Redeemer Winston Salem

August 16, 2026  - John is invited through an open door and immediately sees a throne. Before Revelation shows the church the convulsions of history, it establishes the center of history. The throne is surrounded by beauty, worship, covenant signs, living creatures, and representatives of the people of God. Everything around the throne is alive with praise. The elders repeatedly surrender their crowns because all derivative authority belongs beneath the authority of the Creator. The church often experiences life from the edges: illness, political anxiety, institutional uncertainty, family suffering, cultural change, and fears about the future. Revelation reorients us. The apparent center of the world is not the actual center. Washington is not the center. Markets are not the center. Our fears are not the center. Even the church is not the center.The throne is the center, and the One upon it is worthy because he created and sustains all things.

August 9, 2026 - God’s Posture of Blessing (Numbers 6:22-27) from guest preacher Ben Tietje

August 2, 2026 - Laodicea is wealthy, comfortable, successful, and blind to its need. They say, “I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing,” but Jesus says they are poor, blind, naked, and pitiable. Their lukewarmness is not mere spiritual boredom; it is self-sufficiency. They think they are hosting Jesus, but he is outside knocking. The invitation is to open the door, not by getting cleaned up first, but by becoming needy enough to receive his hospitality. Jesus comes to refine, clothe, heal, feed, and restore love. 

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "Love Sustained" on July 26, 2026 from our sermon series "First Love".

July 26, 2026 - Philadelphia is weak but faithful. They have little power, but they have kept Jesus’ word and have not denied his name. This sermon gives the series a needed word of encouragement: Jesus is not looking for impressive strength, but enduring faithfulness. He places before them an open door that no one can shut, and he promises permanence, belonging, and a secure name. Love is sustained not by our strength, but by Christ’s faithfulness to hold his people.

July 19, 2026 - Sardis has a reputation for being alive, but Jesus says they are dead. This is the frightening possibility of spiritual self-deception: a church can look active, successful, and impressive while lacking true life. Their works are incomplete. Their attention has drifted. Their life has become hollow. Jesus calls them to wake up, strengthen what remains, remember what they received, keep it, and repent. The hope is renewal: Christ can give life where there is only appearance.

July 12, 2026 - Thyatira is a church of love, faith, service, and endurance, but it has tolerated a voice that corrupts love from within. This sermon should explore the danger of truthless love, disordered desire, and false intimacy. The issue is not merely that the church is “too tolerant,” but that it has allowed something destructive to disciple its imagination, worship, and body. Jesus, whose eyes are like flame and whose feet are like burnished bronze, sees what is hidden and confronts what destroys love in order to restore what is true.

July 5, 2026 - Pergamum lives where Satan’s throne is. The church has held fast to Jesus’ name, even under persecution, but compromise has taken root within. Like Balaam, false teaching has placed stumbling blocks before God’s people. The church is being bewitched by the promises of empire, politics, patriotism, culture, sex, and the market. Jesus comes with the sharp sword of his mouth to expose lies and reclaim his people. He offers hidden manna and a white stone which is a better satisfaction and a truer name than the idols can give. 

June 28, 2026 -- Smyrna is suffering. They are poor, slandered, threatened, and under crushing pressure. Yet Jesus offers no correction to this church. He tells them that he knows their tribulation, that their suffering is not hidden from him, and that death will not have the final word. The call is not escape, but faithfulness. In Smyrna, love is tested by suffering, fear, and loss but Jesus, the one who died and came to life, promises the crown of life. 

June 21, 2026 -- The church in Ephesus is active, discerning, hardworking, and committed to truth. They test false teaching. They endure. They have not grown weary. And yet Jesus says they have abandoned their first love. This sermon names the danger of faithfulness without affection, truth without love, and church life that becomes vinegar instead of joy. Jesus calls his church to remember, repent, and return not to a vague feeling, but to the love that first loved us. 

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "Love Unveiled" on June 14, 2026 from our sermon series "First Love".

In this podcast, we are sharing Ebenezer moments of the people of Redeemer Church. An Ebenezer moment is simply telling the truth about where you’ve been and noticing where God has met you along the way. Some of that may feel clear; some of it may still feel unfinished. These stories are invitations to listen together to remember thus far how the Lord has helped, and to notice how God has been faithful-sometimes quietly, sometimes slowly, often in ways we only see in hindsight. Join us and listen along.

Revelation begins by pulling back the curtain. Before Jesus addresses the churches, John is given a vision of Jesus himself. The book is not first a puzzle to solve or a timeline to decode; it is an unveiling of Christ. It shows us that reality is deeper than what we can see with our eyes. Beneath suffering, fear, evil, compromise, and confusion, Jesus is present and reigning. This first sermon sets the lens for the whole series: the church can only hear Jesus rightly when it sees him clearly.

Paul ends his teaching on the armor of God by calling the church to pray at all times in the Spirit. Prayer is not one more piece of armor laid beside the others; it is the living dependence that activates and sustains the whole life of spiritual warfare. In a battle too great for us, prayer is how we call for help, stay alert, persevere, and carry one another before God. Paul urges believers to pray in every season, with every kind of prayer, with perseverance, and for all the saints. The Christian life is not lived in self-sufficiency but in constant reliance on the presence, power, and mercy of God. The armor is worn through prayer.

Paul describes the Word of God as the sword of the Spirit because Scripture is the believer’s weapon in the spiritual battle. The enemy fights with lies, accusations, and temptations, but the Word of God exposes deception and anchors us in truth. Jesus himself modeled how to wield this sword when he resisted Satan in the wilderness by quoting Scripture. To take up the sword of the Spirit is to fill our minds with God’s Word, to answer temptation with truth, and to allow the Spirit to apply Scripture to our lives. In a world searching for meaning and truth, the Word of God remains living, active, and powerful.The sword that defeats the enemy is the Word of God.  It is our only offensive weapon. 

Paul tells us to take up the helmet of salvation because the battle is not only around us but also at the level of the mind. The enemy traffics in despair, confusion, condemnation, and forgetfulness, seeking to cloud our vision and unsettle our hope. But salvation guards the head by reminding us who Christ is, what he has done, and where the story is going. In Jesus, we have been saved, are being saved, and will be saved. The helmet of salvation protects the mind with hope, steadies us in the midst of attack, and teaches us to live from the certainty that our future belongs to Christ.

The Christian life is lived under fire. The enemy sends flaming darts of fear, doubt, temptation, accusation, discouragement, and despair, especially in seasons of ministry, suffering, spiritual dryness, and vulnerability. Paul tells us to take up the shield of faith.  This is not faith in general, but faith in God himself. Faith is the act of taking refuge in the promises of God, the power of God, and the love of God. When the darts come, faith does not pretend they are harmless; it lifts the shield of God’s character and Christ’s finished work. In this way, faith extinguishes what would otherwise set the soul on fire.

In a world of hostility, anxiety, and division, Paul says the people of God are to stand with their feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. This peace is not mere calmness or avoidance of conflict. It is the peace Christ has made through his cross: peace with God, peace within ourselves, and peace with one another, peace with creation. The enemy loves division, suspicion, and hostility, but the gospel makes a new kind of people, who are steady, reconciled, and ready to carry peace into a fractured world. To wear the sandals of peace is to stand firm in the reconciling work of Christ and to become agents of that peace wherever we go. The enemy loves division; Christ is our peace.

In this podcast, we are sharing Ebenezer moments of the people of Redeemer Church. An Ebenezer moment is simply telling the truth about where you’ve been and noticing where God has met you along the way. Some of that may feel clear; some of it may still feel unfinished. These stories are invitations to listen together to remember thus far how the Lord has helped, and to notice how God has been faithful-sometimes quietly, sometimes slowly, often in ways we only see in hindsight. Join us and listen along.

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "The Breastplate of Righteousness" from May 3, 2026 from our sermon series "Thin Places".

Beneath so much of human striving lies a deeper ache: the longing to be enough, to be approved, to be declared right. Ever since Eden, we have tried to cover our shame with fig leaves of success, morality, approval, romance, performance, and self-justification. But none of those coverings can protect the heart. Paul tells us to put on the breastplate of righteousness because our deepest defense is not a righteousness we achieve, but a righteousness we receive in Christ. Jesus took our guilt upon himself and gives us his righteous standing before the Father. Clothed in him, we can stand against accusation, condemnation, and shame.

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "The Belt of Truth" from April 26, 2026 from our sermon series "Thin Places".

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "The Enemy" from April 19, 2026 from our sermon series "Thin Places".

The enemy traffics in lies, distortion, and deception, so the first piece of God’s armor is truth. Paul tells us to fasten on the belt of truth because truth is what holds a life together. Lies fragment the self, corrode trust, and estrange us from the God of truth. But in Jesus Christ, who is himself the Truth, we are invited into freedom, integrity, and reality. As we are formed by God’s Word and practice truthfulness with one another, we learn to stand against the schemes of the devil.

If we are going to stand in the spiritual battle, we must know the enemy we face. Paul says the devil has schemes. These are tragedies designed to deceive, tempt, accuse, divide, and discourage the people of God. Scripture does not call us to fear him or obsess over him, but neither does it let us ignore him. The enemy is real, cunning, and destructive. Yet Christ has come to destroy the works of the devil, and in his strength the church can resist, stand, and walk in the light.

After Hours is a series from Redeemer Presbyterian Church that serves as a space to continue discussion or thoughts from that weeks sermon. You'll hear from our pastors as they dive deeper into the text and reflect on the passage in a deeper and more focused way.This episode reviews the sermon "The War" from April 5, 2026 from our sermon series "Thin Places".

Thin Places is a nine-week journey through Ephesians 6:10–20, where Paul reminds us that the Christian life unfolds in the midst of an unseen battle. Beneath the surface of everyday life there is a real spiritual conflict, and the people of God are called not to panic, but to stand in Christ. In this series, we will look at the schemes of the enemy and the armor God gives his people: truth for our confusion, righteousness for our shame, peace for our hostility, faith for the fire, salvation for our minds, the Word for the battle, and prayer for the journey. Above all, this series is not about fighting for victory, but learning to stand firm in the victory Christ has already won through his life, death and resurrection and our union with Him.

Thin Places is a nine-week journey through Ephesians 6:10–20, where Paul reminds us that the Christian life unfolds in the midst of an unseen battle. Beneath the surface of everyday life there is a real spiritual conflict, and the people of God are called not to panic, but to stand in Christ. In this series, we will look at the schemes of the enemy and the armor God gives his people: truth for our confusion, righteousness for our shame, peace for our hostility, faith for the fire, salvation for our minds, the Word for the battle, and prayer for the journey. Above all, this series is not about fighting for victory, but learning to stand firm in the victory Christ has already won through his life, death and resurrection and our union with Him.

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