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We are all staged and ready to go for the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Weekend Reunion and Celebration. Join us for any of t...
05/29/2026

We are all staged and ready to go for the 50th Anniversary Jubilee Weekend Reunion and Celebration. Join us for any of the events.

Worship Celebration with Redemption Hill| Friday, May 29 | 6:30 – 8:00 PM | Discovery Church

Reunion Picnic | Saturday, May 30 | 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Veterans Memorial Park (930 Veterans Memorial Parkway)

Jubilee Service | Sunday, May 31 | 11AM – 1PM | Discovery Church (1177 N Roosevelt)

"Second Service" Lunch (no-host) | Sunday 1:30 PM Idaho Pizza Company (Cole/Fairview)

Saturday, Jan 31—Fasting Inaction and Idle Words Read: Is 58:12-14; Mark 3:1-4, James 1:19-27; 2:12-17 Reflect: The end ...
01/31/2026

Saturday, Jan 31—Fasting Inaction and Idle Words

Read: Is 58:12-14; Mark 3:1-4, James 1:19-27; 2:12-17

Reflect: The end of Isaiah 58 challenges us about how we think of a “day of fasting” and a “day of Sabbathing.” Neither are just “days” but instead lifestyles of God’s redeemed people. And all “our days” aren’t to be used for whatever we prefer and to say what we want. Idle words and empty promises that result in nothing meaningful are called out as dishonorable. God calls into action: rebuilding what is ruined, raising up what is solid, repairing breaches, and restoring ways for living.

Act: Consider what temptations to return to “normal life” will come for you as we formally end this time of fasting and prayer tomorrow. What will reassert dominance in your heart, mind, body, and schedule? Do the words rebuild, raise up, repair, or restore stir up any faith in you towards action? If so, listen for the Lord’s voice and write down things you need to act on and invite a close friend to be a witness to your intentions.

Pray: Father, you are so gracious and patient with me. I am thankful for the ways you have revealed your heart to me during this time. I don’t want to stop true fasting, and I acknowledge you are calling me to something deeper than I expected. Continue to open my eyes, break my heart, and renew my mind towards those in need around me. Show me how I should act in random moments and what intentional plans I should make to walk with the broken in humility, knowing when I do, I’m walking with you, Jesus. Let it be so.

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**Celebrating the Fast** Sunday, February 1 9-10:30 AM Redemption Hill, Sanctuary 11-1 PM Discovery Soup Lunch 2:30-5 PM...
01/31/2026

**Celebrating the Fast** Sunday, February 1

9-10:30 AM Redemption Hill, Sanctuary

11-1 PM Discovery Soup Lunch

2:30-5 PM Light of All Nations, Sanctuary

We have arranged for Discovery Church to join Redemption Hill’s 9 AM service with them. Come with a humble heart to worship with the dear brothers and sisters who share our building. The Light of All Nations worship service at 2:30 PM is open to visitors too.

We will break our fast at 11 AM with a soup lunch, fellowship, and celebration of what God has been deepening in us. Although this time of intensity will end, our hope is that there will be lasting changes in our lives. Prepare to share what God has done and is doing on this day. Some questions for reflection and sharing together.

--What metanoia are you having that God may be putting a finger on? What may need to change in your thinking and actions because of it?

--What do you see God is doing in this church right now with regards to the issues we’ve been praying about?

--Has God been causing your light to rise, your healing to come more quickly, guiding you more clearly, or dry places in your spirit to spring forth during this time?

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Friday, Jan 30—Fasting Busyness Read: Gen 2:2-3, Isa 58:13-14, Ez 20:10-12, Matt 11:28-30, Mark 2:23-28, Luke 10:25-37 R...
01/30/2026

Friday, Jan 30—Fasting Busyness

Read: Gen 2:2-3, Isa 58:13-14, Ez 20:10-12, Matt 11:28-30, Mark 2:23-28, Luke 10:25-37

Reflect: Our 21st Century Western culture has largely grown addicted to filling every spare moment with productivity, entertainment, and comfort. How does busyness and hyperactivity in your life and schedule affect your relationships? (Think UP-IN-OUT.) Does your lifestyle keep you from stopping to help others in need, in the gentleness and humility of Jesus’ life?

Act: Reflect on this past week. Has it been slower or busier than normal? What has made a difference in either direction? Are there areas in your life where God is asking you to let go of your busyness in order to do the Father’s business? Make a list of what comes to mind for more prayerful consideration.

Pray: Jesus, You are Lord of the Sabbath and want me to experience being tied to you, not as a burden but as a place of rest. Yoke me to you; teach me to walk gently and in humility with you, my Lord and my God. Show me the burdens that you don’t intend for me to carry any longer. Give me strength to lay them down. Let the bandwidth this creates in my life be for your purposes, not my own.

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Thursday, Jan 29— Fasting Appearances Read: Isa 58:2 and 6, Prov 11: 3, Mat 15:7-9, 23:23, 1 Chron 28: 9-10, Eph 6:7-8 R...
01/30/2026

Thursday, Jan 29— Fasting Appearances

Read: Isa 58:2 and 6, Prov 11: 3, Mat 15:7-9, 23:23, 1 Chron 28: 9-10, Eph 6:7-8

Reflect: Oh, how easy it is to focus on the outward appearance or behavior, our own or others, and this can take many forms. We can sometimes think we’re doing all the right things, we’re even eager to know God’s ways and for Him to come near. We may eke out obedience to the minutest detail (a tenth of your mint), as in Jesus’ time. But, throughout Scripture and until Jesus returns, God is after people’s whole hearts. He sees through appearances and looks for us to be sincere with him and with others.

In what ways have you “neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy, and faithfulness”? (Is Jesus recalling Micah 6:8 here?) What similarities are there between walking humbly with God and faithfulness? Are there any ways that your outward activity is mismatched with your heart?

Act: Repent and believe the Good News! Jesus doesn’t search our hearts to mock us, nor to punish us. He reveals our hearts to ourselves so he can heal us and so we can participate in the process. As the Spirit brings your attention to what others cannot see within you, enter into confession (agreement with him), repentance (turning, changing your mind to align with his truth), and believe (live out the newly realized truth). Ask someone or a small group of people to walk with you through the Kairos/Learning Circle.

Pray: Dear, kind Jesus, search out any hypocrisy in me—any place where I have shined up my appearance to cover up what is not yet right within me; any place in me that has become an empty, fragile wineskin, and any place where I’ve trusted more in the rules than in your presence.

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Wednesday, Jan 28 —Fasting Self-Importance Read: Matt 23:5-12, Luke 14:7-14, 17:9-14, 20:46-47, Rom 12:3, James 1:9-11 R...
01/28/2026

Wednesday, Jan 28 —Fasting Self-Importance

Read: Matt 23:5-12, Luke 14:7-14, 17:9-14, 20:46-47, Rom 12:3, James 1:9-11

Reflect: While it is certainly not wrong to be lauded for good works or character, our human nature can easily crave such attention. This can be as simple as putting on airs, seeking opportunity for commendation and public praise, or progressing into full-blown narcissism. Jesus repeatedly warned against looking to Israel’s leaders who considered themselves better than everybody else, and instead pointed to those who walked humbly with God, such as the widow who offered just about everything she had to Him.

Act: Do you feel that you should be served by others or “go first” because of your stage in life, your socio-economic standing, your achievements or anything else? Can you identify areas of your life where you put yourself in the important seat, whether through subtle moves or overt request? Ask Jesus to show you what I might look like to place yourself at the back of the line this week without drawing attention to it.

Pray: Father, I confess it is so natural to use myself as a self-reference for everything in the world around me. But you have the power to reorient me to think more like you did, coming not to be served, but to serve and to give up your rights. Reveal to me the subtly of any pride or hubris I carry, inflating my own importance. Teach me neither to puff myself up or depreciate myself, but to walk in the measure of grace you have given me.

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Tuesday, Jan 27—CORPORATE EXPERIENCE—Fasting Fighting Read: Isa 58:4, John 10:10, Gal 5:13-26, Eph 6:10-20, Phil 1:27-28...
01/27/2026

Tuesday, Jan 27—CORPORATE EXPERIENCE—Fasting Fighting

Read: Isa 58:4, John 10:10, Gal 5:13-26, Eph 6:10-20, Phil 1:27-28

Reflect: Clearly, fighting amongst ourselves will rob us of the joy and strength God has for us, and that certainly doesn’t please Him. Similar exhortations pervade both the Old and New Testaments. But Jesus brings to light a new way of fighting where our fellow humans are not the enemy, but instead brothers and sisters to be loved and served.

Indeed, we are encouraged to fight—but now against the unseen masters of death, darkness, and disorder: “the spiritual forces of evil.” Walking humbly with God means walking in humility and love toward the very people our flesh would like to fight! It also means addressing the unseen powers His way, rather than our own.

Act: In what ways have you held on to feelings that certain people are the enemy? What would it look like to love and serve them?* Where is God at work, engaged in battles unseen, around you? What would it look like to join him in fighting both in prayer and in practical matters? Make a commitment to joining or increasing your participation in the spiritual battle where God is drawing your attention.

Corporate Fast: Also, dress warmly and join us for an evening of prayer walking in the steps where many of those struggling with housing and addiction find themselves. (See corporate fast details on page one.)

Pray: Jesus, what a revolutionary you are! In your topsy-turvy kingdom, the last are first and the enemies and weapons are invisible! Help me grow in my ability to walk humbly with you, keeping in step with your Spirit, ready to obey in both spiritual and tangible ways. Once again, I pray that your kingdom will come every moment and your will be done every moment, on earth, in and through me, just as it is done in heaven.

*Pastors’ note this does not in any way imply an endorsement of an old way of thinking that the only way to honor God if are you the victim in an abusive relationship is to stay silent or submissive.

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Monday, Jan 26—Fasting Distance and Aloofness Read: Job 16:1-5, Micah 6:8, Matt 25:31-46, Luke 10:25-37, Phil 2:1-8, Re...
01/26/2026

Monday, Jan 26—Fasting Distance and Aloofness

Read: Job 16:1-5, Micah 6:8, Matt 25:31-46, Luke 10:25-37, Phil 2:1-8,

Reflect: Jesus made himself one of us, yet we often separate ourselves from others whose lack, sickness, disabilities, or circumstances make us feel awkward or event repel us. What excuses do you use so you don’t have to personally engage with those in need? Too busy? Don’t know how to help? Don’t feel you have enough to make a dent in the situation? Do you judge their circumstance? Sometimes, we “buy off” our conscience by giving a gift through an organization instead of getting directly involved. What if “walking humbly with God” means to walk with people in their humiliating circumstances?

Act: Invite somebody in need that you would rather keep at arm’s length or avoid altogether to a restaurant and eat with them. Or go to their home and sit with them in their ashes, listening patiently to their woes without offering judgment or solutions. Give them more than you think they deserve of your time, interest, attention and resources.

Pray: Lord, like Job’s friends, I am sometimes a “miserable comforter” to people in anguish. I want to learn how to walk humbly with you by walking humbly alongside others. I confess I might quickly jump to judgmental conclusions about what caused them to falter or offer solutions and pat answers without asking you what to say. Teach me how to be more present, friendly, and even invitational to people I might rather avoid.

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Saturday, Jan 24—Fasting Accumulation Read: Isa. 58:11, Matt. 6:19–21, Acts 4:32–37, 20:35, 2 Cor. 8:9–15, James 2:14–16...
01/25/2026

Saturday, Jan 24—Fasting Accumulation

Read: Isa. 58:11, Matt. 6:19–21, Acts 4:32–37, 20:35, 2 Cor. 8:9–15, James 2:14–16

Reflect: We live in an age that has trained us to gather well more than we need, eat more than is healthy for us, and hold on to things while others around us go without. But this is actually not a new problem; many of the Early Church fathers spoke clearly about human excess well before our time and challenged believers to be merciful.

Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours but theirs. When you are weary of praying and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him. -John Chrysostom, 347-407 AD

Act: Consider fasting from purchasing anything for yourself for a day, a week or even longer. Walk in the footsteps of others by living with what you have on hand: the remaining gas in your tank, whatever food is in your pantry or fridge. Perhaps there are excessive Christmas gifts that just need to be returned or gifted to somebody in greater need, rather than finding a place for them. Consider fasting food for this whole day.

Pray: Oh Lord – would you help me repent from any compulsive buying habits I might have. My house is filled with so many things that aren’t just unnecessary; sometimes they weigh down my soul as I manage or try to protect them from loss. Show me how to live lightly, with open hands, and a trusting heart. Teach me to refrain from accumulation of what isn’t necessary so I can give mercy and necessities to those without.

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