Redemption Church - Augusta, GA

John 21:1-25

As we end John’s Gospel, we ask on question: What now? What do we do with it? What we need most is to see that discipleship, this following Jesus, this being sent in the Holy Spirit… It is not something that we can use our cultural measures of success and failure to understand. It is not like choosing a career path. This life found in Christ alone is not all about focusing on your work, or about figuring out your calling… It is about seeing who Jesus really is, recognizing Him as Lord, ...

John 20:30-31

John 20:1-31

John 18:28-19:16

Sermon notes 👇 Barabbas is seen in all four Gospels. It’s interesting to me that Barabbas’s name literally means “son of the father.” So, when Pilate gave the crowd a choice between Jesus and Barabbas, they choice a violent man - a murderer - whose name meant son of the father. Meanwhile, they were clamoring for the death of the true Son of God - the true Son of the Father. It’s evil that Jesus was betrayed by a close friend. It’s evil that the religious leaders sought to kill Jesus, an...

John 18:1-27

Sermon notes 👇 What part of Jesus as Lord and Savior are you willing to believe? What parts do you struggle with? John 18:1-27 has to do with Jesus’s arrest, but there is another story intertwined with it, and it is that of Peter denying Jesus 3 times…just as Jesus foretold. As these two scenarios are contrasted, we are guided to recognize and confront some of our own areas of disbelief. In the Gospel of John, we’ve seen 7 times where Jesus has claimed particular things about who He is, ...

John 17:1-26

John 16:16-33

John 15:18-16:15

John 15:1-17

John 14:15-31

John 13:36-14:14

John 13:1-35

Sermon notes 👇 Jesus loves His disciples to the uttermost and to the end. Here, Jesus demonstrated His love by washing the disciples feet, so that His disciples could love like He does. He even lavished this love on Judas, who He knew would betray Him. And this is what glorifies God, this is what makes Him known, this is what His Kingdom come looks like…. Loving your friends. Loving your enemies. To the end. To the utmost with His love, because He has lavished it on you and shown you the ...

John 12: 37-50

Sermon notes 👇 Believing in Jesus means you look to Him as your ultimate Source of life. John 12:42-43 says this - “Nevertheless, many even of the authorities believed in him, but for fear of the Pharisees they did not confess it, so that they would not be put out of the synagogue; for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God.” Certain pharisees thought that there was more to gain in the praise of others than the life that comes from Jesus. They we...

John 12: 1-36

Sermon notes 👇 What is life? It’s a hard thing for me to define at times because when talking about life we could be talking about a number of things… One way we can talk about life is from a pure biological perspective, but we can also talk about life as it pertains to our individual existence. The New Testament generally seems to refer to this type of life by using the greek word “bios”… But the Greek word John uses in 20:31 - the word for the life that we find when believing in Jesus a...

Our Aim

Sermon notes 👇 If you hang around Redemption Church long at all, you’ll hear us say this quite a bit - We are striving together to make the real Jesus known, by being honest about our failures, loving the way He loves, serving the city for the good of all, and inviting everybody into the family of God. If you visit our website, the first thing you’ll see is that statement, it is in big letters in our lobby, and it is on a bunch of our handouts. That’s the vision for us. The Bible is just...

Abide in His Love

Sermon notes 👇 …all the noise in our lives...our busyness, our hurry, our filling up the calendar and the day with tasks and meetings, and constantly checking our bank accounts, or calculating for future jobs or relationships or whatever else we find ourselves obsessing over constantly… all that noise is generated from all our doing… And all our doing, all our activity, at its root, usually has something to do with us trying to tell the world who we are. But, who we really are isn’t answe...

Luke 1:46-55 The Magnificat

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon notes 👇 There is a kind of doubt that grows out of disbelief. It is proud and defiant. It looks inward at itself, in bitterness, and says to God “this can’t be true.” Maybe that was Zechariah. But also, there is a doubt that grows out of a humble wonder. It stares upward with awe and says “ I don’t understand God, help me see how this is true.” That was Mary. Tim Keller calls this the difference between dishonest doubt and honest doubt. Dishonest doubt is proud and lazy. It respo...

John 11

Sermon notes👇 This isn’t just the miracle of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead… This is Jesus determining to die in order to give Lazarus life. This is Jesus laying His own life down for His friend. Jesus has said He is the good Shepherd who lays His life down for His sheep and has the power to take His life up again. With this miracle - the miracle of raising the dead - Jesus has set in motion His own act of doing just that, as we see in vs.57; “So from that day on they made plans to ...

John 10

Sermon notes 👇 I’ve not really considered Hanukkah much in the past. But perhaps we should consider it, along with its questions of who is leading us - who we are following. Perhaps we should consider what might be corrupt in our hearts - who or what we are being led by. We are all very different people. Some of us may look to money for satisfaction, some may look to power - political or otherwise. Some may look to accomplishments, while others may look to their reputation - whether tha...

John 9

Sermon notes 👇 In this passage we see Jesus reach into the darkness and offered physical sight to a blind man. But God doesn’t always bring physical healing. We will still, at times, suffer. But in those times of suffering the foundation for our hope is not our theology - it’s our Savior. The foundation is the fact that Jesus stepped into the darkness to bring light. Our hope is not found in understanding why God brings hardship into our lives. Our hope is not found in the belief that so...

John 7:7-9

Sermon notes 👇 …these religious leaders are trying to trap Jesus, and they are doing so at the expense of the woman involved. They don’t care one bit about her or the Old Testament Law. They only care about their power and influence, and the threat to those things that is Jesus. The double-standards around women and sexuality are on full display. The man involved in this supposed act of adultery is not present - he’s been given a free pass. But the religious leaders parade her out expecting J...

John 7-9

Sermon notes 👇 …these religious leaders are trying to trap Jesus, and they are doing so at the expense of the woman involved. They don’t care one bit about her or the Old Testament Law. They only care about their power and influence, and the threat to those things that is Jesus. The double-standards around women and sexuality are on full display. The man involved in this supposed act of adultery is not present - he’s been given a free pass. But the religious leaders parade her out expecting J...

John 7-8

Sermon notes 👇 …these religious leaders are trying to trap Jesus, and they are doing so at the expense of the woman involved. They don’t care one bit about her or the Old Testament Law. They only care about their power and influence, and the threat to those things that is Jesus. The double-standards around women and sexuality are on full display. The man involved in this supposed act of adultery is not present - he’s been given a free pass. But the religious leaders parade her out expecting J...

John 6:1-71

John 5:1-47

John 4:1-42

John 3:22-36

Sermon notes 👇 It is entirely feasible that we may concede that God is the source of all things…and at the same time believe that we are the focus of all things. Not to John? though. To John the Baptist, Jesus is both the source and center of all things. Jesus must increase. I must decrease. To John, the important role that he was given - the last and greatest of the prophets pointing to Jesus - that role wasn’t the reward. Jesus was the reward. Jesus was the focus of it all. We would be...

John 3:1-21

Sermon notes 👇 Jesus reminds Nicodemus of an old story from Israel’s history. Back when Moses was leading God’s people through the wilderness, there was a scene where serpents were biting and killing the people, and it was happening because of their own sin. But God told Moses to make a fiery serpent made of bronze and lift it up on a pole. He said that if anybody was bit by a serpent, all they had to do was look at the fiery serpent and they would be healed. Jesus says that in the same ...

John 2:13-25

Sermon notes👇 …what they came to understand was that Jesus had said and demonstrated Himself to be the new Temple. He was replacing it. He was taking place of the sacrifices. He was replacing the need to build something bigger and better. He was replacing the stone, and the wood, and the metal objects of the Temple that could never make the living God known. Jesus was making God known in the flesh. He was doing what the Temple had only whispered of. He was what it had always pointed to...

John 2:1-12

Sermon notes 👇 This story isn’t just about Jesus turning water into wine. This story is about Jesus showing up and saving the best for last. This story is about God breaking in to do new things and providing far more abundantly than anyone could imagine. This story is about Jesus being the fulfillment of all that God promised, and taking on God’s wrath, so that we don’t have to. If you want to see who Jesus is, then you need to see Him as someone who willingly steps into the gap for us, ...

John 1:19-51

Sermon notes👇 Maybe you aren’t okay with not being sure you have all of who Jesus is figured out. Maybe it scares you to be unsure of whether you have all the answers to all the questions that may come your way…questions from you or from others. Parents - maybe it scares you to think your child might get baptized and not fully understand the gospel. Those are valid concerns that we have to take seriously… But also, John the Baptist, Andrew, Peter, John (the writer of this book), Philip, ...

John 1:1-18

Sermon notes👇 If Jesus was anything less than who John introduces us to in John 1:1-18, then how could we ever believe He has anything for us? But…The Eternal name of Jesus, here in John 1, is “The Word” His name is teaming with life. It is by and from The Word that all life has come to be. If we want to truly live, where else would we go? There is life for us in His name.

Fall Preview

Sermon notes👇 In John 15:13-15, Jesus says “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I've heard from my Father I have made known to you.” Jesus calls His disciples friends, and that same night He was taken into custody, soon to lay down His life for those He calls friends. Jesus calls His followers His friends. You,...

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The Vanity of Wealth and Honor

You Don’t Always Get What You Want

The Wisdom of Recognizing Our Time and Place

Unhappy Business

Intro: All is Vanity

Loving, Serving, and Inviting

Honest About Our Failures

Hebrews 13

Do Not Grow Weary

Easter

By Faith

The Full Assurance of Faith

Christ’s Sacrifice Once for All