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  1. 9H AGO

    Lamentations | Week 2

    Lamentations March 01, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown A healthy spirituality is always an honest spirituality. Healing begins when hidden pain is brought from darkness into the light of God’s presence and the care of a trustworthy community. My eyes fail from weeping, I am in torment within; my heart is poured out on the ground because my people are destroyed, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city. — Lamentations 2:11 What can I say for you? With what can I compare you, Daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you? — Lamentations 2:13 A healthy spirituality is always an honest spirituality. The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. You walls of Daughter Zion, let your tears flow like a river day and night; give yourself no relief, your eyes no rest. Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner “Look, Lord, and consider: Whom have you ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the children they have cared for? Should priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord? “Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young men and young women have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity. — Lamentations 2:18-21 Pray as you can.  Not as you can’t. — John Chapman A healthy spirituality is always an honest spirituality. Laments are prayers that erupt from wounds, burst out of unbearable pain, and bring it to language.  Laments complain, shout, and protest.  They take anger and despair before God and the community.  They grieve.  They argue.  They find fault…Although laments appear disruptive to God’s world, they are acts of fidelity.  In vulnerability and honesty, the cling obstinately to God and demand for God to see, hear, and act. — Kathleen O’ Conner God’s silence in Lamentations leaves wounds festering, open to the air and possibly to healing.  The benefit of exposed wounds is that they become visible and unavoidable.  Left exposed, they require us to see, acknowledge, and attend to them, and then perhaps there can be energy to attend to the wounds of the world. — Kathleen O’ Conner A healthy spirituality is always an honest spirituality. For you were once in darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light (for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth) and find out what pleases the Lord. Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them. It is shameful even to mention what the disobedient do in secret. But everything exposed by the light becomes visible—and everything that is illuminated becomes a light. — Ephesians 5:8-12 It is easier to let God heal my sinfulness than it is to let him heal my woundedness. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. John 1:5 A healthy spirituality is always an honest spirituality. Healing begins when hidden pain is brought from darkness into the light of God’s presence and the care of a trustworthy community.

    29 min

  2. FEB 23

    Lamentations | Week 1

    Lamentations February 22, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Daniel Bunn LAMENTATIONS 1:1-7 Babylonians destroyed Jerusalem (587 B.C.) Tisha B'Av Lamentations is meant to be felt. "How?" Lamentations names the pain and looks it in the face. When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long (Psalm 32:3) What is hidden cannot be healed. How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? (Psalm 13:1) Lamentations invites us to name our pain before God. Truthfulness is not the absence of faith. Truthfulness requires deep faith. Where are you pretending everything is fine? What would it look like to be a little more honest? REVELATION 21:1-4

    25 min

  3. FEB 16

    Teach Us To Pray | Week 3

    Teach Us To Pray February 15, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. — Matthew 7:7-12 The aim is not to get God in on what I think he should be doing. Rather, the aim of prayer is to get us in on what God is doing, become aware of it, join it, and enjoy the fruit of participation. —Tyler Staton A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. They gathered in such large numbers that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. Some men came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, carried by four of them. Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus by digging through it and then lowered the mat the man was lying on. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralyzed man, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” — Mark 2:1-5 A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened. — Exodus 32:14 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. — Numbers 23:19 Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. Romans 8:33-34

    31 min

  4. FEB 8

    Teach Us To Pray | Week 2

    Teach Us To Pray February 08, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! — Matthew 7:7-11 (Luke 11:9-13) 3 Reasons for Unanswered Prayers: Not “no” but “not yet”Complex GoodsEvil ExistsGod does not delay to give what he has promised; rather, by delaying he stretches desire. By stretching desire he enlarges the soul. By enlarging the soul he makes it capable of receiving what he is preparing to give. — Augustine God always gives us just what we need, himself.  He even works to stretch our hearts so that we are able to receive what he gives. Safety and security are two idols we let go unchecked in the American church. “Safe? ... Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the King, I tell you” — C.S. Lewis Gracious Father, you are the God of peace, the sovereign King who gathers one Kingdom from many nations and calls us to belong wholly to you and to one another; Teach us to be with you before we strive to do for you. Quiet our anxious hearts, loosen our grip on lesser allegiances, and form in us the mind of Christ. Where opinions differ, give us charity. Where fears rise, give us trust. Where we are tempted to divide, make us one. As we seek the future of Redeemer Church, guide us by your Spirit. Grant us wisdom in discernment, patience with one another, and courage to follow wherever you lead.   Make us a praying people before we are a decisive people, that our life together may reflect the peace and unity of your Kingdom. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

    31 min

  5. FEB 2

    Teach Us To Pray | Week 1

    Teach Us To Pray February 01, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown Since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus. — Luke 1:3 As Jesus and his disciples were on their way, he came to a village where a woman named Martha opened her home to him. She had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what he said. But Martha was distracted by all the preparations that had to be made. She came to him and asked, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do the work by myself? Tell her to help me!” “Martha, Martha,” the Lord answered, “you are worried and upset about many things, but few things are needed—or indeed only one. Mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.” — Luke 10:38-42 The Good Samaritan shows us what love does. Mary reminds us where love begins. Prayer teaches us how to stay there. “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” — Luke 11:1 One day Jesus was praying in a certain place.  When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” — Luke 11:1 “When you pray, say: Father…” — Luke 11:2 Prayer is about presence before it’s about anything else.  Prayer doesn’t begin with outcomes.  Prayer is the free choice to be with the Father, to prefer his company.  In our desire for certain outcomes or our confusion over not getting certain outcomes, we are tempted to begin there.  But we cannot brush past simply being with the Father and arrive at anything close to the sort of prayer Jesus won back for us.  Prayer starts with presence. — Tyler Staton Gracious Father, you are the God of peace, the sovereign King who gathers one Kingdom from many nations and calls us to belong wholly to you and to one another; Teach us to be with you before we strive to do for you. Quiet our anxious hearts, loosen our grip on lesser allegiances, and form in us the mind of Christ. Where opinions differ, give us charity. Where fears rise, give us trust. Where we are tempted to divide, make us one. As we seek the future of Redeemer Church, guide us by your Spirit. Grant us wisdom in discernment, patience with one another, and courage to follow wherever you lead.   Make us a praying people before we are a decisive people, that our life together may reflect the peace and unity of your Kingdom. Through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, now and forever. Amen.

    31 min

  6. JAN 18

    My Witnesses | Week 3

    My Witnesses January 18, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Michael White The golden rule Matthew 7:12   Intro: “We are an underwear family” I need you to get on board with this. It’s the done thing in our family I would assume that we are all underwear people, if not, please don’t tell me.   Families have characteristics.  Ways that they do things,  things they don’t do,  values they have.    When you think about your family, now or in the past, what things characterized your family? Maybe you’re a camping family Or maybe you’re a “we watch a movie on Friday night family” Maybe you’re a “we say grace even in restaurants family”   There are things that you do, that show what your family values. “Remember who you are!” You’ve been given an identity. A set of values You’re not just you, you represent a group of people.   Super familiar verse But I want to put it into its context and that’s going to add a layer to its meaning.   Scripture Matthew 7:12 12 So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.   Context is king This comes at the end of the sermon on the mount, Matthew 5-7 That’s important What’s the sermon on the mount? Riff Jesus greatest concentrated teaching Important because he starts out with this. He is defining what his purpose is Showing what is important to him For the next 3 years he lives this out   When we get down to our verse…7:12    Doesn’t really feel related to vv. 7-11.   7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. 9 “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? 11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!  Then the golden rule comes and it doesn’t seem to follow. It goes back to 5:17  17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.  That’s the overall rubric,  What does it look like to fulfill the law and prophets?   Jesus takes 2 chapters to illustrate how you do that. then it culminates in the Golden rule The law and the prophets are fulfilled in how we treat other people. That’s what the 2 chapters of the sermon on the mount are all about, how Jesus’ disciples should relate to other people. The proof of a relationship with Jesus is a changed heart that results in changed behavior toward other people Need to understand  This is a verse about Christian community, the church It’s not about being an individual.   It does affect individual behavior, but in the sense of how we as individuals fit into the group. This is about how the family behaves. Just like your family of origin has certain characteristics, The Golden rule characterizes the family of God This is how the family behaves as God fulfills his plan and purpose for the world. The movement of God from the moment sin entered into the world Until the point where evil is finally defeated once and for all Story arc that God is making a new creation.   The church.   We are living into God’s plan and purpose and  we do that by acting like the family of God. It’s fundamentally about redemption. As people come to know the good news of Jesus,  God is gathering them/us together, creating a new people, a new community of people who are living into the reality of God’s new creation.   It’s like this taste of heaven. Here’s where the Golden Rule comes in Those people are pointing to a world where only good is done to each other.   Can you Imagine what that would be like? People wouldn’t hurt each other No one would say terrible things to each other There wouldn’t be any war No one would need to be afraid It sounds like heaven… This is the profound point. This is the answer to the line of the Lord’s Prayer Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven A world where only good is done to each other That’s the kingdom of God.  That’s what we point to. That’s how disciples of Jesus live Do to others what you would have them do to you. This is the done thing.   This is how the family behaves.   This is how the new community reflects the character of God. This is how we live into the day when God’s rule is complete. That’s what the Golden rule is all about The Golden Rule in history Nobody really knows how it became known as the “Golden Rule”   But the story I like best is that the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander 222-35, was so impressed by the saying that he had it inscribed in gold on the wall of his chamber.   Severus Alexander   You’ve probably never heard of him, but he has a very famous descendent Severus Snape The Golden Rule isn’t original to Jesus. It exists in Judaism, particularly in Rabbi Hillel,  I’d show you a photo of him, but he doesn’t have any famous relatives and many other places,  Here’s the thing: it is almost always in the negative.   Don’t do to other people what you don’t want them to do to you. That’s a great rule.  Would you like it if someone did that to you? No?  Then don’t do that to them. Cutting people off on the freeway. Jesus takes that rule and does something interesting with it. Jesus puts it in the positive Takes it away from being passive As long as your not doing anything bad, you’re doing fine. By putting it in the positive makes it more demanding. Therefore everything you would like others to do to you, your yourselves be doing to them. It’s proactive “Hey, here’s this person in this situation.”   If I was in that situation, I would want someone to do this for me. You can’t meet everyone’s need.   It’s impossible.   But don’t use that as an out. There will be people God places in your field of vision Me in the supermarket You look lost can I help you. In the negative way of understanding the rule, he didn’t have to do that.   In the positive sense that Jesus introduces, this was a great way. It has little implications and it has huge implications. Maybe it means you open the door for someone who is caring an armful of packages. Maybe you stop and help someone who looks like they need help. Maybe you grant charitable assumptions instead of assuming the worst. Maybe you put yourself into the position of people who are affected by policies and procedures that don’t affect you and ask yourself, what would I want someone to do for me if I was in that situation? Water at Chautauqua We take the initiative to love people. It doesn’t say treat others as they treat you. We are called to live by a higher standard, a greater righteousness, a deeper ethic than  “pay each other back in kind” quid pro quo Feels like there could be this complex morality. But Jesus boils down to something super simple. There are 622 laws in the Old Testament All the teaching of the sermon on the mount is caught up in this summary.  This one thing… Whatever you would like other people to do to you be doing that to other people.   Raises issues of identity Whose family do you belong to? Maybe the more revealing question is: Whose family do you look like?   What are the things that characterize your life? Some of us, need to decide which family we want to belong to. Others of us, need to decide that we are going to be more serious about reflecting the family priorities. You can’t just dabble with Jesus In the public square there are people saying Jesusy things but whose lives don’t reflect anything of the Jesus that I know. What family are you reflecting? Whose family do you look like? Just because you show up at church, doesn’t mean that you are reflecting God’s family. The biggest problem to be overcome?  Our anger Inside and outside the church. We are all Jesusy until something happens that makes us mad or that we don’t like. Sajan and the capital fund. We grow.  We get mentored.  We watch other people live The longer you hang out with the family, the more you figure out what the done thing is. Which means that some us need to make sure that we are setting a good example and all of us need to continue to grow into the image and likeness of Jesus This happened in our family. Brian   3 criteria I’m a girl dad He’s a guy.   He contacts his parents 3 times a year. I have heard from Rachel and Allie Our family is not like that. Brian has learned That’s the done thing in our family I’m sure his parents don’t know he was deployed They’ll have three kids But he has learned what our family looks like We sink our roots in deeply into the family and we participate with the Holy Spirit in the creation of the new community I am a part of a group.   I am not just me.   I am an extension of us. All about relationships.   How we treat each other. How we love God, by loving others How does this help you make decisions? The Golden Rule is like a compass.   It doesn’t address every single situation.   But, it points you in the right direction. It might not tell you how long you need to do something or what the exact process should be, but it helps you find the right path. Friend is dealing with a difficult employee.   They do just the bare minimum to get by.   They are passive aggressive.   They are not actively undermining things. They seem to know just where the line is and they push it but don’t cross it. Before you put your management hat on.   It’s complicated.   And I haven’t told you the whole story. The Golden Rule doesn’t tell you when to involve HR, or when to start a performance improvement plan.  But it does tell you what your posture should be as you approach the situ

    33 min

  7. JAN 12

    My Witnesses | Week 2

    My Witnesses January 11, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Peter Mutabazi

    37 min

  8. JAN 4

    My Witnesses | Week 1

    My Witnesses January 04, 2026 Teacher: Pastor Dave Brown But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. —Acts 1:8 Witnesses = Martyrs Our proclamation of the Good News must flow out of a life transformed by that Good News. The church is the bearer to all the nations of a gospel that announces the kingdom, the reign, and the sovereignty of God.  It calls men and women to repent of their false loyalty to other powers, to become believers in the one true sovereignty, and so to become corporately a sign, instrument, and foretaste of that sovereignty of the one true and living God over all nature, all nations, and all human lives.  It is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God’s kingship. — Leslie Newbigin “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’ “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’ “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ — Matthew 25:34-40 The translation of dikaiosyne poses problems, however, at least in English.  It can refer to justification, or to righteousness, or to justice.  Most English New Testament translations reveal a bias toward the second meaning…To find a correct translation is, therefore, crucial.  A wrong translation may in fact prove the aptness of the Italian saying…”The translation is a traitor!”  Perhaps, however, we should not allow ourselves to choose between “righteousness” and “justice” when seeking for the meaning of dikaiosyne.  Our problem may, rather, lie in the fact that the English language is unable to embrace the wide scope of dikaiosyne in one word.  Maybe, then, we should translate it with “justice-righteousness,” in an attempt to hold on to both dimensions. — David Bosch Instead of “righteousness,” we should think in terms of “acting-rightly” for us and our neighbors. 2 Parts to “acting-rightly” Spirituality — Loving GodMissions — Loving our neighborThe goal of mission is to ensure that every person, regardless of ethnic or social-economic status, experiences the fullness of the Kingdom of God here and now. When I think of words to describe deeply formed mission, I have in mind such words as patience, empathy, curiosity, discernment, incarnation, non coercive, invitational, justice, and service.  We need these words to combat a way of doing mission that is is often impatient, transactional, coercive, obtrusive, judgmental, disembodied, and anxious. — Rich Villodas

    25 min
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    Redeemer Church
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