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Romans 1:18-32, 12:18-21 November 8, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Love is an act of the will…that leads to action on behalf of its object.” ~Voddie Baucham, Dean of Theology at African Christian University (Zambia) “A god who is all love, all grace, all mercy, […]

November 6, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The idea of “fearing God” seems not only unpalatable to us as modern people, but also wrong. We object: “We shouldn’t fear anyone! We should be motivated by love, not […]

November 2, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The central claim of Christianity—namely that Jesus is Lord—does not remove us from the affairs of this world; we are still citizens of the United States (or whatever land we […]

1 John 4:7-14, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 November 1, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “…service and self-giving are themselves the highest of divine attributes.” ~C.F.D. Moule (1908-2007), biblical scholar and Cambridge professor “Love was compressed for all history in that lonely figure on the cross, who said […]

October 29, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. For us as modern-day thinkers, one of strangest commands in the Bible is the command to “fear the Lord”. Everywhere in Scripture the fear of God is presented as the […]

October 28, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Is fear good or bad? Well, that just depends on the context. The question is not so much whether we fear, but what drives our fears; and whether any given […]

October 27, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. What do you fear? What are you afraid of? Fear is a very controlling emotion. But the goodness of badness of any given fear is not so much the fear […]

John 14:21 & Psalm 139 October 25, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.” “We must never rest until everything inside us worships God.” ~A.W. Tozer […]

October 26, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The Old Testament book of Judges has some of the ugliest stories in all the Bible. Why is this the case? Well, the book of Judges chronicles the cycle of […]

October 23, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. We are easily tempted to both judge others and live under the judgment of others. This dynamic is toxic both to us and to our relationships with one another. However, […]

October 22, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Representative John Lewis was a legend in his own time and one of the most important civil rights leaders of ours. As a young man, he led the Student Nonviolent […]

October 21, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. In one very profound sense Christians do not live for this world. And, because of that, in very profound sense that’s the best possible thing for this world. What do […]

October 20, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. At our cultural moment we are in desperate need of optimism, and there is no better place to turn for that than Christianity. Christianity is an optimistic religion. Now, don’t […]

October 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 the midst of the Nazi crisis, English Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared, “A pessimist sees calamity in every opportunity, but an optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity.” Though […]

selected passages October 18, 2020 preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God only knows, God makes his plan, The information’s unavailable to the mortal man. We work our jobs collect our pay, Believe were gliding down the highway, When in fact were slip sliding away.” ~Paul Simon, […]

October 16, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. We were made by God and for God. Therefore, our souls are slaves to the degree that we live for anything other than Him. To the degree that our souls […]

October 15, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The Bible tells us that true freedom is the ability to love God and obey His law. This only makes sense. If we were made by God and for God, […]

October 14, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to the Kingdom Perspective. As Americans we love our freedom. However, ill-defined freedom can lead us to a very insidious form of slavery. What do I mean? As Americans, we tend to define freedom […]

October 13, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to the Kingdom Perspective. Science is God’s gift to humanity. It is a particular form of knowledge that is intuitive to us as those made in the image of God. That’s why, historically, modern science […]

Jeremiah 32:36-41, 33-14-26 October 11, 2020 preached by Scott Sottosanti Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Well, I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got  some difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter with me now. Because I’ve been to the mountaintop. And I don’t mind. Like anybody, I would like […]