jesus' most pressing moment draws near.
Speaker: Josh Watt
John 18:1-27
"Hey, I'm praying for you." This is one of the greatest gifts a friend can give us. And in John 17 this Sunday we experience the reality that Jesus prays for us.
Speaker: Juan Chavez
John 17:20-26
"My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one." The great tension of being a follower of Jesus is at the core of Jesus' prayer for His disciples.
Speaker: Sandy Mason
John 17:6-19
"When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven..." Jesus prayed throughout his ministry and he ends his ministry in prayer.
Speaker: Josh Watt
2021 is coming to a close. It was another year of information overload. Other than more information, is there something we could be looking for this year?
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked..., he sent and killed all male children in Bethlehem." The Christmas story is a story of hope within the pain of a dark and broken world.
Speaker: Josh Watt
"And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him." At the core of the Christmas message is this simple truth - Jesus is the only one worthy to be worshiped.
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel. (which means God with us)" And like that... God, the author, wrote himself into the first Christmas story, and He is with us now and forever.
Speaker: Anthony Hernandez
"The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham." God's promised one is here. His family tree reflects both the beauty of a promise-keeping God and the brokenness that all families share.
Matthew 1:1-17
Speaker: Josh Watt
“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps." We do not know the day or the hour of Jesus' return. He gives us a warning to be awake, and be ready.
Matthew 25:1-13
Speaker: Blake Williams
"Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you." Jesus leaves us with the great gift, the Helper.
John 16:4-15
Speaker: John Crawford
"If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you." Jesus doesn't use many words to describe how the world will view His followers. He boils it down to one: hate.
John 15:18-16:3
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing." These words of Jesus may be the most difficult words for a Christian to fully believe.
John 15:1-17
Speaker: Josh Watt
"And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper..." Jesus continues his final message to His disciples. He knows they can't do it alone, so He promises them that He will send help, the Holy Spirit.
John 14:15-31
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Don't be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me." Jesus is close to leaving. His disciples are feeling the weight of life without him. What does Jesus think they need to hear? Believe.
John 14:1-14
Speaker: Josh Watt
In a world that looks for rescue from our brokenness through human innovation or achievement, we believe that God (the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit working together) saves (does everything, first to last, to bring man to glory) sinners (people guilty, helpless, and powerless before God).
Ephesians 2:1-10
Speaker: Sandy Mason
In a world that is often focused on accumulating wealth and material goods, we believe that we are called to follow Jesus in a path of self-denial and generous giving — of our time, talent, and treasure.
2 Corinthians 9:6-15
Speaker: Josh Watt
In a world that wants to help the poor, but only from a safe and comfortable distance, we believe that we are called to embody Christ’s kingdom through concrete acts of compassion, tangible ministries of mercy, and prophetic witnesses of justice.
Luke 10:25-37
Speaker: Josh Prather
In a world that validates nearly every consensual expression of sexual desire, we believe that God intends sex to be only practiced within marriage and prohibits any sexual activity outside of this one-man and one-woman covenant (pornography, adultery, pre-marital sex, same-sex sexual activity).
Genesis 2:18-25, Revelation 21:1-4
Speaker: Josh Watt
In a world that sees gender as a fluid social construct, we believe that biological sex (male and female) is created by God, and gender identity should be understood and expressed within one’s biological sex.
Matthew 19:1-12
Speaker: Josh Watt
In a world of rampant tribalism, where Christians are often tempted either to conform to secular culture or to seclude from it, we believe that we should engage our world with conviction and civility, truth and grace, steel spines and soft hearts.
2 Peter 3:10
Speaker: Josh Watt
"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another." Discipleship should always be marked primarily by love.
John 13:31-38
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me." Betrayal. Darkness. Confusion. Following Jesus has always involved living in conflicting realities.
John 13:21-30
Speaker: Josh Watt
"If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet." Jesus' display of love made John stop and take an incredible mental note of this interaction.
John 13:1-17
Speaker: Aaron Dailey
"Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him..." And with those words, John gives a summary statement of Jesus' public ministry.
John 12:37-50
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Remember me, O my God, for good." Nehemiah ends in failure. And rightfully so, it ends with a prayer to God to do good in spite of it all.
Nehemiah 13
Speaker: Josh Watt
"We will observe and do all that commandments of the Lord..." It's time to recommit for the people of God. Let's learn from what they committed themselves to.
Nehemiah 10-12
Speaker: Josh Watt
"And we have acted wickedly..." In light of all that God has done, Israel (like us) chose to rebel. The only way forward is confession.
Nehemiah 9
Speaker: Josh Watt
"They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave sense so that the people understood the reading." We are a people of the Book. This is who we are called to be.
Nehemiah 7-8
Speaker: Josh Watt
"But they intended to do me harm." Nehemiah faced strong adversaries. Why? Because he was trying to be faithful to what God had "put into his heart." We, like him, will always face strong opposition.
Nehemiah 6
Speaker: Anthony Hernandez
"Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers." God's people are always called to justice especially among the poor. Nehemiah shows us what it looks like to love the marginalized.
Nehemiah 5
Speaker: Seth Troutt
"And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night." The battle in life for a Christian involves two weapons: prayer and protection.
Nehemiah 4
Speaker: Josh Watt
"If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my father's graves, that I may rebuild it." For Nehemiah, it's time to get to work.
Nehemiah 2-3
Speaker: Josh Watt
"The wall of Jerusalem is broken down and its gates destroyed by fire." God has always been faithful. Nehemiah is proof of our God's covenant faithfulness to us.
Nehemiah 1:1-11
Speaker: Josh Watt
"And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself." Jesus' crown comes through his death and so does the greatest invitation ever given.
John 12:27-36
Speaker: Josh Watt
"Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life." As Jesus gets closer to the cross, his message for us is crystal clear.
Speaker: Jon Demeter