Weekly messages from Redemption Church of Houston, TX. Radically inclusive hope. For absolutely anyone. https://redemptionhou.com
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What does a Jesus centered life look like when the past seems to be better than the present? When the church, or our faith, or even God lets us down? There’s a way forward that is wildly subversive and unexpected.
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Zephaniah offers a grand picture of God's judgement and God's love. In the process we find that the heart of God is to make all things new. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.com…
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In the face of yet even more “unprecedented times” where is God? And what does hope and victory look like right now? Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.com…
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How do we trust in God’s goodness in times of chaos when evil seems to always win? What does this look like? It involves us letting go and leaving justice up to God. He declares in no uncertain terms that he is not indifferent to evil and the suffering it causes. Even in the midst of declaring that he will bring judgment on evil, he promises to be …
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In a world complicated by endless demands and distractions, what does God truly require of us? Today we'll dive into Micah 6:6-8 and explore the timeless and transformative call to "do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God." We'll uncover how these basic principles can simplify our spiritual journey and align our lives with God's he…
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When Certainty Doesn't Lead to God
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The book of Jonah tells us of two groups of people: a practiced, knowledgeable Israelite and outsiders who know nothing of Yahweh. It may surprise us to see that throughout this book, knowledge about God does not lead to communion and encounter with God. Through this, God reveals the tension between knowledge about a system of beliefs and trust in …
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What is God’s idea of justice and how does this square with what Jesus is doing in our lives? The prophet Amos gives us insight into the profound depths of injustice and how the path to justice is not as obscure and unfamiliar as we might think. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Rede…
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How do we make sense of a loving God who also judges and seems to punish people? The prophet Joel helps us reimagine all the contours and nuances of this great and terrible day of judgement known as “The Day of the Lord.” Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: …
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Your biggest assumption about God is wrong
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One of our foundational ideas about God is that He is a reciprocating God, a God of karma. Yet the Book of The Twelve leads with Hosea's depiction of a God who stops at nothing to be with us. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.com…
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The often-overlooked story of Hagar is a shocking revelation of God. He finds the social outcast in the wilderness and identifies himself with her—transforming her status to become the woman who named God. Whoever and wherever you are, God sees you and comes to find you.
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The love of God offered to the world in Jesus will mean nothing short of dismantling the powers of darkness. What that looks like may surprise us. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.com
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Does a Jesus centered life mean that wives should submit to their husbands? The answer is surprisingly political, subversive, and down right punk. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.com
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After a weekend of chaos, we are reminded of our great hope. The Spirit of the living God is here, even in the darkness, renewing all things. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionhou.comAv Brandon Alred
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Jesus' resurrection does not magically whisk us away to a better place, nor does it magically transform this world. Jesus' invitation into His radically different story might just mean this is the worst timeline. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/redemptionhou Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedemptionHou Website: https://www.redemptionho…
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How does Jesus resurrect our ideas of what it means to be human? It starts and ends with love.Av Brandon Alred
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A Jesus centered life is far more than morality. Jesus invites us to join in His redemptive work in the ways we physically and bodily show up in the world. And this makes all the differenceAv Brandon Alred
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What does God want me to do with my life?
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You have an important job to do. Being a church goer with church going friends is fine. But what difference does that make to you or to the world? Jesus invitation is an invitation into a risky, exciting and deeply meaningful way of life. Jesus has given you a vocation.Av Brandon Alred
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Easter Sunday | This Tear-Stained Hope
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Easter Sunday | This Tear-Stained HopeThere really is something beyond the relentless violence and meaninglessness of this reality. Something more robust than the ego defending toxic positivity, or thin optimism. A robust hope exists that all things will be well, and that we are deeply loved.Av Brandon Alred
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Passion Sunday | Ephesians 3:13-3:20
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Passion Sunday | Ephesians 3:13-3:20Jesus final week offers the central story and pattern of life for Ephesians’ new creation community.Av Brandon Alred
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Why We Can’t Ditch The Church | Ephesians 2:19-3:13
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Why We Can’t Ditch The Church | Ephesians 2:19-3:13We’re not merely rescued by God, not merely included by God, and not merely recreated by God. We are God’s sacrament to a dying worldAv Brandon Alred
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Inclusion is the fruit of the Spirit | Ephesians 2:11-18
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Inclusion is the fruit of the Spirit | Ephesians 2:11-18God’s divine embrace extends to the far off, yes even you. Once we realize this, we also realize that we are called to be an active part of that embrace, seeing, including, and loving the ‘otherAv Brandon Alred
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You Have Been Created to Co-create | Ephesians 2:8-10
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You have been created to co-create | Ephesians 2:8-10The surprising reality of God reaching down and re-humanizing us has a plot twist. In our re-creation, we are made co-creators by God. We call this Church.Av Brandon Alred
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The Antidote to Shame | Ephesians 2:4-7
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The Antidote to Shame | Ephesians 2:4-7Many of us have come to understand that we need to be saved from God's wrath. But Ephesians tells a starkly different story, one that will deeply transform our sense of self if we will let it be our story.Av Brandon Alred
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Is God In Control | Ephesians 2:1-3
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Is God in Control? | Ephesians 2:1-3Ephesians lays out a dynamic picture of a cosmos in need of God’s re-ordering. This complicates overly simplistic clichés about what Jesus is up to among us. And leaves us with a much richer story to make sense of our lives.Av Brandon Alred
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Spiritual but not Religious | Ephesians 1:15-23
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Spiritual but not Religious | Ephesians 1:15-23Do we need church to believe in and follow Jesus?Av Brandon Alred
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Are we predestined by God? | Ephesians 1:1-6
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Are we predestined by God? | Ephesians 1:1-6Has God predestined us? The confounding opening of Ephesians does not attempt to pose an interesting theological question. Rather, it makes a striking claim, redefining the very core of your existence.Av Brandon Alred
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The Gift of Lament | Psalm 13:1-6We don’t need 2024 to go a certain way for us to be okay. We can experience God’s goodness right where we are. Through the practice of lament, even our deepest pains and doubts can be transformed into resilient joy.Av Todd Parrish
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Love Remains | Ephesians 2:1-10In every situation, love is the better choice.Av Mike Haskew
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Christmas Eve: God as a Baby \\ Zephaniah 3:14-17
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Christmas Eve: God as a Baby \\ Zephaniah 3:14-17God is with us, as a baby. He is ours to hold, enjoy, and adore. Merry Christmas!Av Zack McCoy
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Centering Ourselves in the Coming Messiah| Advent IV \\ Isaiah 61:1-4 & John 1:6-8, 19-28
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Centering Ourselves in the Coming Messiah| Advent IV \\ Isaiah 61:1-4 & John 1:6-8, 19-28In our desperation for all that is broken to be restored, we are tempted to grasp for control and try to bring about this restoration ourselves. When we let go and center ourselves instead in Jesus our coming Messiah, we can experience the love and the safety w…
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The Paradoxical Christian Life | Advent III | Isaiah 40:1-11
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The Paradoxical Christian Life | Advent III | Isaiah 40:1-11The Christian life is one of great paradoxes, and the Advent season is a time that draws us into this very reality. We are a people that simultaneously hold a life of waiting and longing with a life of laboring and preparing. We are fully rooted in the present while also pointing ourselves…
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The Weary World and the Absent God | Advent II \\ Mark 13:24-37
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The Weary World and the Absent God | Advent II \\ Mark 13:24-37Advent asks us to reflect on the darkness of the world in a way that helps us see we have every reason to hope.Av Zack McCoy
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The Weary World in the Shadow of Death | Isaiah 25
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The Weary World in the Shadow of Death | Isaiah 25We live in the dark veil of death. Advent is about watching and waiting for God and all that comes with Him, Justice, peace, and finally the end of death.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table is Crossed Shaped | Luke 9:23-27
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The Table is Crossed Shaped | Luke 9:23-27Jesus table is cross-shaped. And those seated at His table are invited to participate in cross-shaped living. What seems like death, actually offers life.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table: Busyness // Luke 10:38-42
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The Table: Busyness | Luke 10:38-42We live in a world of hustle. No matter what stage of life you are in you are likely busy. But Jesus challenges the idea that being busy is what's best for our humanity.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table: Life with God | John 15:1-11
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The Table: Life with God | John 15:1-11Enjoying God is not meant to be a human luxury, but the heart of what it means to be human. Jesus has some thoughts on how we might begin to experience this enjoyment here and now, even in the busy, broken, places of our lives.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table: Distraction| 1 Peter 1:3-9
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The Table: Distraction | 1 Peter 1:3-9What does it mean to live a Jesus centered life in a world of distraction? I think Jesus' answer is as compelling as it is radical.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table : Be Real | Luke 18:9-17
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The Table : Be Real | Luke 18:9-17Confession is the birthplace of communion. Like most of what Jesus' teaches, the counterintuitive reality of coming to terms with our human limitations can be scary, but in it we find liberation and redemption.Av Brandon Alred
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The Table : Inclusion | Matthew 15:21-28
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The Table : Inclusion | Matthew 15:21-28Jesus table is open to absolutely anyone. Yes really! So how do we as God's people begin to embody Jesus' inclusion.Av Brandon Alred
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A Communal Table Pt. 2: Anti-communion | Genesis 4:8-16
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A Communal Table Pt. 2: Anti-communion | Genesis 4:8-16We were made to love and be loved. Our tendency towards isolation is not merely an unfortunate circumstance, but the very thing God has come to unmake in us.Av Brandon Alred
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A Communal Table Pt. 1 | John 7:37-39
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A Communal Table Pt. 1 | John 7:37-39"Let's do life together!" What does that really mean and what does Jesus have to do with it?Av Brandon Alred
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An Invitation to Jesus' TableJesus invites us into our full humanity, into life. But the invitation comes with some caveatsAv Brandon Alred
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The Center of all Things | Matthew 1:1-17
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The Center of all Things | Matthew 1:1-17Jesus stands at the center of history. But what does that have to do with me?Av Brandon Alred
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We Are Exiles | Isaiah 50:1-11We often wonder why God is so silent, so distant, and why life feels so heavy and hard at times. Yet Isaiah offers us surprising hope in the midst of the desert. More than that, he shows a God who enters the desert with us.Av Brandon Alred
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The Central Thing | 1 & 2 KingsThe narrative story of Israel's Kings is largely a story of failure. But the narrator invites to see behind the scenes and find a God of life at work in a history of death. There is a central invitation to us here.Av Brandon Alred
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Losing my Religion | JonahReligion has wounded, disillusioned, and 'othered' so many of us. The prophet Jonah helps us see how, and to explore the invitation of the God who is bigger than our religion. Where will we go from here?Av Brandon Alred
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Radical Inclusion - RuthThe inclusion of Jesus was not new. In fact Jesus, echoed the inclusion meant to be modeled by God's people.Av Jordan Rhea
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Getting it Right Where it Counts / 2 Samuel
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Getting it Right Where it Counts // 2 SamuelDavid's life is a mess. He is violent, unfaithful, and deceitful. Yet, according to the scriptures there is something about him which makes him a man after God's heart. What in the world are we supposed to learn from a guy like this?Av Brandon Alred
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Whose side is God on? // Joshua 5:13-15
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Whose side is God on? // Joshua 5:13-15It's easy to assume that God being for us makes God against 'them.' But the reality of God's redemptive plan reaches far beyond our tribalism.Av Jordan Rhea
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A Law of Love? DeuteronomyReading the Hebrew Law as modern followers of Jesus often leaves us perplexed and possibly offended. We are ultimately left with the question of what in the world these ancient law codes have to do with us. We're tackling some of these questions together this week.Av Brandon Alred
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