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Message from Rev. Danny Morgan on September 14, 2025

In John Bunyan’s classic tale, “Pilgrim’s Progress,” we follow a disciple of Jesus from the City of Destruction through various obstacles and temptations until he reaches the Celestial City. What steps are you taking on your own pilgrimage? This month, we’ll look at four key actions that should define every disciple at Redeemer: Believe, Belong, Become, and Bless. This path of discipleship will take greater prominence in our life together as a church as we prepare for God to work and through us for his glory and our good.

As we conclude Paul’s letter to the Colossians, we hear his final instructions to the church and bear witness to the many other colaborers who worked alongside Paul in gospel ministry. What can we learn about leading our own Christian life from these final verses? Join us this week for a glimpse of Paul’s practical Christianity.

Message from Rev. Danny Morgan on August 24, 2025

In our fragmented cultural moment, we don’t need more power struggles; we need a new cultural vision for the world altogether. The emphasis on individual autonomy and political idealism promises healing, but is only driving wounds deeper. The backdrop of the New Testament is no different. In a fragmented and wounded world, it was the counter-cultural way of Christianity that not only began to heal the world but also drove the early church’s influence and growth. Against the conventional way of classism, personal retributive justice, and dominance, Christians lived in the way of compassion, gentleness, and lowliness. This week, we’ll look at Colossians 3 and the antithesis of Paul’s “put off” and turn to what Christians are commanded to “put on.” We’ll see the counter-cultural way of the Christian community as the healing of the world.

As Christians we share in the resurrection of Jesus Christ through our union with him by faith. This reality is a profound mystery, but it is the source of our hope and joy, that shifts our perspective from earth to the throne room of God. It movitages the mortification of our sin and results in the production of a new unified community no longer marked by race, economic class or gender but marked by Christ Alone.

This Sunday we will explore the implications of our union with Christ in His resurrection while pausing to wonder at his glory and discovering our shared identity as members of the glorious resurrected body of Christ.

We are by nature beings looking for validation. We were created for God, and despite his glory, we seek our validation in other people, in false ideas, and in circumstances that are apart from Christ. Like us, the church in Colossae wrestled with this reality as false teachers enticed the congregation to find validation in their relationships, in their past, in their present culture and in a life of ease withdrawn from the calling of Christ. This Sunday we will explore the Christian's validation by looking to Paul’s words in Colossians 2:16-23 as we seek to discover our validation in Christ our head, who nourishes, knits and grows the church for his glory and our eternal joy.

Have you ever been in a situation that felt like you lived between two different realities? Think of the summer after you graduated from high school—you lived an in-between life, no longer a child and yet not quite on your own at college. Or that period of time after the proposal but before the wedding—no longer single, but not yet married. In a similar fashion, Paul teaches the Colossians how to live in-between the victory over sin and death that Jesus has accomplished for them and the final reconciling work that is yet in the future when all things will be made new. You and I live in this same in-between time! What should life look like, how should you live, where can we place our hope and confidence? Join us this Sunday to find out.

Paul’s letter to the church in Colossae is a letter to a people he doesn’t know, except by reputation and the ministry of their beloved pastor Epaphras. This Sunday, we’ll see how Paul explains that even though he has not been with them in person, he struggles on their behalf to fulfill the work God has given him so that they might benefit from it. Paul’s explanation of his ministry is a helpful reminder of the purpose of the church: why do we gather week-in and week-out? How should we evaluate our effectiveness? What is the point of it all? Join us this Sunday as we take up Paul’s apostolic ministry and apply it to our life together as a church today.

Paul writes to the Colossians to show that Christ is preeminent over all so that they may know their new standing before him and new life in him and so be unshakable in their faith. Christ is the image of the invisible God and is unmatched in his work of creation and redemption. To exchange him for another would be to exchange the blazing sun for a nightlight.