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December 4, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The Christian knows that this world will never be perfected until Jesus returns. Nonetheless, we do believe that the church should have a positive/redemptive effect on society in the here-and-now. […]

December 2, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Sometimes we can struggle to have patience with the weakness we see in others. This impatience speaks not to our superiority but to our sin. God is patient with the […]

December 1, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Sometimes we misunderstand the shorthand formula of our salvation, namely that we are “saved by faith”. The truth is we are not saved “by faith”. Rather we are saved by […]

November 30, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Your faith in Christ is ultimately more determinative than your fears. Just because you are terrified when you ride in an airplane, doesn’t mean that you’ll fail to get to […]

selected passages (NASB) November 29, 2020 preached by Pastor Doug Cooper Download Home Worship Guide Time of Reflection Quotations “It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant […]

November 26, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Video or Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. What should we as a church do in the face of the coronavirus? We should give thanks! The Scripture commands us: “give thanks in […]

November 25, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear is a very interesting emotion. Unlike other emotions it actually grows larger the farther we run from it, but smaller the closer we move towards it. But how are […]

November 24, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear is a mutually exclusive principle. To the degree that you fear one thing, to that same degree you tend not to fear another. In other words, you may be […]

November 23, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. As modern Western people, we tend to define freedom as the ability to do what we please—what is right in our own eyes. However, I’d like to suggest that true […]

selected passages November 22, 2020 preached by Robert Moore Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For my name’s sake I defer my anger; for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you, that I may not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have […]

November 20, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The early church was distinctive for many reasons, but one of the most powerful was the quality of loving community found in it. Tertullian, the 3rd century church leader, wrote […]

November 19, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. In His famous Sermon on the Mount, Jesus tells us that the church is to be a “city on a hill” (Matthew 5:14). By this He means that we are […]

November 18, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. We tend to be fearful of difficult circumstances and trouble. It has been my experience that underneath this fear is not merely a revulsion to hard things, but a faulty […]

November 17, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear is a monster that must be confronted. In the Psalms King David is constantly confronting his fear by bringing it into the presence of God. Listen to his prayer […]

November 16, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Remember that great line from that classic 1980’s film The Princess Bride? “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.” Now, we can be assured that the […]

selected passages from Ephesians 1 & 2 November 15, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The grace of God is love freely shown towards guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit. It is God showing goodness to persons who deserve […]

November 13, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear wants to control us, so that we are unable to obey God and love others. Therefore, fear must be confronted. The only way you can defeat fear is to […]

November 12, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Classical Christianity suffers no illusions that this world will ever be perfected by any human effort. Christians have no reason to fall prey to naïve utopian fantasies. Nonetheless, Classical Christianity […]

November 10, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear is a controlling principle. Its tactical maneuver is to dominate. And the greater the fear, the greater the ability to dominate. It does this by promising us safety and […]

November 9, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Fear is a very powerful and controlling emotion. It is for this reason that many use fear to control others. For example, if an advertiser can make people fearful, they […]