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January 27, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. In the first thousand years of the Church, there is virtually no question who the most influential theologian was. Outside the New Testament itself, the great St. Augustine towers over […]

January 26, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. In ancient Rome, Christians suffered persecution precisely because they did not find their hope and ultimate allegiance in the kingdoms of this world. They refused to say that the political […]

January 25, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. In times of great political division, our thinking tends to become what some sociologists have dubbed “apocalyptic”. We begin to believe that what takes place at this moment—in the next […]

John 1:1-18 January 24, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “For there is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it, If only we’re brave enough to be it.” ~Amanda Gorman, first-ever youth poet laureate at the presidential inauguration “It is not because the […]

January 22, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. What did Jesus do for us in His work of redemption? Well, the Bible uses a number of metaphors, but one of the most vivid is that of buying us out […]

January 21, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. The gospel is good news for sinners. This is both its attraction and its irritation. If I think of myself as a pretty good guy who only needs a little a […]

January 20, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Truth is absolutely critical to any functioning society. Once lies become the public and political norm, then the society becomes a game of thrones. It is power bloc vs. power bloc. […]

January 19, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Living in a pluralistic society is not foreign to the New Testament. The Church was born in such a context. And so, it is not surprising then when the Bible gives […]

January 18, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Cornel West is one of the more interesting public intellectuals of the present moment. Though some of us may not like his politics, you’ve got to be an admirer of his […]

selected passages  January 17, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “I simply argue that the cross be raised again, at the centre of the marketplace, as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a […]

January 15, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. How exactly does the Gospel make us into the kind of people that seek the good of our neighbors instead of the narrowness of our own interests? Why is it that […]

January 14, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Titus was young pastor that the Apostle Paul had stationed on the First century island of Crete. Crete was a place of many challenges because of the unsavoriness of its public […]

January 13, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Over the past hundred years or so Christians in the West have tended to look at the Christian life as steps in a process. Like a manufacturing process, Christians are “made” […]

January 12, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), the 40th president of the United States, was an optimist. His news conferences and even political debates were seasoned with jokes and levity refreshing in the world of […]

January 11, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. Cornel West is well-known for his outspoken views on politics, race and economics. Politically and otherwise, he is left-leaning, to put it mildly. He is not a fan of Western capitalism […]

selected passages  January 10, 2021 preached by Pastor Don Willeman Download Guide for Home Worship Time of Reflection Quotations “The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. ‘One word of truth outweighs the world.’” ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008), novelist and Soviet dissident “I freed thousands of slaves, but I […]

January 8, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective. After Jesus and His apostles, arguably, St. Augustine was the intellectual and theological giant of the first thousand years of the church. Augustine was converted to Christ in the late 300s, […]

January 7, 2021 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 do in the face of the coronavirus epidemic? We should prepare mentally and emotionally for a marathon and not a sprint. […]

January 7, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download 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 be doing in the face of the coronavirus? We should be going out of our way to encourage one another. The […]

January 5, 2021 by Pastor Don Willeman Download Audio or Watch Video Transcript: Hello, this is Pastor Don Willeman of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to a special-edition series of The Kingdom Perspective. How should we respond to the coronavirus threat? We should respond with a fighting faith, because our faith grows stronger in the face of […]