by Angela Ward | Sep 9, 2019 | Text Sermons
I need to tell you that being a control freak—trying to overly manage everything in life —is both highly overrated and hopelessly antithetical to the life of grace. I say this to you not from some textbook, but from raw, repeated experience. I also need to tell you...
by Angela Ward | Sep 6, 2019 | Text Sermons
Today Jesus tells the first of two banquet parables to the Pharisees with whom he is eating. After Jesus heals a man, he notices how the Pharisees chose to position themselves in places of honor for the meal. Jesus’s instruction to the Pharisees then, and to us...
by Jacki Boedecker | Aug 27, 2019 | Text Sermons
How many of you are grandparents? We’ve always had a lot of grandparents at Redeemer. For years I’ve heard countless stories about your grandchildren. I’ve seen countless pictures of your grandchildren. I have only one thing to say to you now, and that is, I...
by Angela Ward | Aug 19, 2019 | Text Sermons
In the Name of the Living God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen. We find ourselves today in the twelfth chapter of the Gospel according to St. Luke. Way back in chapter nine, which was appointed about six or so weeks ago, St. Luke tells us that “Jesus set his face to...
by Angela Ward | Aug 13, 2019 | Text Sermons
For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. If someone who was not familiar with Church of the Redeemer came to you and asked you to tell them about Redeemer, what would you say? What if they asked you, “What is Redeemer’s greatest...
by Angela Ward | Aug 7, 2019 | Text Sermons
I need to talk today about just one thing: setbacks. While he was imprisoned in Rome, word of some major setbacks in the Colossian Church reached St. Paul. Those who once so eagerly received the gospel of grace, were turning from it. Just like you and me, the...
