All Recordings from The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
Apr 14, 2019 |
The day I first saw Jesus, He saw me, too
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane![The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/melanie-slane_755_small.jpg)
The day I first saw Jesus, He saw me, too
"Before those days, when I was called a servant, I felt
owned, but now I don’t mind the title because I know who I serve."
Readings
Readings
Apr 14, 2019 |
The Story of You
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
The Story of You
"This world is begging to hear your story. This world wants all
of you, the fullness of you, your life begs for it for all of you, the fullness
of you to show up in this life. The people around you we want you for who you
are. We want all of you. […] Remember who the center of that story is, the center
of your story is not you, thank God. The center of the story is Jesus. […] In
the midst of his being killed, Jesus is able to look upon the world and say, Father
forgive them."
Readings
Readings
Apr 12, 2019 |
Becoming Beloved Community: Guest Speaker, Jim Mulholland
| Redeemer Podcast Team![Redeemer Podcast Team](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/podcast-team_910_small.jpg)
Becoming Beloved Community: Guest Speaker, Jim Mulholland
At our final Lenten Forum on Becoming Beloved Community, we welcomed Jim Mulholland who spoke of his continuous journey of unlearning what he was taught about racism and living as a white man. Anny Stevens-Gleason brought together the Rev. Philip DeVaul, Rector here at The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, and Megan Hughes Johnson, chair of our Becoming Beloved Community Steering Committee, to discuss Jim's story-sharing and how this 5-week series has impacted our worshiping community. We have so much unlearning and learning to do and recognize that we face some difficulties ahead. However, as Phil says, "We can't just hope for a racially and culturally integrated church community. We have to build it and we have to start with what we are and what we have."
Apr 05, 2019 |
Becoming Beloved Community: Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, Part II
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Becoming Beloved Community: Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, Part II
Anny Stevens-Gleason again talks with Megan Hughes Johnson, chair of the Becoming Beloved Community Steering Committee about Sunday's Forum discussion on Telling the Truth about the Church and Race. This past Sunday we critically took a look at the way we, as white people, have engaged race and racial difference in our lives.
Mar 31, 2019 |
Grabbed by Grace
| The Rev. Gary Lubin![The Rev. Gary Lubin](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/dsc08258-edit-edit_242_small.jpg)
Grabbed by Grace
The Rev. Gary Lubin
"I chalk it up to God's free grace but for which God pays a dear, dear price; and this is all because God intentionally comes to us as the other."
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
"I chalk it up to God's free grace but for which God pays a dear, dear price; and this is all because God intentionally comes to us as the other."
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Mar 31, 2019 |
The Prodigal Father
| The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski![The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/mitch_359_small.jpg)
The Prodigal Father
"... and in those moments we will find a God who even when we are far
off has compassion on us and loves us, knowing we won't love Him the
same in return."
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
Mar 29, 2019 |
Becoming Beloved Community: Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, Part I
| Redeemer Podcast Team![Redeemer Podcast Team](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/podcast-team_910_small.jpg)
Becoming Beloved Community: Telling the Truth about the Church and Race, Part I
Anny Stevens-Gleason talks with the Rev. Philip DeVaul, Rector at Church of the Redeemer, and Megan Hughes Johnson, chair of the Becoming Beloved Community Steering Committee about Sunday's Forum discussion on Telling the Truth about the Church and Race. This week - we ask what does it look like for us to take a look at the landscape of race relations in this country? What is the truth about the existence of racism today in our culture? An uncomfortable conversation to have because we, as white Christians, have been taught not to talk about race. Nevertheless, an important first step in this journey.
Mar 24, 2019 |
We Are (Only) Human
| The Rev. Joyce Keeshin![The Rev. Joyce Keeshin](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/joyce-keeshin_250_small.jpg)
We Are (Only) Human
"We are all human. We are one human family. We all are vulnerable and we all seek safety. We do the best we can in the midst of the unexpected accident, the violence, the loss, disasters that are created by man and disasters that are just coming about – that we have no idea about. We use are gifts and our skills to the best of our abilities, and we have to know we still have our limits. We cannot know everything. We cannot anticipate everything. We cannot wrap the one’s we love in bubble wrap. There will be difficulties. There will be challenges. We are human…"
Luke 13:1-9
Luke 13:1-9
Mar 24, 2019 |
Don't Change the Subject
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Don't Change the Subject
"Jesus is getting down in the manure, in the muck, with us, and for us, and about us. He’s showing us, even in this parable, what it looks like to live lives of love. Not to skip the dirty parts, the dark parts, the hard parts, but to roll our sleeves up and get down in it. Not to allow the things that are difficult in our lives to distract us from why we exist, not to allow the great tragedies and injustices we see to dishearten us in such a way that we forget God’s presence, not to allow our own failings, and our own mistakes, and our own things that we do wrong, to get in the way of the recognition of why we exist. We exist as a people who spread the love of God in this world.”
Exodus 3:1-15
Luke 13:1-9
Exodus 3:1-15
Luke 13:1-9
Mar 21, 2019 |
Becoming Beloved Community: Biblical/Theological Rationale
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Becoming Beloved Community: Biblical/Theological Rationale
Anny Stevens-Gleason talks with the Rev. Philip DeVaul, Church of the Redeemer's Rector about the scriptural context of the Beloved Community. They discuss Phil's March 17th Forum on Becoming Beloved Community. This includes a reminder that the love that we have, that we share, that we give, that we show into the world is simply an overflowing of the love that we receive from our creator. As well as a look at what our Baptismal Covenant means for how we live.
Mar 17, 2019 |
Bold Enough to Break the Rules
| The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane![The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/melanie-slane_755_small.jpg)
Bold Enough to Break the Rules
“Sometimes we have to break the rules, even break the law, in order to obey God’s law of love. Think of people like Susan B. Anthony, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Rosa Parks, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King, and take notice that all of these people are either women or people of color. […] I think sometimes we assume that breaking the rule or breaking the law will be detrimental to us, but sometimes we have to be bold. […] Sometimes breaking the rules shows us the way of love."
Genesis 15:1-12,17-18
Luke 13:31-35
Genesis 15:1-12,17-18
Luke 13:31-35
Mar 17, 2019 |
Make Jerusalem Great Again
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Make Jerusalem Great Again
"Jesus is real love, and real love embraces us as we are, come what may. Real love embraces this world, puts to death our petty – our shallow – idea of what love is and raises us up into new lives of reconciliation, of love and redemption, lived out in our every day life here. Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and follow him, and we do not follow Jesus into the imagined past. We follow Jesus into the death of our idea of the way the world works so that we can live in the resurrected present.”
Luke 13:31-35
Luke 13:31-35