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Redemption HOU podcast
by Redemption HOU
Weekly messages from Redemption Church of Houston, TX. Radically inclusive hope. For absolutely anyone. https://redemptionhou.com
Episodes
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The Political Cornerstone
Perhaps no other parable reveals the drastic difference between the politics of Jesus and our own like his Parable of the Tenant Farmers in Matthew 21. In it we are vividly shown the all-too-familiar trope of the religious establishment seizing what belongs to God and making it their own. But…
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What Authority?
In Matthew 21:23–32, Jesus challenges our assumption that to live free of authority is to be our own. Confronted by the religious leaders of His day, Jesus reveals the all-too-common hunger to find power and security in religious systems, ideas, and institutions, and suggests that the same power...
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Offensive Generosity
In our world fairness is about output, earning, a Protestant work ethic. But Jesus tells a story that explodes our arrangements—offending the very people who have worked the hardest. Jesus' political reality is good news, if you can stomach a generosity that refuses to be earned. For more...
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A Scandalous Mercy
A Jesus-centered community will be a scandalously merciful one. Jesus’ parable in Matthew 18:21-35 asks us to inhabit a community whose political arrangements are organized around mercy. Taking seriously a task far beyond us will mean returning over and over again to the mercy we have already...
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Inhabiting Reconciliation
In a broken and imperfect world, what does it look like to be a people of reconciliation? Jesus doesn’t task us with reconciling the world, but with inhabiting the reconciliation he has already accomplished. Doing so will mean embracing a politic which cuts against everything we know about...
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Dr. Collin Cornell: Divine Things
We live in a world of haves and have nots, big people and little people, palaces and prisons. Our human reflex is to seek security, power, prestige. But in Jesus Christ, God goes to the cross and invites us to follow—to set our minds not on human things but divine things. For more information…
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Who are you Jesus?
Our journey through the book of Matthew has bore witness to what Jesus has done, now the Spirit takes us somewhere deeper and gives us something we can not give ourselves. This gift not only radically transforms our ideas of God but reorients everything about us, so are we ready for what happens...
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Even Dogs Like Us?
Many of us have been told that people like us can’t belong at Jesus’ table. An odd story. A gatekeeping Jesus. A Canaanite woman who wrestles with God and wins. What’s found at the center of it all is not new, but it is shocking. For more information visit https://www.redemptionhou.com/
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In Over Your Head
"I'm drowning." It is an all too common description for life right now. More and more asked of you. Less and less offered back. It seems life is utterly out of your control. If you're here right now we get it. Here's a story to offer some hope. For more information about us visit...
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More than Enough
We live in a new anxious age, scarcity is real, nothing is certain, and it seems everything may be holding on by a thread. You likely feel this. Jesus doesn't offer an escape from this, but an inexhaustible gift in the midst of it — something the world can't produce or sell.The story of the…
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Start Here.
New to our church or our channel? Start here.
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The Hidden Kingdom
Childish Gambino. Soren Kierkegaard. Jesus Christ. Once you see it, you cant unsee it.
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The World We Keep Trying to Curate
Jesus refuses to let us live in the curated world we keep trying to build. He insists on the one we actually have — weeds and wheat together — which means living alongside and loving those we'd rather not. A great deal of this message was inspired and taken from a sermon by Jacob Breeze, Vicar of...
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Life at the Waters Edge
Jesus’ parables help us understand that we do not understand. At the edge of the lake we are drawn no by Jesus into a life beyond our comprehension and control, a life of mystery, of relationship, of story. There we don’t gain control, we gain Him.
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Bring Your Troubles Inside
Eventually, the music stops and the lights flicker on (literally and metaphorically). This is for those who aren't quite sure if they feel particularly happy or sad, good or bad —perhaps just numb. This is for those who have ever set the goal of simply surviving the day. In other words, this is…
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To Be Sent is To Be United
A sermon by Jordan Rhea. Jesus sends out the twelve, and concludes his charge to them with a message of union. They are told to depart from Jesus, and yet, in this harvest work, they will be intimately connected to him, God, and all believers.
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I Sing Because I'm Free
Jesus Christ introduces a new order of things into the world, not merely an updated order. Enter friction. Let’s be honest - none of us are eager to sign up for the hard life, but what if the inherent friction between the old order of things and the way of Jesus is indeed the way to a full,...
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A new definition of success
Those called are those sent. Jesus’ call means we’ve been invited into God, which means we’ve been invited to participate in what God is up to, in the way God is up to it. This reality is not always one we would’ve chosen for ourselves, but it is our being faithful to the contours of a kingdom life.
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The Heart of Fundamentalism
Jesus tells us God is after one very particular group of people. In doing so fundamentalism of any kind is taken off the table. We are not a community of self-certain people. We are a community in desperate need of God.
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God is the point
For those of us burned by versions of Christianity which are about behavior management, culture wars, or bigger, better, brighter performances Trinity Sunday is an invitation to re-consider all of it. If we pay close attention, Matthew 28 and the Great Commission reveals a God who is love through...
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Pentecost: A Cross Shaped Community
Pentecost brings forth a radical transformation whether we are ready for it or not. The Spirit descends on all flesh and draws us into the realm be body of Jesus Christ. This forces us to reckon with the work God has done to make us one and the cross shaped postures that we will need to live into...
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It. Is. Done.
The same God who raised Jesus from the dead is with us and we are with God. So Peter can tell a community like ours, that our suffering in this world should neither surprise us nor derail us from living into God's new reality — our past, present, and future are secured in Christ. Though it may be...
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The Harrowing of Hell
Few passages in Scripture have generated more controversy than 1 Peter 3:18–22. But underneath debate lies a single, staggering claim: the resurrection of Jesus is Christ’s victory announcement. Whatever in your life and this world feels permanent and immovable — systems, empires, powers,...
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Immersed in an Other Story
At the edge of baptism we bring with us narratives — chosen narratives, inherited narratives, and narratives that have been imposed on us. But God consumes these stories, immersing us into Christ's life and story — a people given a new name, a new story, a new destiny. This new story is the...
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An Entirely Other Way
God is not at work to reform or tear down our institutions. He's doing something far more radical and far more dangerous — building a people who live in the world where sin, suffering, and death have already lost. What emerges is an entirely other way of being and moving in the world. A way that...
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Fear God? Really?
In a so-called age of anxiety, the last thing we need is more fear. Yet, one of Jesus' more problematic disciples tells the Church to "Fear God." Within this audacious command is the perspective of a community whose life and imagination have been gripped by resurrection. In week three of our…
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And So We Rejoice
We are being made new, swept up into the living hope. An invitation to be made new as a community of believers, a holy resistance, knowing that because of the resurrection death will not win.
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Death Does Not Win.
Easter deeply matters, not as an escape from the oppression and darkness of the world, but as God's response made in the face of it. Today we are invited to inhabit a whole new reality, being whole new people, people who refuse to give way to despair — resurrection people.
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Our Politic
Palm Sunday exposes our desire that God conquer on our terms. But in our turn towards Holy Week we finally begin to see God. A God who reveals an entirely different Kingdom altogether, a people of a different shape, different logic—a people who exist as a different politic. Journaling Prompts:...
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Being Known
Lent invites us to get honest. Honest about longing, grief, doubt, and the dead places in our lives. In Jesus’ encounter with Lazarus, He meets Martha, Mary, and Lazarus in deeply personalized ways revealing that the God we often wish to keep at a distance is the one who knows us completely and...
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Seeing Truthfully
In John 9 Jesus heals a man born blind, and suddenly everyone has to reckon with what they now see. Including themselves. The light of the world does not expose to condemn, but to love. Journaling Prompts: What parts of you and your life are you afraid of being fully seen by Jesus? What would it...
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God At The Fringes
The God revealed in Jesus is scandalously present among those we’ve written off—and that love dismantles our assumptions about who God is and what God is doing in the world. Journaling Prompts: - Does the grace Jesus displays here — forgiving, gifting, transforming — feel refreshing to you or...
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The heart of Lent
Beholding God will mean undergoing death—of ways of life, of ideas about God and ourselves, of things we think will save us. And for this God death ends in resurrection. Some call it conversion, others repentance. Jesus calls it “being born again.” And it is God’s work. Journaling Prompts What...
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I will instruct you and teach you
This sermon begins the season of Lent. It concentrates on one psalm, Psalm 32, traditionally labeled a "penitential psalm," and it holds out God's promise not only of forgiveness but also of instruction. Repentance involves release from the past as well as learning a fresh new way of life....
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Where Heaven and Earth Meet
In the body of Christ, heaven and earth meet, and the transfiguration invites us to witness that glory. Let us marvel in it. Let us be warmed by it. And let us listen to it. Generosity: https://www.redemptionhou.com/give
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A Jesus centered people
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus doesn’t hand us a list of rules. He names our identity. Salt. Light. A city on a hill. A people whose life together makes the invisible God visible right here in Houston. Journaling Prompts: Reflect on the notion that “y’all are salt, y’all are light.” How does...
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Is it true now like it was then?
Are we in the middle of a silent era from God? A look at world events and our personal lives makes a strong case for the affirmative, but the scriptures invite us to engage with a living God - especially in times when this God seems distant and removed. Journaling Prompts: Have you ever been...
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What are you seeking?
Your search for God may have brought you here—but Jesus turns and asks: What are you seeking? In John 1, Jesus does not extend tidy conclusions, easy answers, or spiritual certainty, but an invitation: Come and see. A journey centered not on arrival or mastery, but on Jesus Himself. Journaling...
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What God Really Thinks About You.
What do you believe God is like—and where did that belief come from? In the baptism of Jesus (Matthew 3), God reveals something shocking about who God is. This sermon opens the Epiphany series Manifest by asking a simple but life-altering question: What does God really think about you? Journaling...
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A God Beyond Expectations | Christmas II
Matthew shows us the unsettling heart of Christmas—a God who refuses to be confined by our expectations. Born in obscurity, made known to outsiders, and missed by insiders, Jesus is revealed as the king whose presence reshapes power, worship, and the whole of our lives. This Christmastide sermon...
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The Light | Christmas I
You and your life have been taken up into Christ so that God can be with you. Generosity: https://www.redemptionhou.com/give
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God Came Down | Christmas Eve 2025
Into the darkness a light has dawned. Generosity: https://www.redemptionhou.com/give
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Seed
The baby in the manger is the reigning Messiah, the very crucified Jesus who will come again in glory, that the one who is to be delivered up is the one who will dispose of all earthly power and authority with imperial ease. This very God who is not against us, but for us in an upside down…
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Blossom
In a world ruled by entropy, God promises a new world where desert wastelands erupt into flourishing life. But what do we do when we feel disappointed, discouraged, and even doubt that these promises will ever come true? Advent names our disappointment and carries our doubt, while training our…
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Branch | Advent II
Everything seems to be collapsing, our certainties are gone, and it feels like the whole world is on fire—so what now? Advent dares us to hope an incomprehensible hope—a dangerous hope. Not a hope rooted in our wins or losses, but in a relentlessly faithful God. In Isaiah 11:1–10, the prophet…
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Mountain | Advent I
Advent begins with Isaiah’s vision of God’s mountain—an unshakeable kingdom of peace inviting us to walk in the light of its God. Songs of Waiting - follow this link Generosity: https://www.redemptionhou.com/give
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Recovering Mission | part two
The Church offers the world the gift of knowing and being known by God—the gift of what it means to be a human fully alive. The Song of Songs reminds us that beyond all, the God who created the world is the God who delights in it–delights in us–and longs for all of creation to enjoy God together....
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Recovering Mission | part one
God’s story ends not with rescue from the world, but with God making the world His home. Revelation gives us a picture of the world made new—a world with God. When we forget that ending, we forget who we are and what God is up to in and among us. Journaling Prompts Sit with the idea that God is…
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Recovering Communion | Part two
The God who refuses to be without us forms us into a certain sort of people—a subversive alternative to the world’s divisive norms, where Christ’s table becomes participation in holy resistance. In Jesus’ encounter with Zacchaeus, we glimpse God’s new world: the sinner becomes a site of…
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Recovering Communion | Part One
The story the Church tells is the story of a God who refuses to be without us—the poor, the helpless, even those who’ve made God our enemy. In the story of David and Mephibosheth (2 Samuel 9), we see the heart of God: a God of communion. And we realize the table God sets is a table of strange...
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