Redeeming Grace Fellowship

Death is the one certainty no one escapes, and no religion, philosophy, or technology has ever reversed it. Every culture in history has developed its own way of coping with mortality: rituals to honor the dead...

How close is the God you worship? Some people imagine Jesus as distant, unmoved by what's happening in their lives. In John 11:28-37, we return to Bethany, where Mary falls at Jesus's feet in grief over her brother...

Every culture has chased the same impossible dream: a way to outlast death. The Fountain of Youth. The Holy Grail. Today it's gene therapy and anti-aging supplements. Humanity has never stopped looking for an escape...

Everyone eventually asks the question this sermon addresses head-on: what happens when someone we love dies, and is there any real hope beyond the grave, or is grief the final word? John 11:17-24 puts that question in...

Why would anyone walk deliberately toward people who'd just tried to kill him? That's the strange choice Jesus makes in John 11:7-16, heading back toward Jerusalem after escaping arrest and execution, because his friend...

Everyone eventually asks this question: if God is good, why do the people he loves still suffer? John 11:1-6 walks through the opening of one of the most searching stories in the Gospel of John: the illness of a man...

A common critique of Christianity is that it's all talk: people who attend church, nod along, and live no differently than anyone else. James 1:22–25 makes the same critique. Merely agreeing with good teaching, even...

What happens when someone finally reads something that exposes what's wrong in their life? In 2 Kings 22:8-20, a young king named Josiah discovers a long-lost copy of God's law buried in his own temple, and when he...

Every soul is known to God before a word is even on the tongue. In Luke 8:4-18, we trace Jesus's teaching that nothing hidden will remain so not our thoughts, our motives, nor the true state of our hearts before him...

Why do people hear the exact same sermon and respond in completely different ways: one moved to lasting change, another unaffected? Jesus' Parable of the Sower (Luke 8:4-15) opens a short study on what it actually means...

Is it arrogant for Jesus to claim to be the Son of God? His opponents thought so, and they were ready to kill him for it. But in John 10:31-42, Jesus doesn't simply assert his identity; he defends it. He points to his...

Most people assume that religion works like this: you make a choice, you maintain that choice through moral effort, and whether you end up in good standing with God depends largely on your consistency. Jesus, in John...

In John 10:14–21, Jesus identifies himself as the Good Shepherd who knows his sheep with the same intimacy that exists between the Father and the Son. This knowledge is not abstract. It drives him to action: he lays...

Have you ever been let down by someone who was supposed to protect you? A leader who disappeared when things got hard, a guide who turned out to be in it for themselves? Jesus speaks directly into that disappointment in...

Jesus makes a claim in John 10 that polite religion finds deeply uncomfortable: every other path to God is theft. Not an alternative route but theft. That's not the language of tolerance, and it wasn't meant to be. This...