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Have you ever wanted a new day so badly you couldn’t wait? If it’s important enough, you drop everything and get ready for it’s arrival. This week, we see how John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ, prepares the way for Jesus’ arrival. In his example, we see how the gospel both elevates us and humbles us, as we orient our lives around Jesus.…
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If you needed one absolutely critical bit of information to unlock the rest of the story John is writing, it is found in John 1:14-18. Some have called these verses the pinnacle of human thought. For God so loved the world that he moved into the neighborhood and introduced himself to us. Nothing in our lives or in all human history is more glorious…
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John opens his gospel with a bold claim: Jesus of Nazareth is the Son of God. It's a claim that most people find farfetched or unimportant. But John knows this is the case. Join us Sunday as we see how John addresses those tensions and invites us to examine his claim and test out the relevance of the story for ourselves.You can download this week's…
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Life and Light for Restless Hearts - The Gospel of John
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If you need guidance for the most probing, important decisions in your life, where do you turn? From the very first lines, John announces that Jesus is the most trustworthy guide for humanity–both intellectually and experientially. In this series, we will work our way through the theological riches of the Gospel according to John, who is said to be…
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Gospel Expansion - The Redemption Life: How the Gospel Shapes Us
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Throughout this series, we've seen that an encounter with God's grace shapes our lives, and, in turn, shapes our community. But it doesn't stop there. Join us Sunday, as we wrap up our series exploring how a personal encounter with God's grace shapes how we interact with the hurting, the downcast, and those who don't know God's grace in Jesus for t…
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Each of us is on a journey. All day, every day we’re being formed unto someone or something whether we like it or not. This means that being formed towards deep life in Christ will take intentionality. Join us this week, as we lean into how God desires to grow, form, and equip you for all of life.By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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The gospel invites us into a common cause bigger than any one of us. In the New Testament, we see that Jesus’ church is comprised of people with a bunch of different gifts and a bunch of different roles serving together in one mission. This week, discover your place in God’s redemption plan, which gives us all a meaningful role to play.…
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When you experience a life-forming encounter with the gospel of Jesus, it begins to shape your life and, in turn, shapes us as a community. This week, we explore what it looks like to live out the gospel in our relationships. As we practice honesty with one another and show honor toward one another, our spiritual friendships truly come to life.…
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Gospel Belief, Gospel Culture - The Redemption Life: How the Gospel Shapes Us
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You are invited into Life at Redemption to experience deep, meaningful life in Christ. This is what we want for you: a transcendent, ongoing, life-forming encounter with the gospel of Jesus that shapes your life and, in turn, shapes us as a community. You matter to God and you matter to us, so we want to help you find your path to grow and flourish…
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The Lord Our Connector - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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Throughout the summer, we've been journeying through the Psalms of Ascent seeking to find time-tested direction for our own lives as we move towards maturity in our life with God. Join us this week, as wrap up our series exploring Psalm 133 as it points us to a critical, but often neglected, ingredient in our spiritual journey.…
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The Lord Our Confidence - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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As complex people in a confusing world, we find it easy to fluctuate between extremes of pride (I have it all figured out!) and panic (I don’t know anything at all!). This week, Psalm 131 calls us to calm and quiet our own souls, even in the middle of the great mysteries of life.By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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Ever feel out of your depth? Like there is no way out of the hurt, fear, and brokenness? For many of us, it feels like the night will never turn to day and we're stuck in the situation at hand. What do we do? Join us on Sunday as we unpack a reason for hope - not just for today or tomorrow, but for eternity.…
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The abundance of self-help books and life hacks in our world is a testimony to the fact our lives are not quite right and that we desire a better way forward. But like any problem, before we jump to solutions we need to understand what's gone wrong. Join us Sunday as we seek to understand the problem, and, in the process, discover a blueprint for l…
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The Lord Our Builder - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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This week, we see how three great endeavors of human existence — significance, security, and restful sleep — all fall under God’s providence. No matter how diligently we work, how carefully we protect, how intensely we seek a way forward, our striving is meaningless “unless the Lord” shows up for us. But the Lord love to give to his beloved.…
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The Lord Our Joy - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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Laughter is essential to Christian faith. This week, we see the importance of celebrating the goodness God brings in our lives: “the Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.” These gospel memories strengthen us for tougher times that are sure to come, and they increase our faith in God’s promise that joy has the final word in our lives.…
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The Lord Our Shelter - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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Where do you find confidence for your life that is lasting and strong? In contrast to our world of fickle feelings and temporary highs, God's people are confident because they are surrounded by God himself. Join us this weekend, as we learn ancient wisdom for all those who seek to walk with trust in the Lord.…
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The Lord Our Help - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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As we journey through life we will regularly encounter great difficulty, which sometimes leads us to question our faith and doubt God. In these moments we often turn away from God, but when we turn towards God in difficulty and doubt we often find fertile soil for our faith to grow. Join us Sunday as we learn from David's experience how to seek the…
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The Lord Our Keeper - Ascending the Ancient Path: A Journey Through the Psalms of Ascent
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In contrast to our instant-everything world, spiritual growth is a slow, winding journey on the long road to a God-given destination. Christians often use the metaphor of a journey to describe what it’s like to move toward maturity in life with God. In ancient times, the people of God would literally travel together on the road to Jerusalem for wor…
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The Catalyst to Contentment - Chasing Contentment: What Jesus Said About Worry, Money, and Image
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Do you believe you have a Heavenly Father who cares for you but still find yourself anxious and discontent? You're not alone. Because beliefs are important but they aren't enough to change us. As we conclude our series this Sunday, we'll consider Jesus' climatic invitation to bring all of life into alignment with his kingdom as the surprising catal…
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The Secret Place of Contentment - Chasing Contentment: What Jesus Said About Worry, Money, and Image
Where do you go with your worry? Scripture tells us to go to God, “casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7). We find freedom from our striving for significance, image, and external validation by cultivating personal, soul-strengthening life with God. This week, we will explore how we can deepen our relationship wit…
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The Roadblocks to Contentment - Chasing Contentment: What Jesus Said About Worry, Money, and Image
What keeps us from enjoying more contentment in our lives? When we become stuck in a mindset of comparison, criticism, or cynicism, we will find that contentment is impossible to find. In our search to be content in all circumstances, Jesus will point us to Gospel truth and confidence in the care of our Heavenly Father.…
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The Invitation to Contentment - Chasing Contentment: What Jesus Said About Worry, Money, and Image
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Jesus said, “Do not be anxious about your life.” Well, that’s easier said than done! We all feel the pull toward some version of the good life—however we choose to define it. In our own way, we each want to be noticed, respected, seen, secure. Modern technology and social media exploit our impulse to perform, increasing the pressure to play the com…
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Do you view all of life through the lens of grace? This week, we conclude our series looking at the end of Jacob’s life. After all the twists and turns, fits and starts, ups and downs of his life, the mature Jacob becomes a billboard for grace, recognizing God’s care through all that lies behind and rejoicing in God’s blessing for all that lies ahe…
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On the Road Again - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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Have you ever made such a mess in your life that you wondered if God was done with you? After a dark season of spiritual drift in Jacob’s life, God intervenes again. Over and over in Jacob’s journey, God’s relentless grace seeks Jacob out. This week, we are reminded that the Lord pursues us wherever we go, keeps his promises, and invites us to dwel…
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Breaking Bad - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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Do you ever think that small decisions won’t lead to big trouble? It seems like Jacob’s troubles are behind him, now that Laban and Esau are out of the way. But sometimes, a place of comfort can become a place of compromise. In Genesis 34, it all takes a tragic turn as one devastation follows another. Scripture does not hide the ugly side of human …
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What does it look like to have a life-changing encounter with God? It’s an important question, maybe even an intimidating question. This week’s sermon looks at one of the most famous scenes in all the Bible: Jacob wrestling with God. God engages Jacob at the point of his greatest weakness and transforms his life completely while also leaving him li…
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An Easter Sunday message from Jeff Lawrence, Lead Pastor of Redemption Church.By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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Into the Unknown - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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Does life feel like a roller coaster sometimes? Jacob's life certainly did. This week, we'll look at another twist and turn in Jacob's life as he prepares to meet his brother Esau again after 20 years. Jacob's situation will give us an honest picture of the difficulties of life in our world, but it will also point us to hope in the midst of whateve…
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How do the routine frustrations of life teach us to lean on God? This week, we continue our journey with Jacob as he experiences both professional success and business corruption in his partnership with his father-in-law Laban. In our study, we will see how common conflicts of life, though annoying in the moment, can be used by God to shape our fai…
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What do you want from life? We all have heart longings that demand our attention and drive our emotions. This is a normal part of life. But things get messy when we set an inordinate amount of hope on someone or something that can never fulfill us. This week, we watch Jacob’s wives seek to win affection, appreciation, and significance in all the wr…
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Can't Buy Me Love - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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Have you ever set your heart on some great goal only to be disappointed in the end? This week, we see Jacob’s disillusionment in the very moment he thought would be the highlight of his life. Yet even when the trickster gets tricked, God is at work to bring about his good. Join us as we see how our disappointments reveal desires that only find thei…
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Stairway to Heaven - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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What kind of people does God love? It’s an important question that this passage answers for us. To this point in Genesis, we’ve not seen anything admirable about Jacob — not his character, not his morality, not his spirituality. When Jacob is on the run, unsuspecting, and fast asleep, the gate of heaven opens to reveal God’s grace. Jacob was not lo…
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The Masquerade Party - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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To be experts in grace, we must first admit we are experts in sin. Of course, none of us like to talk about our failures, but they’re still there. In some ways, things are complicated because good and evil keep showing up together, side-by-side, in our lives. So, we dress up our good intentions and do the best we can. But what if grace offered us a…
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In the Age of Amazon, we've grown accustomed to having whatever we want delivered to our doorstop in two days or less. And it's not just Amazon. We can order food, stream movies, and communicate with others in an instant. But have you ever wondered what this instant, easy access to everything is doing to our spiritual lives? In week two of our seri…
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The Hunger Games - Relentless Grace: The Life of Jacob
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Most of us believe in God’s grace—at least in theory. But we often struggle to trust it in our everyday lives, so we live with by an internal scoreboard of our successes and failures. Yet over and over again, God uses messy and sinful people (like us) to fulfill his plans. This series follows the life of Jacob as it wanders a twisted path filled wi…
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Deep, Meaningful Expansion - Deep, Meaningful Life
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We wrap up our Deep, Meaningful Life series looking at the call to expand the reach of the gospel in our city and in our world. In Jesus’ plan, each of has a role to play using our unique spiritual gifts, heart, abilities, personality, and experiences to advance the mission of God.By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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This week in our Deep, Meaningful Life series we'll look at the importance of connection to others when it comes to living a life of flourshing. Most of us know we need connection, but genuine connection is often hard to come by in our world where we often feel the need to perform and conform just to fit in. In John 13, though, we see that Jesus' v…
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We kicked off our Deep, Meaningful Life series looking at our personal devotion in Jesus’ call to “follow me.” This week, we see the importance of our personal development. Devotion without development is shallow. We will dive into the ways Jesus developed his disciples to live a deep, meaningful life.…
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Deep, Meaningful Devotion - Deep, Meaningful Life
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The clean calendar of a new year invites us to renew and refocus our lives. This January, we will survey the New Testament Gospels to see how Jesus develops people to flourish as his followers. We are investing the entire month in you: your devotion, your development, your connection, and your expansion of God's love in our world. This is a great t…
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A short reflection on Psalm 1 as we wind down 2023 and usher in 2024.By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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Christmas Eve at Redemption - Watch & See
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Message from Jeff Lawrence on December 24, 2023By Redemption Church in Edmond, OK
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When you read about the birth of Christ, perhaps no one had a front row seat like the Innkeeper. He first told Mary and Joseph that there was no room at the inn, and then he showed them into the courtyard where the animals were kept. This week, we will consider the arrival of Jesus through the eyes of the Innkeeper as we consider the importance of …
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Watch and See: Gabriel and Mary - Watch & See
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Have you ever found God’s plans wild and weird and wonderful, all at the same time? This week, we will see the Christmas story from the surprising perspective of the angel Gabriel. He was the one God chose to tell an innocent teenager, Mary, that she would give birth to a Savior son. Were these words easy for an angel to speak? Were the eyes of the…
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Seven hundred years before the birth of Christ, the prophet Isaiah foretold of the virgin birth of a son to be called Immanuel (which means, "God with us"). This week will look at the story of the birth of Christ through the lens of Joseph. What can we learn about Joseph that might open our eyes to the greater wonder of this familiar Christmas stor…
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Like nothing else in human history, Christmas combines the cosmic marvel of God's salvation plan unfolding in time, and at the same moment, the most intimate and personal of human interactions surrounding the birth of a little boy. Join us this Christmas season as we zoom in for a close up look at Christmas from the perspective of the wisemen, Jose…
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Alive in the Mission of God - Alive Together: A Study of Colossians
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How should Christians relate to those who are outsiders to Christian faith? This is an important question, especially in our complex and often contentious times. In these verses, Paul closes his letter with a call to be fully alive in gospel mission to the world around us as we prayerfully, wisely, and winsomely make the most of every opportunity.…
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New Creations at Home and Work - Alive Together: A Study of Colossians
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How does new life in Christ affect our relationships? This week, we explore the ways in which being made alive together in Christ works out in everyday life — in our family and in our work. When Jesus is at the center of our relational world, it transforms and reorders everything under his leadership.…
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Most of us want to grow spiritually, but how exactly are we supposed to go about it? Over these four weeks, we will seek to answer this question and help you move toward spiritual maturity with Jesus. Join us this weekend as we talk about reasonable and unreasonable expectations for our spiritual growth.…
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Most of us want to grow spiritually, but how exactly are we supposed to go about it? Over these four weeks, we will seek to answer this question and help you move toward spiritual maturity with Jesus. Join us this weekend as we explore how our spiritual renewal leads us to put away our old habits and patterns and put on new attitudes and actions th…
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Growing Up In Christ, Part 2 - Alive Together: A Study of Colossians
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Most of us want to grow spiritually, but how exactly are we supposed to go about it? Over these four weeks, we will seek to answer this question and help you move toward spiritual maturity with Jesus. Join us this weekend as we explore how our spiritual renewal leads us to put away our old habits and patterns and put on new attitudes and actions th…
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