All Recordings from The Episcopal Church of the Redeemer
May 13, 2018 |
Letting Go
| The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene![The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/hopkins-greene-267_417_small.jpg)
Letting Go
Life is a series of letting go. Letting go into an unknown future, but Jesus keeps praying for us to protect us. That, 'Our joy,' as he says, 'that our joy might be full.’
John 17:6-19
John 17:6-19
May 06, 2018 |
Practice Loving
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Practice Loving
"But real love is meant to be lived in this life in conflict and pain, in fear, in confusion and uncertainty. We are meant to live lives of love and that means we’ve got to practice it. That means we’ve got to wake up today and think on a basic, practical, daily level, 'what does it look like for me to love this person?’"
John 15:9-17
John 15:9-17
May 06, 2018 |
And, This is Unconditional
| The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski![The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/mitch_359_small.jpg)
And, This is Unconditional
"If you want in this covenant, then you’ll obey his commandments, then you’ll love one another as Jesus loved us. Not because God’s covenant is conditional on that, but because that’s what our half of the covenant looks like. But we can know, at the end of the day, when… not if… when we fail… when we fail to love each other as God loves us God is faithful."
John 15:9-17
John 15:9-17
Apr 29, 2018 |
The Challenge of Love
| The Rev. Joyce Keeshin![The Rev. Joyce Keeshin](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/joyce-keeshin_250_small.jpg)
The Challenge of Love
"Love demands courage, demands forgiveness, demands compassion. Love is a gift, and yet it is a challenge."
1 John 4:7-21
1 John 4:7-21
Apr 29, 2018 |
Jesus, Nancy, and the Transport Truck of Love
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Jesus, Nancy, and the Transport Truck of Love
"When you love someone else and when you are being loved by someone else the invisible God is being made visible. When you love someone else and are being loved by someone else God is so clearly present. What’s happening when you love is you are training yourself to see God everywhere. This is the gift. This is the gift of the Gospel. This is the gift that Nancy gives this church. This is the gift that the people of this church give each other."
1 John 4:7-21
1 John 4:7-21
Apr 22, 2018 |
To Live in the Fold
| The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene![The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/hopkins-greene-267_417_small.jpg)
To Live in the Fold
"To live in the sheep fold of the good shepherd is to trust that God will give us everything that we need. The good news of Easter is that we are all invited to live in that sheep fold. We are all invited to live in radical dependence on God."
John 10:11-18
John 10:11-18
Apr 22, 2018 |
One Flock
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
One Flock
"God our shepherd walks with us in our spaces of isolation and fear of loneliness and uncertainty, and then guides us back into relationship... into the place where we really don’t have to just say quietly to ourselves “I’m not alone, I’m not alone, I’m not alone. The Lord is my shepherd, the Lord is my shepherd,” because we are surrounded by people."
Psalm 23
John 10:11-18
Psalm 23
John 10:11-18
Apr 15, 2018 |
Perfectly Complete
| The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski![The Rev. Mitchell Bojarski](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/mitch_359_small.jpg)
Perfectly Complete
"We spend so much time looking back at a body we once had, or looking forward to a body we think we should have… and God gave us these bodies that we have now. He doesn’t want us to disrespect his creation. He doesn’t want us to call the bodies we’ve been given “bad” or “flawed.” He’s making us perfect. Not because he’s turning us into something without fault or blemish – without rolls or flab – but something complete in God’s creation.
Luke 24:36b-48
Luke 24:36b-48
Apr 15, 2018 |
I've Got a Perfect Body
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
I've Got a Perfect Body
"God gave you the body you have, right now – not the body you'd like, not the body you could have – the body you have right now to carry you through this world, and to give you arms to hold onto people […], and to give you a voice to cry out to tell people you love them […]. What if God gave you the body that you have right now so that you can use it, as it is, to be a blessing and to be blessed in this world? What if you loved your body the way God loves your body?"
Luke 24:36b-48
Luke 24:36b-48
Apr 08, 2018 |
Afraid to Matter
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Afraid to Matter
"If you matter to God, and God is willing to be changed by you, affected by you, moved by you, scared even, wounded, by you... If God is willing to be hurt by you... God, the one who made all things, is willing to be hurt by you... but also, yes, to be loved by you, and to hold onto you no matter what... if that’s true, how does that change everything?"
John 20:19-31
John 20:19-31
Apr 08, 2018 |
Half a Shade Braver
| The Rev. Joyce Keeshin![The Rev. Joyce Keeshin](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/joyce-keeshin_250_small.jpg)
Half a Shade Braver
"Thomas is such a gift to us because with Thomas’s transparency we see the questions. We see the doubt... the fear… And, then we also see Thomas willing to take that step to be braver when he sees Jesus – when he touches his wounds and he immediately says, ‘My Lord and my God.’”
John 20:19-31
John 20:19-31
Apr 01, 2018 |
Be Afraid – Love Anyway
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Be Afraid – Love Anyway
“… you are given so much love in your life but love is not just something that we admire or something that we stare at from afar and say isn’t that great. Love is not a movie that we watch a nd get teary eyed about. Love is the thing that is right in front of us, the life that we are given to live and the people with who we are given to live it. and people are scare and life is hard."
Matthew 28:1-10
Matthew 28:1-10
Mar 30, 2018 |
Days Like Today – Good Friday
| The Rev. Philip DeVaul![The Rev. Philip DeVaul](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/philip-devaul_215_small.jpg)
Days Like Today – Good Friday
"We need days like today. Every other day in the life of the Christian faith we celebrate, or are meant to celebrate, the resurrection – the victory of the God of love... the victory of the God of all thinks... a love so powerful it conquers death and reconciles all things in heaven and on earth and under the earth. All things are reconciled by the power of the love of God that is in Jesus Christ, and we celebrate that because that means us too. Because, if everything is reconciled and everything belongs to God then you belong to God, and you belong to God and I belong to God, and thanks be to God. But, we need days like today where we acknowledge that we don’t know what to do with our own redemption."
John 18:1-19:42
John 18:1-19:42
Mar 29, 2018 |
Parting Gifts - Thursday in Holy Week
| The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene![The Rev. Nancy Hopkins-Greene](https://www.redeemer-cincy.org/uploads/images/hopkins-greene-267_417_small.jpg)
Parting Gifts - Thursday in Holy Week
"Today can you hear Jesus say to you: "Thank you for all the ways that you serve. Thank you for all the ways that you are living out my love…" Jesus’s love in the world. This is a day when we encounter the radical grace and love in God."
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
John 13:1-17, 31b-35