Redemption City Church - Boston

Jesus and Politics

October 29, 2019 12:53 - 53 minutes - 49.2 MB

We are living in one of the most divisive times of our country and while the country seems to be fracturing, the church has to remain a place not defined by the politics of the day but by hope in God who restores and renews His people. Still, how do we make sense of the political madness we find ourselves in and what is the way forward for the church?

Jesus, Gender, and the Transgender Community

October 08, 2019 14:31 - 1 hour - 63.4 MB

What is gender? Is it a social construct? What is transgender? What does the Bible actually say about these issues? How can the gospel be good news for someone experiencing gender dysphoria? How should the church respond?

Jesus and the Gay Community

October 01, 2019 14:36 - 1 hour - 79.5 MB

Homosexuality. A topic that for many years was suppressed is now being discussed at length from the church to coffee shops and everywhere in between. How should we as the church regard the topic of homosexuality? What does the Bible say about gay marriage? Is God anti-gay? The question of homosexuality defies simple answers, so we refuse to give thin answers to thick questions.

Jesus and Sexual Formation

September 24, 2019 15:37 - 1 hour - 60.8 MB

Our teaching from Matthew 5 is on how sexuality relates to our discipleship. Are we forming or deforming our hearts through how we use our bodies? In this teaching we’re going to talk about sex, porn, masturbation, dating apps, dating, pre-marital sex, living together, and much more.

Jesus and Singleness

September 17, 2019 12:30 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

For the first time in American history there are more single people in this generation than there are married people. How then does one live out their singleness in a culture that is both obsessed and opposed to marriage at the same time? How does one deal with the anxiety singleness can produce? The Controversial Jesus teaching series continues this Sunday and we’ll look at what Jesus says about singleness in the kingdom of God.

Jesus and Controversial Compassion

September 10, 2019 10:35 - 49 minutes - 44.9 MB

Who is Jesus? And which Jesus are you following? What does it mean to follow Jesus in Boston in these crazy times? As we kick off this series, we want to help you understand our cultural moment and introduce into the conversation the scandalous compassion of Jesus Christ.

Acts 17:16-34 - Evangelism in a Post-Christian Culture

May 28, 2019 18:10 - 43 minutes - 40 MB

One of the most difficult things to do is learning how to share the gospel in a post Christian culture. Where do we begin to talk about God in culture that has no framework for faith? In Acts 17, Paul models for us how to share Christ with those without any knowledge of the Bible.

Acts 12:1-17 - Praying through Difficulty

May 06, 2019 22:40 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MB

The church is at its best when it prays. Every time the church prays in Acts, the impossible happens!  Every major movement, every season of awakening and renewal has been characterized by intense, persistent corporate prayer. In this teaching we learn how God uses prayer in our lives to re-orient our fears and anxieties towards Him.

Easter Hope and The Good Place

April 23, 2019 15:23 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB

Easter is the culminating moment of the Christian calendar and the foundation of our faith. We believe the Resurrection of Jesus is the hope of the world and a foretaste of the world to come.

In Boston as It Is in Heaven Part 1

March 11, 2019 17:28 - 41 minutes - 37.7 MB

This new teaching focuses on the necessity of regular prayer as a central practice in the church― we'll examine what Jesus taught about prayer and how to prioritize prayer in our community life.

Exiles in Hope: Hope at the Margins

March 05, 2019 14:43 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

This is the final installment in our Exiles in Hope Vision Series. As we close out we learn as a church what suffering means, what it looks like, and how we can be joyful in suffering.

Exiles in Hope: The Mission of God Part 2

February 24, 2019 20:29 - 51 minutes - 47.1 MB

This is part 2 of our teaching and vision series through 1 Peter as we learn what it means to be a church for the city by practicing the way of mission.

Exiles in Hope: The Mission of God Part 1

February 22, 2019 18:46 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB

We continue our teaching and vision series through 1 Peter as we learn what it means to be a church for the city by practicing the way of mission.

Exiles in Hope: The Way of Jesus

February 04, 2019 21:07 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MB

The Way of Jesus is about life together. Discipleship occurs when we are intentional in living out the teachings of Jesus within community. We recognize and submit to the command of scripture to love one another and this cannot happen if our lives do not intersect.

Exiles in Hope: Pursuing God

January 28, 2019 19:36 - 50 minutes - 46.5 MB

We are a Church community in the middle of Boston. Our vision and our desire is to live as those who pursue God and practice the Way of Jesus in our time and place, with an ambition to see the fame and deeds of God renewed in our time, and to practice a powerful faith in word and deed that brings renewal to our relationships, workplaces, and neighborhoods.

Ecclesiastes 11-12 - One Foot in the Grave

November 14, 2018 02:05 - 44 minutes - 41 MB

In this sermon we learn what it means to live and age in faithfulness towards God and others.

Jesus, Politics, and A Way Forward

November 07, 2018 02:15 - 1 hour - 57.8 MB

We took a break from the book of Ecclesiastes to consider the cultural moment we are in. We are living in one of one of the most divisive times of our country and while the country seems to be fracturing, the church has to remain a place not defined by the politics of the day but by hope in God who restores and renews His people. Still, how do we make sense of the political madness we find ourselves in and what is the way forward for the church?

Ecclesiastes 9 - Certainty, Uncertainty, and the Good Life

October 30, 2018 13:11 - 40 minutes - 37.5 MB

Most of us aspire to know it all, do it all, and have all the answers. That's what we hope for. But what guarantees do we have of tomorrow? If you knew what would happen to you tomorrow, how would you live today?

Ecclesiastes 7 - Death and the Wisdom of God

October 22, 2018 17:07 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MB

One of the big messages in Ecclesiastes is learning to grasp this reality - life in this world eludes our control. How then should we live? We'll wrestle with this question and learn what it means to walk in the way of wisdom.

Listening to God :: Part 2

October 15, 2018 12:17 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MB

In Part 2 of Listening to God we talked about the spiritual discipline of listening to God's Word and what it looks like to form our everyday lives around it. Listen in and begin your journey of forming your life around God's Word.

Ecclesiastes 5 - Listening to God

October 08, 2018 18:51 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MB

This is a message about learning how to listen to God through His word. And one of the ways Ecclesiastes exposes our need to listen, comes from identifying and repenting of hypocrisy in our lives.

Ecclesiastes 4 - Loving God Loving Our Neighbor

October 02, 2018 03:38 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB

This chapter tells us we have to share what we enjoy because there are two ways to live in the world. You can either hate your neighbor and so destroy yourself, or you can love your neighbor and so love yourself

Ecclesiastes 3 - Limited Understanding and God's Justice

September 24, 2018 17:02 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB

Living well in God’s world means recognizing that when it comes to our own lives, we are not mini-gods, and this is his creation, not ours. Our life is given to us and things come and go and seasons change, and it is only God who knows exactly where everything is meant to go, in which order, at what time, and why.

Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:26 - Bursting Life's Bubbles

September 17, 2018 15:06 - 42 minutes - 38.7 MB

Ecclesiastes 1-2 teaches that only God gives to us enjoyment and satisfaction in life. Endless enjoyment does not come in a box, does not come from sex, it is not the key ring to your dream house. We all know what it’s like to have tasted the best life has to offer and still be left wondering what comes next. God has to give us enjoyment, or the thing itself (box, sex, house) will leave us unsatisfied.

Let's Pretend - Ecclesiastes 1:1-11

September 10, 2018 15:42 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

If we won’t live forever, or even long enough to make a lasting difference to the world, how then should we live? It takes the whole of Ecclesiastes to answer that question – the argument is cumulative and we need to allow the Preacher to give us the answer bit by bit, like an artist painting a canvas – here is the 1st answer: Accepting death is the first step in learning to live

Acts 11 - Acts, Racism, and the Cultural Moment

June 18, 2018 17:10 - 1 hour - 59.9 MB

The stories of Scripture aren’t just their stories…it is our stories. Acts 11 speaks to the issue of racism. Acts 11 speaks into the dynamics of racism that are still being debated till this day and the reality of that tells us that the Scriptures are anything but irrelevant in this cultural moment.

Acts 9:19-29 - Disappointment and the Mercy of God

May 23, 2018 14:51 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

In this talk we'll look at Saul, disappointment, and the grace to keep pressing on when life gets discouraging.

Acts 9:1-19 - How Grace Works

May 23, 2018 14:44 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MB

Acts 9:1-19, tells us the story of Saul, an unlikely convert who opposed Christians and Christianity. In this sermon we talk about how grace works and changes people - even the most unlikeliest ones.

Acts 8:1-25 - Joy for the City

May 01, 2018 14:21 - 48 minutes - 44.6 MB

In this passage we see how ordinary everyday Christians proclaim the gospel in both word and deed and because of it the city flourishes.

Acts 6-7 - The Common Christian

April 24, 2018 15:29 - 43 minutes - 39.7 MB

You don’t need a spotlight to make a difference you just need humility. Today we are going to profile a man named Stephen who had one principle that he lived by: Its not about me!

Acts 4:32-5:14 - Lying to the Spirit

April 10, 2018 15:34 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MB

In this teaching we are going to see a moment of failure and tragedy in the early church, God is using it to warn some of us directly in it to look to Christ with fresh honesty.

Easter Hope

April 10, 2018 15:24 - 44 minutes - 40.3 MB

What does Easter mean? The message of Easter is a message of hope in a world full of empty hope.

Acts 4 - Church in A Pluralistic Society

March 12, 2018 19:55 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MB

Is Jesus Christ really the only way to God? In this teaching we address one of the primary objections people have about Christianity: That salvation is found only in Jesus. Throughout the span of all human history, this has always been the fundamental religious question… Are there multiple ways to God?

Acts 3 - The First Miracle

March 06, 2018 19:39 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MB

Acts 3 is the first instance of a miracle, and if you understand this miracle, in a way, you understand them all. This miracle shows you how God feels about suffering in the world and what he’s doing about it, and what he’s saying to us in that suffering; and it shows us, as the church, what our mission is in the world.

Acts 2:42-47 - The Church in Community

February 27, 2018 21:01 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

In Acts 2:42-47, we get a sneak peak into the everyday life and rhythms of the early church. Quickly, we see that Christianity isn’t a call to find ourselves, but to lose ourselves in him and to learn to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. When the church is comfortable and cultural – she tends to be weak. When the church uncomfortable and countercultural – she tends to be strong.

Acts 2:1-41 - The Birth of the Church

February 20, 2018 21:14 - 43 minutes - 39.9 MB

Acts 2 tells us the story of the church and how she was born. In this teaching we explore both necessary of means of the word and power if the church is going to exist in the world today.

Acts 1 - The Ascension of Jesus

February 13, 2018 19:57 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

Since it’s inception, Christianity was never popular or accepted in the broader culture. Christians were seen as ‘bizarre’ ‘weird’ ‘outlandish’ ‘repellent’ The overall culture resented Christians and its beliefs. Yet the church flourished because it refused to accommodate to culture. It flourished because it was distinctively different. This is why we need Acts to help us understand our place in this culture and God’s purposes in this world. We need Acts to teach us that our convictions mu...

A Better You? Part 1

January 10, 2018 18:43 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB

What is 2018 going to look like for you? Will it look like a commitment to a better self through self-improvement or a better self through confession, repentance, and faith? What if 2018 was more about knowing Christ and pressing into the future rather than dwelling and living from the past?

Song of Peace

December 19, 2017 21:12 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

Redemption City Church exists to seek the renewal of the city of Boston spiritually, socially and culturally with the gospel of Jesus Christ. We gather on Sundays in the South End (90 Warren Ave). www.redemptioncityboston.com

Song of Grace

December 11, 2017 21:48 - 34 minutes - 31.6 MB

We step into the story of Mary and the miracle that was the virgin birth of Jesus. The virgin birth is not simply a sweet Christmas story. The virgin birth is not a comforting idea. The virgin birth is scary because if we understand what is going on, we will see that in the uterus of this little Nazarene virgin girl, God is declaring war against Satan, sin, and death.

Song of Hope

December 05, 2017 20:33 - 38 minutes - 35.6 MB

The season is a time for rejoicing and giving. As soon as Thanksgiving is over (and sometimes even before), we start putting up the tree and listening to our favorite Christmas songs. There’s nothing wrong with doing these things, of course, but over the next 3 weeks our goal is to prepare you for Christmas instead of celebrating Christmas. By doing this we will look at the 3 birth narratives from the book of Luke. In this teaching will explore hope through the pain and joy of Zechariah a...

Money :: Generous Giving

November 21, 2017 17:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MB

In this sermon we talk about stewardship and at the center of the biblical concept of Biblical stewardship is the tithe. We see tithing instituted in the Old Testament and many wonder if it carries into New Testament. Listen in as we deal with the subject of money and giving. We pray you are encouraged and challenged.

Money :: Materialism

November 21, 2017 16:43 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

Jim Carrey once said "I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer." We’ve been talking about money, its influence and how to relate to it. In this sermon we talk the biggest roadblock to living a generous life: Materialism.

Money :: Two Treasures

November 10, 2017 16:07 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MB

In Matthew 6 Jesus puts it bluntly: what are you living for? Where is your hope? What can't you live without? We continue our study this morning on money and the way Jesus calls us to view money in light of all eternity.

Money :: God or Gift?

October 31, 2017 13:57 - 41 minutes - 37.6 MB

Money matters - there is no getting around it. In a very significant way your life will be shaped by what you think about money, and in a way that is inescapable, somehow, someway, your heart will struggle with money. In this new teaching series we'll talk about how we relate to money and possessions.

Jonah 4 :: Now What?

October 17, 2017 17:02 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MB

Jonah 4 is perhaps the most puzzling and mysterious chapter because it ends abruptly. What happened to Jonah? The reason Jonah ends so abruptly is because it suppose to make us think. In this sermon we talk about self-righteousness and how it exhibits itself in our anger, hypocrisy, and lack of compassion.

Jonah 3 :: The City and God's Compassion

October 09, 2017 15:59 - 45 minutes - 41.8 MB

Jonah 3 describes the unprecedented change that takes place in Nineveh. In this story we are reminded that God can change people and places. Here in Boston we are in need of that change. In need of God's compassion.

Jonah 2 :: A Severe Mercy

October 03, 2017 19:08 - 50 minutes - 45.8 MB

Jonah is faces a spiritual crisis and is in a dark place. Like Jonah, we sometimes end up in the belly of the beast. How do you pray through struggle? Dark circumstances? Sometimes life is perplexing but we learn in Jonah that God is a sovereign Father who only does good to his children. The question is: are you an Orphan or a Child of God?

Jonah 1:1-16 :: Asleep at the Wheel

September 26, 2017 16:47 - 45 minutes - 41.5 MB

Running from God often results in ignorance, apathy, hypocrisy, and indifference. Is something of Jonah reflected in God's purpose for the city? Is something of Jonah reflected in your life?

We Are Jonah (Jonah 1:1-3)

September 19, 2017 02:00 - 42 minutes - 39.4 MB

Jonah is one the most well-known stories in the Bible, and the least understood! This story of God’s thick-headed and small-minded prophet levels a challenge to every generation of God’s people who are prone to hypocrisy and spiritual apathy. As Jonah runs from God and hides behind his religious piety, God’s wide mercy softens the hearts of the most unexpected people. This is a story meant to shake us awake to the surprising ways God works in our world, and in our own lives.

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