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October 8, 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 provides the foundational building blocks for scientific investigation. On the one hand it acknowledges that there is such a thing as truth. We live in an orderly universe […]

October 6, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome the Kingdom Perspective. Science, by its very nature, is reasonably skeptical. It always considers any claim to knowledge with a “can-you-prove-it” attitude. It doesn’t just accept what we know; it wants to verify how […]

Hebrews 4:9-13 October 4, 2020 preached by Lindsay Whaley Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For just as eyes, when dimmed with age or weakness or by some other defect, unless aided by spectacles, discern nothing distinctly; so, such is our feebleness, unless Scripture guides us in seeking God, we are immediately […]

September 29, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome the Kingdom Perspective. Increasingly, many from all different persuasions are tempted to become mere critics and complainers—trying to find fault and pin blame. However, this is not the roadmap the gospel gives. Jesus’s way […]

selected passages September 27, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God cannot be Word-less, for the Word is God. Here then is a God who could never be anything but communicative, expansive, outgoing. Since God cannot be without this Word, he simply could not ever be […]

September 24, 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 suggests to us that one of the practical ways we can fulfill the biblical command to love our neighbor is through the practice of good science. Science comes […]

September 22, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to the Kingdom Perspective. What exactly is the intersection between science and the Bible? The word science comes from an old Latin term for knowledge. When we speak of “science” we speak of a […]

Matthew 17:1-13, 2 Peter 1:16-18 September 20, 2020 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “When we lose sight of the majesty of God, we invariably fill the gap in our vision with the fable of the majesty of someone else.” ~Jen Wilkin (1969-present), American writer, speaker and […]

September 17, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to the Kingdom Perspective. Death and disease are unavoidable in this fallen world. And whether we like it or not, they are a stark reminder of both our frailty and the frivolity of our way […]

September 15, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to “The Kingdom Perspective.” How should we process the difficulties of our lives? We should process them through the gentleness of Jesus. Many of us are suffering all sorts of anxieties. The good news […]

Jeremiah 9:23-24; John 17:1-3 September 13, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “It’s not what you know. It’s who you know.” ~A Common Proverb “My hands, head, face, legs, hips, hormones, private parts, voice, feet, fingers, feelings, were all made by Him and for Him. Apparently, […]

September 10, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to “The Kingdom Perspective.” What is our purpose as human beings? God designed us to glorify and enjoy Him. We do this by faithfully obeying His commandments. God designed us for Himself and only […]

September 8, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to “The Kingdom Perspective.” God designed us for love and only to the degree we obey that commandment are we actually free. But this requires work. Loving God and others does not come naturally […]

Psalm 45 September 6, 2020 preached by Pastor Chris Audino Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God created the world to provide a spouse and a kingdom for His Son: and the setting up of the kingdom of Christ, and the spiritual marriage of the spouse to Him, is what the whole […]

September 2, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to “The Kingdom Perspective.” What is freedom? Biblically speaking, freedom is defined by our ability to fulfill our design. In other words, we were made for a specific purpose and to the degree that […]

August 31, 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 Americans we tend to think of freedom in what the philosophers call “negative” terms. By that they mean, we define freedom by our ability to do what we […]

Psalm 133 August 30, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “Truth is under attack…. Rare is the person who believes that there are facts that correspond with reality (truths) and…are true for all people in all places and at all times….  [T]his will ultimately lead us […]

August 28, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to “The Kingdom Perspective.” Philosophers speak of two different kinds of freedom. The famed thinker Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) put it this way: 1) Negative Liberty/Freedom FROM and 2) Positive Liberty/Freedom TO. “Negative Liberty” or […]

August 24, 2020 by Pastor Don Willeman 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 do in the face of the coronavirus epidemic? We must be careful to humble ourselves before the cross of Christ, so that we […]

Psalm 133 August 23, 2020 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “God has already laid the only foundation of our fellowship, because God has already bound us together in one body with other Christians in Jesus Christ, long before we entered into common life with them…. [Therefore] […]