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Follow weekly messages from Redemption Hill Church, a PCA church plant in the South Hills of Pittsburgh - featuring Pastor Peter Doerfler and other teachers.
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In Mark 2:13-17, a man named Levi decided that the job of Roman Tax Collector was for him. Certainly, the job made him wealthy, gave him control, it even gave him a group to call his own. But whatever his reasons for becoming a tax collector, he’s about to leave it all behind to take up the joyful challenge—and it is both, joyful and a challenge—of following Jesus. Learn more as Pastor Peter teaches on spiritual regeneration, the totality of the call to follow Jesus, and more.
As Jesus forgives and heals a man who was literally dropped through the roof into his presence, we understand three--if not more!--game-changing truths about Jesus and ourself. However, they're only game-changing if they actually change your game. So join Pastor Peter as he teaches from the famous 'healing of the paralytic' story from Mark 2:1-12.
Truth 1: Jesus, the Great Physician, "takes" interceding faith.
Truth 2: The Great Physician diagnoses our deepest sins and sicknesses--all the way down to our thoughts.
Truth 3: The Great Physician gives us hope and a future.
In this passage, a leper approaches Jesus and says, “If you will, you can make me clean.” In this sermon, we delight in the willing heart of Jesus, and also learn more about the grid which most Pharisees viewed the world, a view that pivoted around two axes: Holy & Common and Clean & Unclean. This encounter sets the stage for the complete removal of that grid, and moves us from a life centered on rules and laws, to one centered on the Messiah sent from God.
In this passage in Mark's gospel, Jesus casts an unclean, an evil spirit, out of a man in the synagogue. What do we make of that today? Join Pastor Peter as he answers the following questions:
Did this really happen?
Were people demon-possessed or just sick?
Are demons actually active today? If so, how and what can we do about it?
Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James and John to become 'fishers of men.' Then He made them 'fishers of men,' and the results of their powerful evangelism changed the world. But ... what has he called you? What does Jesus make us? In this sermon, Pastor Peter teaches on what God in Christ makes us individually, and what he makes us together.
How do you transition from being a craftsman to the Savior? It's not quite like that, but it's not too far off to say that the baptism and testing of Jesus were God's preparation for Jesus to leave one life behind and begin the ministry he had come to accomplish. Listen along as Pastor Peter teaches on Mark 1:9-15.
Pastor Peter begins the "Meeting Jesus in Mark's Gospel" series by showing how the early church, dating all the way back to around 110-160AD understood that Mark's Gospels was built on the Apostle Peter's remembrances and teachings. From here, we are invited to first meet John the Baptizer who helps us grasp what it means to meet Jesus, by preparing our hearts through confession and by humbly meeting Jesus on his terms, not ours.
God has chosen, according to his own Divine will, to give strength to the weary and worn-out believers who continue to wait on him. Be encouraged by this word of comfort and hope given from the ancient Hebrew prophet Isaiah to all the people of God.
When Isaiah prophesied comfort and hope to Israel, he prophesied this: your bondage will end when the Lord returns. The birth of Christ ushered in an age of spiritual bondage-breaking, but as we go forward in faith, we still struggle with suffering and sin. For us, today, Isaiah's promise still holds true: our bondage will end when the Lord returns.
We miss the comfort of God that could be ours when we believe that, "our ways are hidden from God." But how can that be? For nothing compares to God. He is the creator of the world, and greater than the nations and their idols. So be comforted by the greatness and love of God.
Pastor Peter begins a series from Isaiah chapter 40, called, 'The Comfort of God's Coming.' The opening eleven verses of this chapter feature three voices sent by God to comfort Israel, and the church universal. Each voice still speaks to us in our trial, suffering and disappointment with encouraging words of comfort, as well as finds prophetic fulfillment in the ministries of John the Baptist and Jesus of Nazareth.
We can't predict the details of our life, but we can accurately predict the consequences of our actions. Join Pastor Peter as he preaches on Galatians 6:6-10, focusing on God's rule for governing human interactions: you reap what you sow.
When you know another believer is caught in sin, what do you do? Humiliate them by talking about with others? Ignore the sin altogether, quietly enabling their choices? Condemn them harshly? The Word of God is consistent in what we ought to do: seek their restoration through gentleness and truth-telling. Learn more as Pastor Peter preaches on Galatians 6:1-5.
Every Christian has a war inside them. The Spirit desires the things of the God, and the 'flesh' - our inborn selfish nature - desires what it wants: pleasure, power, division, etc. In this section, Pastor Peter explains how God works gradual victory in this war within us.
Join Roddey Caughman, Director of Deaf Ministries at Redemption Hill Church, as he challenges us to consider what temptations "cut in" on us from faithfully trusting in Jesus Christ.
In this section in Galatians, Paul argues that the only thing that has true spiritual value or worth is 'faith expressing itself in love.' Yet so many of us live and act as if other things count more.
Christ has set us free. That is an essential theological truth. Yet, sometimes we struggle because we're not sure how we're free, and how we're not. Pastor Peter tackles this subject, as taught through Paul's analogy of Hagar and Sarah given in the book of Galatians, with a strong emphasis on actually enjoying our freedom in Christ. Quite simply, being a Christian should make you smile. Does it?
This Sunday marks two full years of public worship for Redemption Hill Church. Pastor Peter took a break from the Galatians series to focus on "The Great Commission" and explain how the four "Alls": All authority, All nations, All the gospel, and All the time ... send us forward in mission with tremendous confidence and hope.
How has the pandemic affected your faith, hope and love in Christ? Have you or another Christian you know begun doubting and drifting that faith in Christ is simply enough, and all you could ever do to be made right with God? Pastor Peter addresses these and other questions as he preaches on Galatians 4:8-20.
Paul writes that we were all enslaved to the 'elementary principles of the world,' until Jesus came. When we are in Christ, we have the Spirit that cries out to God, "Papa ... Abba ... Father." Is that how you relate to God?
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