Redemption Hill

Redemption Hill We’re independent, non-denominational, and theologically reformed. We gather. We grow. We go. We’re a 9-year-old church plant in San Antonio, TX.

We’re independent, non-denominational, theologically reformed. We are an eclectic group of people coming together as a family, servants and missionaries to gather, grow and go as the Lord calls us each to.

09/03/2026

Week 63 in Acts.

Acts 21:39-22:29: Paul stands on the temple steps, bloody and battered, and asks the Roman tribune for permission to speak, not for release, not for water, but to address the mob that just tried to kill him. He speaks in Hebrew, which stuns them into silence, and shares his testimony.

Paul's testimony: He was zealous. He was religious. He was highly educated under Gamaliel. He was persecuting Christians. But Jesus hunted him down on the Damascus road. He was blinded, then given sight. Conquered by grace. Commissioned by grace.

The crowd listens, until Paul says the word "Gentiles." Then they explode: "Away with such a fellow from the earth!"

Three big truths:

Your testimony is not the gospel. Jesus is the hero.
The spectacular testimony isn't a better testimony, just a different one.
We are responsible for faithfulness. God is responsible for results.

Paul was conquered by grace. Commissioned by grace. Kept by grace.



YOUTUBE CHAPTERS (20 Chapters)

0:00 - Welcome: Week 63 in Acts
1:00 - Scripture Reading: Acts 21:39-22:29
7:00 - Recap: The Riot in the Temple
11:00 - The Roman Tribune Protects Paul (Providentially)
13:00 - Tarsus: "No Obscure City" (Wealth, Position, Free City)
15:00 - Paul's Surprising Request: Let Me Speak to Them
18:00 - He Speaks in Hebrew (Stunning the Crowd)
19:00 - Paul's Testimony: Conquered by Grace
21:00 - Hebrews 1: Paul Had the Puzzle, Missing the Center
22:00 - You Can Be Sincere and Sincerely Wrong
24:00 - Your Testimony Is Not the Gospel (Jesus Is the Hero)
26:00 - The Gospel Is What JESUS Has Done
28:00 - More Mercy and Grace in Jesus Than Sin in You
30:00 - The Spectacular Testimony Isn't a Better Testimony
33:00 - Conquered by Grace = Commissioned by Grace
37:00 - Paul Hoped for Conversion—Got Rejection
39:00 - The Word "Gentiles" Explodes the Crowd
42:00 - When Sharing the Gospel Hurts (Rejection Is Real)
44:00 - The Same Sun That Melts Ice Hardens Clay
46:00 - We Plant Seeds—God Gives the Increase
49:00 - Paul Kept by Grace (Roman Citizen for Such a Time)
52:00 - Closing Prayer: Conquered, Commissioned, Kept

08/20/2026

The Calm Before the Storm | World Without End

Week 61 in Acts.

Acts 21:15-26: Paul arrives in Jerusalem. James and the elders receive him warmly. He gives an account of God's work among the Gentiles, and they glorify God. Then comes the sensitive matter: thousands of believing Jews are zealous for the law and have heard rumors about Paul teaching Jews to forsake Moses.

James proposes a solution: Take four men under a Nazarite vow, pay their expenses ($4,500-$5,000 in today's dollars), purify yourself with them, and show that you also live in observance of the law.

Paul complies. Not for justification before God (Christ finished that), but for justification before men, for the sake of the gospel and the weaker brothers.

"Not all Scripture is equally inspiring, but all Scripture is equally inspired." Even the "calm before the storm" passages carry treasure. Older saints are a blessing. Fellowship binds hearts. Paul was justified by faith, but showed his faith by works.

All things count for nothing if not for the sake of the gospel.

07/30/2026

Acts 20:1-12: After the riot in Ephesus (Demetrius the silversmith and the "Great is Artemis of the Ephesians" mob), Paul sends for the disciples, encourages them, and departs for Macedonia. He continues into Greece, where a plot against him forces him to change plans. He travels with a diverse team, men from Berea, Thessalonica, Derbe, and Asia. Different backgrounds, one mission.

At Troas, Paul preaches all night on the third floor. Eutychus, a young man in the window, falls asleep during the long sermon and plummets three stories to his death. Paul goes down, lays across him (echoing Elijah and Elisha), prays, and Eutychus is raised.

Two big themes:

God preserves His church, through riots, plots, and travel. The same God who preserved them then preserves you now.

Don't just go through the motions. Eutychus isn't shamed for falling asleep, but the passage warns us against spiritual drowsiness. Awake from your sinful slumber and come to life in Christ.

07/09/2026

Discipleship, Sanctification and God's Will for Us | World Without End

Acts 19:1-20 (Part 1): Paul finally arrives in Ephesus, the gateway city to Asia. He finds disciples who only knew John's baptism. "Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?" They hadn't even heard of the Holy Spirit.

Paul explains: John pointed to the one coming after him, that is Jesus. They're baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. Paul lays hands on them. The Holy Spirit comes. They speak in tongues and prophesy, about 12 men in all.

This is the fourth and final Pentecostal outpouring in Acts: Jerusalem (Jews) → Samaria → Cornelius (God-fearers) → Ephesus (ends of the earth). The sign gift confirms the gospel is universal, for every people on earth.

Paul reasons in the synagogue for three months. When opposition rises, he withdraws to the Hall of Tyrannus and teaches daily for two years. All of Asia hears the word.

Ephesus becomes one of the most important churches in the New Testament. Mary, Timothy, and John the Apostle would eventually minister there.

Return to your first love. (Revelation 2:4)

07/02/2026

Week 54 in Acts. Baptism Sunday!

Acts 18:18-28: Paul is "in transit"—traveling from Corinth through Ephesus, Caesarea, Antioch, and back through Galatia. A bridge text. But Luke is showing us something profound: discipleship in motion.

Paul takes Aquila and Priscilla with him. He greets the church (encouraging them with stories of God's faithfulness). He strengthens disciples wherever he goes. "He greatly helped those who through grace had believed." What a tombstone epitaph.
The Great Commission isn't just about making converts, it's about making disciples who make disciples. A renewal of the creation mandate: not just multiplying people, but creating worshipers of God who bear His image.

You are the link in a chain of God's grace extending to someone else. Not might be. Not maybe. ARE.

Apollos preaches eloquently but incompletely. Aquila and Priscilla take him aside with compassion. They disciple him. He goes to Corinth and likely disciples Sosthenes, who becomes co-author of 1 Corinthians.

Paul planted. Apollos watered. God gave the growth.

0:00 - Welcome: Baptism Sunday + Week 54 in Acts
1:00 - Scripture Reading: Acts 18:18-28
4:00 - No Shadowland—Every Place Belongs to Jesus
8:00 - Preach, Proclaim, Endure, Pass the Torch
14:00 - Paul's Nazarite Vow & Sacrifice of Praise
20:00 - The King James Addendum (Manuscript Discussion)
25:00 - "Paul in Transit"—Bridge Text
30:00 - He Greatly Helped Those Who Believed
36:00 - The Great Commission (Matthew 28)
41:00 - Acts 1:8: You Will Be My Witnesses
44:00 - The Golden Chain of Faith Passed Down
47:00 - Make Disciples Who Make Disciples
50:00 - Renewal of the Creation Mandate
53:00 - Sanctification: God Changes Your Desires
58:00 - Means of Sanctification (Word, Prayer, Worship, Fellowship)
1:00:00 - 1 Thessalonians 4: God's Will = Your Sanctification
1:06:00 - Disciples Live in Confession, Repentance, Reconciliation
1:10:00 - You Are the Link in the Chain of Grace
1:16:00 - Apollos, Aquila, Priscilla & Sosthenes Connection
1:21:00 - Paul Planted, Apollos Watered, God Gave Growth
1:22:00 - Closing Prayer & Communion

06/25/2026

Paul in Corinth Part 2 | World Without End

Week 52 in Acts! Halfway through the book.

Acts 18:1-17: Paul leaves Athens and arrives in Corinth—a city so steeped in debauchery that "to live like a Corinthian" became Greek slang for moral corruption. The church wasn't planted in a place that degenerated—it was planted in the cesspool itself.

There Paul meets Aquila and Priscilla, the New Testament's most beautiful picture of unified marriage. Always mentioned together. Tentmakers by trade, missionaries by calling. Their tent-making fueled their mission—not the other way around. Your work is sacred when done unto the Lord.

But Luke's bigger purpose? Verifiable historical details. Claudius (4th Roman emperor, AD 41-54), expelled the Jews from Rome in AD 49 (confirmed by Suetonius). Gallio (proconsul of Achaia, AD 51-52, brother of Seneca the Younger). These timestamps anchor the gospel in real history.

Luke 1:1-4: He wrote so you would have certainty (asphalion = locked-down assurance) in what you've been taught. The gospel either happened or it didn't. If it did, Jesus is the Messiah.

06/18/2026

Paul in Corinth | World Without End

Acts 18:1-17: Paul leaves Athens and arrives in Corinth, a city so steeped in debauchery that "to live like a Corinthian" became Greek slang for moral corruption. The church wasn't planted in a place that degenerated, it was planted in the cesspool itself.

There Paul meets Aquila and Priscilla, the New Testament's most beautiful picture of unified marriage. Always mentioned together. Tentmakers by trade, missionaries by calling. Their tent-making fueled their mission, not the other way around. Your work is sacred when done unto the Lord.

But Luke's bigger purpose? Verifiable historical details. Claudius (4th Roman emperor, AD 41-54), expelled the Jews from Rome in AD 49 (confirmed by Suetonius). Gallio (proconsul of Achaia, AD 51-52, brother of Seneca the Younger). These timestamps anchor the gospel in real history.

Luke 1:1-4: He wrote so you would have certainty (asphalion = locked-down assurance) in what you've been taught. The gospel either happened or it didn't. If it did, Jesus is the Messiah.

0:00 - Welcome: 52 Weeks in Acts (Halfway Through!)
2:00 - Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
4:00 - Scripture Reading: Acts 18:1-17
6:00 - Paul Arrives in Corinth (City of Debauchery)
8:00 - The Church Planted IN the Cesspool
9:00 - "Christ and Him Crucified" (1 Corinthians 2:2)
10:00 - Meet Aquila and Priscilla (Always Together)
12:00 - Unified Marriage = Unified Mission
15:00 - Don't Become Glorified Roommates
17:00 - Tentmaking Fueled Their Mission
19:00 - Don't Be a Slave to Your Own Business
21:00 - All Work Is Sacred Unto the Lord
23:00 - Different Seasons, Different Ministry
25:00 - Claudius: The Historical Timestamp (AD 41-54)
27:00 - Extra-Canonical Books vs. Luke's Accuracy
29:00 - Time and Place Relationship (Spurs Analogy)
32:00 - Luke = Greatest Historian of Antiquity
35:00 - Luke 1:1-4: Writing for Certainty
38:00 - Asphalion: Locked-Down Assurance
40:00 - It Either Happened or It Didn't
41:00 - Suetonius Confirms the Edict of Claudius (AD 49)
44:00 - Context for the Book of Romans
47:00 - Gallio: Proconsul of Achaia (AD 51-52)
48:00 - Brother of Seneca the Younger (Famous Philosopher)
51:00 - Verifiable Events, People, Places, and Dates
53:00 - Faith Bolstered by Evidence (Not Blind Faith)
54:00 - Jesus Shows Up to Care for Paul (Next Week!)
55:00 - Closing Prayer & Communion

05/28/2026

Pentecost Sunday! Acts 17:1-15: Paul and Silas arrive in Thessalonica where there's a synagogue. For three Sabbaths, Paul reasons from the Old Testament scriptures, explaining and proving that the Messiah had to suffer and rise from the dead.

Over 1,000 Old Testament prophecies converge in one man, Jesus. Yet the Jews wanted a warrior-king, not a carpenter from Nazareth. They wanted conquest, not crucifixion. Instead of celebrating the answer to centuries of prayers, jealous Jews form a mob.

Accusations: "These men who have turned the world upside down have come here also!" "They say there is another king, Jesus!"

The gospel doesn't just bring salvation, it reorients entire lives. From self-centered to Christ-centered. From idols to the living God. From horizontal concerns to vertical citizenship. That's threatening.

Paul and Silas flee to Berea (50 miles) in the night. The Bereans examine Scripture daily to verify. Many believe.

The gospel came not in word only, but in power and in the Holy Spirit.

05/21/2026

Good News in The Ruins | World Without End

Acts 16:16-24: Paul and Silas meet a slave girl with a spirit of divination. She's making her owners rich through fortune-telling. Demonically possessed, she follows them for days shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God who proclaim the way of salvation!"

Theologically accurate. But unhelpful. Paul commands the spirit: "In the name of Jesus, come out of her." It does. Immediately. No power struggle. She's freed, not just from demons, but brought into God's family.
Her owners are furious. Their hope of gain is gone. They drag Paul and Silas to the marketplace, accusing them of disturbing the city and promoting unlawful customs. The crowd joins in. They're stripped, beaten with rods (no limit like Jewish law), and thrown into the inner prison, reserved for murderers.

The same gospel that saved Lydia saves this slave girl. The same gospel disrupts everything. It exposes hearts, challenges powers, and demands everything, offering everything in return.

The cost is real. But Christ has already endured infinitely greater for us.

05/14/2026

The Gospel Disrupts Everything

Acts 16:16-24: Paul and Silas meet a slave girl with a spirit of divination. She's making her owners rich through fortune-telling. Demonically possessed, she follows them for days shouting, "These men are servants of the Most High God who proclaim the way of salvation!"

Theologically accurate. But unhelpful. Paul commands the spirit: "In the name of Jesus, come out of her." It does. Immediately. No power struggle. She's freed, not just from demons, but brought into God's family.

Her owners are furious. Their hope of gain is gone. They drag Paul and Silas to the marketplace, accusing them of disturbing the city and promoting unlawful customs. The crowd joins in. They're stripped, beaten with rods (no limit like Jewish law), and thrown into the inner prison—reserved for murderers.

The same gospel that saved Lydia saves this slave girl. The same gospel disrupts everything. It exposes hearts, challenges powers, and demands everything, offering everything in return.

The cost is real. But Christ has already endured infinitely greater for us.

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