July 26, 2026 - Philadelphia is weak but faithful. They have little power, but they have kept Jesus’ word and have not denied his name. This sermon gives the series a needed word of encouragement: Jesus is not looking for impressive strength, but enduring faithfulness. He places before them an open door that no one can shut, and he promises permanence, belonging, and a secure name. Love is sustained not by our strength, but by Christ’s faithfulness to hold his people.

July 19, 2026 - Sardis has a reputation for being alive, but Jesus says they are dead. This is the frightening possibility of spiritual self-deception: a church can look active, successful, and impressive while lacking true life. Their works are incomplete. Their attention has drifted. Their life has become hollow. Jesus calls them to wake up, strengthen what remains, remember what they received, keep it, and repent. The hope is renewal: Christ can give life where there is only appearance.

July 12, 2026 - Thyatira is a church of love, faith, service, and endurance, but it has tolerated a voice that corrupts love from within. This sermon should explore the danger of truthless love, disordered desire, and false intimacy. The issue is not merely that the church is “too tolerant,” but that it has allowed something destructive to disciple its imagination, worship, and body. Jesus, whose eyes are like flame and whose feet are like burnished bronze, sees what is hidden and confronts what destroys love in order to restore what is true.

July 5, 2026 - Pergamum lives where Satan’s throne is. The church has held fast to Jesus’ name, even under persecution, but compromise has taken root within. Like Balaam, false teaching has placed stumbling blocks before God’s people. The church is being bewitched by the promises of empire, politics, patriotism, culture, sex, and the market. Jesus comes with the sharp sword of his mouth to expose lies and reclaim his people. He offers hidden manna and a white stone which is a better satisfaction and a truer name than the idols can give. 

June 28, 2026 -- Smyrna is suffering. They are poor, slandered, threatened, and under crushing pressure. Yet Jesus offers no correction to this church. He tells them that he knows their tribulation, that their suffering is not hidden from him, and that death will not have the final word. The call is not escape, but faithfulness. In Smyrna, love is tested by suffering, fear, and loss but Jesus, the one who died and came to life, promises the crown of life. 

June 21, 2026 -- The church in Ephesus is active, discerning, hardworking, and committed to truth. They test false teaching. They endure. They have not grown weary. And yet Jesus says they have abandoned their first love. This sermon names the danger of faithfulness without affection, truth without love, and church life that becomes vinegar instead of joy. Jesus calls his church to remember, repent, and return not to a vague feeling, but to the love that first loved us. 

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.

This episode reviews the sermon "Love Unveiled" on June 14, 2026 from our sermon series "First Love".

In this podcast, we are sharing Ebenezer moments of the people of Redeemer Church. An Ebenezer moment is simply telling the truth about where you’ve been and noticing where God has met you along the way. Some of that may feel clear; some of it may still feel unfinished. These stories are invitations to listen together to remember thus far how the Lord has helped, and to notice how God has been faithful-sometimes quietly, sometimes slowly, often in ways we only see in hindsight. Join us and listen along.

Revelation begins by pulling back the curtain. Before Jesus addresses the churches, John is given a vision of Jesus himself. The book is not first a puzzle to solve or a timeline to decode; it is an unveiling of Christ. It shows us that reality is deeper than what we can see with our eyes. Beneath suffering, fear, evil, compromise, and confusion, Jesus is present and reigning. This first sermon sets the lens for the whole series: the church can only hear Jesus rightly when it sees him clearly.

Paul ends his teaching on the armor of God by calling the church to pray at all times in the Spirit. Prayer is not one more piece of armor laid beside the others; it is the living dependence that activates and sustains the whole life of spiritual warfare. In a battle too great for us, prayer is how we call for help, stay alert, persevere, and carry one another before God. Paul urges believers to pray in every season, with every kind of prayer, with perseverance, and for all the saints. The Christian life is not lived in self-sufficiency but in constant reliance on the presence, power, and mercy of God. The armor is worn through prayer.