Redeemer Presbyterian Church

06/08/2024

Me during Wednesday's sermon prep.

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05/31/2024

Some churches spend almost every Sunday discussing social issues, racial reconciliation and injustices.

No doubt, Christ cares about fairness, justice and honesty. He is grieved and even angry at wrongdoing of every sort. Christians are commanded to be honest, just and fair, and to be holy as God is holy. We are to be killing every sin that indwells our hearts.

But, you know, during Christ’s earthly ministry the Romans ruled over much of the known world, including Jerusalem and they were some of the most viciously uncaring and unjust people imaginable. They treated their own citizens with basic human rights while denying them to those who weren’t. They enslaved countless others and treated them with brutality. Roman soldiers would force themselves on Jewish women and girls so regularly that the Mosaic law had to be amended so that girls who had been so violated could still be counted as virgins on their wedding day. The Romans jailed people for minor offenses and used the torturous practice of crucifixion to punish and terrorize the masses, placing people upon a tree to writhe in the sun for up to three days in agony, only to die and be eaten by the birds.

Yet, seeing all of these things, Jesus seems to have marched right by them to the cross. It is almost as though there was something far more important to Him than social justice.

Do you think this might be the case? If so, what was His purpose in going to the cross?

05/22/2024

The men at Bible study last night repented of being lax in sharing our faith. Sometimes it is because we have prejudged that someone is not going to receive the message – they are too hard hearted or secular. Sometimes it is simply due to laziness and lack of concern. Shamefully, sometimes it is due to fear of man.

What are we to do about such a thing?

In 2 Timothy Paul exhorts his young protégé to “be faithful” and to “share in the suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus” and he prays that Timothy would be strengthen “by the “grace that is in Christ Jesus.”

From this, the Christian sees that our strength does not come from within ourselves but from Christ, whose grace is sufficient both to save and to conform us to His image. He is the author and perfector of our faith.

So, we resolved that we would begin praying for ourselves and each other:

1) That Christ would increase our knowledge of His grace and mercy to us, so that the joy of our salvation would overflow from our hearts and mouths.

2) That Christ would give us and intolerable burden for the lost. Every day 150,000 people worldwide die (almost 2x the total population of Glynn County) and most of them fall down into the eternal abyss, separated from God into hopeless misery.

3) That we will be granted boldness.

4) That we will remember that Christ is just as pleased, if not more so, with the faithful witness who sees little to no fruit as He is with the one who sees hundreds of conversions.

5) That Christ will open up special opportunities for us to share Him with the lost everyday.

6) That God’s Holy Spirit will move mightily in the community around us as we go out into the streets and door-to-door. That we will find people in whom grace has caused their hearts to fear so that grace may their fears relieve. Salvation is a work of the Holy Spirit, full stop.

Will you join us in praying? There is so much work to be done.

05/17/2024

At some point a curse came upon the American church; we began to believe that the number of people sitting in the seats of a particular church on a Sunday was a sign of its strength, fidelity and blessing.

The rush was on to fill the seats. Books teaching churches the latest gimmicks for growth began to proliferate. Have the coolest youth program - the parents will follow their kids. Have a gymnasium. Give prizes to the people who invite the most neighbors. Have the youth pastor dare to shave his head if the youth bring enough of their friends to church. Have people dressed as Disney characters parking the cars and teaching children’s Sunday school (I do not exaggerate).

Churches began to use raw marketing tactics. John MacArthur has shared that some Baptist churches (not his) will take high-net-worth prospective members on expensive vacations in hopes of persuading them to join their church. Invest $30k on a vacation to get $300k/year in giving.

Churches give first-time-visitors some sort of nice gift - a bag with a coffee mug, a pen and leather-bound notebook- knowing that marketers have found that doing so makes people feel like they owe you something in return.

Then came the sermons focused on people’s felt needs. “Here’s three Biblical principles to see your business flourish.” “Here are five Biblical rules for having peacefulness in your life.” The seats were filled with people coming to hear the latest message of “what Jesus can do for me now.”

Friends, church is meant for worship. It is a time when those who have been born again by the Spirit of Christ come together to worship NOT what they hope Jesus WILL do for them, but what Jesus has ALREADY done for them. The true Christian realizes that Jesus’ finished work is well worthy of worship. Christians should come together on Sundays not to hear what Jesus is going to do for me, but what now should I do for this Jesus who has done everything for me?

The pastor’s job, therefore, is to point Christians away from ourselves and instead to the worthy Lord. He leads the people to see the magnificent glory of the Creator, the frightful holiness of God, and how God’s wrath and peace meet in Christ Jesus. The pastor leads the Christian into joy and rest in the finished work of Christ and exhorts them to live obediently from Joy. Everything is pointed to Jesus who is the King of the ages, immortal, invisible, the only God, (to whom) be honor and glory forever and ever.

That is what the Christian church is about, my friends. Demand it!

05/09/2024

In marketing it's important to let people know what you have to offer them.

We offer you Jesus... that's it!

No coffee bar. No rock band. No super-playground.

We will point you to Jesus, and in a world where 90% of church kids abandon the faith after graduation, help you to point yours to Jesus in ways that are meaningful and lasting.

We will know you and love you, pray with and for you and encourage you to walk in Christ.

If this sounds like you, come and buy without money!

BTW. We do have a Keurig.

04/18/2024

Worship can be simple AND dynamic.

04/08/2023

WANT TO WORSHIP THE RISEN LORD?
SUNDAY: 10:30AM.

12/24/2022

Non-Christian, Guenter Lewy, set out to write “A defense of Secular Humanism and Ethical Relativism” in order to prove that people don’t need religion and that it is harmful. He ended up writing “Why America Needs Religion” after realizing the religion, particularly Christianity, correlates with lower rates of social pathologies such as crime, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and family breakdown. He said, “Contrary to the expectations of the Enlightenment, freeing individuals from the shackles of traditional religion does not result in their moral uplift. To the contrary, the evidence shows clearly that no society has yet been successful in teaching morality without religion.”

12/21/2022

YES!

We WILL be worshipping the Lord together on Christmas Day.

Join us at 10:30 on December 25th.

1812 Ellis Street.

08/20/2022

At the last supper, Christ took the bread and the wine and He told His disciples to eat and drink of it for as long as they shall remember Him.

The bread and the wine are sacraments, i.e., outward and visible signs representing an inward and spiritual reality.

The bread is the outward sign representing the spiritual reality that for those who have trusted in Christ He has born their sin in His body and has been broken on their behalf.

The wine is the outward sign representing the spiritual reality that Christ’s blood has been shed for the remission of His people’s sins. Through the shedding of His blood the sins of His people have been washed away and they are now holy and blameless and above reproach.

The Good News is that He who knew no sin became sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

The Lord’s Supper is a gracious condescension by God to man. Knowing our weakness, knowing our doubts, He gave to us physical signs by which we may be reminded of the Gospel in a tangible way. In the taking of the Lord’s Supper the Believer is spiritually nourished in our faith.

But that is not all. Christ said to continually observe the Supper. Why? Because the benefits of the death of Christ are not finite for the believer. They are ongoing. The Christian sins, sometimes grievously. But, Christ’s grace continues on forever. If you are in Christ, you are as forgiven today as you were the day you first believed. Continually taking the Lord's Supper reminds us of that fact.

A great hymns says, “I love to tell the story, for those who know it best seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest.” The Good News is for the Christian.

Want to rejoice in it again? It will be preached tomorrow at 10:30. 1812 Ellis Street.

08/17/2022

Much joy in joining together with the people of Advent Christian Church to serve lunch to our friends at Skylark Crises Pregnancy Center.

We appreciate their great work.

08/05/2022

Redeemer Brunswick believes that God’s Word is absolutely true.

God tells us who He is, what He has done for His people in Christ, how we should understand the world, and how we should live in it.

How about you?

Join us Sundays 10:30 am & 5 pm - 1812 Ellis St. 31520.