Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

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Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer episodes

  • Make Jerusalem Great Again - The Rev. Philip DeVaul
    "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
    17 min
  • Bold Enough to Break the Rules - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane
    "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
    16 min
  • Becoming Beloved Community: Overview - Guest Speaker
    Megan Johnson, Chair of Church of the Redeemer's Becoming Beloved Community Steering Committee, speaks with Anny Stevens-Gleason, Minister of Worship and Incorporation, about our Adult Forum Lenten series for 2019. Megan led the first session on Sunday, March 10 and she discusses with Anny what the group discussed and what some of the feedback from those attending was.
    19 min
  • Becoming Beloved Community: Introduction and Invitation - Guest Speaker
    Megan Johnson, Chair of Church of the Redeemer's Becoming Beloved Community Steering Committee, speaks with Anny Stevens-Gleason, Minister of Worship and Incorporation, about our Adult Forum Lenten series for 2019. Megan introduces the Becoming Beloved Community initiative for the Episcopal Church and invites Redeemer into the years-long journey of racial reconciliation and justice.
    19 min
  • Romans and Racial Reconciliation - The Rev. Philip DeVaul
    "Understand that real relationship, with people who are different than you, in Christ's kingdom requires all of us to give something up of ourselves, and requires all of us to recognize God's presence in other people who look, think, act, believe, and speak differently than us. It requires it. Drawing people into Christian community isn't about making more people like us... it's about expanding our understanding of what 'us' is."
    Romans 10:8b-13
    20 min
  • Not Today, Satan! - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane
    "This passage makes us consider how we might be given the world, and then forced to figure out how to carry it all on our own. [...] But more importantly, it urges us to consider the alternative to evil - the path of grace and obedience, discipline and faith, that Jesus chooses when confronted by evil himself."
    Luke 4:1-13
    19 min
  • Jesus: The Intimacy of God - The Rev. Philip DeVaul
    "[...] if you want to understand intimate relationship with God, look no further than the person in the mirror. Look no further than the person right in front of you. It is our deep yearning as a people of faith in this church to know Jesus and to grow in love - to develop and to engage in and to draw nearer to God - to develop and engage in deeper connection... holy connection and communion relationship with God."
    33 min
  • Be a Door, Not a Doormat - The Rev. Melanie W. J. Slane
    "Non-violent response to injustice is not about compliance, it is about resistance. An act of non-violent resistance is not about being a doormat, it's about being a door - a gateway to a greater truth... a higher power. Non-violent resistance is, in fact, one of the most powerful symbols of Christian love modeled most profoundly by our savior as he hung on the cross and said 'Father, forgive them. For they know not what they do.' Today's Gospel lesson is not about being a pushover. It's about urging people toward love - love modeled for the oppressor as a better way."
    Luke 6:27-38
    17 min
  • The Aspiration Fallacy - The Rev. Philip DeVaul
    "This isn't about you becoming a better person. This is about recognizing who you were made to be, which is different. This isn't about you aspiring to become better, more, or greater. This is about you understanding who you are right now. You are a person made to love your enemies."
    Luke 6:27-38
    19 min

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Sermons from the clergy of the Church of the Redeemer, and Episcopal Church in Hyde Park, Cincinnati, OH.